Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Last Day of 2013 Music News You Can Use

Jazz for a new generation

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/leisure/music/10906017.Jazz_for_a_new_generation/

Remembering Stupid Musician Curly Lewis, who was one of several notable Oklahomans to pass in 2013

http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/several-influential-artists-with-state-ties-died-in/article_925b3ed8-733f-572f-99a3-1e9fb9b91340.html

Joe Louis Walker heads to CT

http://www.ctpost.com/music/article/Bluesman-Joe-Louis-Walker-to-perform-in-Fairfield-5102507.php

String Cheese sighted

http://www.jambands.com/news/2013/12/30/string-cheese-cover-the-dead-jaco-pastorious-lorde-with-keller-members-of-flaming-lips-los-lobos#.UsLRCfuvPIM

A new virtual guitar from Impact Soundworks

http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=170399

All songs sound happy when played on the Ookelele

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20131230/NEWS04/312300008/DUkes-Drury-University-ukulele-club?nclick_check=1

Bound by the sounds of Haiti

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/music/Port+Prince+International+Jazz+Festival+bound/9334698/story.html

A roundup of this year's Kennedy Center honorees

http://www.examiner.com/article/2013-kennedy-center-honors-presents-opera-jazz-latin-and-pop-music

Larry Willis sighted

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/The-Great-Larry-Willis-Tim-Green-Gerald-Cannon-and-Billy-Williams-Set-for-Twins-Jazz-Club-on-New-Years-Eve-20131230

And the stories of Johnny Cash

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/30/showbiz/music/johnny-cash-biography/