Jazz/Blues
The Segals: Jazz at Lincoln Center Awards Melissa Aldana and JACK Quartet the 2014 Martin E. Statues
UK Culture Secretary Maria Miller Resigns, Industry Nervously Eyes Her Successor Sajid Javid
It's all change at the top of the UK arts scene as the government's Culture Secretary Maria Miller resigns after becoming embroiled in a scandal over her expenses (she was cleared of the major charges, but still has to pay several thousand pounds of claimed expenses back). Music pros on social media were hardly lamenting her departure, but neither as yet were they over-optimistic about her successor, Sajid Javid Jazz Appreciation Month: Smithsonian and UNESCO Jazz Holiday Award Local Legends and Newcomers With Gold Statues
Unless you're completely in the unknown void outside of the jazz realm, then you know this month is the Smithsonian's own Jazz Appreciation month.
