Thursday Music Digest

A review of some recent reissues

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/242026/

A major cultural forum opens in New Orleans

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/world_cultural_economic_forum.html&ct=ga&cd=LJqYgtMXkZk&usg=AFQjCNFt9GlvrIlf0cwVTa45yxfoe12ozw

Jazz violin

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/arts/music/30sche.html?ref=arts

Jazz from...Newfoundland?

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=24910

And stupid music from upstate New York

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20081030/ENT0501/810300307/1053/ENT01