by Patrick Jarenwattananon

Quoth Young Jeezy, "I need a vacation."

This video is apropos of nothing other than the fact that I'm going out of the office for two weeks, and I wanted to put up a "gone fishin'" message. So I Googled "jazz" and "fishing," and got Jazz & Fly Fishing, a television series about a real band from Scandinavia and their summertime adventures playing jazz and going fly fishing. (They sound pretty good, too.) Fear not, PETA: I have no actual angling plans for my forthcoming trips. I may well be at the Chicago Jazz Festival though (!), so if you're there, holler if you see a lanky, confused-looking dude typing Tweets into an obsolete brick of a cell phone.

Since I'll be gone — as will much of the overlapping A Blog Supreme and NPR Music teams — there will be little to no bloggage happening here, I fear. In the meanwhile, visit NPR.org/jazz for our weekly features, archived concerts and occasional jazz stories or interviews. Follow NPR Jazz updates and occasional random musings from the road on Twitter (@blogsupreme), courtesy of this little widget you see below. And below that, check out highlights from our first three months of publishing to the Jazz Internet.

Thanks so much for following our little jazz + new media experiment — it's been a lot of work on top of our other work, but also a total blast. When we come back in full after Labor Day, we'll be clear-headed, loaded up with good stuff and better than ever. Also, jazz world: Please nobody die in the next two weeks? kthanxbye.

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