Sunday Session: May 30, 2021

Doug Carn

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

* Celebrating Gospel Music After the Civil Rights Era (AAIHS.org)
* My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more (The Guardian)
* Vanderbilt Heard Libraries are new home to Dizzy Gillespie Collection (Vanderbilt.edu)
* From the Deep South to Chicago, How Blues Music Shaped the Lives of 2 Japanese Men (NBCChicago.com)
* In his final months, Ralph Peterson pushed ‘onward and upward’ to complete ‘Raise Up Off Me’ (Boston Globe)
* You Just Can't Peg Pedrito Martinez And Rubén Blades (NPR)
* Live Music Is Back. America’s Indie Venues Are No Better Off (Rolling Stone)
* Strata-East Records: An Oral History (Jazz Times)
* The History of Reverb (Reverb.com)
* Unique Collection Of Classic 'Sweet Soul' Music From Chicago Finds New Home (WBUR)
* Branford Marsalis' 'Ma Rainey' Score Makes 100-Year-Old Blues Sound Relevant Today (NPR)
* In Conversation: Can’s Irmin Schmidt on the Band’s Legacy and Most Memorable Live Shows (FloodMagazine.com)
* Six Definitive Songs: The ultimate beginner’s guide to Sun Ra (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Best Archie Shepp Tracks: 20 Essentials From The Jazz Firebrand (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* ‘Black music is my superpower. It’s my way of showing love’: the art of Georgia Anne Muldrow (The Guardian)
* Let’s talk about sax, baby: How one of music’s most maligned instruments reconquered pop and indie (The Independent)
* John Coltrane House project in Strawberry Mansion gets state blight remediation funds (PhillyVoice.com)
* Doug Carn’s Big Moment (DownBeat)
* Lost in Space Music: Records That Explore the Outer Limits (Bandcamp.com)