Sunday Session: February 16, 2020

Roberta Flack

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

* Philadelphia jazz great John Coltrane’s house ‘at risk,’ preservationists say (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Johnny Cash’s Gospel (The New Yorker)
* Photos: Winter Jazzfest 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Jeff Parker’s Shifting Mentality (DownBeat)
* Revisiting the ‘Stank Groove’ of Jimi Hendrix (DownBeat)
* The Virtuoso: Roberta Flack's career demands a new way of thinking about the word 'genius.' (NPR)
* How Will the Fire At Apollo Masters Affect the Local Music Industry? (Portland Mercury)
* New music label says it can use AI to find the next big artist (Engadget.com)
* 1,000 True Fans? Try 100 (A16Z.com)
* Vinyl Record Industry Fears 'Vinylgeddon' After Fire Burns Down Apollo Masters Plant (Billboard)
* Eddie Kendricks’ ‘People’ Was No Accident (DownBeat)
* Joanne Brackeen: Still Proudly Unorthodox (Jazz Times)
* Lyle Mays 1953 – 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Keyboard Remembers Lyle Mays (Keyboard)
* What Makes A Hit Pop Song (NPR)
* Oscar Peterson's Africa Suite has never been performed in its entirety — until now (CBC)
* Are Musicians Better Than They Were 30 Years Ago? (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Steve Feigenbaum Talks About Cuneiform Records, His Four-Plus Decades Selling Fringe Music, 
And Why He Thinks The Vinyl Revival Is Mostly Hype (Substack.com)
* Brain Wave Binaural beats and the poetics of brainhacking (RealLifeMag.com)
* Meet the Baltimore Jazz Collective and more faces of Charm City’s swing renaissance (Baltimore Sun)
* The story of Moondog: blind poet, Viking vagabond, genius composer (HappyMag.TV)
* ‘The Whole System Collapsed’: Inside the Music Industry’s Ongoing Distribution Crisis (Rolling Stone)
* Time Is on Dave Grusin’s Side (Jazz Times)
* Dopolarians: Free-Jazz Collaborators With a Southern Sound (Memphis Flyer)
* Carol Kaye: The Boss of the Bass Guitar (PleaseKillMe.com)
* In Memoriam: Claudio Roditi (1946–2020) (DownBeat)
* The Continuing Impact of the Detroit Jazz Collective Tribe (Bandcamp.com)
* On 'Standards Vol. 1,' Rafiq Bhatia Questions The Act Of Reinterpretation (NPR)