Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Confirmation: Weekly News & Notes
















*The 2012 season of noon jazz concerts at Johnson County Community College has been announced.

*Hearne Christopher files an update on the status of Jardine's. Tony's Kansas City suggests that Jardine's "15 minutes are up."

*The Matt Otto Quintet is admired by KCJazzLark.

*Tim Finn's story about women in Kansas City's music scene contains a bit of jazz content.

*The Star provides a nice feature on ailing pianist Dan DeLuca. (Tip via Jim Mair.)

*Diverse posted an interactive guide to a recent performance.

*UMKC's student newspaper checks in on the jazz program.

*The Los Angeles Times published a profile of Pete O'Neal, the uncle of pianist Harold O'Neal.

*KCTV reports on progress at the Black Archives.

*Tweet o' the Week: Alaadeenswife- I'm listening to Kansas City's Seth Lee and Michael Warren on Najee's new CD, "The Smooth Side of Soul."

*Plastic Sax Comment o' the Week: Anonymous- Looks like you really did your homework on this one. (These words broke Plastic Sax's sarcasm meter.)

(Original image by Plastic Sax.)

7 comments:

C. More said...

Great postings Bill!
Very interesting.

katie said...

well.......I know where I WON'T be at noon on Tuesdays!

Anonymous said...

Hey Bill - maybe you're amused by the sophmoric rants @ Tony's KC... I find his blogging extremely TEDIOUS. Looks like you really did your homework for this week's "Confirmation." ;)

Anonymous said...

Here's a free series you might not be familiar with- live jazz 1st Friday of every month at Truman Medical Center. March 2, 2012 at TMC-Hospital Hill (2301 Holmes St) main lobby features Sam Price (guitar) and others TBA, 2-3 PM. March 2, 2012 at TMC-Lakewood (7900 Lee's Summit Rd) features Andrew Ouellette (piano) and others TBA, Noon-1 PM.

Happy In Bag said...

Thanks for the tip, Anon. I've listed a few of those in the past when artists have emailed me the information. Please let me know if there's a mailing list I might subscribe to.

Happy In Bag said...

That's not very nice, Katie.

Happy In Bag said...

Tony is bestie frenemy, Anon 851.