Los Angeles - The 13th Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival was held on July 26 and July 27 on historic Central Avenue. This year's festival, like the ones held in the past was a huge success.

Everybody was raving about the new set-up for the festival which featured a huge canopy that covered the stage as well as the crowd. The vendors were situated along the side streets off of Central Avenue...

With a little help from her friends, Norah Jones helps the club where she started celebrate its 10th birthday.

Norah Jones might be a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who is apparently so talented she's adding "actor" to her professional repertoire by making her debut in Wong Kar-wai's "My Blueberry Nights." But that doesn't mean she's not still in touch with her roots. Last night Jones played a midnight show at New York City's Living Room to help celebrate the club's 10th anniversary. Jones got her start there, and last night it was as if she had never left...

Rick Braun and Richard Elliott

KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA

THURS., AUG. 21, 8:00 PM

Tickets on sale now

RICK BRAUN and RICHARD ELLIOT's RnR - the smooth jazz CD release of 2007 becomes the can't miss concert of 2008 as two of the world's favorite smooth jazz artists unite at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Thurs., Aug. 21 @ 8:00 PM...

By Reverend Keith A. Gordon, About.com

Even if blues artist Buddy Guy never played another note, sang another word, or climbed on one more stage, his place in blues music history is assured. Cutting his musical teeth in his Louisiana backyard, Guy moved to Chicago in 1957 and quickly fell in with talented West Side head-cutters like Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, and Magic Sam. Guy's musical collaborations with his friend, harpist Junior Wells, are among the best blues ever caught on tape.

Buddy Guy's Skin Deep, his first studio effort in 3 years, brings the legendary blues musician back to his legendary electric-blues sound after a number of critically-acclaimed musical experiments and a couple of modest non-starters. With a little help from friends like Eric Clapton and Derek Trucks, Guy has created one of the best albums of his lengthy career.  read more »

Source: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/17/bullet-silences-blues-radio-icon/

Volunteer station's longtime deejay found shot at his home
By Jody Callahan (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Thursday, July 17, 2008

The voice of one of the city's most famous blues lovers has been silenced.

Dee Henderson, host of a blues show on WEVL-FM 89.9 as "Cap'n Pete" for 26 years, was found shot to death at his home in Southwest Memphis on Wednesday morning. He was 74.

According to police, Henderson's grandson found the body in the backyard of a home at 1040 Fields just after 9 a.m. Police suspect foul play, but no one was in custody late Wednesday.  read more »