Ace alto sax player Kenny Garrett’s agent tells our correspondent that KG has been booked for the 2008 Hua Hin Jazz Festival, joining Mike Stern and Dave Weckl who we reported earlier were also booked.

Mike Stern is bringing his drummer buddy Dave Weckl to headline the 2008 Hua Hin Jazz Festival

The wonderful and divinely gifted Burns Sisters - or two thirds thereof - Marie and Annie - have arrived in Thailand and they brought the very essence of cool vocals and deep seated folk and country chops, to cry for.

The problem with the music biz is that it’s full of people with lives some of which are worth knowing about and some that ain’t. But that’s not our call as we all have our own ideas of whose worth listening too in and out of the studio.

The AP notes 2007 albums that you probably didn’t hear - but thinks you should

Graham Nash revealed on CNN’s Larry King Live that his longtime bandmate Stephen Stills has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Nash, who appeared on the program via phone along with Joe Walsh, was on the show to pay tribute to singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, who died on Sunday December 16th following a three-year battle with prostate cancer.

Ian Anderson, the flute player who fronts the rock band Jethro Tull, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, or MBE, and Trevor Romeo, alias Jazzie B of Soul II Soul, got an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

It behoves us to put up useful stuff for musicians and for those who own valve or tube amps, here’s a real Xmas present.

Ringo Starr says he’s concerned for troubled British singer Amy Winehouse, who is seemingly struggling publicly with a substance abuse problem.

While the name of pop diva Madonna in the recent announcement of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2008 inductees struck many “rock ‘n’ roll” fans as curious (though no stranger than the 2006 induction of jazz great Miles Davis), inclusion of the best selling instrumental rock group of all time, The Ventures, is a good albeit long overdue fit.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the world’s most influential 20th century composers and renowned for his pioneering work in electronic music, has died aged 79.

A master craftsman of the written song and premeditated joy, James Taylor is a world treasure.