• ... that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme?
• ... that Stanley Clarke's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album?
• ... that the Grammy-nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
• ... that James Moody (pictured, left) received his first Grammy Award for Moody 4B after he died?
• ... that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson, was nominated for a Grammy Award?
• ... that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown, the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty (pictured, right)?
March 2011