* Performances by the Gaslight Squares last week at the Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival prompted two favorable reviews on the local website SmilePolitely.com.
* Miles Davis' custom-built "Moon and Stars" trumpet (pictured) last week was sold at auction for $275,000 to the owner of the Blue LLama jazz club in Ann Arbor, MI.
* Also on the Miles Davis beat, the trumpeter's paintings were the subject of a post on OpenCulture.com.
* Singer and multi-instrumentalist Tonina Saputo was the subject of a brief profile in the Chicago Reader.
* Sousaphone and tuba player Matt Brinkmann, former member of the Funky Butt Brass Band, has been named as the new executive director of the not-for-profit organization Pianos for People.
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