Around The Jazz Internet: Oct. 14, 2011

More browsing:

• Sonny Rollins talks with Tavis Smiley. A little late, but I don't think we ever posted this.
• Interview with Jack DeJohnette in PopMatters. He's up to some things still.
• Jimmy Amadie is profiled in a Philadelphia-area newspaper. Who? Only a pianist who hasn't performed in public since 1967. (He has a new album, too; I've heard it, it's nice.)
• Wynton Marsalis is 50. The New York Times has a review of his 50th birthday concerts.
• A letter from Sonny Rollins to Coleman Hawkins. Speaking of artifacts, since it was making Facebook rounds this week, Thelonious Monk's advice to sidemen.
• Peter Hum has been filing some nice interviews lately, including Jerry Granelli and Theo Bleckmann + Ben Monder.
• The Independent Ear has been collecting more musicians' responses to this: "When you read music journalism and criticism what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing?"
• RIP Butch Ballard, drummer.
• RIP Bess Bonnier, pianist.
• Last week, James Brown's most famous sidement — Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker — reunited on stage. A (now-belated) preview, in the Times.
• The Keystone Korner, late San Francisco jazz club, is the subject of a new book. Down the coast in Los Angeles, the L.A. Times speaks with Catalina Popescu, who runs Catalina Bar & Grill.
• Short interview with David Borgo, saxophonist and ethnomusicologist who studies the social aspect of improvisation, on voiceofsandiego.org.
• More on the technology which "recreated" an Oscar Peterson performance, in Canada's National Post.
• Ted Panken's archives this week: a Lee Konitz profiles, a Billy Higgins retrospective, and interviews with Fred Hopkins, Lester Bowie and Famadou Don Moye.
• Destination: Out has posted some 1975 Anthony Braxton goods.
• JazzWax interviewed organist Rhoda Scott and saxophonist Sol Schlinger this week.
• Jason Crane of The Jazz Session has posted interviews with keyboardist Larry Goldings, and turns the tables on himself when vocalist Andrea Wolper interviews him.
• The Checkout got guitarist Matthew Stevens to play with his band, and spoke with David Murray about his newest.

Elsewhere at NPR Music:

• Fabian Almazan trio with strings were fantastic this week at the Village Vanguard. Hear the recording. (I'm biased, but tell me if you don't agree.)
• No link yet, but listen for a Howard Mandel profile of Anthony Braxton on Weekend Edition this Saturday.
• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz this week features Randy Brecker with guest host Bill Charlap.
• JazzSet this week featured Randy Weston.
• New Tyshawn Sorey album. Fresh Air's Kevin Whitehead has a listen.