Come and get your Herbie Hancock on Friday, February 23rd, when Disco 9000 presents: The Connection Synth Meetup L.A. at Delicious Vinyl HQ in Hollywood, CA.

Cedella Marley teams up with Fox Animation and Polygram Entertainment to develop a new animated film on the life of Bob Marley with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris set to write and produce.

ArtDontSleep's Jazz Is Dead series continues on Wednesday, March 28th, inside the Lodge Room in LA's historic Highland Park neighborhood. This installment boasts a live orchestral performance by Adrian Younge's Voices of Gemma as well as a special jazz DJ set by A Tribe Called Quest's own Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

The eighth staging of the tri-state's "Biggest Caribbean Food and Music Festival", The Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival New York takes place Sunday July 22nd at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens, NY and will have no shortage of delicious jerk food vendors, entertainment and fun for all ages.