Sunday Session: February 2. 2020

Kris Davis

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

* Underground Railroad: A Conductor And Passengers Documented In Music (NPR)
* Kandace Springs Honors History and Personal Growth on ‘The Women Who Raised Me’ (DownBeat)
* The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period (OpenCulture.com)
* Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 2 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Best Music Arrangers: 20 Artists You’ve Heard But Not Seen (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding Among the Winners at 62nd Grammy Awards (WBGO)
* Bob Porter's Portraits In Soul Jazz (IndianaPublicMedia.org)
* UK industry reacts to venues business rates cut (IQ-Mag.net)
* Don’t leave jazz to the jazz guys (TheOutline.com)
* The Unsung Black Musician Who Changed Country Music (Narratively.com)
* Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival (The Guardian)
* In conversation: When Elvis Costello met Tom Waits (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Violinist Regina Carter in full swing for the Charleston Jazz Festival (Charleston Post and Courier)
* Jeff Parker’s Shifting Mentality (DownBeat)
* Singing Songs to Fix the World: A Q&A with Mavis Staples (SFJAZZ.org)
* Eight Artists Fusing Traditional Arabic Music With Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Gordon Goodwin’s Total Devotion (DownBeat)
* From Skepta’s dystopia to Travis Scott’s fairground: are immersive shows the future of live music? (The Guardian)
* BMG responds to artist streaming revolt in Germany: ‘It is time for record companies to change.’ (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* ‘Always finding nice things in a tragic situation’ - Robert Wyatt at 75 (MorningStarOnline.co.uk)
* Innovation is Kris Davis’ Motivation (DownBeat)
* Watch the Residents Perform ‘God in Three Persons’ Live for the First Time (Rolling Stone)
* Rachmaninov is the most innovative composer in 200 years, researchers reveal (ClassicFM.com)
* ‘Are you sure it’s Sun Ra?’: Rare recording by the Philly jazz giant at Haverford College finally sees the light of day (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* How a lost recording became a Philadelphia soul classic (PBS)
* Swinging Modern Sounds #101: A Really Big Band (TheRumpus.net)
* An update to a 37-year-old digital protocol could profoundly change the way music sounds (QZ.com)
* Kris Davis: Ribbons in Rhythm (Jazz Times)
* The electronic genius of Karlheinz Stockhausen (HappyMag.tv)
* Bedroom Music Wars (UndergroundPress.co.za)