Sunday Session: November 3, 2019

Matana Roberts

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

* Andy Bey At 80: A Love Letter To A Jazz Legend (NPR)
* Exploring St Petersburg’s cosy jazz dens (Jazz Journal)
* The Grammys organizer is giving artists a metadata gold mine to credit unrecognized music workers (TheVerge.com)
* Tighter and looser with Mary Halvorson (ToneMadison.com)
* The average guitarist will spend $10,000 on gear over their lifetime (Guitar)
* Three British Labels are Deep in Dialogue with the American Jazz Tradition (DownBeat)
* David Sánchez and the African Tinge (Jazz Times)
* Bill Bruford on His Ups and Downs With Yes and King Crimson, Life After Retirement (Rolling Stone)
* Fred Taylor, Boston’s Beloved Jazz Impresario, Dies at 90 (Jazz Times)
* Chicago Trumpeter Jaimie Branch Delivers A Political Message On 'FLY or DIE II' (NPR)
* One of New York City’s Oldest Jazz Clubs Re-Opens (Forbes.com)
* Pi Recordings: A Home For Musicians Pushing Jazz Forward (Bandcamp.com)
* A Brief History of Witchcraft in Music (FloodMagazine.com)
* Crosscurrents Trio Brings Together Singular Musical Personalities (DownBeat)
* Marquis Hill Celebrates the Enduring Rhythms of Love (DownBeat)
* James Taylor: Artist in Residence (American Songwriter)
* A duel with Van Morrison: 'Is this a psychiatric examination? It sounds like one' (The Guardian)
* Manfred Eicher: "You Can't Record Everybody" (Stereophile)
* Myra Melford: Freedom and Form (New Music Box)
* The First Angel of the Future: Sun Ra's Heliocentric Poetics for After the End of the World (PoetryFoundation.org)
* Marvin Gaye: Live in Amsterdam 1976 (Oxford American)
* Matana Roberts’ ‘Coin Coin’ Project is a Sonic Patchwork of American History (DownBeat)
* Gearbox Records to release final Buddy Rich recording (Jazz in Europe)
* John Scofield and Bobo Stenson Engage Big Bands at Umeå Fest (DownBeat)
* Always Creating: Pianist Vijay Iyer Reflects on a Key Directive From His Elders, on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Change Comes to Pitt with Nicole Mitchell as New Jazz Chair (Jazz Times)
* Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary Gala at the Royal Albert Hall (London Jazz News)
* Your Brain Can Recognize a Song in Just 100 Milliseconds (Newsweek)

Sunday Session: January 8, 2017

David Garibaldi

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

* Music History in an Alternate Universe: Imagine the Beatles Never Existed (Crixeo.com)
* Mahalia Jackson rediscovered: New CD features unreleased recordings from Historic New Orleans Collection (New Orleans Advocate)
* 'La La Land' Composer Explains Why His Music Isn't Supposed to Sound Nostalgic (Vice.com)
* ‘Kimono My House’: Sparks’ audio guide to the Los Angeles rock scene of the Sixties (DangerousMinds.net)
* How Sun Ra’s Definitive Singles Catalog Finally Saw The Light of Day (Bandcamp.com)
* Listeners Are Paying for Music Again: Subscription Streaming Soars (Pitchfork.com)
* United Record Pressing's Original Nashville Plant, Steeped in Music History, to Cease Operations (Billboard)
* 'Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s' Explores a Vital Chapter in Downtown History (Village Voice)
* Another Good Year For Jazz Drummer Bill Stewart (Iowa Public Radio)
* Q&A: Catherine Russell (Jazz Times)
* Inside the Life of John Prine, the Mark Twain of American Songwriting (Rolling Stone)
* Give The Drummer Some: Tower of Power’s David Garibaldi (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* 50 Years Ago, the Wah-Wah Pedal Was Born in a Hollywood Hills Garage (LA Weekly)
* Before & After: Andy Bey - A listener, and storyteller, for the ages (Jazz Times)
* Irving Fields: Bagels and Bongos (LatinoUSA.org)
* The Self-Evidence of Kamasi Washington (Tucson Weekly)
* Curtains fall on arts critics at newspapers (Columbia Journalism Review)
* Meet The Producer Who Runs Her Opera Empire From A Two-Bedroom Apartment (NPR)
* Jazz Legends Explore Their Social Justice Legacy at Winter Jazzfest 2017 (Observer.com)
* Joe Henderson In 5 Songs (SFJAZZ.org)
* David Byrne on not being afraid to fail (TheCreativeIndependent)
* Nat Hentoff, Journalist and Social Commentator, Dies at 91 (New York Times)