St. Louis natives Davenport and McDermott talk about New Orleans

This past weekend, the Post-Dispatch had articles about the situation post-Hurricane Katrina for two jazz musicians raised in St. Louis who have made their homes in New Orleans. Pop critic Kevin Johnson interviews trumpeter/vocalist Jeremy Davenport here, and Tom McDermott, who's a fine writer as well as a traditional jazz piano player, has a first-person account here.

For more on the jazz world's reaction to the disaster, this story about the Lincoln Center jazz benefit for hurricane survivors is also worth a look.