Commander Trombone

Maybe many have already noticed, but the New York Times now offers, in its Times Topics section, content organized around lots of notable people, including some major jazz musicians:

• Louis Armstrong
• John Coltrane
• Miles Davis

Of course, there’s also a Times Topic devoted to Sarah Palin, consuming valuable space that could be devoted to something else.

On the web, there are lots of things to read, see, and hear. Consequently, there are a lot of things one might miss. One good thing I missed was this Bob Brookmeyer interview. Jazz Wax, the home of the interview, is run by Marc Myers, a New York journalist, and was linked from NPR’s new jazz blog, A Blog Supreme.

Incidentally, you might wonder how NPR came up with the great title, “A Blog Supreme.” Well, they had a contest to name the blog, but they conducted the contest after they had already come up with the obviously-fantastic “A Blog Supreme” name. Go figure.