Commander Trombone

No, well, he wouldn’t go for that name, and that’s probably a good idea, but musician Danny Barnes runs an interesting website.

Not surprisingly, many of the articles/entries are about music, including this particularly good one how to make a living playing music. Barnes, however, will often venture onto any topic interests him. For example, here’s an entry about getting started with shortwave radio.

I discovered this website, like so many other things on the internet, through a succession of links: ElementsOfJazz: oneworkingmusician dot com: Danny Barnes.

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.