* Drummer Jimmy Cobb, the last surviving musician to have played on Miles Davis' historic album Kind of Blue, is ailing and need of financial assistance.
Cobb (pictured), who's now 91 years old, also played on Davis' Sketches of Spain as well as hundreds more sessions and thousands of live dates from the 1950s into the present day.
Cobb's daughter has put up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for his medical and living expenses. You can find out more and, if you wish, donate here.
* STLToday has posted a photo album commemorating the day in 1952 when St. Louis expat and world-famous entertainer Josephine Baker came back home from France to perform at Kiel Auditorium.
* Clarinetist Bud Shultz was profiled by the Alton Telegraph.
* Singer and St. Louis native Alicia Olatuja is celebrating her most recent album Intuition-Songs from the Minds of Women being ranked #4 in Roots Music Report's Top 200 Jazz Albums of 2019.
* Ken Haller was interviewed on St. Louis Public Radio's "Cut and Paste" podcast about his cabaret singing and his "day job" as a pediatric physician.
* The Muny is looking for photos of Gaslight Square for use this summer in a production of Smokey Joe's Cafe, the "jukebox musical" built from the catalog of songwriter Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. The photos may be used for show promotion, a preshow element, and/or and could be featured in the production. Deadline to submit is Wednesday, April 1; for details, visit http://muny.org/smokeyjoescafe/photo-submission/
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