Sunday, January 05, 2020

Sunday Session: January 5, 2020

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

* Prospecting for Musical Ghosts Along Lost Highways and Byways (Texas Highways)
* Five music-tech forecasts that misfired in 2019 (Patreon.com)
* Why Philip Glass was still driving a cab in his 30s (PRI.org)
* ‘The Hot Rats Sessions’ offers a window into how Frank Zappa used a recording studio (DangerousMinds.net)
* Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes To Church In the 1960s (Indiana Public Media)
* Jeremy Pelt Digs into the Canon (DownBeat)
* John Coltrane Talks About the Sacred Meaning of Music in the Human Experience: Listen to One of His Final Interviews (1966) (OpenCulture.com)
* In Memoriam: Jazz Artists We Lost in 2019 (JAZZIZ)
* Neil Innes: Monty Python songwriter dies aged 75 (BBC)
* With state Polka Hall of Fame in its death throes, can polka music itself be far behind? (Green Bay Press Gazette)
* Dee Alexander Interprets Billie Holiday on Delmark Outing (DownBeat)
* Linda Shaver-Gleason: Exit Interview with a Public Musicologist (NationalSawdust.org)
* The History of the Fisheye Photo Album Cover (OpenCulture.com)
* The Decade in Rock That Rock Fans Hated (Jezebel)
* Storied North Carolina Festival Offers Vibrant Jazz Jams (DownBeat)
* Bass legend Carol Kaye blasts ‘Mrs. Maisel’ homage as ‘slander’ (New York Post)
* Beijing unveils plans to become ‘international music capital’ in 5 years (InkstoneNews.com)
* Why We Keep Sending Music to Extraterrestrials (Slate)
* Saxophonist Melissa Aldana on Her First Grammy Nod, and Her Album 'Visions' (WBGO)
* Jack Sheldon 1931-2019 (Jazz Times)
* The Curved Air of Tomeka Reid (JazzDaGama.com)
* Geometry sings the blues in Indian-American mathematician's radical new music system (FirstPost.com)
* Lost in muzak: how ambient became cool (The Guardian)

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