Sunny Thursday Music Digest

From Big Band to Hendrix

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/arts/music/the-centennial-of-gil-evans-brings-two-big-jazz-events.html?_r=1

The world-class jazz club run by volunteers

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2012/05/16/152838135/the-world-class-jazz-club-run-by-volunteers

Keeping Jazz alive in Napa Valley

http://napavalleyregister.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/active-society-keeps-jazz-alive-in-napa-valley/article_04067e5c-9fb6-11e1-a48d-001a4bcf887a.html

Time for the Blind Willie McTell Festival

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-05-16/ramblin-rhodes-mcclinton-mood-blind-willie-mctell-festival

Remembering Telluride 1991

http://www.durangotelegraph.com/index.cfm/second-section/vikings-taj-and-telluride-trippine28099/

A picture is worth 100 Marimbists

http://www.carnegiehall.org/BlogPost.aspx?id=4294986444

Summer 2012 music at the Waikiki Aquarium

http://waikiki.hawaiinewsnow.com/news/events/94183-waikiki-aquarium-ke-kani-o-ke-kai-2012-summer-concert-series

R.I.P. to guitarist Joe Sell of The Lucky Boys

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120516/entlife/120519904/

A new World's Longest Guitar Solo

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/16/austin-guitarist-breaks-record-for-worlds-longest-guitar-solo/

And 10 great players who chose Gibson J-200s

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/10-Great-Players-Who-Chose-J-200s.aspx