Notes from the Net: Barber reviewed, Terry celebrates, Reeves and Sanborn interviewed, and more

Patricia Barber

Pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber, who's set to make her St. Louis debut at Jazz at the Bistro next year during the weekend of March 10-11, recently gigged in Boston, and the blog from local public radio station WGBH has a review...St. Louis-born trumpet legend Clark Terry is getting ready to celebrate his 85th birthday on December 14th with a concert in Portsmouth, NH, and the local paper has an interview with him here...Vocalist Dianne Reeves, who's performing at the Sheldon Concert Hall at month's end, was interviewed by KXJZ radio in Sacramento, CA about her work on the soundtrack to the film Good Night, and Good Luck, and you can hear the conversation here...Saxophonist David Sanborn, a native of suburban Kirkwood, MO, recently did an interview with USA Today talking about, among other things, how music helped him overcome a childhood bout with polio...Almost 40 years later, critics are still debating Miles Davis' electric period, and now author Philip Freeman has a new book, Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis, that "places Davis's controversial 1960s and 1970s albums in a new and different light, encouraging us to hear Miles's music alongside the work of Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and the trumpeter's own sidemen."...On the "rebuilding-New-Orleans" front, Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis are among the New Orleans musicians supporting Habitat for Humanity's plans for a "musician's village" to be built in the city...And last but not least, if you've read Jack Kerouac's classic Beat Generation novel On The Road, you probably know that St. Louis is one of many cities mentioned in the book. Now, organizers of "On The Road: A Kerouac Circus" are seeking found audio from our town and others mentioned in the text for "a project to gather ambient sounds (sounds that happen to be in an environment) from locations mentioned in Kerouac's On the Road in order to create a sonic portrait of the big cities, small towns, backwoods, deserts and mountains that Kerouac visited and wrote about."