Vocalist Lorraine Feather and pianist Shelly Berg will kick off the Lakeshore Music Jazz Series at Tempe Center for the Arts this Friday. Tonight find out more about the daughter of Leonard Feather, who sang backup for Petula Clark and Grand Funk Railroad, and about Shelly Berg, Dean of Music at University of Miami, whose known for his collaborations with jazz singers from Nancy Wilson to Tierney Sutton. Jazz awakes at 8.

Ted Nugent brings his brand of high decibel rock 'n' roll to the Valley this week.

New Orleans Trumpeter Terence Blanchard got his start with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. His Grammy winning song cycle, "A Tale of God's Will" (A Requiem for Hurricane Katrina), was an emotional tour de force about this natural disaster. His unmistakable compositional style and playing can be heard on nearly 50 film scores. Since 2000, Blanchard has served as Artistic Director at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and as of August 2011 he was named the Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.

Pianist Billy Childs is a triple threat of music -- an accomplished player who apprenticed with JJ Johnson and Freddie Hubbard, and a Grammy winning arranger and composer. He easily combines the lyrical beauty of jazz and classical music into a sound that critics say is impossible to tell where jazz ends and classical begins. Childs was awarded a 2006 Chamber Music America composer’s grant and received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.  In January 2010, The Detroit Symphony premiered Childs’ Concerto For Violin And Orchestra with Regina Carter as soloist. He's recently performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Sting, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Kronos Quartet, Wynton Marsalis, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter, the Ying String Quartet, the American Brass Quintet, and Chris Botti. Jazz awakes at 8 Monday through Friday on KJZZ.