Music Digest 7/02/08

A decline in sales of jazz music

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS/807010379/1001/NEWS

Syracuse University gets an oldies collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/02arts-SYRACUSEUNIV_BRF.html?ref=arts

The Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans wowed us in Lowell a few years back...

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20080702/VALLEYNEWS/10606108/1083&ParentProfile=1074

And this year Lowell will feature a great bluegrass aggregation, the Lonesome River Band:

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080701070332zzzz.nb/topstory.html

Early John Lennon: Ringo should have been "heard and not seen"

http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/17690.html

While Ringo himself is pissed at the press these days:

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ringo-star-album-sales/19663/

Isaac Hayes sighting!

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/07/blues_fest_preview_isaac_hayes.html

And a world guitar record has been smashed...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_9759602