wsj.com (The Wall Street Journal's website; it's all free now!)

barrons.com (not only weekly but daily updates on the market)

carpe diem economics blog (sharp and surprising observations by Mark Perry, Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Michigan)

savewright.org (the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, which is the principal organization for saving and restoring the works of our greatest architect…and very possibly the greatest visual artist in all of American history)

filmmusicsociety.org (which has taken on the task of preserving the works of some of our greatest and most neglected 20th Century composers: Hugo Friedhofer, David Raksin, Alex North, Bernard Herrmann, among others)

the film music archives at Brigham Young University
(which not only houses the papers, scores, and music of Hugo Friedhofer and Max Steiner, among others, but also has begun a limited-edition series of CD recordings of their works.)

the Johnny Mercer Special Collection at Georgia State University

and

johnnymercerfoundation.com
(honoring and preserving the legacy of America’s greatest lyricist)

lajazzinstitute.org (the LA Jazz Institute, which sponsors an ongoing festival series…it also houses the collections of such important American musicians as Pete Rugolo, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Shorty Rogers, Phil Moore, Howard Rumsey, and Bob Cooper and June Christy)

amjazzin.com (the American Jazz Institute, which sponsors an ongoing concert series at Claremont–McKenna College in Los Angeles, as well as contemporary recording ventures, such as Mark Masters’ “The Clifford Brown Project”)

the Al Cohn memorial jazz collection at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
(to me, Al Cohn was the most consistently melodically inventive tenor saxophone player in jazz)

Lyle (Spud) Murphy’s Equal Interval System
(the living legacy of one of my closest friends, the Great Spud, who died in August 2005, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday. His alternate –and, in many ways, more simple- approach to music composition has been praised by the likes of Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones and Horace Silver)

jazzcompass.com
(a cooperative record label featuring the work of some of my frequent, and favorite, collaborators: guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist Tom Warrington, and drummer Joe LaBarbera)

marvinstamm.com
(a most literate and musical fellow..and one of my favorite trumpet players throughout the history of jazz; he’s a high man on a short list that includes Clark Terry, Charlie Shavers, Conte Candoli and Carl Saunders. And that makes quadruple high C’s!)

the Doug Ramsey blog – Rifftides
(for some literate talk about the music on a daily basis)

singer friends:
marleneverplanck.com
darylsherman.com

cordic-and-co.com
(dedicated to my dear late friend-and-hero Rege Cordic, whose zany morning program of the ‘50s and ‘60s, Cordic and Company, commanded a 75 --that’s right, a 75!!!-- share on Pittsburgh’s KDKA)

Jim Healy tribute site -- “Who goofed? I’ve got to know!”
(in the ‘80s and ‘90s, on my many trips to Los Angeles, all other activity came to a halt for me at 5:30 PM, which is when Jim Healy took to the air on KMPC with, unquestionably, the funniest and most bizarre sports program ever)

donswaim.com  A serial website builder if there ever was one, Don has created some wonderful sites...among them, a tribute to the legendary American writer Ambrose Bierce as well as a site noting the history of his former radio station, and mine, WCBS.

judykirtleyphotography.com (my photographer for this site, and for the forthcoming CD)

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