NYC jazz festival scheduled for 2 weeks in June (Baltimore Sun)

NEW YORK — Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple, scheduled for June 17-26.

Herbie Hancock To Be Feted At Revived NYC Jazz Festival (Billboard)

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple.

On Herbie Hancock (And Pink, And Juanes, And Jeff Beck, And Dave Matthews, And Chaka Khan …)

News of an upcoming self-financed, star-studded Herbie Hancock record is leaving us a little bit agog. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us

Dee Dee Bridgewater: ‘Billie’ And More In Concert

With extra percussion, Bridgewater’s quintet reworks music from Red Earth and previews To Billie With Love , a collection paying tribute to Billie Holiday. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us

Copenhagen’s Jazzhus Montmartre To Open Anew

Nineteen Store Regnegade, 1100 Copenhagen K won’t be the legendary room of yore — it can’t be. But it still looks to be a cozy (”hyggelig,” as Danes would say) 100-seat venue to hear good jazz, as curated by an actual working musician. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us

Rochester jazz festival books Gladys, Herbie (News 10 NBC Rochester)

Add Gladys Knight and Herbie Hancock to this year’s lineup at the Rochester International Jazz Festival in upstate New York…

Jazz guitar great Larry Coryell plays in Tampa with pianist Kenny Drew Jr. (St. Petersburg Times)

Back in the 1960s and ’70s, Larry Coryell, left, was one of the guitar gods. His jazz-rock fusion was right up there with Miles Davis, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The Eleventh House was Coryell’s pioneering band, and he sat in with all the jazz greats, from flutist Herbie Mann to guitarist John McLaughlin.

Arts Council will present Jazz Arts Trio in concert (Gaffney Ledger)

The Arts Council will present the Jazz Arts Trio in concert on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: 2009 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Bass Competition and Gala Concert Featuring All-Star Tribute to Blue … (All About Jazz)

Herbie Hancock, Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Elling, Ron Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terence Blanchard, McCoy Tyner, Terri Lyne Carrington, Earl Klugh, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Jimmy Heath, Nicholas Payton, and many others to perform Washington, D.C.–The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz today announced its 22nd annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and …

Herbie Hancock new LA Phil jazz creative chair (Delaware County Times)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Herbie Hancock has grand plans for his new position as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s creative chair for jazz.