OK, I'm a little late with this one, but it's worth bringing up anyway. Sirius Satellite Radio has launched a 100% Rolling Stones music channel dedicated to this legendary band. Starting yesterday, and playing through September 29th, Rolling Stones Radio will air five decades of Rolling Stones music, live cuts, and previews from their first studio album since 1997: A Bigger Band.

The channel will also air nightly concert playbacks whereby SIRIUS will play album versions of the Stones' songs in the order they were performed following each US tour date, among many other surprises.

SIRIUS will also present exclusive track-by-track stories and introductions to each of A Bigger Bang's 16 all-new songs, as told exclusively to SIRIUS by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood. "Rolling Stones Weekends" will be featured during Labor Day weekend across eight SIRIUS commercial-free music channels.

This is pretty neat. Apparently a November 29, 1957 concert at Carnegie Hall had the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane performing together, and was recorded by Voice of America for an overseas radio broadcast. Unfortunately, the tapes were poorly labeled, stored away and unheard until January 2005, when they were found at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. With little recorded documentation of Monk and Coltrane performances, these full-length high-quality recordings are the first and only musical record of one of the most legendary collaborations in jazz history.

The 51-minute recording of the concert will be released by Blue Note Records in conjunction with Thelonious Records on September 27, 2005.

SIRIUS’ Pure Jazz Channel 72 will broadcast this landmark recording during The Blue Note Hour with Bruce Lundvall on Friday, September 9th at 6pm ET. T.S. Monk, son of the late Thelonious Monk, will be Lundvall’s special guest for this exclusive, world premiere broadcast.

“The discovery of this recording has been called ‘a Dead Sea Scroll of 20th century popular music,’ and now we can bring it to a new generation thanks to SIRIUS,” said Bruce Lundvall, president and CEO of EMI Jazz and Classics, which includes the Blue Note Record label.