*A television news broadcast reports that streets in the Jazz District will be blocked on weekends this summer.
*Downbeat published a review of Tony Tixier’s I Am Human. The French pianist’s album features duets with Ben Leifer, Hermon Mehari and Logan Richardson.
*Tweet of the Week: Dr. K Goldschmitt- Something I think about every time I teach History of Jazz is Altman’s Kansas City. He got a group of ridiculously talented musicians in the mid-1990s to meticulously re-enact a style from 60 years prior. Can you imagine this happening in any other genre?