Sunday Session: September 25, 2016

Kenny Barron

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

* Don't mention the J-word: how Spotify gifted my jazz tune two million hits (The Guardian UK)
* Brainfeeder Showcase Fuses Enlightened Funk, Innovative Jazz (DownBeat)
* Words and Music: Why Liner Notes Matter (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Metheny Leads New Quartet on Nostalgic Trip at Lobero Theatre (DownBeat)
* Building a better electronic trumpet (Phys.org)
* The 'Fifth Beatle', an unpublished will and a family being torn apart (The Telegraph UK)
* T Bone Burnett: Treading on Hallowed Ground – Google, the Ryman, and The Future of Nashville Music (Nashville Tennessean)
* Rock'n'roll suicide: is TV's bromance with rock nostalgia finally over? (The Guardian UK)
* In 'Latin American Songbook,' Edward Simon Rethinks The American Jazz Standard (NPR)
* 'The Jazz Loft' Is a Fleeting, Marvelous Look at Lost Bohemia (Village Voice)
* A Tribe Called Quest Sparked Hip-Hop’s Love Affair With Jazz on ‘Low End Theory’ (Observer.com)
* The New Classical: how the next generation of composers and labels is challenging classical music’s status quo (The Independent UK)
* A Tribute to Bernie Worrell in Words and Images (Keyboard)
* Monterey Jazz Festival Offers Bounty of Youthful Talent (DownBeat)
* Massive digital archiving project means these unique musical recordings will live forever (DigitalTrends.com)
* Interview: Kenny Barron (Keyboard)
* Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds (New Scientist)
* Why Marvel and Other Hollywood Films Have Such Bland Music: Every Frame a Painting Explains the Perils of the “Temp Score” (OpenCulture.com)
* Q&A: Vocalist Al Jarreau - A no-holds-barred conversation (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: June 26, 2016

Bernie Worrell

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

* The Defeat of New Music (New Music Box)
* How a Shamir Soundalike Ended Up in Apple's New Commercial (Pitchfork.com)
* The Digital Music Business and the Rashomon Effect (Medium.com)
* Don’t Look Back: The Return of Napster Highlights a Company Running Out of Options (JonMaples.com)
* Seven Of Henry Threadgill’s Favorite Recordings (MusicAficionado.com)
* The History of Electronic Music, 1800-2015: Free Web Project Catalogues the Theremin, Fairlight & Other Instruments That Revolutionized Music (OpenCulture.com)
* Grappling with the issues facing the industry (Gramophone UK)
* Women Composers Reign At Subdued 70th Ojai Festival (ClassicalVoiceAmerica.org)
* Original Voices Spice up International Anthem Showcase (DownBeat)
* Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 (Washington Post)
* Photo Coverage: Bucky Pizzarelli Returns To Birdland (BroadwayWorld.com)
* Almost Famous, Almost Broke: How Does a Jazz Musician Make It in New York Now? (Village Voice)
* One Man’s Mission to Keep Musicians’ Legacies Alive (New York Times)
* Portland's Allegro Sought Inventory On The Verge Of Liquidation (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
* The Zen of Sonny Rollins (Jazz Times)
* Salvant, Redman Bring Jazz Flair to Pop-Heavy Playboy Fest (DownBeat)
* Midtown Meltdown: MSR Studios is Shutting Down (SonicScoop.com)
* Wayne Jackson, half of Memphis Horns duo, dies at age 74 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Cult heroes: the 5th Dimension – elegant pop crooners who wowed the mainstream (The Guardian UK)
* Why Record Stores Mattered (The New Yorker)
* All The Way Live Or Else: The Perfection Of Van Morrison's 'It's Too Late' (NPR)
* Converse Puts a Pedal in Your Sole (Pro Sound News)
* The Zappas go to war (Los Angeles Times)
* The surprising history of the "song of the summer" (Vox.com)
* Inside Vijay Iyer's Year-Long Met Residency (Jazz Times)
* Bernie Worrell, 'Wizard Of Woo,' Dies At 72 (NPR)

(Edited 7/1/16 to fix a formatting problem.)

Sunday Session: June 19, 2016

Henry Grimes

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

* Sound in the City (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
* Stax Records and the Making of Blaxploitation Soundtracks (Ebony)
* Music distributor lays off 'dozens' of employees, keeps CDs from labels (Portland Oregonian)
* Publishers: can we work together? (KateRomano.co.uk)
* The Devil's Horn asks: is the saxophone cursed? (Georgia Straight)
* Grimes Celebrates Lifetime of Achievement at Vision Festival 21 (DownBeat)
* Digital Music Era Ushers In New Rights for Veteran Studio Musicians (BusinessWire.com)
* From YouTube to the blockchain: how music and tech are colliding in 2016 (The Guardian UK)
* The Last Word: Donald Fagen on Right-Wing Paranoia, Steely Dan's Future (Rolling Stone)
* Music titan ‘Chips’ Moman is dead at 79 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Musician ‘kicked off’ United Airlines flight for attempting to stow her violin safely (TheStrad.com)
* 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Announced (Jazz Times)
* Music in the age of the algorithm (FT.com)
* Thirty years later, Green Mill owner Dave Jemilo thrives at his jazz club (Chicago Tribune)
* How to remake a Blue Note jazz album – in pictures (The Guardian UK)
* Behind the Scenes Photos of NYC's Steinway Piano Factory (AtlasObscura.com)
* Boomer Rock Icons Are Back, and Their Albums Aren’t Bad (Vulture.com)
* The Soulful Crossover of Kamasi Washington (Jazz Times)
* Recording Academy Embraces Streaming with Changes to Grammy Rules (Billboard)
* Apple's Brain Trust -- Iovine, Reznor, Cue and Kondrk -- on Streaming's New World Order and Why 'We All Should Be' Worried (Billboard)
* Why it matters that AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award is going to 'Star Wars' composer John Williams (Los Angeles Times)
* Morris 'Moe' Jennings, studio drummer at Chess Records, dies at 77 (Chicago Tribune)
* Jazz Icon Charles Lloyd on Memphis, The Elixirs Of Gotham, and Bob Dylan (WBGO)
* Bernie Worrell’s Wife Shares Update On Legendary Keyboardist’s Health (JamBase.com)
* Kamasi Washington's Father Helped Mold Him into a Jazz Master (Vice.com)
* Two unreleased Frank Zappa albums will emerge from the vaults this July (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Jazz Drummer Matt Wilson's 'Big Happy Family' Is Heartfelt And Harmonious (NPR)
* You Don’t Know the Real Beatles Until You’ve Heard Sgt. Pepper’s in Mono (New York Observer)
* Catching Up With Ken Vandermark (Jazz Times)
* Upgrading a Traditional Javanese Instrument to Run on an Algorithm (Hyperallergic.com)
* The Secret Life of Foley (Vimeo.com)
* Appreciative Hart Spotlighted at Healdsburg Jazz Festival (DownBeat)
* A Twist in the Zappa vs. Zappa Spat (New York Times)

Sunday Session: January 10, 2016

Lionel Loueke

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

* The Internet Is the Grateful Dead (Pacific Standard)
* Composers Learn To Make A Living With 'Invisible' Music (NPR)
* 5 Ways Streaming Music Will Change In 2016 (Fast Company)
* Accordion Store’s Departure Signals End of Manhattan’s Music Row (New York Times)
* Boppin’ On Bee Hive (WFIU)
* Study of jazz pianists finds ‘happy’ and ‘sad’ music evoke different neural patterns (ScienceBlogs.com)
* Bernie Worrell Battling Stage Four Lung Cancer (Relix.com)
* R.I.P., Paul Bley (Ottawa Citizen)
* Jazz Composition in the Digital Age (ASCAP.com)
* Lloyd Recruits Willie Nelson, Norah Jones for Marvels CD (DownBeat)
* A Turntable Was Amazon's Top Selling Holiday Audio Product (Hypebot.com)
* Global Guitar Hero Loueke Shares Musical Journey (DownBeat)
* Adele and Bruce Springsteen Tours Spark Battle Behind Jacked-Up 'Spec Pricing' (Billboard)
* How the Phonograph Changed Music Forever (Smithsonian)
* Some Thoughts on Paul Bley (NelsCline.com)
* Review: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Jazz Times)
* Esperanza Spalding Is Letting Emily Be Emily (NPR)
* 2nd Class Action Suit Filed Against Spotify Seeks $200M "To vindicate rights" Of Songwriters, Publishers (Hypebot.com)
* Otis Clay Deserves To Be Remembered In The Long Run (Trunkworthy.com)
* Does David Bowie's ★ (Blackstar) Mark a New Music Trend of Jazz Rock for 2016? (MusicTimes.com)