Thursday Music Digest

Sorry for today's delayed posting...busy getting things ready for next week's cutover to high speed internet!

R.I.P. to Ferlin Husky

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ferlin-husky-country-music-hall-169172

Livin' and Breathin' all that jazz

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-03-18-livin-and-breathin-all-that-jazz/

Jazz Messengers sighted

http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-art-blakeys-jazz-messengers/

The Ultimate Box of Jazz?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/arts/music/jazz-the-smithsonian-anthology-out-march-29.html?_r=1

A new live jazz cafe in Topeka

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Live_118216889.html

Samba music...in a pizzeria in Bethel Connecticut? "I've been there, man!"

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Party-to-Brazilian-grooves-at-Pizzeria-Lauretano-1174708.php

Finnish tractors to the rescue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLjMKKXz4w

Previewing this weekends cigar box guitar fest in Florida

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/music/os-cal-abbott-cigar-box-031811-20110317,0,5433446.column

Leon Russell goes back to The Garden, 40 years later

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/03/leon-russell-back-to-the-garden-40-years-later.html

And Bach Around the Clock in New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2011/03/video_bach_around_the_clock_ne.html