Sunday Session: December 6, 2015

Amina Claudine Myers

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

* An Unexpected Reason for the Cassette Revival (NightFlight.com)
* Are these the last days of British bands touring America? (LouderThanWar.com)
* 100 Years Of Billy Strayhorn, Emotional Architect Of Song (NPR)
* Dweezil Zappa: Roots and Branches (Premier Guitar)
* Photos: Celebrating Billy Strayhorn on the A Train (Wall Street Journal)
* Obituary: Allen Toussaint (Offbeat)
* Download 30-gigs of lost cassettes from the 80s underground (FactMag.com)
* This Saxophonist Spends His MacArthur "Genius Grant" on Mentoring Young Jazz Musicians (LA Weekly)
* After 300 Years Of Evolution, Has The Piano Reached Acoustic Perfection? (Gizmodo.com)
* Thom Yorke Compares YouTube and Google to Nazis (FlavorWire.com)
* Stream a Free 65-Hour Playlist of John Cage Music and Discover the Full Scope of His Avant-Garde Compositions (OpenCulture.com)
* Interview: Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (Offbeat)
* From NPR Music, Two Jazz Performances That Wrestle With Race And Policing (NPR)
* Making one album a year is no longer enough (unless you're Adele) (The Guardian UK)
* Wayne Horvitz: The Pianist And The Poet (NPR)
* Amina Claudine Myers, Evolving Song (Clocktower.org)
* Ennio Morricone: 'The Hateful Eight is like no western you have ever seen before' (The Telegraph UK)
* Maria Schneider on The Thompson Fields (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Indie Classical Music? It Exists, And One Nashville Tech Startup Is Trying To Save It (Nashville Public Radio)
* Are Artist Collaborations Making Genres Obsolete? (Medium.com)
* World's first computer-generated musical to debut in London (The Guardian UK)
* Bob Dylan's Setlists Aren't A-Changin' (LiveNationTV)
* Billboard Women in Music 'Legend' Loretta Lynn: 'Call Me Your No. 1 You-Know-What-Kind-Of Stirrer" (Billboard)
* Review: Josef Woodard’s Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: November 15, 2015

Allen Toussaint

Pour a cup of your favorite caffeinated beverage, butter your toast and/or put a schmear on your bagel, and take a bit of Sunday morning to read some of the music-related items that have hit StLJN's inbox recently:

* Kamasi Washington: After touring with Snoop Dogg, could he be jazz's next superstar? (The Independent UK)
* Centennial celebration gives Pittsburgh-bred composer Strayhorn his due (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
* Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism (The Guardian UK)
* Hidden treasures of a remote record shop (BBC)
* Stockholm Jazz Festival 2015 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* 10 Questions for Musician Maria Schneider (TheArtsDesk.com)
* Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” (The New Yorker)
* Inside the World’s Biggest Jazz Record Store (GearPatrol.com)
* The Art Of The 'Clean Version' (NPR)
* Derek Trucks on What He Learned From Allman Brothers (Rolling Stone)
* Influential songwriter, producer Allen Toussaint has died (WWLTV.com)
* Pianist Allen Toussaint dies at 77 (DownBeat)
* Allen Toussaint’s Proudest Moment Is The Avant-Garde Soul Opera Nobody Heard (Trunkworthy.com)
* These Millennials Are Shaking Up the Jazz World (Vanity Fair)
* Users of Music, from Tech Giants to Fans, Need More Incentive to Fix a Broken Market: Op-Ed (Billboard)
* Musicians Struggle To Buy Insurance In A City That Thrives On Music (NPR)
* Free Agent of Sound - An Interview with Rob Mazurek (PopMatters.com)
* An interview with Survival Unit III (The Free Jazz Collective)
* Rudresh Mahanthappa Named United States Artists Fellow (Jazz Times)
* Mostly Other People Do The Killing Rocks the Boat in Brooklyn (DownBeat)
* Millennials push 2015 vinyl sales to 26-year high in US (NME.com)
* America’s Last Great CD Dealer Doesn’t Care If You Think CDs Are Dead (FlavorWire.com)
* Prince: ‘I was right about the internet – tell me a musician who’s got rich off it’ (The Guardian UK)
* So What Is Post-Internet Music, Anyway? (Vice.com)

Sunday Session: February 22, 2015

Billy Strayhorn

For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have hit StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Duke Ellington’s Ode to the First Moon Landing (Air & Space)
* Steve Reich On Tape Loops, Repetition & Phasing (Synthtopia.com)
* Critic's Notebook - Jazz singers bring new life to old standards (Los Angeles Times)
* Narrowing the 90 Miles - How U.S.-Cuba relations may play out for musicians (Wall Street Journal)
* Apple Doesn't Want to Compete -- It Wants to Own the Record Business (Billboard)
* How the Music Industry Is Alienating Its Most Passionate Customers (Digital Music News)
* Captain Beefheart’s Failed Bid for Mainstream Success (Wondering Sound)
* Wizards of Sound - Retouching acoustics, from the restaurant to the concert hall (The New Yorker)
* As the Village Vanguard Turns 80, It Remains New York’s Most Cherished Jazz Club (New York Observer)
* Can New Orleans Save Its Brass Bands? (The Daily Beast)
* Don Was: Moving Blue Note Forward One Day at a Time (DownBeat)
* Jazz Saxophonist Branford Marsalis: Jay-Z Doesn't Know What He's Talking About (San Antonio Current)
* Too Late Blues: Nica Goes to Hollywood - The story of Cassavetes, Mingus and "the Baroness" of jazz (Jazz Times)
* The Doctor Is In: Eddie Henderson On Life As 'The Funk Surgeon' (NPR)
* Composer Billy Strayhorn in the limelight at last (The Scotsman)
* 7 Things You Didn't Realize Are Happening Every Time You Stream a Song on Spotify (Mic.com)
* Starbucks Will Stop Selling CDs In Their Stores Next Month (Forbes)
* A Half Century of Creative Musicianship with the AACM (WTTW)