* The Riverfront Times this week published their annual "Best of St. Louis" issue, and the winners in the "Staff Picks" section include The Dark Room (pictured) as "Best Jazz Club" and BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups as "Best Blues Club."
Meanwhile, in the "Reader's Choice" polling, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups took the awards for both "Best Blues Club" and "Best Jazz Club." You can see a complete list of all the winners in various categories here.
* Also in the RFT, music editor Daniel Hill reports on the latest developments at KDHX, as station management this week cancelled two public meetings that had been scheduled "to address recent allegations of racial insensitivity and mismanagement against the station's top brass."
* In advance of his performance with trumpeter Keyon Harrold next Friday at the St. Louis Art Museum, writer Quincy Troupe was interviewed by Chris King of the St. Louis American.
* The Route 66 Jazz Orchestra has posted to Facebook an album of photos from their performance on Tuesday at the Sheldon Concert Hall.
* The new outdoor plaza opening later this month at The Sheldon is the subject of a feature story on the website ConstructForStL.org.
* As touted last week in this space, Universal Music Group and the Miles Davis estate have released a new, animated music video for "Moon Dreams" as recorded by the trumpeter on his album Birth of the Cool. Directed by Nicolas Donatelli, whose credits include visual effects on videos for pop-country star Taylor Swift, the clip is "influenced by Miles Davis’ own sketches and imagines a night in New York City through every era of jazz."
* Also on the Miles Davis beat, reviews of the new documentary film Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool continue to appear, including new assessments from the Boston Herald and Glide magazine; and the film's director Stanley Nelson was interviewed by Boston NPR affiliate WBGH.
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