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)

Sunday Session: March 28, 2021

Billie Holiday

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

* 10 Albums That Explore the Multisided Record Phenomenon (Discogs.com)
* TikTok is changing the rules of the music industry (TechRadar.com)
* Huey Lewis and the News on His Hearing, the Power of Love, and More (Berklee.edu)
* More Oscar History Made as Two Black Composers Are Nominated for Best Original Score (Variety)
* Islands in the Stream (Prospect.org)
* Smalls Jazz Club, Emblem of Pandemic Perseverance, Shifts Gears Yet Again (WBGO)
* Introducing The Singer’s Mask, a costume designer’s invention for COVID-era performances (St. Louis)
* Why Is Tower Records Coming Back Now, of All Times? (Slate.com)
* A Grandson's Gift — A Spotlight — For His Grandfather's WWII Band (NPR)
* Mixtapes Are the Original Playlists, All Thanks to Lou Ottens (Discogs.com)
* Holiday Film Puts Drug War on Trial (DownBeat)
* The Market for Musical Gear Is Amping Up Like Never Before (Bloomberg.com)
* Pharoah Sanders Takes on Electronic Music (The New Yorker)
* Without Limits or Lyrics: The Human Voice as Instrument (Bandcamp.com)
* Indie labels call for end to streaming ‘payola’ – as IMPALA unveils 10-point plan to reform sector (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Saxophone Legends Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp Are Still Pushing Jazz Forward (Rolling Stone)
* Live album featuring Memphis music icons Alex Chilton and Hi Rhythm coming in May (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Global recorded music revenues grew 7.4% to $21.6bn in 2020, in spite of the pandemic (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Is the guitar solo dead in the 21st century? (Guitar World)
* National Identities in Jazz: Is There A British Jazz? (TDE Promotions)
* [Ahmed] Pays Tribute to a Titan of Islamic Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Pioneering Bassist and Guitarist Carol Kaye Surveys Her Career in Music, Including Her Time in Jazz Clubs (WBGO)
* Instrument extinction: musical instruments that did not survive into modernity (ThisCityKnows.com)
* As Streaming Takes Over, Music Metadata Is Becoming More Critical for Musicians. How Critical, You Ask? (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before (ExpMag.com)
* Jaco Pastorius, An Introduction To The Jazz Legend (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Anonymous Songwriters Group Calls for Artists to Stop Demanding Royalties for Songs They Didn’t Write (Variety)