Anna Maria Jopek and Pat Metheny - This is not America

Anna Maria or David Bowie? Who do you prefer?

Herbie Hancock - Jazz Fusion Cantelope Island

The master "Herbie" in one of his great performances. Enjoy the live version of Cantelope Island!

Buddy Guy invites Carlos Santana

Great encounter of two awesome guitar plyers - Montreux Jazz Festival 2004. Enjoy!

Richard Bona

Data from Wikipedia.

The Jazz Bassit Richard Bona was born in 1967 in the town of Minta, in eastern The Cameroon.

Bona began learning to play the guitar at age 11, and in 1980 aged just 13, he assembled his first ensemble for a French jazz club in Douala. The owner befriended him and helped him discover jazz music and, notably including Jaco Pastorius in particular, whose work inspired Bona to switch his focus to the electric bass.

Bona emigrated to Germany at the age of 22, soon relocating to France, where he furthered his studies in music.
In France, he regularly played in various jazz clubs and in 1995 Richard left France and moved to New York, where he still lives and works. He has being playing with top-tier artists like Larry Coryell.

His first album solo was released in 1999 - Scenes of my life. He has also been featured in many other albums by various top-tier jazz musicians.
He played with with Joe Zawinul in the Zawinul Sydicate.
In 2002 Bona went on a world tour with the Pat Metheny Group.
In 2005 Bona released his fourth album Tiki, which included a collaboration with John Legend on one track, entitled "Please Don't Stop."

He is currently a professor of music at New York University.

Find some great performances in YouTube.

Manu Katché's PLAYGROUND

Recording of Manu Katché's latest album, PLAYGROUND

Playground Manu Katche (Clip video)
Uploaded by Manu-Katche

and here he plays with Sting in Soul Cages:

Great Jazz from Italy

Just listened a great Jazz from Italian group Boom Boom Beckett in the episode 118 of Catholic Under the Hood podcast, one of my favorite podcasts from SQPN.