*A most unusual jazz performance transpired last weekend at the Kansas City Irish Fest. Eric Rigler of Bad Haggis is a piper, alright, but his band offered a chagrined audience a blast of jazz fusion in the vein of Return to Forever and Weather Report.
*Andrew Zender composed a beautiful review of a new Hot Lips Page biography.
*Mazuka was profiled by Joe Klopus.
*Steve Penn visits with musicians about Charlie Parker's legacy.
*The New Low Down outs me in his superior analysis of this year's Charlie Parker memorial. Lee is too gracious to mention that Kansas City's jazz community suffered a terrible blow when he left town.
*How I Came To Love Jazz is the title of a new book by Kansas City poet Phyllis Becker.
*An unissued Charlie Parker recording is scheduled for release.
*Miles Bonny has four gigs in Germany and Austria over the next few days.
(Original image by Plastic Sax.)
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