Sunday Session: May 9, 2021

Gary Bartz

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

* Why stars should think twice before calling out their critics (The Guardian)
* Vin Diesel, Arthur Russell and Me (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Earliest Jazz Fest tapes discovered after 20-year quest: Historic performances are heard again (NOLA.com)
* Freda Payne: Coming Back to Jazz (Jazz Times)
* T.S. Monk Talks Activism, Jazz, 80s Funk And Keeping His Father’s Legacy Alive (Black Enterprise)
* In the Groove with Joshua Redman: A Conversation With the Acclaimed Jazz Artist (BMI.com)
* Is CD-quality music streaming about to go mainstream? (TechHive.com)
* The Brilliant Stupidity of Robert Palmer’s 1986 No. 1 Hit, ‘Addicted to Love’ (Variety)
* The Song That Sold America to a Generation of Asian Immigrants (The Atlantic)
* How the Internet Archive Has Digitized More than 250,000 78 R.P.M. Records: See the Painstaking Process Up-Close (OpenCulture.com)
* Gary Bartz At 80: On Jazz Is Dead, Miles Davis And Why Improvisation Is A Dirty Word (AllAboutJazz.com)
* How Norman Granz Revolutionized Jazz for Social Justice (Smithsonian)
* Listening In: Leni Stern, High-Flying Bird (BrooklynRail.org)
* Los Lobos Detail New Covers Album ‘Native Sons’ & Share Singles (Jambase.com)
* The Case Against the Eagles (TheRinger.com)
* Gregory Porter Gets Cooking Beyond the Bandstand with a New Show, The PorterHouse (WBGO)
* Skerik Talks About the New Album From Garage A Trois, and the Hope of Post-Pandemic Touring (WBGO)
* Camille Thurman: Before & After (Jazz Times)
* Herbie Hancock reveals details of new album (PlanetRadio.co.uk)
* Aaron Neville announces official retirement (Offbeat)
* Live Nation Weathers Rough Quarter as Concert Business Slowly Rumbles Back to Life (Variety)
* Tower of Power Celebrates 50 Years Together (Jazz Times)
* Inside look: How the freewheeling Alex Chilton, Hi Rhythm collaboration happened (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* How Billy Gibbons Wrote ZZ Top's “La Grange“ (Guitar Player)
* Mary Halvorson: Melt the Frame (Stereophile)
* Lloyd Price, R&B Pioneer Known as ‘Mr. Personality,’ Dies at 88 (Variety)
* The Lost Recordings Of Hasaan Ibn Ali Reveal A Legend Just Getting Started (NPR)