*Deploring the lack of organic enthusiasm for Kansas City’s jazz scene, Nina Cherry asks “(w)here is the interest in the music being created now?” in an essay published by Kansas City magazine.
*Jon Poses decries the absence of a single proper summer jazz festival in the state of Missouri in The Columbia Daily Tribune.
*Snippets of a midday performance at the Blue Room were captured by Joe Dimino.
*The author of Plastic Sax reviewed a jazz-tangential concert by the British musicologist Samantha Ege.
*Tweet of the Week: Jeff Shirley- Tonight, Jeff Shirley Organ Trio is at Green Lady Lounge, 11:30-2:30, joined by Mark Slimm and Brian Steever!! We're playing all originals, here's a short clip from Mark's tune "Lunar Lander." (video)