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Around The Jazz Internet: Jan. 6, 2012

Educator and trumpeter Jimmy Owens will be named an NEA Jazz Master next week.
Stephanie Myers
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Educator and trumpeter Jimmy Owens will be named an NEA Jazz Master next week.

Good to be back.

  • Jack DeJohnette interview, with pianist George Colligan.
  • Jim McNeely interview, with pianist Ethan Iverson.
  • Jimmy Owens featured in the Wall Street Journal.
  • Coleman Hawkins, 1936 (?), Switzerland. Yes, there's audio.
  • Oscar Peterson interview, 1979, from JazzTimes archives. Also from JazzTimes: the consensus top 50 of 2011 and the individual critics' ballots.
  • On jazz-trained/influenced indie rockers, by Nate Chinen, also in JazzTimes.
  • New England Public Radio has a jazz blog now. It reminds me of this, the Jazz History Database (of Massachusetts).
  • Flutist Nicole Mitchell has moved to California. An interesting Neil Tesser story on why an anchor of Chicago's jazz scene would decide to relocate.
  • Marc Ribot writes in the New York musicians' union publication Allegro about Winter Jazzfest negotiations, and the future of freelance/jazz organizing.
  • Grant funding will help create a theatrical production about San Diego jazz history.
  • Nogales, Ariz., where Charles Mingus was born, is getting closer to erecting a monument to the bassist and composer.
  • Jazz lessons for businesses.
  • Anthony Braxton eyeglasses: This week in WTF.
  • Destination: Out has posted more FMP goodies from Sam Rivers and Steve Lacy.
  • JazzWax spoke with Sheila Jordan.
  • The Jazz Session spoke with saxophonists Michael Pedicin and Pete Robbins.
  • The Checkout spoke with Nicholas Payton and David Murray.
  • Elsewhere at NPR Music:

  • Charlie Haden and Hank Jones made an album that's coming out next week. Hear it now, via the First Listen series.
  • Pianist Harold O'Neal is interviewed on the Christmas All Things Considered.
  • Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz this week features the Hot Club of Detroit.
  • JazzSet this week features Mario Pavone and the Orange Double Trio.
  • Toast of the Nation archives. Here's another reminder to check out Wynton Marsalis, Billy Childs, Julian Lage and more.
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