Sunday Session: February 17, 2019

Herbie Hancock

Here's a roundup of various music-related items of interest that have shown up in one of StLJN's various inboxes or feeds over the past week:

* Pop Hits Were Really Slow (Again) in 2018 (Rolling Stone)
* Daversa, Blanchard, Salvant Win Grammys (DownBeat)
* The Spectacular Failure of the World's Only Hard Rock Theme Park (Vice.com)
* Details of "Bizarre World of Frank Zappa" Hologram Tour Announced (Guitar Player)
* Huey Lewis battles through a hearing loss nightmare (San Francisco Chronicle)
* 2019 Grammy Awards: Why I'm using my nomination to speak out about sexism in the world of jazz (NBC News)
* ‘In jazz, the piano gets to do what guitars get to do in rock’ (Irish Times)
* The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig by Eamonn Forde – review (The Guardian)
* Students in Kazakhstan just built a BANANA piano – and it’s rather appealing (ClassicFM.com)
* Alice Coltrane’s spiritual jazz, 1968-1971 (MusicAficionado.com)
* Minneapolis festival honors Pulitzer-winning jazz great Henry Threadgill: 'Discovery is the greatest thing' (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
* A two-day Walker festival celebrates composer-bandleader Henry Threadgill (City Pages)
* Q&A with Rudresh Mahanthappa: A Jazz Festival Grows in Princeton (Jazziz)
* Herbie Hancock, coming to Clearwater, talks about working with Kendrick Lamar and his big Grammy upset (TampaBay.com)
* Extraordinary Popular Delusions play free jazz two centuries deep (Chicago Reader)
* People Laughed When This Philly Lawyer Sued Led Zeppelin. Nobody’s Laughing Now. (PhillyMag.com)
* A day in the life of Emily Lazar, Grammy-winning mastering engineer (CBCMusic.ca)
* Who’s Hazel Scott? (Unsung Women of Jazz #11) (CurtJazz.com)
* How Talking Heads and Brian Eno Wrote “Once in a Lifetime”: Cutting Edge, Strange & Utterly Brilliant (OpenCulture.com)
* Blue Note Records, 80 years on – A brief History (Jazz in Europe)
* Church of St. John Coltrane Marks 50 Years, Sets Fundraiser (DownBeat)
* Oscar-Nominated Terence Blanchard On 30 Years Of Jazz And Film Scoring For Spike Lee (NPR)
* Pop, Prince and Black Panthers: the glorious life of Chaka Khan (The Guardian)
* Edition Festival a Celebration of Anthony Braxton’s Oeuvre (DownBeat)
* Scam Season Comes for the Orchestra (Vulture.com)
* Ken Nordine, 'Word Jazz' Creator, Dies at 98 (KQED)