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Jamal in July: Mosaic Records' new 9-CD set of Ahmad Jamal's trio recordings will be shipping by the middle of next month.
- For the holiday weekend of Juneteenth and Father’s Day, we have two Night Lights programs, The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree and Daddy-O: Father-And-Son Teams In Jazz.
- All About Jazz has the complete rundown of this past week’s 2010 Jazz Journalists Association Awards
- Jazz historian/writer Steven Isoardi (you can hear him on the Night Lights programs Come On Down To Central Avenue and One More You Wrote Through Us: Horace Tapscott) has published an account of bassist Henry Grimes’ 2003 re-emergence (you can hear an interview with Grimes on the Night Lights show Now Found: Henry Grimes)
- An interesting discussion is being had at Organissimo on the influence of Miles Davis‘ Kind of Blue.
- Speaking of Miles, have yourself a Bitches Brew.
- NPR has the scoop on Herbie Hancock‘s latest.
- Ben Young has written a fine obituary for avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon.
- Mosaic Records’ long-awaited Ahmad Jamal box-set, as well as its John Carter-Bobby Bradford 3-CD set, should be shipping in mid-July.
