Sunday, March 08, 2020

Sunday Session: March 8, 2020

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

* How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music (NPR)
* The jazz icon Sonny Rollins knows life is a solo trip (New York Times)
* Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat (Rolling Stone)
* Haden Triplets Find Songs’ Simplicity (DownBeat)
* Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us (Bloomberg.com)
* 'The road will kill you': why older musicians are cancelling tours (The Guardian)
* What the US record industry should fear about its future – and what it deserves to celebrate (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* After 60 Years, Sergio Mendes Is Still Writing Songs 'In The Key Of Joy' (NPR)
* Oscar Peterson’s Africa Suite Comes to Life in Toronto (Jazz Times)
* Nona Hendryx on Paying Tribute to Sun Ra at the Met: 'Afrofuturism Has Always Been' (Billboard)
* The Archive Of Contemporary Music — And Its 3 Million Recordings — Is Leaving NY (NPR)
* The Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival: A Small Triumph in Haiti (DownBeat)
* Soundtrack City: How Nashville is awash in film, game scores (ABC News)
* 'It's hopeful and generous': Thurston Moore's experimental record shop (The Guardian)
* Art Blakey, the Mightiest Mentor (DownBeat)
* Q&A with Rudresh Mahanthappa: A Jazz Festival Grows in Princeton (JAZZIZ)
* Read Universal Music Group Chief Archivist’s Update on Damage From 2008 Fire (Variety)
* Brecker and Rovatti Examine Their ‘Sacred Bond’ (DownBeat)
* In Memoriam: McCoy Tyner (DownBeat)
* McCoy Tyner, Jazz Pianist Who Anchored John Coltrane’s Legendary Quartet, Dead at 81 (Rolling Stone)
* Austin officials cancel South by Southwest festival (Associated Press)
* McCoy Tyner, Groundbreaking Pianist Of 20th Century Jazz, Dies At 81 (NPR)
* Arts & Culture: A Blast from the Past (APS.org)
* ‘Hot Rats’ at 50: How Frank Zappa busted up his band, moved to L.A. and helped invent jazz-rock (Los Angeles Times)
* The 10 most groundbreaking free jazz albums of all time (HappyMag.tv)

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