StLJN jazz site of the week: Destination: Out

Welcome, if you will, a new feature here at St. Louis Jazz Notes: the StLJN jazz site of the week. It's a simple premise - there are lots of informative and entertaining jazz sites on the Web, and each week we'll provide a link to one of them, along with a bit of background on what makes it noteworthy. My hope is that this will help stir up some additional cross-traffic and conversation, and also that you'll like some of these sites enough to add them to your regular media diet.

And so, without further ado, let it be known that the very first StLJN jazz site of the week is the music-sharing blog Destination: Out. D:O is devoted primarily to avant-garde, experimental and free jazz, with a special emphasis on overlooked and/or out-of-print recordings from the 1970s and 1980s. Proprietors Prof. Drew LeDrew and Chilly Jay Chill display unfailingly good taste in sounds, and their recent post paying tribute to the late producer Teo Macero is a typically illuminating example of the D:O methodology, with some excellent music to download, pithy commentary and relevant links.

Destination: Out usually has new posts twice a week, and if you have any interest in the musical styles they cover, it's a must read. Watch this space next Monday for another StLJN jazz site of the week.