Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Confirmation: Weekly News and Notes
















*The trailer for Sons of a Hoofer, the new documentary about the McFadden Brothers, is posted at some awesome dude's MySpace page. It's also showing at the American Jazz Museum's site. And I just discovered that the museum has seven original videos available at MySpace.

*The Metheny Music Foundation's site has been updated with photos from their recent fundraising event.

*Mike Metheny is jazzed about his April 29 gig at a Lee's Summit library- "No talking, no smoking, no blenders buzzing during ballads, or spontaneous slow dancing by drunks in heat."

*The Philadelphia Inquirer gives Karrin Allyson's new release a lukewarm review.

*A blogger muses on dining options near the jazz district.

*A smoker teases the Blue Room's long-standing smoking ban in an editorial.

*Smart and lucky people are including the jazz festival and Friday's big show at the Gem in their weekend plans.

*Trad jazz fans are heading east for the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival that begins today. (Link via St. Louis Jazz Notes.)

(Original image by Plastic Sax.)

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