by Patrick Jarenwattananon

First, a not-jazz plug: NPR Music's South by Southwest music festival coverage — live concert recordings, and so much more — has occupied most of this week for us bloggers supreme. We urge you to check it out at NPR.org/sxsw. Now, on to some links:

—NPR's On Point sat down with Sonny Rollins on Wednesday for a goodly while. Here's the interview.

—Destination: Out previews Throat, the new album from Little Women. There are no women in Little Women, and their sound is not little.

—Guitarist John Scofield has a new acoustic band with Mulgrew Miller, Ben Street and Kendrick Scott. They play standards and swing hard. For a jazz-funk border-straddler like Scofield, this is news.

—The Guardian on the New York outsider free-jazz scene. Bassist Gene Janas has choice words.

—Oscar Peterson is getting his own statue in Montreal, Peter Hum notes.

—Do The Math passes along this extensive conversation with Charles McPherson.

—David Adler on complex, "jazz" harmonies cropping up in pop music.

—Cryptogramophone Records' blog informs us of news of an intriguing compilation from the ever-great Soul Jazz Records. Message From The Tribe anthologizes Detroit's '70s label Tribe Records — more info here.

—JazzWax this week interviews George Avakian in five parts.

—The Jazz Session this week interviews Lionel Loueke, Brandon Seabrook and Sam Sadigursky.

—The Checkout this week features Allison Miller, Ryan Keberle and Pablo Aslan.

And some stuff we did mention:

 

—The Treme trailer — color us excited
—The saga of Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and his father, saxophonist Pat Patrick
—Introducing The Robert Glasper Beat Tape

Finally, more jazz from NPR Music:

—Brad Mehldau released a grand new recording this week.
—World Cafe (!) talks to Jimmy Heath.
—Nat King Cole was an all-around talent in jazz and beyond.
—Jamie Cullum was interviewed on NPR airwaves.
—JazzSet this week has both Rudresh Mahanthappa and Esperanza Spalding at Newport 2009.
—Piano Jazz this week features Jimmy McPartland, cornetist and Marian's late husband.