Around The Jazz Internet: Dec. 17, 2011

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Jazz men (and women) of letters.

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Jazz men (and women) of letters.

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A day late, and who knows how many dollars short.

• The Gig has made a habit of year-end epistolary exchanges. This year's participants are writers Angelika Beener, Aaron Cohen, Joe Tangari and K. Leander Williams, with host Nate Chinen.
• So many top ten year-end lists! Peter Hum rounds a few up.
• On why Nicholas Payton is not a racist. Can't say I follow every single detail here. But the basic assertion that racism is about maintaining a power relation is, I think, something that we should think deeply about with regard to jazz.
• Jeremy Pelt, trumpeter, has a blog. (Yes, I found it via Nicholas Payton's response to it.)
• Wynton Marsalis has been named a cultural correspondent for CBS News. He'll be on Sunday and weekday mornings.
• Stan Kenton: David Hajdu is not a fan. (Among the details is this, which I can't bring myself to talk about on the Internet.) Here's a response from Aesthetic, Not Anesthetic, a blog which I should read more.
• The musicians' union is pressing jazz clubs for pension benefits in New York City, the Times reports.
• The Turkish Embassy has posted concert highlights from the Jazz at Lincoln Center series. If you don't know ...
• The Curtis Brothers, Luques and Zaccai, profiled in the WSJ. Also, . (You all know the Journal offers a free look at the article if you get there from Google, no?)
• Woody Shaw III on his dad and Dexter Gordon, from jazzblog.ca.
• Rose Colella, a vocalist, also comes from a musical family — even if everyone has forgotten about her grandmother.
• Charlie Hunter interview in the L.A. Times.
• Gerald Cleaver and "making a band": reflections from Hank Shteamer.
• RIP Selma Heraldo. Who? Ask the Louis Armstrong House Museum, her neighbors.
• Ted Panken's archive: John Abercrombie blindfolded, a Barry Harris story, two Eddie Palmieri interviews, and one of the smarter discussions of "jazz"/"BAM."
• Destination: Out posts a Tyshawn Sorey-related contest.
• JazzWax has a variety of new stuff up.
• The Jazz Session speaks with bassist Michael Bates, and concert producer Adam Schatz. More Crane/Schatz talks at JazzDIY.
• The Checkout this week actually aired the Barcelona episode (sorry for the mistake last week!).

Elsewhere at NPR Music:

• A Jazz Piano Christmas. Hear it.
• The John Zorn Christmas album. Hear it.
• The late Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestra (feat. Joe Lovano) played the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2007, a show captured in part on JazzSet.
• Boyd Lee Dunlop on Weekend Edition.
• Christian McBride on weekends on All Things Considered.
• JazzSet this week features Christian McBride and Inside Straight.
• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz this week features a holiday episode with Michael Feinstein.
• Marcus Roberts on Song of the Day.
• Zara McFarlane on Song of the Day.
• Dave Douglas' new box set, on Fresh Air.