*Joe Dimino filmed portions of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra’s “Bird Lives” concert.
*A television station noted the opening of Johnnie’s Jazz Bar & Grille in downtown Kansas City.
*The man behind Plastic Sax raves about the latest release by Moor Mother in the new episode of his In My Headache podcast.
*Tweet of the Week: Count Basie Orchestra- Count Basie was a member of Walter Page’s Blue Devils, as well as Bennie Moten’s Orchestra, the band with which Basie first recorded in October 1929.