Sunday, August 04, 2019

Sunday Session: August 4, 2019

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

* Rising numbers of younger fans spark a UK jazz renaissance (The Guardian)
* Hello, Brave New World! (NPR)
* Patrice Rushen’s Journey Through Jazz, Popular Music and Hollywood (DownBeat)
* Concord Jazz Festival celebrates 50 years as champion of jazz vocals (San Francisco Chronicle)
* 'The Black Messiah' And The Legacy Of Cannonball Adderley (NPR)
* “Give me a blues song, tell the world what’s wrong...” (Majorca Daily Bulletin)
* Mammoth concert grand piano unveiled to public in Latvia (Deutsche Welle)
* Lauren Sevian Working Beyond ‘Bliss’ (DownBeat)
* Carla Bley: “I’m trying to be normal, to sound totally classical, but I fail.” (Qwest.tv)
* In a globalized world, music fragments take unexpected roads (Associated Press)
* Concord Jazz Fest 2019: Celebrating an empire that grew out of car dealership (San Jose Mercury News)
* Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save It (Smithsonian)
* Exclusive video interview: Don Was talks about Blue Note Records (Jazzwise)
* Shabaka Hutchings at the ‘Peak of Intensity’ (DownBeat)
* Artist Spotlight: Lionel Loueke (Jazz Times)
* Saalfelden Festival Offers Good Vibes (DownBeat)
* Surviving Woodstock (The New Yorker)
* Shabaka Hutchings - The Future of Afrofuturism (SFJAZZ.org)
* We’ve Got A File On You: Bruce Hornsby (Stereogum.com)
* It’s Bootsy, baby: The funk legend sits down with PW ahead of his charity appearance in West Philly (Philadelphia Weekly)
* Randy Newman Finds a New Audience, Again (TheRinger.com)
* Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music (Bloomberg.com)
* Why is it so hard to keep an orchestra afloat? The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is not alone in its woes (Baltimore Sun)
* ‘It’s a knife fight.’ Here’s how 3 orchestras facing the same problems as the Baltimore Symphony bounced back (Baltimore Sun)
* A superstar jazz musician in Ethiopia, then a D.C. cab driver, now ready for Newport Jazz Festival (Newport Daily News)
* Young volunteers assist in Coltrane home rehab (Long Island Business News)

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