Phronesis bassist Jasper Høiby has a new album, Fellow Creatures, on Edition Records; "Bird Is the Worm" blogger Dave Stapleton interviewed Høiby for the indie download site Bandcamp, where you can hear and buy the album. Here's a video for the track "Little Song for Mankind":
On Fresh Air with Terry Gross, guitarist Nels Cline talks about his "with strings" album, Lovers:
Cline's Blue Note debut is also the subject of a feature story in the September DownBeat and a featured interview in the September Jazz Times.
Myra Melford (along with our November 2016 guest, Helen Sung, and others) will be part of "Handful of Keys: A Century of Jazz Piano" at Jazz at Lincoln Center on September 22. JALC promises to make the concert available on its "Livestream" page.
Elsewhere in JALC webspace: Sheila Jordan goes crate-digging:
And speaking of brilliant vocalists: back at the end of August, Cécile McLorin Salvant was featured on NPR's Jazz Night In America:
