Around The Jazz Internet: March 30, 2012

Next Wednesday: the Craig Taborn Trio live in concert. But first, these news:

• The new record from master drummer Billy Hart, now 71, has proven a popular subject. Jon Garelick writes for the Boston Phoenix; Hank Shteamer writes for Time Out New York.
• April 13 is Jazz Day, as declared by the U.S. Council of Mayors. The Jazz Journalists Association is declaring it "jazz media day" — and encouraging everyone to participate. More details in the link above.
• More full documentaries on YouTube: Django Reinhardt (nearly two hours!) and the worthwhile (if incomplete) story of Blue Note Records.
• Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane are the subjects of this week's American Routes public radio program. Two hours, folks.
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba cover story for Miami's alt-weekly, circa 1997. Talk about a controversial musician: You don't hear much about militant protests against freakishly-good jazz pianists these days. (I stumbled upon this while researching a related topic.)
• Clarinetist Ben Goldberg is the subject of a San Francisco Chronicle profile. The piece focuses on his many different bands, including his first attempt at writing songs with words.
• Brian Ho is a Chinese-American organist who learned his instrument in the way many great jazz keyboard players did — in the black church. The San Jose Mercury News reports.
• Laurence Hobgood, arranger and pianist for Kurt Elling for many years, is finally touring his own band.
• Alan Miles Brown is a professor of jazz bass — and a member of the acclaimed contemporary classical ensemble Alarm Will Sound. A short Q&A in the Detroit Free Press.
• Jazz musicians respond to the Trayvon Martin story, via Alternate Takes.
• An Oklahoma City police officer started singing jazz after a severe automobile accident and is now playing New York and European gigs. One of his collaborators is the director of programming at "Jazz at the Lincoln Center."
• This etymology of the term "jazz," as originating in baseball slang, has come to the attention of this blog before. Any professional historians care to weigh in?
• Columbia College Chicago addresses proposed cutbacks in jazz programs, including the Center for Black Music Research and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.
• Katie Malloch, a dean of Canadian jazz radio, is stepping away from the mic. She gives an exit interview to Peter Hum.
• The Nazis hated jazz. (Yes, I have seen quips that this looks a lot like popular jazz c. 2012.)
• Duke Ellington: the statue. A Blog Supreme approves.
• The movie Anchorman will have a sequel. If you need to ask why this is relevant, you need to watch that clip — and maybe this one too.
• Ted Panken's archives this week: articles about Cecil Taylor and Michael Brecker.
• JazzWax spoke with guitarist John Scofield.
• The Jazz Session spoke with Raya Brass Band and drummer Billy Hart.
• The Checkout hosted Steve Lehman's trio and Noah Preminger's quartet in the studio this week, and spoke with pianist Manuel Valera.

Elsewhere at NPR Music:

• Alexis Cuadrado presented his A Lorca Soundscape in concert.
• Manuel Valera presented his New Cuban Express in concert.
• Early Wes Montgomery recordings were recently discovered and released. Here's the scoop.
• The Steve Lehman trio visited WBGO for this in-studio session.
• Jason Moran is the guest on this week's Piano Jazz Rising Stars.
• JazzSet this week features the Benny Green Trio.
• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz features the Beegie Adair episode.
• The complete Alan Lomax archive is going online, reports Joel Rose. That's 17,000 recordings.
• Esi Edugyan, author of Half Blood Blues (about black jazz musicians in Germany pre-WWII), speaks with Tell Me More.

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