Sunday Session: July 5, 2020

Freddy Cole

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

* John Scofield Honors Steve Swallow on New Album (Jazz Times)
* Revisiting the lost recording of Pink Floyd jamming with jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli on ‘Wish You Were Here’ (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Identifying a melody by studying a musician’s body language (News.MIT.edu)
* Freddy Cole, Singer Who Eluded the Shadow of His Brother Nat "King" Cole, Has Died at 88 (WBGO)
* How Jazz Is Coping with COVID-19 (Jazz Times)
* Pixar’s Upcoming “Soul” May Have a Problem: No Actual Soul Music, Most of the Artists Included So Far Are White (ShowBiz411.com)
* Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard Talk Scoring to Picture on ‘Da 5 Bloods’ (Watch) (Variety)
* In conversation with saxophonist Kamasi Washington (Bay State Banner)
* Making Music With Brain Waves And Heartbeats (AEON.co)
* Making A New Kind Of Scene: New York City's Five Spot (WFIU)
* Societal Reckoning Over Racism Encompasses The Jazz Community (DownBeat)
* Jacques Coursil 1938–2020 (The Wire)
* The car radio turns 90 this year. Here’s how it all came about (AJournalOfMusicalThings.com)
* 48 Hours With Backpack Jazz Producer Kassa Overall (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
* Who in their right mind would go to a "herd immunity" music festival? (Mic.com)
* Full Spectrum: Derrick Hodge Sees Endless Possibilities In Music (DownBeat)
* Reflections on unlocking live music by Tony Dudley-Evans (London Jazz News)
* Thurston Moore: Into the Out World (Jazz Times)
* The Kosmische Path Less Traveled: Nine Krautrock Rarities to Know (Bandcamp.com)
* Can the music take flight again? (Financial Times)
* Eddie Henderson On Maturity And Revisiting Bop Standards (DownBeat)
* The Short and Curious Life of Wade Legge (Buffalo Rising)
* Experiment Without Inhibition: A Celebration of Anthony Braxton (River Cities Reader)
* Impulse! Records: An Alternative Top 20 Zeitgeist Seizing Albums (AllAboutJazz.com)
* A Conversation with Zappa, Vol. 1 (American Songwriter)
* An encounter with Keith Tippett (The Wire)
* With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom (Ars Technica)
* Georgia Anne Muldrow Finds ‘The Sound Of Mixed Emotions’ (DownBeat)
* The Summer Of ’70: What Was It Good For? Absolutely…American Top 40 (RadioInsight.com)
* Musicians and Composers Respond to a Chaotic Moment (The New Yorker)
* Plunge into the world of Sun Ra and the Outer Space Visual Communicator (CDM.link)
* Five Black Jazzworld Figures Detail How Racism Impacts The Industry (DownBeat)