Sunday, August 09, 2020

Sunday Session: August 9, 2020

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

* Give & Take with Musician Sonny Rollins (Tricycle.org)
* Kevin Whitehead: Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film (Oxford University Press) (Jazz Times)
* All Hail King Shabaka! A Preternaturally Talented Artist Shifts Gears (Pollstar)
* Sheila Jordan: A Visit With the Jazz Child (Syncopated Times)
* Georgia Anne Muldrow Makes an Eddie Harris Playlist (Jazz Times)
* Looking for Jazz Uplift Under Lockdown (ZocaloPublicSquare.org)
* Steve Swallow, A little outside the ordinary (Jazz in Europe)
* The Changing Nature of Protest in Jazz (Jazz Times)
* 2020 NEA Jazz Masters: A Q&A with Reggie Workman (SFJAZZ.org)
* Sun Ra Shines Over Cafe Nine (New Haven Independent)
* An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19? The Quality of Sound in Livestream Performances (Variety)
* Newport Jazz Festival Makes a Four-Pronged Pivot (Jazz Times)
* How Hawkwind's First Voyage Helped Spearhead Space Rock 50 Years Ago (PopMatters.com)
* Dame Shirley Bassey to release first new album in five years (BBC)
* Have sax, will travel: Joshua Redman talks jazz, pandemic, Boston then and now (Bay State Banner)
* Our Views: Congress shouldn't let the music die (New Orleans Advocate)
* John Coltrane’s Giant Steps Gets 60th Anniversary Reissue (Pitchfork)
* COVID-19 hit major labels much harder than it did Spotify (Music Industry Blog)
* The Modern All-Stars: A Newport Jazz Festival Special (NPR)
* Writer Don Marquis' jazz-loving life in New Orleans comes to a close, with one last dance (NOLA.com)
* A Majority of House Lawmakers Say Musicians Shouldn’t Get Paid for Radio Plays (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Bobby Watson Pins Down The Blues (DownBeat)
* Chops: Mark Dresser and Michael Dessen Play Telematic Music (Jazz Times)
* Elvis Presley’s Sessions With Nashville Cats Compiled on New ‘From Elvis in Nashville’ Set (Rolling Stone)
* Forgotten Heroes: Clarence White (Premier Guitar)
* Interview with William Hooker (The Free Jazz Collective)
* Midcentury Time Capsule: Inside Louis Armstrong’s Former Residence (Architizer.com)

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