Around The Jazz Internet: Jan. 21, 2011

by Patrick Jarenwattananon

 

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Our friends at WNYC's program Soundcheck hosted Charles Lloyd for an interview and duo session with Jason Moran this week. Also, the saxophonist/electronic musician Matt Bauder brought a jazz group into the studio too.

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival schedule was released this year, and there's less jazz/heritage music atop the bill than ever. (Jazz and Louisiana-area music still comprises the lion's share of the lineup, though.) The blogosphere is annoyed: Peter Hum, Doug Ramsey.

Peter also has a nice story about a band called The Story. (Oddly enough, this group came together about three blocks from where I lived in 2005.)

Sonny Rollins picks some favorite film music with New York magazine's Eric Benson.

Numerous folks have noticed that Jared Loughner, the accused shooter in the Tucson, Ariz. shootings, was a committed jazz saxophone student in high school. The New York Times profile has more details, as does this local TV report.

Here's a fuller and more sympathetic portrait of Keith Jarrett's Carnegie Hall show, couched in a meditation about technological addiction, in Fast Company. Yes, that's correct.

A late pass for this news item from last week: Harlem is getting a jazz festival.

Robert Wyatt picks 10 favorite jazz and classical works for Dusted magazine. (Disclosure: The editor of Dusted sits next to me at work.)

Will Layman interviews the guitarist Rez Abbasi for PopMatters.

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