Sunday Session: December 11, 2016

Eddie Palmieri

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Exclusive: Nina Simone as You’ve Never Seen Her (The Daily Beast)
* Harvard’s best listeners (Harvard.edu)
* How Context Awareness Is The Next Frontier In The Music Industry (SynchTank.com)
* Streams ahead: the artists who made it huge without radio support (The Guardian UK)
* Digging Up Rap History: The Story of Chopped Herring Records (Bandcamp.com)
* Grammy Nominations: Full List of Nominees for 59th Annual Awards (Variety)
* These 10 Living Legends of Jazz Prove Nobody Can Out-Dress the OGs (GQ)
* Vinyl albums outsell digital downloads for the first time (The Telegraph UK)
* Jack White to Questlove: Photos of drummers in their studios (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Is Live Performance the Future of Documentaries? (Observer.com)
* Julie Tippetts: Didn't You Used To Be Julie Driscoll? (AllAboutJazz.com)
* When Jazz Was Cool (New Music Box)
* Grammys 2016: As the jazz nominations show, buzz helps (Los Angeles Times)
* Tributaries of Afrobeat/s (3AMMagazine.com)
* Lloyd & Friends Stage ‘Marvel’-ous Show in SoCal (DownBeat)
* “BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack (LongReads.com)
* tony conrad’s grading tips for teachers (with an extended interview) (blogthehum.wordpress.com)
* The Decades-Long Quest to Design a Car Stereo That Can't Be Stolen (Vice.com)
* 'Harlem River Drive' Revisited With Eddie Palmieri (NPR)
* On Being Named Composer of the Year by Musical America (New Music Box)
* ‘To What Degree Are We Really Improvising?’: Avram Fefer on Making Music With Richard Serra Sculptures (Art News)
* Listen: Louis Armstrong Covers John Lennon with “Give Peace a Chance” (Offbeat)

Sunday Session: December 4, 2016

Charles Lloyd

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Why Mary Halvorson Sounds Like No Other Guitarist (NPR)
* Jazz great Anthony Ortega maintains his sax appeal at 88 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
* Sun Ra: Singles review – a cosmic ride (The Guardian UK)
* The Top 25 Music Schools 2016 (Hollywood Reporter)
* Andrew Norman Wins The Grawemeyer Award For Music (NPR)
* Cuba: Music of a 'New Era' (Billboard)
* Recycling My Back Pages: A Music Writer/Collector Reflects on Disposing of His Magazine Archive (The Stranger)
* Forgotten audio formats: Wire recording - From espionage to home recording, the colorful life of the longest-used audio medium. (Ars Technica)
* Corea Elektric Band, Béla & Flecktones To Join Forces for 2017 Summer Tour (DownBeat)
* In Defense of Jazz (New Music Box)
* James Booker Was Hands Down the Greatest New Orleans Piano Player Ever (The Daily Beast)
* Darryl Jones: The unknown Stone (BBC)
* The weird and true story of Moondog (Macleans)
* God Is on the Loose! How the Tropicália Movement Provided Hope During Brazil’s Darkest Years (Pitchfork)
* What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music (Washington.edu)
* The Sex Pistols’ ‘Anarchy in the UK’ Is More Relevant Now Than Ever (Observer.com)
* The Re-Flowering: Charles Lloyd's Second Golden Age (The Atlantic)
* At 85, Jazz Guitarist and Educator Kenny Burrell Is Still Going Strong (LA Weekly)
* Chicago's new generation of bluesmen (The Guardian UK)
* Fidel Castro: A First-Person Account of the Day the Music Stopped in Cuba (Billboard)
* The Band Before They Were The Band: A Listening Guide (Pitchfork)
* Cécile McLorin Salvant On Past, Present, Future (RevueWM.com)