Sunday, April 26, 2020

Sunday Session: April 26, 2020

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

* Kansas City Musicians Win Grocery Money In Charlie Parker Song Contest (KCUR)
* Giuseppi Logan 1935–2020 (The Wire)
* Ian Whitcomb ‘You Turn Me On’ Singer, Dead at 78 (BestClassicBands.com)
* Facing An Uncertain Future, Jazz Artists Get Creative (DownBeat)
* Checking in on the Village Vanguard, New York’s oldest jazz club (JewishInsider.com)
* Jon Hassell: Words with the Shaman (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Deep Dive: A Toast to Candido, Who Holds the Key to Conga Drumming, As He Turns 99 (WBGO)
* REPORT | Live Streaming Is Here To Stay — The Future Of An Emerging Technology (Ludwig-Van.com)
* The coronavirus-related death toll in jazz keeps rising, to tragic effect (Chicago Tribune)
* Giuseppi Logan rises to the stars (NoSoundLeftBehind.com)
* William Parker pays tribute to Henry Grimes (1935–2020) (The Wire)
* More Than 800 Music Venues Join Together to Ask Congressional Leaders for Aid (Rolling Stone)
* 'Fetch Your Tool Of Liberation': Fiona Apple On Setting Herself Free (NPR)
* COVID-19 Claims The Lives Of Countless Artists (DownBeat)
* Angel Bat Dawid: An Epic Artist’s Choice (Jazz Times)
* What Brought Beyoncé, U2, and BTS to Amish Country? (Esquire)
* Makaya McCraven Makes The Old New Again (DownBeat)
* How the fake Beatles conned South America (BBC)
* Bootsie Barnes, Saxophonist and Cornerstone of Philadelphia Jazz, Dies of COVID-19 at 82 (WBGO)
* Sales of Instruments and Music Gear Are Soaring. Will Quarantine Spark a Renaissance? (Rolling Stone)
* Zena’s Flyer (CarnegieHall.org)
* Music legend Bohannon passes (Newnan Times-Herald)
* Library of Congress Launches Open-Source Hip-Hop Sampling Tool (ConsequenceOfSound.net)

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