A selection of new and recent things from the summer, in case you missed them, if you are interested:

Sam Stephenson radio interview by Jim Sintetos in advance of the Monterey Jazz Festival.  KRML radio in Carmel, CA.  September 6, 2010.

JLP segment by Richard Steele on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight program.  September 2, 2010.

JLP Wins Award for Innovative Use of Archives from The Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, Inc.  August 31, 2010.

Nicole Rudick on JLP in Aperture magazine.  Summer 2010.

JLP in Chicago.  (Chicago Reader. July 15, 2010).

JLP at the New Mexico Jazz Festival – Santa Fe New Mexican July 16, 2010 and the Weekly Alibi July 8-14, 2010.

Bondo Wyszpolski on JLP in Easy Reader, the alt-weekly of Hermosa, Manhattan, and Redondo beaches, California.  July 14, 2010.

Gene Santoro on JLP in American History magazine.  June 2010 issue.

This piece by Bondo Wyszpolski in the new issue of Easy Reader, the alt-weekly of Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach, California, is one of the most thoughtful JLP write-ups we’ve seen.  Mention is made of some of the strange, non-jazz elements of JLP and we dig that.  We’ll have to make sure Bondo knows the JLP show will be in San Diego in 2012.

We also dig this whole publication.  Check out the July 4 “Ironman” contest, which includes drinking a 6-pack of beer, and the karaoke taxi cab video on the right hand side of the page.  Of course there’s also the surf report (poor conditions today) and the cartoon above.

I had high hopes for David Milch’s disappointing HBO show, John from Cincinnati, because southern California beach content is endlessly good.  Thomas Pynchon nailed it in his recent novel, Inherent Vice.  (Speaking of Pynchon I wrote about him here two weeks ago).

We love being in the Hermosa Beach news, too, because a lot of the loft regulars (Sonny Clark, Zoot Sims, many others) were once regulars at the Lighthouse club there.  I’ve always thought that club in the 1950s would make a great setting for a fictional TV series.  I once drafted a treatment for a one-hour pilot called The Lighthouse set there in 1955.  You’ve got vintage jazz, surfing and beach parties and Annette Funicello, hey wow real estate developers, Mob activity…pretty much everything.

Finally, Bondo’s article also makes mention of the new Getty Center exhibition which features work by Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith. I wrote about seeing some of that work recently in Williamsburg, VA.  I need to make it out there to see this interesting-looking show that also includes the work of CDS friends Lauren Greenfield and Mary Ellen Mark.

-Sam Stephenson

“Le Tresor Cache’ D’ Eugene Smith:  Jazz Loft Project.”

Jazz Around the Corner.

From the summer issue of Polka,  the new journalism magazine in Paris, France.

From John Bailey of the American Society of Cinematographers.

And from Sean O’Hagan of the great paper from London, The Guardian.

- JLP Staff

Make sure to check out this thoughtful blog entry by Howard Mandel, sparked by Jazz Loft Project and spurred by Hall Overton: Out of the Shadows at NYPL two weeks ago.

Speaking of the Overton event, we’re close to securing permission to streaming a video of the event on our website.  It should happen next week.  Stay tuned.

- Sam Stephenson

We are proud JLP is one of five nominees for book of the year by the Jazz Journalist Association.  Their list provides estimable company.  It is meaningful to be nominated along with longtime JLP friend Robin D.G. Kelley as well.

The outstanding New Yorker writer Alex Ross mentioned the upcoming April 14 Overton event at NYPL in his influential blog.

Ross’s award-winning book, The Rest is Noise, tells the story of the 20th century through the classical music composed the during the century.  I read and notated the book line-by-line and learned a ton from it.  If Ross researched and wrote a second book about the instrumentalists who performed the music discussed in the first book, the companion books would form an immortal chronicle.  That’s not to say The Rest is Noise isn’t great in and of itself.  The most formidable books often leave you wanting more.

-Sam Stephenson

Here’s one in print on All About Jazz dot com.

Here’ s the other on radio from Occidental, CA.

Special note is made of the All About Jazz interview in which a discussion of JLP Research Associate Dan Partridge’s work over seven years is a highlighted.  Interviewer Victor Schermer did a nice, thoughtful job on this.

“On and Off the Walls” by Elisabeth Biondi.  New Yorker dot com.  April 2, 2010.

Here is a nice article on 821 Sixth Avenue mainstay Ron Free’s return to his hometown of Charleston, S.C. for a gig this coming June, courtesy of the Charleston City Paper, March 30, 2010.

-JLP Staff