Highlights include:
- Ever wonder what makes a jazz tune a standard? Click here to find out.
- The SFWEEKLY reports on the top 5 things you need to know about the SFJAZZ Center.
- Ravi Coltrane discusses his ongoing mission to preserve the Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, NY where his father lived and composed many of his greatest compositions including A Love Supreme.
- Brad Mehldau debuted his new electric project with drummer Mark Guiliana, MEHLIANA!
- The full director's cut of Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" found its way to YouTube.
- "Things ain't what it use to be," is the title of a recent NPR A Blog Supreme article on the changing landscape of mentoring in the jazz world.
- Voice of America's Jazz Beat blog has written a fascinating profile of trumpeter Randy Brecker, with some great vintage Brecker Brothers video clips.
- NPR Music has been kind enough to post the Jazz24 session of bebop supergroup The Cookers, worth a listen!
- euronews speaks to the Brazilian icon Gilberto Gil about his fifty years in music. Includes video.
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