Strictly Links

A report from Columbia's Harlem Festival of Global Jazz.  I wish there was more detail but it certainly sounds like a conference I would have liked to attend.

A rare Kidd Jordan interview. Also check out this 2006 account of helping clean out Kidd Jordan's hurricane ravaged home.

There's a David S. Ware blog with updates about his whereabouts, pictures, etc.

Sun Ra interviewed in 1981. Wynton Marsalis interviewed in 1996.

A fascinating look at possible parallels between the work of Ornette Coleman and the Dutch Situationist architect known as Constant. 

The Turtle Island String Quartet is interviewed in regards to their album covering John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. [youtube].

Black Jazz in the Digital Age by Greg Tate.

It's a bit difficult to read, but David Adler has been blogging from Columbia's Jazz Journalist conference today. You can see what happened here, but you have to login: the username and password are guest/guest.

More of substance and a new look for Soundslope.com coming this week.