Sunday, March 07, 2021

Sunday Session: March 7, 2021

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

* Two-Thirds of New York City’s Arts and Culture Jobs Are Gone (Bloomberg.com)
* Rock, Race, and History: A Conversation with Vernon Reid (Line6.com)
* 25 essential jazz songs that trace the quintessential American artform through history (USA Today)
* How We’ll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer (Curbed.com)
* 'Sisters With Transistors': Pioneers Of Electronic Music (NPR)
* Charlie Parker, KC Jazz legend, to receive star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (KSHB)
* The sound of music in veterinary medicine (DVM360.com)
* Escalator Over the Hill, by Carla Bley (MusicAficionado.blog)
* Eddie Henderson: Bright Moments (Jazz Times)
* 50 Years Later, Why Marvin Gaye's Seminal Album 'What's Going On' Endures (WBUR)
* Ralph Peterson Jr. 1962–2021 (Jazz Times)
* Recording Andra Day as Billie Holiday Was an Exercise in ‘Surround’ Sound (Variety)
* The Greatness of Nina Simone: Listen to Our Podcast on the Legendary Singer (Rolling Stone)
* Without support, freelance musicians will continue falling into hardship (BigIssue.com)
* Tulane University jazz archive gets new name and expanded mission (Tulane.edu)
* Music Streaming: Is It a Level Playing Field? (CompetitionPolicyInternational.com)
* Jazz legend, after house partially collapses, gets help from philanthropist, neighbors (WHYY)
* The Jazz Pianist Using a Computer Program to Play with Other Musicians in Quarantine (The New Yorker)
* On João Gilberto (AquariumDrunkard.com)
* Jimmy “Duck” Holmes: “People think of blues as hard times and sadness, they don’t look at the soul behind it” (Down At The Crossroads)
* The Checkout: Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins on the Quest for an Overwhelming Sound (WBGO)
* The patterns are already there: remembering Milford Graves (The Wire)
* To boo or not to boo: Catcalls are the musical audience’s tool of last resort (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Hasaan Ibn Ali: Lost Album Found, New Chapter Opened (Jazz Times)
* New Compilation Of Old Tunes Is 'An Alternate History Of The World's Music' (NPR)
* Saving Birdland—and Jazz History (The New Yorker)
* Backup Singer Dolette McDonald on Her Years With Talking Heads, the Police, and Don Henley (Rolling Stone)
* Soul Superhero - The massive life and tragic death of King Curtis (WaxPoetics.com)
* David Crosby on dinner with Joni, Phoebe Bridgers and the 50th anniversary of his haunted solo debut (Los Angeles Times)

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