Sunday Session: December 9, 2018

Dexter Gordon

Here's a roundup of various music-related items of interest that have shown up in one of StLJN's various inboxes or feeds over the past week:

* All-too-easy listening - The music industry sells classical as soothing background music — robbing a great art of its power (Washington Post)
* Marcus Strickland Harnesses Power of Vocalists, Organ on Latest Album (DownBeat)
* The Multiple Personalities of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Jeff Simon: Is posthumous jazz a problem or a glorious resurrection? (Buffalo News)
* Wynton Marsalis: Jazz And Holiday Music Go Together Like Holly And Ivy (HoustonPublicMedia.org)
* Esperanza Spalding says goodbye to song-driven shows (Washington Post)
* It’s official: Galactic has purchased Tipitina’s (Offbeat)
* This Thing Never Stops: Roscoe Mitchell and Phillip Greenlief in Conversation (SFMOMA.org)
* Jazz Is Dance Music Again (Rolling Stone)
* The Life Force of Esperanza Spalding (OfficeMagazine.net)
* The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition Has a Winner (WBGO)
* Classical Hands: Composer Kris Bowers on Scoring ‘Green Book,’ Teaching Mahershala Ali Piano, Seeing His Hands On Screen (Pollstar)
* The good fight: Jan Ramsey keeps music journalism alive in New Orleans (Columbia Journalism Review)
* St. Nick: The Long, Strange and Wonderful Career of Nick Lowe (Rolling Stone)
* Interview: Milford Graves (Modern Drummer)
* Can We Get to That (Oxford American)
* Indie Labels Now Account for 39.9% of the Global Recorded Music Market (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Dexter Gordon Biography 'Sophisticated Giant' Chronicles a Jazz Life (Billboard)
* The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock (The New Yorker)
* Sachal Vasandani Celebrates the American Songbook (Jazz Times)
* At 80, Saxophonist Charles Lloyd Finds Enlightenment in the Groove (NPR)
* Jazz legend Herbie Hancock becomes first musician to receive Ben Franklin Medal (WHYY)
* Hi Records star and instrumental hitmaker Ace Cannon dead at 84 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Selling Vintage Records in Tokyo (LongReads.com)
* Covering both sides: Catherine Russell and John Pizzarelli (Santa Fe New Mexican)
* Playing the theory of relativity: Sunny Murray in Europe 1968–72 (The Wire)
* Daversa, Salvant, Mehldau Nominated for Grammy Awards (DownBeat)
* 'Fight The Power': A Tale Of 2 Anthems (With The Same Name) (NPR)
* Feds allege wider cover-up by Irvin Mayfield, Ronald Markham in New Orleans Library Foundation scandal (New Orleans Advocate)

Sunday Session: March 12, 2017

Terence Blanchard

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

* Recording with David Bowie left a mark on jazz sax player Donny McCaslin (Washington Post)
* How sound effects are really made (BBC)
* Was this Cambridge's greatest ever music gig? (Cambridge News)
* Are living room gigs the future of live music? (BBC)
* How Rock ‘n’ Roll History Was Made—and Nearly Forgotten—in Dallas (DMagazine.com)
* The Inspiration Behind ‘Roundabout,’ the 1972 Hit Song by Yes (Wall Street Journal)
* Eddie Palmieri: Celebrating 80 Years (DownBeat)
* Interview with Robert Glasper (EthanIverson.com)
* On Iverson on Glasper (Pause): Everyone Wants Everything, Even If It's Different (Nextbop.com)
* Sexism From Two Leading Jazz Artists Draws Anger — And Presents An Opportunity (NPR)
* The Strange World Of... Annette Peacock (TheQuietus.com)
* The Survivalists: Mosaic and Newvelle Records (Stereophile)
* Dave Valentin, Virtuoso Flutist with a Foundation in Latin-Jazz, Dies at 64 (WBGO)
* Owner of Wolfgang’s Vault in legal battle over streaming rights (The Guardian)
* The Queen of Soul Receives a Multi-Artist Tribute at Carnegie Hall With 'The Music of Aretha Franklin' (Billboard)
* An obituary: The National Endowment for the Arts, 52, of unnatural causes (The Hill)
* These '70s Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians Blew Freely, Fiercely, and Reverently (PopMatters.com)
* Blanchard’s Opera “Champion” Triumphs in East Coast Debut (DownBeat)
* How A Contract Clause Led To A Fight Between Musicians And Austin's Biggest Event (NPR)
* After Public Battle, SXSW Apologizes And Pledges To Change Its Artist Contract (NPR)
* Italian Band Soviet Soviet Denied Entry To The U.S., Jailed And Then Deported (NPR)
* How Weird Al Yankovic Removed the Misogyny of ‘Blurred Lines’ by Adding Grammar Lessons (Vulture.com)
* Forget High Fidelity: How women are reclaiming record stores (MixMag.net)