TakeFiveFriday logoIt’s Take Five Friday and I have a fresh batch of links for you to sample:

  • I’m not the only place where you’ll find Take Five.  Although not necessarily on Friday, NPR’s Take Five: A Weekly Jazz Sampler is meant to help you to get to know jazz fives songs at a time.
  • Going on a trip somewhere, here’s CNN’s list of nine great jazz joints across the world.
  • It’s hard to get a blog started and especially one like Improvised Communications, which is setting up shop to promote creative improvised music. Tom Kohn at the Bop Shop will probably be a reader, so will I.
  • Mark Grube shares his thoughts about the Cassandra Wilson concert at the State Theater in Ithaca last Sunday in ‘Til There Was You in his blog over at WXXI.
  • You’ve seen the big pictures around downtown Rochester. They’re the result of the Big Picture Rochester project. There’s a photo essay on BPR’s site showing them putting up the one with Wynton Marsalis and Bob Sneider from the Rochester International Jazz Festival, at the Rochester Plaza Hotel.

So take five and explore. Let me know what you think in the comments ….There will be five more next week.

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