Sunday, January 12, 2020

Sunday Session: January 12, 2020

James "Blood" Ulmer
Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest:

* ECM at 50 (The Blue Moment)
* How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated (NPR)
* Buenos Aires International Jazz Fest survives fiscal crisis (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Berklee Surveys 10 Careers In Music And How Much Money You Can Make (Hypebot.com)
* The Hacker History Of Music Technologies (HackADay.com)
* Chris Lightcap: Two Become One (Jazz Times)
* Seeing Terrence Malick films through his use of music. His composers share what they know (Los Angeles Times)
* Philadelphia's Sigma Sound: The Studio Where Bowie Found His Soul (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Bill Frisell: New Ideas in Old Songs (Stereophile)
* Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison' (The Guardian)
* Mark Stryker, Author of 'Jazz From Detroit,' on a City "Punching Way Over Our Weight Class" (WBGO)
* Roots Amid Chaos: Darcy James Argue Speaks (JazzSpeaks.org)
* The Endless Potential Of The Pedal Steel Guitar, An Odd Duck By Any Measure (NPR)
* Guitar god James ‘Blood’ Ulmer recalls when Soho was a garment district (New York Post)
* Dr. Barry Harris to Receive Bruce Lundvall Visionary Award (Jazz Times)
* The Man Who’s Spending $1 Billion to Own Every Pop Song (Medium.com)
* End of an era: Pianist Ellis Marsalis retires from his 30-year gig at Snug Harbor (NOLA.com)
* How London’s Young Jazz Musicians Are Revitalizing the Artform (HypeBeast.com)
* “Chuck Berry lived to play live music. It was his absolute joy”: Charles Berry Jr on his father’s guitars, music and legacy (Guitar.com)
* Adam Rudolph: Ragmala and Prototypical Music (AllAboutJazz.com)
* How Music Copyright Lawsuits Are Scaring Away New Hits (Rolling Stone)
* Rush drummer Neil Peart dies at age 67 (Jazz.FM)
* Prince: Requiem for a bass hero (Guitar World)
* California’s new gig worker law is disrupting the music industry and threatening all performing arts (CalMatters.org)

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