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“He likes first takes is what I learned from Stevie Wonder”: Watch session legend Dean Parks talk Innervisions, Steely Dan and Larry Carlton’s “magic” ES-335

The definition of guitar greatness is tracking live with Stevie Wonder and being asked mid-take to play a guitar solo on a fat-necked acoustic

MusicRadar

Herbie Hancock review – still seeking the new after 50 years of jazz curiosity

Band featuring Terence Blanchard and drummer Jaylen Petinaud is firmly rooted in the present

The Guardian - UK

Watch Journey and Herbie Hancock elevate Junior Walker's Road Runner into the funkosphere

Journey get their funk on with Herbie Hancock as The Midnight Special continues to mine its rich seam of classic rock gold

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Nate Watts picks his top 5 Stevie Wonder basslines

Stevie’s long-serving bassist names his 5 favorite bass grooves, and the James Jamerson line that helped get him the gig

Guitar World

King Of FM is a free Mac and iOS synth that gives you classic DX7 sounds that have been used by Herbie Hancock and producers for Drake, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar

Does it deserve to wear the Yamaha-inspired crown?

MusicRadar

Watch Joni Mitchell perform 'Summertime' at Gershwin Prize concert

James Taylor, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox and Angélique Kidjo are among the artists performing on Joni Mitchell: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, airing on PBS this evening.

WEKU

‘It’s a rockstar album’: the UK jazz musicians marking five decades of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew

In an epic feat of improvisation, 12 players over three days reimagined the jazz great’s magnum opus

The Guardian - UK

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Pioneering jazz saxophist Wayne Shorter dies at 89

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.

France 24

Wayne Shorter obituary

Saxophonist and master improviser with artists ranging from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, and with lineups including Weather Report

The Guardian - UK

Wayne Shorter, icon of jazz saxophone, dies aged 89

Composer and performer traversed numerous phases of jazz history, and fused his playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and Carlos Santana

The Guardian - UK

Joni Mitchell Honored at Star-studded Concert Gala

Artists spanning the genres came together Wednesday to celebrate the peerless Joni Mitchell, honoring her vast contributions to popular song. The pioneering singer-songwriter behind poignant hits including "A Case Of You," joins an elite coterie of composers including Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett and Carole King in receiving the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Joni Mitchell honoured at star-studded concert

WASHINGTON: Artists spanning the genres came together Wednesday to celebrate the peerless Joni Mitchell, honoring her vast contributions to popular song.

Bangkok Post

Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective review – searching grooves and scorching solos

The US trumpeter and composer is a confident and generous leader during this night with his E-Collective group and the jazz-classical Turtle Island String Quartet

The Guardian - UK

Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington curate annual Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, Digable Planets and Samara Joy are among the artists slated to play the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival in June, the LA Phil announced on Thursday.

The Orange County Register

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Radio France Internationale

Freshly elected COP27 attendees

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the two newly elected leaders at the COP27 conference. There’s the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner”, and “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on the “Audio” arrow above…

The Guardian - UK

‘We captured lightning’ – documenting jazz hero Roy Hargrove

Film-maker Eliane Henri set out to chronicle the day-to-day life of revered jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove – but didn’t know she would also be documenting his untimely death

The Independent UK

Renowned NYC musician dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland after having ‘completed life’

Anton Fier, 66, was a prominent figure in the New York music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and had fallen on difficult times, friends said

France 24

Four-time Grammy winner Robert Glasper on his illustrious music career

From studying jazz at school, to discovering hip-hop in New York, to working with some of the world's biggest musicians (Kendrick Lamar, Herbie Hancock and Lauryn Hill to name but a few), four-time Grammy winner Robert Glasper took time out to chat to FRANCE 24's Marjorie Hache about his musical…

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Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Festival Fringe music round-up – the best ones to watch including Rage Against the Machine and Herbie Hancock

There is a hugely diverse programme of music at the Fringe this year

The Guardian - UK

Kendrick, Diana and a fire-breathing spider: Sunday at Glastonbury – in pictures

The 2022 Glastonbury festival closed out in explosive style, with furious moshpits, stunning special guests and giant clouds of confetti

The Independent UK

Glastonbury on the BBC: Full TV schedule of live coverage across the festival

Coverage will be spread across BBC channels over the next four days

The Independent UK

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Herbie Hancock and DakhaBrakha

Jazz-fusion virtuoso Herbie Hancock delights the Pyramid Stage audience with a sunny afternoon set, while Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha come armed with a message against Putin

The Independent UK

In Pictures: Fans show little sign of fatigue on final day of Glastonbury

Diana Ross, Lorde and Kendrick Lamar were the big names closing the Worthy Farm event for 2022.

Glasgow Live

Is Glastonbury on TV and all you need to know about the festival

Glastonbury 2022 kicked off this week, and thousands of happy campers descended onto Somerset in England to join in on the music and contemporary arts festival.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Bipartisan bill clears way for bolstering US gun laws

$13bn package represents a compromise between Democrat and Republican lawmakers. Plus, Ukrainian forces to leave Sievierodonetsk

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