MSN® Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival, a three-day celebration of the best in jazz, are giving music fans something to sing about. MSN has teamed up with the world's longest-running jazz festival to offer new and archival recordings not available anywhere else -- online or offline -- of live performances by some of jazz's biggest names, including Blue Note Records' Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio, the Terence Blanchard Sextet, the Bill Charlap Trio and other famed artists.

Six live performances from the above Blue Note artists recorded at this year's festival will be available to purchase as downloads beginning in October at http://beta.music.msn.com. the fully functional preview version of the new music service that debuted Sept. 1 in the United States. In addition, nearly a dozen more tracks from the Monterey Jazz Festival archives will be available over the coming year from artists who have performed over the past 46 years at the festival.

"The relationship that MSN has with The Monterey Jazz Festival is a great example of our commitment to delivering the best music content to our customers," said Rob Bennett, senior director of MSN Entertainment. "We will continue to add new and exclusive content on a regular basis to help ensure that fans of all types of music can find and discover music they love on MSN Music."