Marian McPartland Celebration : Toast of the Nation celebrated Marian McPartland, host of NPR's Piano Jazz, with highlights from her 90th birthday party in March 2008, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

NPR: Toast Of The Nation Swings Into 2009

Mingus Big Band : The party continued from the Jazz Standard, named Best Jazz Club by New York magazine in 2008.

NPR: Toast Of The Nation Swings Into 2009

On August 4, Louis Armstrong's birthday is celebrated with jazz and food (natch) at Satchmo SummerFest, while the Southern Decadence party on Labor Day weekend (preceding the first Monday in September), also known as "Gay Mardi Gras", keeps the entire city partying into the wee hours.

BBC: Celebrate New Orleans, from Mardi Gras to Jazz Fest

Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.

ECONOMIST: Jazz singers