Sunday, November 03, 2019

Sunday Session: November 3, 2019

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

* Andy Bey At 80: A Love Letter To A Jazz Legend (NPR)
* Exploring St Petersburg’s cosy jazz dens (Jazz Journal)
* The Grammys organizer is giving artists a metadata gold mine to credit unrecognized music workers (TheVerge.com)
* Tighter and looser with Mary Halvorson (ToneMadison.com)
* The average guitarist will spend $10,000 on gear over their lifetime (Guitar)
* Three British Labels are Deep in Dialogue with the American Jazz Tradition (DownBeat)
* David Sánchez and the African Tinge (Jazz Times)
* Bill Bruford on His Ups and Downs With Yes and King Crimson, Life After Retirement (Rolling Stone)
* Fred Taylor, Boston’s Beloved Jazz Impresario, Dies at 90 (Jazz Times)
* Chicago Trumpeter Jaimie Branch Delivers A Political Message On 'FLY or DIE II' (NPR)
* One of New York City’s Oldest Jazz Clubs Re-Opens (Forbes.com)
* Pi Recordings: A Home For Musicians Pushing Jazz Forward (Bandcamp.com)
* A Brief History of Witchcraft in Music (FloodMagazine.com)
* Crosscurrents Trio Brings Together Singular Musical Personalities (DownBeat)
* Marquis Hill Celebrates the Enduring Rhythms of Love (DownBeat)
* James Taylor: Artist in Residence (American Songwriter)
* A duel with Van Morrison: 'Is this a psychiatric examination? It sounds like one' (The Guardian)
* Manfred Eicher: "You Can't Record Everybody" (Stereophile)
* Myra Melford: Freedom and Form (New Music Box)
* The First Angel of the Future: Sun Ra's Heliocentric Poetics for After the End of the World (PoetryFoundation.org)
* Marvin Gaye: Live in Amsterdam 1976 (Oxford American)
* Matana Roberts’ ‘Coin Coin’ Project is a Sonic Patchwork of American History (DownBeat)
* Gearbox Records to release final Buddy Rich recording (Jazz in Europe)
* John Scofield and Bobo Stenson Engage Big Bands at Umeå Fest (DownBeat)
* Always Creating: Pianist Vijay Iyer Reflects on a Key Directive From His Elders, on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Change Comes to Pitt with Nicole Mitchell as New Jazz Chair (Jazz Times)
* Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary Gala at the Royal Albert Hall (London Jazz News)
* Your Brain Can Recognize a Song in Just 100 Milliseconds (Newsweek)

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