Around The Jazz Internet: April 29, 2011

Where today, and every day, the late Duke of Ellington > the new Duke of Cambridge.

• New Orleans Jazz Fest is here. The Times-Picayune's online coverage is a good place to start. We'll have updates here at ABS coming soon. The Times-Pic's Treme coverage is pretty boss, too, and not just because they interviewed me. Finally, a T-P article about Congo Square.
• Talk about your royal familes: The O'Farrills are profiled. Via Larry Rohter/The New York Times.
• Dr. Lewis Porter's posts at the WBGO blog are really good at telling you why what you think you know about jazz is wrong. This week: "Jazz is the only truly American art form," and more.
• In Philadelphia, bassist Warren Oree has written a jazz opera based on a 1951 slave riot. By Shaun Brady/Philadelphia Inquirer.
• Jazz at Lincoln Center announces a partnership that will see the JALC Orchestra supporting a work of musical theater. By Will Friedwald/The Wall Street Journal.
• On recent jazz meets country music connections, also by Will Friedwald/The Wall Street Journal.
• Neil Tesser previews a Moutin Brothers gig, and tells the story of the great French musicians.
• John Fordham looks back at Wynton Marsalis in 1986, for his 50 great moments in jazz series in The Guardian.
• The Thread, the Duke Performances blog, has an interview with Guillermo Klein.
• RVAJazz is changing editors, and the story behind its growth and founding therein is important for anyone concerned with DIY in jazz these days.
• Darius Jones, who is from Richmond, talks about the South. Via Steve Dollar/Wall Street Journal.
• The Smithsonian American History Museum blog looks at the great educator David Baker and his time at the Lenox School of Jazz. (If you don't know, now you know.)
• The history of jazz: now for iPad.
• All About Jazz has interviews and features with percussionist Trilok Gurtu and guitarist Bill Frisell.
• Destination: Out has some Don Cherry in the '80s.
• JazzWax has a variety of features up.
• The Jazz Session speaks with drummer Adam Cruz and saxophonist Jon Gordon.
• The Checkout features The Bad Plus' take on The Rite of Spring, with commentary.

Elsewhere at NPR Music:

• New http://npr.org/villagevanguard shows announced! Roy Hargrove quintet, Mark Turner quartet (with Paul Motian), the Heath Brothers quartet, Jenny Scheinman's Mischief and Mayhem ...
• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz this week features Bela Fleck.
• JazzSet this week airs excerpts from the Gretchen Parlato and Conrad Herwig sets at Newport 2010.
• Talking about zydeco pioneer Amede Ardoin, on weekend All Things Considered.

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