Recent Links :: July 27

• DraconiaNetwork has a brief discussion of Ornette Coleman's song, "Sleep Talking," from the album Sound Grammar. (Purchase the CD, Sound Grammar, at Barnes & Noble.)
  
• BET reports that Don Cheadle is making progress with his movie about Miles Davis.
  
• John Kelman reviews the DVD, Miles Davis: Live at Montreux - Highlights 1973-1991, at All About Jazz. (Purchase the DVD, Miles Davis: Live at Montreux - Highlights 1973-1991, at Barnes & Noble.)
  
• Arnold Koch remembers Benny Goodman in the Melrose (MA) Free Press.
  
• The Jez Nelson 2009 interview with Keith Jarrett is rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3. The interview with Jarrett begins at about 32:30.
  
• The Handful of Keys blog has an analysis of the first four measures of James P. Johnson's "Carolina Shout." (Purchase the CD, Carolina Shout, at Barnes & Noble.)
  
• Kevin Davis reviews The Definitive Thelonious Monk on Prestige and Riverside at All About Jazz. (Purchase the CD, The Definitive Thelonious Monk on Prestige and Riverside, at Barnes & Noble.)
  
• Tim Niland reviews the same album at Music and More.
  
• The Cecil Taylor Art Museum Benefit will be held on September 14, 2011 at Brooklyn Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn.
  

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