Sunday Session: August 8, 2021

Stevie Wonder

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

* Snug Harbor canceling performances due to rising Covid cases (Offbeat)
* Don Marquis, esteemed jazz author and New Orleans Jazz Museum founder, has died at 88 (NOLA.com)
* At Lollapalooza 2021, there's one question hanging over everything (AVClub.com)
* Musical artist Suzanne Ciani feeds deepfake program below Morrison Hall (DailyCal.org)
* Anatomy Of A Bad Gig: Recalling A Show 40 Years Ago Where Virtually Nothing Went Right (ProSoundWeb.com)
* Labels are going to become more like VCs than they probably want to be (Music Industry Blog)
* Study: Consumption of music streaming declined significantly during COVID-19 lockdowns worldwide (EurekAlert.org)
* Alan Rubin: Mr. Fabulous in Every Way (AllAboutJazz.com)
* End of an era: Trumpets owners reminisce after developers buy legendary jazz club (NorthJersey.com)
* NC jazz musician releases album via legendary record label (Durham Herald Sun)
* Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts Drops Out of U.S. Tour After Medical Procedure (Rolling Stone)
* Steve Vai reflects on working with Frank Zappa: "If you didn’t have the goods, you didn’t last. Frank expected everybody to rise to the occasion" (Guitar World)
* Interns Turned Engineers Take the Reins at SF’s Historic Different Fur Studios (KQED)
* Eddie Palmieri On Pioneering Latin Jazz & His Blue Note Residency: "We're Talking About The Greatest Jazz Room In The World" (Grammy.com)
* Blues Great Buddy Guy on His ‘American Masters’ Documentary, Hitting the Road Again at 85, and Why the Blues Is Like Golf (Variety)
* As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe (Yahoo News)
* When Stevie Wonder Blended Funk, Soul And Social Commentary On ‘Innervisions’ (Yahoo News)
* George Harrison’s Son Dhani on the “Pandora’s Box” Process of Remastering All Things Must Pass at 50 (Consequence.net)

Sunday Session: August 1, 2021

Billie Holiday

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

* Charles Mingus: An Essential Top Ten Albums (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Laura Nyro: the phenomenal singers’ singer the 60s overlooked (The Guardian)
* Buddy Guy: “When you pick up a guitar, you have something of your own even if you don’t realize it” (Guitar World)
* The United States vs. Billie Holiday vs. the Truth (Jazz Times)
* Fire Music Documentary to See National Release (Jazz Times)
* Ryan Adams, Shunned by the Music Business and ‘Scared,’ Pleads for Labels to Rescue His Career (Variety)
* This Is Your Brain On Vinyl, and Other Tales From Obsessive Collecting in the Pandemic (Jezebel.com)
* BREAKING NEWS: Three major music venues in New Orleans will require vaccination cards or negative Covid tests for entry (Offbeat)
* John Pizzarelli’s Ode to Pat Metheny (DownBeat)
* Dee Dee Bridgewater Returns to Rome (DownBeat)
* Low Fidelity: Vintage Vinyl and The Precarious State of the Indie Record Store (DecibelMagazine.com)
* Jim Keltner: A Before & After Listening Session (Jazz Times)
* Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career (Associated Press)
* Fred Rzewski’s Classical Call To Arms (Bandcamp.com)
* (Back) In The Club: Jazz United Considers the Return of Live Concerts (WBGO)
* A Beginner’s Guide to Frank Zappa (Guitar Player)
* A Guide to the Late Recordings of Experimental Vocalist Linda Sharrock (Bandcamp.com)
* Do You Hear What I See? (New Music Box)

Sunday Session: June 20, 2021

Don Cherry

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

* Now That You’ve Bought a Multi-Million-Dollar Music Catalog, What Are You Going to Do With It? (Variety)
* The greatest 'lost tapes' ever found? (BBC)
* The 10 Great Record Stores in America (SPIN)
* Don Cherry’s Life-Affirming Organic Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Mystical Discipline: Anthony Braxton Interviewed (TheQuietus.com)
* Jeff Beck: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more (LouderSound.com)
* Elevation Studios Breaks Ground On Massive Production, Rehearsal Campus In Nashville (Pollstar.com)
* Can classical music organizations survive the longest-running disruption in history? Opera Australia has cracked the code. (CultureForHire.com)
* The Sound of Early Sci-Fi: Samuel Hoffman’s Theremin (Reverb.com)
* ‘We could lose it all’: UK jazz tries to get its groove back after Covid (The Guardian)
* U.S. Recorded Music Revenues Are Still 46% Below 1999 Peaks, RIAA Data Shows (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Buddy Guy Documentary Explores the Roots of an American Master (Soulhead.com)
* Jazz Elder Statesman Anthony Braxton Continues To Defy Expectations (NPR)
* The Guitar Playing of Julian Lage (The New Yorker)
* Don And Moki Cherry's Organic Dreams Made Real (NPR)
* Pedal-Steel Guitarist Greg Leisz on His Years With Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, and Daft Punk (Rolling Stone)
* How Boston’s Tom Scholz made their entire debut album in his basement (RockAndRollGarage.com)

Sunday Session: July 12, 2020

Jason Moran

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

* Buddy Guy on Weathering the COVID Storm and the Road Ahead (Rolling Stone)
* Watch Exclusive uDiscover Music Interview With Jazz Saxophonist Azar Lawrence (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* The Story of Louis Armstrong’s Final Tape (LouisArmstrongHouse.org)
* Terri Lyne Carrington Tops 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll (DownBeat)
* Talking Heads Drummer Chris Frantz on His New Memoir and the Last Time He Saw David Byrne (Rolling Stone)
* Ennio Morricone: 10 of his greatest compositions (The Guardian)
* How Ennio Morricone Changed the Way Movies Sound (Pitchfork.com)
* Remembering Ennio Morricone: His 10 most mind-blowing film scores (Los Angeles Times)
* The Great Reformatting (TheAmericanScholar.org)
* The Pedal Steel Guitar Slides Into Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Gearhead: Ralph Towner’s Acoustic Arsenal (Jazz Times)
* Empire at 40 | How Ben Burtt Turned a Bathtub of Raccoons and Industrial Noise into a Star Wars Soundscape (StarWars.com)
* 50 years ago Hendrix, the Allman Brothers and B.B. King played the Byron Pop Festival (Macon Telegraph)
* Krautrock, communism and chaos: the anarchic story of Can (LouderSound.com)
* Joni Mitchell, Isle of Wight 1970: the day the music nearly died (The Guardian)
* The Mid-Atlantic’s Flourishing Jazz, Funk And R&B Scene Spotlit By Black Fire Records (DownBeat)
* Lady A, Formerly Lady Antebellum, Sue Seattle Blues Singer Lady A (Pitchfork.com)
* Anita ‘Lady A’ White Will Not Be Erased (Vulture.com)
* Pop music is getting faster (and happier) (BBC)
* Jason Moran Journeys to the Dawn of Jazz Cinema (Criterion.com)
* France’s Future Jazz Revival Is Built on House and Hip-Hop Grooves (Bandcamp.com)
* Music Maven Steve Stoute’s Pitch for Artists: Keep All the Money (Bloomberg.com)
* Wire Playlist: Musician-Owned Record Labels in Jazz in the 1940s–60s (The Wire)
* ‘I Don’t Think Anybody Alive Can Tell Me What to Do’ Willie Nelson at his most Willie Nelson (Vulture.com)
* The Many Electronic Surprises To Be Found In The Nation's Vast Archive Of Folk Music (NPR)
* Cleve Eaton 1939–2020 (Jazz Times)
* Just for Us (Chamber-Music.org)

Sunday Session: March 10, 2019

Dave Burrell

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:

* Kenny Garrett Interview (Jazz in Europe)
* This North Philly bar near Temple hosted legends like Coltrane and Patti LaBelle, but its owner refuses to sell (Philly.com)
* The Complex Sounds of Caspar Brötzmann (DownBeat)
* Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive (The New Yorker)
* Song You Need to Know: Joey DeFrancesco and Pharoah Sanders, ‘The Creator Has a Master Plan’ (Rolling Stone)
* Celebrating Pianist and Composer Dave Burrell at the Vision Festival — and on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Rebirth of the Cool (TheLAndMag.com)
* Smithsonian Folkways Details Massive New Orleans Jazz Fest Box Set (Rolling Stone)
* Is the album format irrelevant in the digital age? Let's investigate (Beat.com)
* World’s Largest Music Publishers Offer ‘Full Support of Warner/Chappell’ Against Spotify — Here’s Their Statement (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* When Jerry Lee Lewis Was Accused of Planning to Shoot Elvis Presley (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Wadada Leo Smith Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks in New Album (Qwest.tv)
* City to Honor ‘Lady Day’ with Statue at Queens Borough Hall (Queens Daily Eagle)
* The Sound of Evil (The American Scholar)
* Producer of ‘Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings’ Discusses Project in New Video (DownBeat)
* Eliane Elias: The Soul of Brazil (SFJAZZ.org)
* Revisit 50 years of Jazz Fest with comprehensive box set of live performances (Offbeat)
* A two-dimensional matrix: Carl Stone speaks to Emily Bick (The Wire)
* International Women’s Day: Meet the women shaping the future of music (Pro Sound News Europe)
* Spotify and Amazon ‘sue songwriters’ with appeal against 44% royalty rise in the United States (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Got $100k? Steinway’s iPad-capable piano turns you into a classical mixmaster (Syfy.com)
* Janis Joplin’s producer John Simon, a Norwalk native, has musical tastes that might surprise fan (Connecticut Post)
* Sandy Jordan: Keeping the Legacies Alive (Jazz Times)
* Laurie Anderson Interview: The Nature of the Mind (Atavist.com)
* Biamp PDX Jazz Festival Tastefully Pays Tribute to the Past (DownBeat)
* Take note – why do women composers still take up less musical space? (The Guardian)
* An interview with Bill Folwell (Point of Departure)
* In Memoriam: Ira Gitler (1928–2019) (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: June 17, 2018

Alice Coltrane

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:

* A Toast to Lorraine Gordon, the Formidable Engine Behind the World's Greatest Jazz Club (WBGO)
* How Spotify Discovers the Genres of Tomorrow (Spotify.com)
* The pioneers commissioning their own classical music masterpieces (Financial Times)
* So, When Will YOU Hit Your Musical ‘Peak and Paralysis Age’? (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Ginger Baker's Son: 'My Dad Has Been Dead to Me for a Long Time' (Rolling Stone)
* Angélique Kidjo on the Myth of Cultural Appropriation and Covering Remain in Light (Pitchfork.com)
* NEWS: Jon Hiseman (1944-2018) R.I.P. (London Jazz News)
* Buddy Guy Is The Last Bastion Of The Blues (Forbes)
* Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes keeping blues alive in Bentonia (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)
* Yes, U2 Really Did Perform With Sun Ra's Arkestra (ClashMusic.com)
* Playboy Fest Highlights New Talent, Genre Titans (DownBeat)
* Chicago Blues Fest Honors Delmark Anniversary (DownBeat)
* The Smaller the Theater, the Faster the Music (Nautil.us)
* Invisible Hits: Alice Coltrane’s Journey (Pitchfork.com)
* Cartoonist Blutch Explores the Genre in ‘Total Jazz’ (DownBeat)
* Women Set the Agenda, and a New Precedent, at the Jazz Journalists Association Awards (WBGO)
* Classical music 'should learn from hip hop' (BBC)
* The End of Owning Music: How CDs and Downloads Died (Rolling Stone)
* Tracing Coltrane’s Footsteps in Jersey (DownBeat)
* All That Jazz - A new documentary explores the Jewish origins of Blue Note Records, but evades some tough questions (Tablet)
* Artifacts Investigates AACM at Spoleto (DownBeat)
* 21 exhilarating records from the contemporary UK jazz scene (RedBull.com)
* Top jazz pianists chosen for Ellis Marsalis International Piano Competition (HuntingtonNews.net)
* U.S. to Review 1940s-Era Music Rules, With Billions at Stake (Bloomberg.com)
* Erik Friedlander and Throw a Glass See Green (Jazz Times)
* East Meets West - Indian Classical Music and Jazz (SFJAZZ.org)
* R.I.P. Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Blues Brothers guitarist has died (ConsequenceOfSound.net)