Patrick Jarenwattananon

The top 20 records of the last 20 years, more money from music and the Latin Jazz Grammy returns.

It's easy to see why the drummer is in demand among jazz's international stars — just watching him manipulate polyrhythms will suffice. He also writes music: His open, soaring quartet performs live.

When you're a world-class drummer, your calendar is packed. In fact, it's been 10 years since Penn has released an album. But then he had a vision of Salvador Dalí strolling through his neighborhood.

Opinions abound regarding alternate employment, how to put butts in seats, and anime jazz.

The drummer is an awfully busy player — as likely to improvise with jazz musicians as she is to back Brandi Carlile — but in recent years, she's carved out time to write music for her own group. A few tunes are dedicated to friends like her first teacher, a "sometimes great guy."

A 2,799 word article from 1983 details the "marginal" business of journalism with humor and despair.

An annual jazz festival brings great musicians to the nation's capital. But here are five great musicians who will keep the District swinging well after early June — folks like Brian Settles, Fred Foss and Reginald Cyntje.

Jerry Gonzalez, the late Pete Cosey, anecdotes of a trad-jazz band and your brain on the Internet.

In his native Puerto Rico, a jazz drummer found that his friends could all get down to Fela Kuti. So in New York, Cole assembled an 11-piece band to locate the African heart of Caribbean party music.

Henry Cole's debut album is an Afrobeat party — which isn't that far removed from his jazz style.