Showing posts with label Ahmed Abdullah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ahmed Abdullah. Show all posts

Sunday, June 07, 2020

Sunday Session: June 7, 2020

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

* Buddy Bolden’s Blues (64Parishes.org)
* Killing Of George Floyd Prompts Response From Music Industry, Performers (DownBeat)
* Remembering “Uganda” Roberts (Offbeat)
* Robert Northern, who, as ‘Brother Ah,’ became a synthesizer of sounds, dies at 86 (Washington Post)
* Thundercat Looks For Connection During A Bewildering Moment (DownBeat)
* The Chance Music Of New Orleans’ Kidd Jordan (DownBeat)
* Lennie Niehaus, Jazz Player and Composer for Clint Eastwood Films, Dies at 90 (Variety)
* Idris Ackamoor: An Afro-Futurist Odyssey (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Sandy Jordan Research on Clifford Jordan (AtticToys.com)
* The Law Police Used To Discriminate Against Musicians Of Color (NPR)
* On Taking Lip [Service] (WQXR)
* Of George Floyd and John Coltrane (Jazz Times)
* Add some township jive! How London's jazz scene set itself apart (The Guardian)
* Pandemic Entrepreneurship for Jazz Musicians (Jazz Times)
* What Socially Distanced Live Performance Might Look Like (Vulture.com)
* Venues, Festivals Search For Hope Amid A Slowly Opening Economy (DownBeat)
* A TCM Series and a New Book Celebrate the Expansive Pleasures of Jazz in the Movies (WBGO)
* Jim Snidero Explores South Korea (Jazz Times)
* Lennie Niehaus 1929–2020 (Jazz Times)
* This Is How Much More Money Artists Earn From Bandcamp Compared to Streaming Services (Pitchfork.com)
* How Jazz Helped Fuel the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (OpenCulture.com)
* Think You've Been Productive in Quarantine? Try Checking in with Tim Berne and David Torn (WBGO)
* Arturo O’Farrill’s ‘Four Questions’ Brings Together Art, Activism (DownBeat)
* Swing Time: Ahmed Abdullah (Relix.com)
* How Can Artists Respond to Injustice? Thoughts from Seven Musicians (New Music Box)
* The Radically Inclusive Music of Ornette Coleman (The New Republic)
* The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The New Sounds Of Protest And Hope (NPR)

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Sunday Session: March 13, 2016

Larry Young
For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have turned up recently in StLJN's inbox:

* The Music Startup Meltdown (Medium.com)
* First Listen Live: Esperanza Spalding, 'Emily's D+Evolution' (NPR)
* 10 Chinese Cassette Labels Leading A Tape Resurgence (ElectronicBeats.net)
* ‘Eye Conductor’ Helps the Physically Disabled Write Music With Facial Movements (Vice.com)
* Interview: Trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah Discusses Involvement with Sun Ra Arkestra, Arts Direction at Sistas’ Place (JazzRightNow.com)
* Conversations With Post World War II Pioneers of Electronic Music (MusicCentre.ca)
* Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock Pen an Open Letter to the Next Generation of Artists (NestHQ.com)
* Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz (The New Yorker)
* Why This Popular Designer Is Devoted to Promoting Album Covers on Instagram (Adweek)
* A Collection of Sun Ra’s Business Cards from the 1950s: They’re Out of This World (OpenCulture.com)
* New Book Showcases Forgotten Photojournalist’s Work (DownBeat)
* Legendary Producer George Martin, Dead at 90 (Pro Sound News)
* Why 'Fifth Beatle' Doesn't Do George Martin Justice (Rolling Stone)
* How George Martin's studio tricks and innovations changed pop music (Los Angeles Times)
* Brazilian Percussionist Naná Vasconcelos Dies at 71 (Jazz Times)
* Eight Rising Female Instrumentalists (SFJazz.org)
* What will you miss about CDs? (AV Club)
* Kendrick Lamar's go-to saxophonist Kamasi Washington talks modern jazz (Entertainment Weekly)
* Porter Debuts Music from New Blue Note Album (DownBeat)
* Say “Hello” to the Era of the One-Word Song Title (Priceonomics.com)
* Death of the jukebox: Fighting for bar music's soul amid TouchTunes' takeover (City Pages)
* Google are giving away experiments to teach music and code (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* Record Store Day 2016: This Year's Highlights from Bowie to Bieber (Newsweek)
* McBride To Become Next Artistic Director of Newport Jazz Festival (DownBeat)
* Mapping the Sounds of Greek Byzantine Churches: How Researchers Are Creating “Museums of Lost Sound” (OpenCulture.com)
* Jazz Great Ernestine Anderson Dies (Seattle Times)
* Music Licensing Shop Harry Fox Agency Appears To Be Scrambling To Fix Its Failure To Properly License Songs (TechDirt.com)
* Review: BCN Impro Festival, Barcelona (Jazz Journal)
* Closing Time: Why More Bands Need to Say Farewell (Consequence of Sound)