Sunday Session: July 21, 2019

Shabaka Hutchings

Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest:

* Nile Rodgers: ‘I’d always talk about strange jazz with David Bowie’ (The Guardian)
* Bromberg violin collection to be broken up after Library of Congress deal falls through (Wilmington News Journal)
* Talking More Music with George Benson (Jazz Times)
* Paul McCartney Brings Ringo Starr to the Stage for End-of-Tour Surprise (Variety)
* Space Is Still the Place for Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra (PopMatters.com)
* Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural South (NPR)
* John Patitucci’s Soulful Bass (Jazz Times)
* Steve Turre joins the stellar Armstrong Summer Camp faculty to celebrate its 25th Anniversary (Louisiana Weekly)
* What every songwriter and publisher needs to know about the Music Modernization Act (TheFader.com)
* Chick Corea Looks Back on His Long History With Latin Jazz (Billboard)
* Damon Locks: In the Style of Mavericks (DownBeat)
* From Concert Halls to the Streets at The Copenhagen Jazz Festival (DownBeat)
* Ornette Coleman and the Emancipation of the Individual (Sound American)
* Jazz, Zen, and Hip-Hop: The 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Billy Lester, an Insightful Jazz Pianist Hiding in Plain Sight, Finally Has His Moment to Shine (WBGO)
* Pianist Bobo Stenson Discusses Solo Work and Freedom in European Jazz (DownBeat)
* For Julian Lage, Love Hurts and Music Heals (Jazz Times)
* Thirty Years Ago, Ronald Langestraat Took Jazz to Outer Space (Bandcamp.com)
* The Murky Ethics of Posthumous Music (The Atlantic)
* As Exclusivity Takes Charge, How Will Music Streaming Change? (Hypebot.com)
* 'An Endless Fiasco': Indie Retailers Describe Worsening Breakdown in Getting CDs, Vinyl Delivered to Record Stores (Billboard)
* David Crosby Celebrates His Ornery Self in the Documentary “Remember My Name” (The New Yorker)
* Get To Know Shabaka Hutchings, The Nipsey Hussle-Inspired British Jazz Maestro (Complex.com)
* Paul McCartney Has Been Secretly Writing an ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Musical (Variety)
* Faith Winthrop, jazz singer who founded Glide community choir, dies at 87 (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Five Things You Should Know About Mary Halvorson (SFJAZZ.org)
* An Essential Guide to Brian Eno: "Ignorable as It Is Interesting" (Exclaim.ca)
* In First For Berklee, Students Join The Circus (Sort Of) To Make Music Fit For Clowns (WBUR)
* Ron Carter, Beatniks and Corrective History (DownBeat)
* Roger and Brian Eno, and Daniel Lanois Expand ‘Apollo’ Soundtrack for Moon-Landing Anniversary (DownBeat)
* Jazz Generated by a Neural Network Is Absolutely Terrifying (Futurism.com)
* On And On And On: A Guide to Generative Electronic Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Alan Lomax and the Search for the Origins of Music (TabletMag.com)
* Do You Know Randy Weston? (MusicAficionado.com)