Monday Music Digest

A belated Happy 8th to the current King of Stupid Music, Leon Rausch!

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Good_Morning_130864383.html

Now you can major in Ellington...

http://www.breezejmu.org/news/article_98d0635c-ed5c-11e0-9bf7-001a4bcf6878.html

Checking out the Angel City Jazz Festival

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/10/jazz-review-angel-city-jazz-festival-at-the-ford-amphitheater.html

More musings on guitar wood

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111002/BUSINESS/310020051/For-guitar-makers-wood-poses-quandary

Yngwie sighted

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=164049

Trombone Shorty pops across the Pond

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/trombone-shorty-jazz-caf233-london-2364620.html

A new ballroom opens in Phoenix

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/2011/10/02/20111002crescent-ballroom-phoenix-charlie-levy-music-venue.html

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass honors a legend

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_19025127?nclick_check=1

Benny Green to honor Monk

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/02/PK6P1L7R9I.DTL

And more on the first rock concert in Afghanistan in 30 years

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223308/20111002/first-rock-concert-in-30-years-rocks-afghanistan-photos-band-blues-indie-electroncia-and-death-metal.htm