Jazz/Blues
President Barack Obama to Honor Brooklyn Academy of Music with National Medal of Arts
CLICK: Damon Albarn West End Musical, Billy Joel Wins Gershwin Prize, Audra "Lady Day" MacDonald at Emerson’s, P.T. Anderson Inherent Vice at New York Film
"It's funny for me to say, 'I'm writing a musical', but yes, that's what I'm doing next. It's something I've always wanted to do, because musicals are great when they're done well. It started out with the same subject matter but was going to be a leftfield, experimental opera. But it's lurched into a mainstream musical for families." -- Damon Albarn [via The Daily Star] Kansas City Jazz District Renaissance Co. Opens Walk of Fame on 18th and Vine: Basie, Bird, Metheny and Others First Inductees
The 18th and Vine area may be slow to renovation but the latest project in creating a Jazz Walk of Fame should be a tangible way to generate some much-needed tourism.
