Monday Music Digest

R.I.P. to guitar great Ronnie Montrose

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_20100307

Disturbing Jazz news from Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-0305-columbia-cje-20120304,0,1606161.column

Berklee gets ready for its 44th High School Jazz Festival

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2012/03/deptford_high_school_jazz_band.html

Birth of the Cool

http://www.cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2012/03/05/birth-cool-music-gil-evans

Jazz in Java

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/java-jazz-gets-jakarta-ready-to-groove-all-weekend-long/502563

Previewing this year's Pasfika Festival in Kiwi Land

http://auckland.scoop.co.nz/2012/03/only-four-more-sleeps-until-you-see-tahitians-dance/

John Candy's funniest movies

http://www.legacy.com/ns/news-story.aspx?t=john-candys-funniest-movies&id=762

Bela Fleck sighting

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/04/PK801NB6JO.DTL

How Robert Johnson got the Blues

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/03/04/robert-johnson-got-the-blues-100-years-ago-and-reaped-a-fortune/

And a new musical about Ma Rainey

http://host.madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/reviews/musical-ma-rainey-plays-a-simmering-power-struggle/article_bbc42ad0-6627-11e1-892a-001871e3ce6c.html