Sunday, June 02, 2019

Sunday Session: June 2, 2019

Dr. Lonnie Smith
Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest, drawn from StLJN's inboxes, newsfeeds, and assorted other sources:

* The Dreamers and John Daversa: Message, Intention, Purpose (DownBeat)
* CBS Sued Over 'Andy Griffith Show' Theme Song (Hollywood Reporter)
* Lisa Coleman: “Prince would just use a preset and then brighten the f**k out of it!” (MusicRadar.com)
* Lee Ranaldo Discusses His Return to Improv Music with New Album 'Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi' (Exclaim.ca)
* Kendrick Scott at the ‘Height of Optimism’ (DownBeat)
* Antonio Salieri’s Revenge (The New Yorker)
* Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers (KQED)
* King Weir (GQ)
* Jazz Currents Surge Along the Rhine (DownBeat)
* After a Scandal, the New Orleans Jazz Market Rises Again (New York Times)
* Carlos Santana on Celebrating 'Supernatural' and Returning to Woodstock: 'We're Better Than the First Time' (Billboard)
* The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels (OpenCulture.com)
* Steinway & Sons Has a Secret ‘Vault’ for Its Most Exclusive Pianos. Here’s What’s Inside (RobbReport.com)
* The Egging of Frank Sinatra (Medium.com)
* Tower of Power at 50: What Is Hip? (Jazz Journal)
* 'Two Wings: The Music Of Black America In Migration' Celebrates Journey Millions Took (WBGO)
* Bright Moments: Ron Carter – Looking Back with the Bass Icon (Jazz Times)
* DC's go-go sound becomes anti-gentrification battle cry (Associated Press)
* Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry (TheVerge.com)
* Minnesota blues hero Tony Glover, an influence on Dylan and the Stones, dies at 79 (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
* This Is Where I Live: A Q&A With William Bell (SFJAZZ.org)
* Singer Leon Redbone Dies at 69 (Variety)
* "Dead Sound": The Grateful Dead and the evolution of modern concert sound (CBS News)
* Linda May Han Oh Reaches Across the Musical Spectrum (DownBeat)
* The Record Industry Expects a Windfall. Where Will the Money Go? (Pitchfork.com)
* Chops: David Binney on Why Musicians May Not Need a Bite of the Big Apple (Jazz Times)
* The Baltimore Symphony in the Twilight Zone (SongOfTheLarkBlog.com)
* How Bossa Nova Is Infiltrating Rap and R&B (Rolling Stone)
* Dr. Lonnie Smith Meets the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw at Birdland (DownBeat)
* Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes (Rolling Stone)

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