Tuesday Music Digest

A wrapup of Sunday's Kokua For Japan Concert in Hawai'i, which raised $1.6 million

http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=22657

Which included this amazing performance by Taimane Gardiner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rTOV1apkCk

A review of last weekend's Gray Sky Blues Fest

http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/bars-clubs/photo-hot-spot/Gray-Sky-Blues-Music-Festival-2011-tacoma/

Graeme is stil the cutting Edge

http://blog.vegas.com/las-vegas-shows/moody-blues-drummer-still-the-cutting-edge-13764/

Catching up with Paul Simon

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/11/135319218/paul-simon-old-sounds-new-perspectives

A new George Harrison book in the works

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/46833-abrams-to-publish-george-harrison-book.html

New Orleans horns, raw and funky

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/music/rebirth-brass-band-at-brooklyn-bowl-review.html?_r=1

A unique classical guitar quartet

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/northland/whangarei-leader/4873066/A-unique-guitar-quartet

The Scorpions to redo their classics

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/scorpions_to_re-record_classics.html

And a new documentary about Stan Kenton

http://www.examiner.com/jazz-music-in-national/man-behind-new-stan-kenton-documentary-focuses-on-bandleader-s-humanity