Sunday Session: March 24, 2019

Kahil El'Zabar

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:

* What Happens if Google Buys the World’s Biggest Music Company? (Rolling Stone)
* Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Jazz Journal)
* Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes review – pristine doc of tonal clarity (The Guardian)
* Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81 (The Guardian)
* Nat King Cole Still Remains 'One Of The Great Gifts Of Nature' 100 Years Later (NPR)
* Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 (Boing Boing)
* Verve Celebrates Norman Granz’s Vision (DownBeat)
* ‘It Was A Social Revolution’: The Turkish Embassy’s Surprising Role In Desegregating D.C. Jazz (WAMU)
* Lionel Loueke’s Winding Musical Journey (Jazz Times)
* On the Road With Jacob Collier (Mother Jones)
* Avant garde jazz and black rights activism in 1960s Cleveland, Ohio: an interview with Mutawaf A Shaheed (The Wire)
* Andre Williams: farewell to R&B's raunchiest raconteur (The Guardian)
* Bacon fat, corn liquor, and tail feathers: remembering R&B legend Andre Williams (Chicago Reader)
* Dick Dale, the Inventor of Surf Rock, Was a Lebanese-American Kid from Boston (The New Yorker)
* Class Struggle at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Jacobin)
* “Music Is A Portal”: Sophie Huber On Blue Note Documentary ‘Beyond The Notes’ (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Brian Auger: Bridging the gap (Jazz Journal)
* Here are some of the weirdest musical instrument ideas from NAMM (Create Digital Music)
* E.J. Strickland – A warrior for peace (Jazz in Europe)
* ‘Contours’: How Sam Rivers Hit New Heights Of Creativity (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Boz Scaggs Premieres 'Little Miss Night and Day' Video, Talks Next Moves (Billboard)
* History Disappeared When Myspace Lost 12 Years of Music, and It Will Happen Again (Pitchfork.com)
* Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies Acquires Chico O'Farrill Music & Archives (Billboard)
* Kahil El’Zabar on the Expansiveness of Music History (DownBeat)
* Bright Moments with William Parker (Jazz Times)
* "It identifies what I believe from here": Sam Moore reflects on his hit "Soul Man" (CBS News)
* What Does A New Orleans Music Industry Actually Mean? Guest Editorial (Offbeat)
* Interview: Factory Manager Forrest White on the Truth Behind "Fender Fiction" (Reverb.com)
* Rosanne Cash Opens Up About Her #MeToo Experiences -- And How The Industry Can Avoid Further 'Collateral Damage' (Billboard)
* Chet Baker’s Singing: A Cultural Shift (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Adonis Rose: To Swing Toussaint (Jazz Times)