• The Center City Jazz Festival is being started up by a Philadelphia musician, trombonist Ernest Stuart. It's being crowdfunded in large part through Kickstarter. David Adler reports more details here.
• RIP Jimmy "Junebug" Jackson, drummer with Jimmy Smith and D.C. hero.
• Ahmad Jamal interview at All About Jazz. Terell Stafford too.
• Jose James interview at The Revivalist.
• Chris Albertson has been posting some hip recordings lately ? Bud Freeman, Howard McGhee, etc.
• A Michel Petrucciani documentary, which premiered at Cannes, is out.
• L.A. jazz clubs need more loud drunks, apparently.
• Pro Sonny Rollins, anti Kennedy Center Honors.
• "Jazz, Max Weber, and the Breakdown of the Protestant Ethic."
• Trombone Shorty is on this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest poster.
• The Jazz Bakery is getting a permanent home in Culver City, designed by Frank Gehry. Apparently, he is working pro bono.
• The Village Vanguard on Yelp. What people who don't revere the place think.
• Destination: Out has a guest post on low brass man Bill Lowe, from Taylor Ho Bynum.
• JazzWax spoke with vocalist/pianist Meredith d'Ambrosio, whose new recording has a rather powerful story behind it.
• The Jazz Session spoke with saxophonist Noah Kaplan and pianist Tom Wetmore.
• The Checkout spoke with Benny Golson.

Elsewhere at NPR Music:

• Bill Frisell does John Lennon: a Tiny Desk Concert.
• Paul McCartney does standards: a First Listen.
• Arturo Sandoval at KPLU/Jazz24.
• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz this week features the Clark Terry episode.
• JazzSet this week features Steve Wilson doing Charlie Parker with Strings.
• ICYMI: Radio obituary for John Levy.

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