Ahem: live webcast from the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival this weekend! But first, links we missed:
- Nate Chinen on the importance of print media in jazz.
- PopMatters jazz writer Will Layman has a new blog: Big Butter And Egg Man (good name).
- Nextbop on "fringe" jazz artists.
- A proposed missed connection at a Robert Glasper show? Ha!
- What is the "40-20 set"? One band (sorta) shows us. (By Ben Ratliff.)
- Jim Macnie is killing it with the Newport Jazz previews: Saturday, Sunday and a Darcy James Argue interview. Also, his blog.
- It's final: Ravi Coltrane signs with Blue Note, joining Ambrose Akinmusire among the top talent inked this year by the label.
- Destination: Out re-ups its Willem Breuker post in memoriam.
- JazzWax has a variety of new stuff up.
- The Jazz Session speaks with Pharez Whitted and David Weiss.
- The Checkout this week features Greg Osby, Matt Wilson and the ceremony which renamed West 139th Street in Harlem to John Hicks Way.
Items we have mentioned:
- The new Do The Math has launched.
- Greg Osby's blog.
- More of Guillermo Klein's Tribute to Cuchi Leguizamon videos.
- Chris Albertson seems to have taken down his Ellington-Strayhorn interview, but it's still up at ABS.
Also, more jazz at NPR Music:
- You can hear, and then download the Greg Osby 50th birthday concert we recorded at the Village Vanguard.
- One more weekend only: listen to all of Guillermo Klein's new album through our First Listen series.
- The phenomenal singer Jose James gives us an intimate Favorite Session, from WBGO.
- Highlights from the 1964 Newport Jazz Festival, with Sarah Vaughan, classic Stan Getz, Max Roach's Freedom Now suite ...
- The Preservation Hall Jazz Band played the Newport Folk Festival last weekend; here's our recording.
- We were reminded on All Things Considered that Lee Konitz is still really good.
- Terry Gross talks to Fred Hersch.
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz this week re-airs a session with the late Hank Jones.
- JazzSet this week re-airs its Benny Golson 80th-birthday concert.
- Eden Brent on NPR's Song Of The Day.
- Some fool was running his mouth about jazz music at Newport on All Things Considered last Sunday.
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