Sunday Session: November 22, 2020

George Lewis

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

* The Enduring Relevance of College Radio (Spin)
* Making a Masterpiece: An Interview with Legendary Composer Valerie Simpson (PopMatters.com)
* What Were the First Mass-Produced Electronic Instruments? (Reverb.com)
* Fantasia & The Birth of Stereo Recording (Reverb.com)
* Mark Ruffin: The Storied Intersection of Jazz, Baseball, and Race (Jazz Times)
* Pioneering Drummer Viola Smith Was ‘An Advocate For The Rights Of All Women Musicians’ (DownBeat)
* Joe Schaffner, Tour Manager For Aretha, Marvin Gaye & The Jacksons, Talks Back In The Day (Pollstar.com)
* Nels Cline Revives The Singers For A Stunning New Album, ‘Share The Wealth’ (American Songwriter)
* Thurston Moore on his new album, the old New York, and always resisting the mainstream (DocumentJournal.com)
* Discover "the power of sound" with music wizard, Kenichi Kanazawa (AV Club)
* New Series “Live From Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio” (first session 14 November) (London Jazz News)
* Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio (ChimurengaChronic.co.za)
* Andrew White 1942–2020 (Jazz Times)
* 'He'll make your head explode': sax stars on the genius and tragedy of Charlie Parker (The Guardian)
* The chaotic story of cult prog legends Van der Graaf Generator (LouderSound.com)
* A Dive Into George Lewis’s Pioneering Experiment With Artificial Intelligence (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Camille Thurman Eager To Give Back To The Jazz Community (DownBeat)
* Ellis at the Crossroads (Oxford American)
* How Elektra Records ushered in the alternative music revolution—and then helped kill it (AV Club)
* A Guide to Rob Mazurek’s Imaginative, Experimental Sound (Bandcamp.com)
* Watch the Liberation Music Orchestra Perform a Timely New Medley, Arranged by Carla Bley (WBGO)
* Artemis: A Band For the Times (AllAboutJazz.com)
* 9 Engineers on the Hardest Song They Ever Mixed (Vulture.com)
* "They Did Not Die in Vain": On "Alabama," John Coltrane Carefully Wrought Anguish Into Grace (WBGO)
* Guitar Center Is Officially Filing for Bankruptcy (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Terence Blanchard on Netflix's 'Da 5 Bloods', Writing Process & Working with Spike Lee (SpitfireAudio.com)
* The story of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery (LouderSound.com)
* 'A gamechanger for musicians': app offers library of interactive sheet music (The Guardian)
* Gearhead: Harry Partch and the Quadrangularis Reversum (Jazz Times)
* Elvis Presley Meets the Nashville Cats on a New Box Set, With Glorious Results (Rolling Stone)
* Randy Brecker: Fusion Pioneer Still Blazing The Trails (AllAboutJazz.com)