Sunday Session: May 2, 2021

Osibisa

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

* “Make Something Out Of This”: Drumbo On The Making Of Trout Mask Replica (TheQuietus.com)
* JazzTimes 10: Classic New Orleans Recordings (Jazz Times)
* Bodies and Souls, Sophisticated Ladies, and Plucked Strings (TheSmartSet.com)
* Bob Dylan and Charlie Watts will soon turn 80. More music legends are rocking out long past retirement age (San Diego Union Tribune)
* "The Greatest Improviser I've Ever Known": A Mini Oral History of Diana Ross in 'Lady Sings the Blues (Hollywood Reporter)
* Jimmy Giuffre at 100: A Centennial Tribute in Take Five (WBGO)
* New York City's Influence On Latin Music (NPR)
* Pat Metheny Talks Composition with John Pizzarelli (Jazz Times)
* Meet the Experimental Musicians Who Built Their Own Streaming Service (Pitchfork.com)
* Surrounded By Moving Air: 6 Big-Band Composers Pushing The Format Forward (Grammy.com)
* Robert Wyatt – The Saddest Voice in Modern Music (LivingLifeFearless.co)
* George Benson: My Career in Five Songs (Guitar Player)
* Evocation: Jimmy Giuffre @ 100 (Tidal.com)
* Al Schmitt, legendary recording engineer and producer, reported to have died aged 91 (MusicRadar.com)
* Visit The Oldest Steinway Piano Dealer In The World (Boston.CBSLocal.com)
* Guitar Legends: Television’s Tom Verlaine & Richard Lloyd – the punk guitar heroes who weren’t punk at all (Guitar)
* Where to Begin With Important Records’ Genre-Defying Soundscapes (Bandcamp,com)
* ‘Our ethos was happy music and good vibes’: genre-busting Black British band Osibisa (The Guardian)
* The Women’s Vocal Jazz Supergroup That’s Redefining The Rules (Forbes)

Sunday Session: February 28, 2021

Archie Shepp

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

* The music world’s awakening to women and Black composers will be game-changing (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Elliot Mazer, Legendary Producer/Engineer, Dead at 79 (Pro Sound News)
* Stevie Wonder explains why he’s moving to Ghana permanently (RollingOut.com)
* Dave Liebman: Placing Free Jazz and the Avant Garde in Musical and Historical Perspective (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Impulse! Records Makes Plans for 60th Anniversary (Jazz Times)
* No drone unturned: tracing the sound that unites ancient and modern (The Guardian)
* Bands rally to help as jobless roadies turn to food banks (The Guardian)
* Wallace Roney: The Man with the Horn (Jazz Times)
* Fay Victor’s Improvisational ‘Survival Toolkit’ (DownBeat)
* “Thankful for Everything”: A Conversation With Sergio Mendes (Tidal.com)
* Will Matthews: Keepin’ Freddie’s Legacy Alive with The Basie Orchestra (JazzGuitarToday.com)
* Exclusive interview: John Williams on composing for film, his concert work – and the Vienna Philharmonic (Classical-Music.com)
* From John Lennon to The Rolling Stones: Andy Warhol’s 20 greatest album covers (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Archie Shepp on jazz, race and freedom: 'Institutions continue to abuse power' (The Guardian)
* Paula West's "Great American politic" (SFJAZZ.org)
* On Being Black: How Gamble & Huff Turned a Dream into Destiny (Billboard)
* The 50 Greatest Philadelphia International Songs (Billboard)
* Take A Look At The Jazz Legacy Of South Central LA (LAist.com)
* Loss and Grief in the Jazz Community (Jazz Times)
* How the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Shaped Jazz in the Bay Area (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* A Further Exploration of the Many Sun Ra Albums on Bandcamp (Bandcamp.com)
* JazzTimes 10: Best Ghost Performances by Jazz Musicians in Films (Jazz Times)
* Moving Foward: A Conversation with Marcus Miller (Part One) (PostGenre.org)
* Captain Beefheart: a guide to his best albums (LouderSound.com)
* Vijay Iyer And A New Trio Reflect On The 'Uneasy' Past And Present (NPR)
* Influential: Charles McPherson’s Playlist (KPBS)
* Mapping Jah Wobble’s Interdimensional Dub (Bandcamp.com)
* On a Positive Note, Pandemic Piano Sales Are Booming (KQED)
* ‘Record companies have me on a dartboard’: the man making millions buying classic hits (The Guardian)

Sunday Session: January 24, 2021

William Parker

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

* Gilbert Castellanos jazzed to return to trumpet after groundbreaking dental breakthroughs saved his career (San Diego Union Tribune)
* The reign of Captain Beefheart and how he changed rock music forever (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Darlene Love on Phil Spector’s Death: ‘I Feel Very, Very Sad’ (Rolling Stone)
* Gary Smulyan Conquers Contrafacts (DownBeat)
* Behind the Curtain of Sound (TheBlueMoment.com)
* The mindblowing day that The Beatles witnessed Jimi Hendrix perform live (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* What Will the Biden Administration Do to Protect the Performing Arts? (Jazz Times)
* Gary Numan says he was paid £37 from a million streams (NME.com)
* Best Horace Silver Pieces: Essential Jazz For Curious Ears (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* An Oral History of Wally’s Café (Boston)
* Music stars slam UK’s ‘shameful’ failure on EU touring rules (Associated Press)
* William Parker Accentuates the “Free” in Free Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Sammy Nestico 1924–2021 (Jazz Times)
* New Music Ushers In The Inauguration of the Next President and Vice President of the USA (New Music Box)
* Why There’s More Music on AM Now (RadioSurvivor.com)
* Julian “Junior” Mance 1928–2021 (Jazz Times)
* JT Video Premiere: Terrace Martin on Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jazz Times)
* A.I. & The Future Of Music (3 Case Studies & Implications) (ProducerHive.com)
* Taj Mahal Shares His Deep Passion For Music: “I’ve Never Known Life and Breathing Without Music” (American Songwriter)
* The harsh reality about the music business, and a pantomime led by clueless self-regarders (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* How the Recording Academy and Its Industry Allies Scored Big Wins in the Pandemic Relief Bill (Billboard)
* The Jimi Hendrix Experience In Paradise (DownBeat)
* OP vs. BE: Setting Up the Piano Trio (Jazz Times)
* Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, Sting Boost Campaign to Save NYC Jazz Institution Birdland (Rolling Stone)

Sunday Session: January 17, 2021

Kenny Garrett

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

* Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine (San Diego Union Tribune)
* From Chuck Berry to Muddy Waters: 15 of Keith Richards’ favourite songs (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* The Insular Jazz of Lockdown Rediscovers a Pioneering Sounds of the Past (PopMatters.com)
* Geri Allen and ‘The Printmakers’ (1985) – by Rick Simpson (London Jazz News)
* Punk rocker Adam Ant lived in Pikeville, Tennessee, and left boxes of stuff behind (Chatanooga Times Free Press)
* Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Live Music Could Be Back This Fall (Stereogum.com)
* A Q&A with saxophonist Kenny Garrett (SFJAZZ.org)
* Equal At Last? Women In Jazz, By The Numbers (NPR)
* Charles Lloyd’s Dynamic Pandemic Year (DownBeat)
* ‘Like many African American musicians, Sun Ra fantasised about Africa,’ says writer Joseph Ghosn (TheAfricaReport.com)
* 2020: A Jazz Reckoning (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Capitol Studios Shutters Its Mastering Division (Variety)
* Marion Brown's musical portrait of Georgia (BitterSoutherner.com)
* Let it rain: Bobby Few 1935–2021 (The Wire)
* Sony takes wraps off secret Unreal Engine project, unveils new subsidiary: Sony Immersive Music Studios (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82 (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Howard Johnson 1941–2021 (Jazz Times)
* In A Cultural Landscape Beset With Loss, This Community Music Studio Is Expanding (WBUR)
* Two Coltrane Classics Reimagined, 21st Century Electric Style (RockAndRollGlobe.com)
* DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN POD (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Teodross Avery Recruits Stellar Cast To Salute Monk (DownBeat)
* O brothers: drummers Brian and Brady Blade (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
* Sylvie Courvoisier Is a Serious Player (Jazz Times)
* John Coltrane, Out Of Obscurity (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: October 4, 2020

Dorothy Ashby

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

* The Stanley Crouch I Knew (New York Review of Books)
* Cecil Taylor and his Mendota Players – Snapshots. By Paul Ruppa (The Wire)
* Captain Beefheart’s ’10 commandments of guitar playing’ (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Deep algebra for deep beats: The beautiful sounds of musical programming (Ars Technica)
* Wire Playlist: Musician-Owned Record Labels In Jazz In The 1970s (The Wire)
* Dorothy Ashby: Pioneering Jazz Harpist (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* The Death and Rebirth of the Rock Saxophone (TrebleZine.com)
* In Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company, An Overlooked Institution of Moog Music (Bandcamp.com)
* John Hollenbeck Takes Back Recordings And Forges Ahead (DownBeat)
* What It’s Like to Be Black in Indie Music (Pitchfork.com)
* New Dave Brubeck Releases in Fall Pipeline (Jazz Times)
* ‘The Story I’m Telling’: An Interview with Archie Shepp (New York Review of Books)
* Sharel Cassity Is ‘Fearless’ Amid Recovery (DownBeat)
* North Philly activist, poet, and musician Moor Mother on her free jazz musical, Afrofuturism, and Patti LaBelle (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Antidote to Isolation - Vijay Iyer On How Music Reconnects Us In A Socially Distant World (Steinway.com)
* “This is more than an annoying blip.” Aaron Liddard’s perspective on the future of the music industry (London Jazz News)
* Arlo Guthrie on His Dad, Protesting, and “Alice’s Restaurant” (UnderTheRadarMag.com)
* Wire Playlist: Tashi Dorji (The Wire)
* The Futility of Rolling Stone’s Best-Albums List (The New Yorker)
* A Deep Dive into John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' by His Biographer, Lewis Porter (Pt. 3) (WBGO)
* Harlem of the West: San Francisco's Fillmore District (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Maria Schneider: A Tale Of Two Worlds (Jazz Times)
* The Canterbury Scene: How A Bunch of Bookish Bohemians Became The Monty Pythons of Prog (UDiscoverMusic.com) * JT Video Premiere: The Love Letter Sessions by Jimmy Heath (Jazz Times)
* The True Poet of Jazz (City-Journal.org)

Sunday Session: August 30, 2020

Gregory Porter

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

* The Day Louis Armstrong Lost His Color: A Short Story (Jazz Times)
* A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future (NPR)
* Give & Take with Musician Sonny Rollins (Tricycle.org)
* Charli Persip, Virtuoso Drummer Who Cut a Swath Through Modern Jazz, Is Dead at 91 (WBGO)
* Steely Dan Engineer Finds Lost ‘Second Arrangement’ Tapes (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* 100 Reasons We Love Charlie Parker For His 100th Birthday (Discogs.com)
* The Best Batch Yet? Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station Revisited (TheQuietus.com)
* Vinyl sales rock on in spite of Covid-19 (QZ.com)
* Ambrose Akinmusire’s Pure Pursuit Of Sound (DownBeat)
* Billy Childs Reveals the Influences on His Album Acceptance (Jazz Times)
* ‘64% musicians considering leaving the music profession’ – survey (London Jazz News)
* Charlie Parker, the Birth of Bebop, and America’s Greatest Recording Session (Jazz Times)
* The Very Serious Art of Writing Music for Very Funny Cartoons (InsideHook.com)
* Dan Penn talks back (Offbeat)
* 50 Years Later, Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios Is Still An Artistic Haven (NPR)
* Oneness of JuJu’s Afrocentric and Avant-Garde Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Despite Streaming, US Recorded Music Revenues Still Down 50% From 1999 Peaks (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Terri Lyne Carrington Runs On Determination (DownBeat)
* Bird Lives! A Charlie Parker Centennial, With Strings Attached (NPR)
* Gregory Porter sings of love, but unspeakable grief and the scars of racism lie just beneath (Los Angeles Times)
* Roots in the Archive: Test Pressings Help Keep Robert Johnson’s Songs Alive (NoDepression.com)* The 25 greatest basslines of all time (MusicRadar.com)
* How Charlie Parker Defined the Sound and Substance of Bebop Jazz (The New Yorker)

Sunday Session: June 23, 2019

Anthony Braxton

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

* Why Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’ Still Sounds Like Tomorrow (Rolling Stone)
* JazzTimes 10: Jazz on Film (Jazz Times)
* Django Bates: Miniature worlds (Innerviews.org)
* Germantown’s finest: Take a trip down Philly jazz’s memory lane with renowned artist Leroy Butler (Philadelphia Weekly)
* Behind the unique, family-powered career of Keb' Mo' (Nashville Tennessean)
* New Orleans Jazz Orchestra is Charting a Path Forward (DownBeat)
* Cornwall music festival at the centre of international email fraud (CornwallLive.com)
* This Is Why Uber Drivers Play Such Bad Music (Medium.com)
* Are the Major Record Companies Signing Too Many Artists? (Rolling Stone)
* Avant-Garde Legend Anthony Braxton on His ‘Trans-Idiomatic’ Improv Odyssey (Rolling Stone)
* Chris Potter: Master of Paradox (Jazz Times)
* Blue Note Celebrates 80th Anniversary with Vinyl Reissues (DownBeat)
* Threats, Quid Pro Quo Harassment, & Obscene Messages: Abuse on an Operatic Scale (TwinCitiesArts.com)
* Tony Kofi: now’s his time (Jazz Journal)
* Jazz musician Kassa Overall ready to take the lead (San Francisco Chronicle)
* “Satchmo” Summer Jazz Camp to Celebrate 25 Years (Jazz Times)
* Photos: The 24th Vision Festival in Brooklyn (Jazz Times)
* Give me that good old progressive jazz (Jazz Journal)
* The Eclectic Sensibility of Anat Cohen (DownBeat)
* Rock Riff Rip-Off: The Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock's Greatest Riffs Up For Grabs (Bloomberg.com)
* Jeff Coffin, Howard Levy Jam with Flecktones at Red Rocks (DownBeat)
* A Frog, a Banjo, and an Indelible Message: Making “The Rainbow Connection” (Vanity Fair)

Sunday Session: May 6, 2018

Dave Holland

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:

* No, Streaming Services Are Not 'Saving The Music Industry' (TheQuietus.com)
* Electricity: Conversations With Captain Beefheart (KCRW)
* Photos: Fats Domino's legacy enshrined with jazz funeral, totem unveiling at 2018 Jazz Fest (New Orleans Advocate)
* 50 years ago, a piano was dropped from a helicopter near Seattle: Here's what happened (KIRO)
* John Zorn’s Done With His Masada Project. So, What’s Next? (The Forward)
* Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (Pitchfork.com)
* Has Kansas City given the American Jazz Museum a fair shot at success? (Kansas City Star)
* On Music and Activism (Atavist.com)
* Jazz improv and your brain: The key to creativity? (CNN)
* Chick Corea On World Cafe (NPR)
* Tropicália: 5 Essential Albums That Defined Tropicalismo (Discogs.com)
* School Days: Jazz All-Stars Remember CAPA (Jazz Times)
* More music is played on YouTube than on Spotify, Apple Music and every other audio streaming platform combined (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Gibson Guitar Maker Files for Bankruptcy Protection (Billboard)
* Delmark Records founder sells label to Chicago musicians Julia A. Miller and Elbio Barilari (Chicago Tribune)
* A Map To The Line, And How Not To Cross It: A Code Of Conduct For The Performing Arts (NPR)
* Photos: 2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazz Times)
* Before & After with Bill Laswell (Jazz Times)
* James Brown Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks Dead at 79 (Rolling Stone)
* When Critics Could Kill (Slate)
* In Russia, International Jazz Day Reaches Across Borders (DownBeat)
* Dave Holland: A Seasoned Explorer Sails into Uncharted Territories (NationalSawdust.org)
* A Word with Award-Winning Jazz Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (WRTI)
* When America's hottest jazz stars were sent to cool cold-war tensions (The Guardian)
* Folkways - 70 Years, 70 Stories 1948-2018 (Smithsonian Institution)
* New Orleans Jazz Fest 2018: The 7 Best Things We Saw (Rolling Stone)
* All 214 Artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ranked From Best to Worst (Vulture.com)
* The secret life of a music director (Washington Post)
* Thomas Morgan: The Universal Answer (Jazz Times)
* We asked musicians why guitar companies like Gibson are struggling and how to revive them (MarketWatch.com)
* Orchestral musicians 'living on breadline' (BBC)

Sunday Session: January 14, 2018

The Bad Plus

Here's the 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:

* Jazz, but not as you know it (Vice.com)
* Record Bin: How Herbie Hancock subverted jazz traditions and asserted his funk dominance on “Head Hunters” (Nooga.com)
* And Look—She’s a Star! (The Nation)
* Music fans bought a lot of cassettes last year (NME.com)
* Why I Still Buy Music in the Age of Spotify (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Wes Gets Royal Treatment (DownBeat)
* 'Dock Of The Bay' At 50: Why Otis Redding's Biggest Hit Almost Went Unheard (NPR)
* The musical secrets of FAME Studios legend Rick Hall (Birmingham News)
* A Cabaret Star’s Comeback (Wall Street Journal)
* Ice Music: Building Instruments Out Of Water (NPR)
* White Noise Story Generates White Noise on Copyright (IllusionOfMore.com)
* Just How Similar Are Radiohead's 'Creep' and Lana Del Rey's 'Get Free'? (Esquire)
* Inside the Amish town that builds U2, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift's live shows (Wired)
* Funk Carves Out A Groove At The Funk Music Hall Of Fame In Ohio (NPR)
* Mitchell Takes Homage to Winter Jazzfest (DownBeat)
* Why this awful-sounding album is a masterpiece (Vox.com)
* Surprise! The ‘Music Modernization Act’ Prohibits Litigation Against Streaming Services (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* First Listen: The Bad Plus, 'Never Stop II' (NPR)
* Why music venue closures 'make all of our lives poorer' (BBC)
* Lester Bangs Play 'How to Be a Rock Critic' Captures Writer's Wild Spirit (Rolling Stone)
* At Peabody jazz: discrimination allegations, a forced ouster — and new hope (Baltimore Sun)
* ********, ∆, †‡† ... the most unpronounceable band names ever (The Guardian)
* Spotify Is in the Business of Selling You Spotify, Not Music (TrackRecord.net)
* Q&A: Chick Corea on his regrets, Grammys, future plans and more (Creative Loafing - Tampa)
* Portrait Of: Eddie Palmieri (LatinoUSA.org)
* Roy Hargrove’s rousing Showcase residency (DownBeat)
* The “True” Story Of How Brian Eno Invented Ambient Music (OpenCulture.com)
* Chartmania!! I Broke Down Every Song That Reached the Billboard Top 5 in 2017 (Soundfly.com)
* Life’s Work: An Interview with John Adams (Harvard Business Review)
* Dr. Demento, comedic song hero and unsung punk rock legend, gets his due on new album (Los Angeles Times)
* Preservation Hall’s Musical Mission (Garden and Gun)

Sunday Session: November 26, 2017

Jon Hendricks

Here's the roundup of various music-related items of interest that have appeared in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Recording Sgt. Pepper's: Unpublished Conversations with George Martin, Geoff Emerick, and Ken Townsend (Reverb.com)
* Review: Berlin Jazz Festival 2017 (Jazz Journal)
* Bright Moments With Louis Hayes (Jazz Times)
* The music you didn’t realize you grew up with: Chip Tanaka’s 8-bit revolution (Japan Times)
* The Vast, Versatile Range Of Cécile McLorin Salvant (NPR)
* Bandcamp Is Bringing Back the Record Rack (Jazz Times)
* The New Golden Age Of Jazz (LNWY.co)
* Mick Goodrick: Six-String Theorist (Jazz Times)
* Steely Dan Singer Sues Bandmate's Estate (Billboard)
* Quietly successful: Meet the man behind ECM Records (Irish Examiner)
* The vinyl frontier: why do we keep sending music to outer space? (The Guardian)
* Epidemic Sound gives its side of the Spotify ‘fake artists’ controversy (Musically.com)
* Spotify’s Top ‘Fake Artists’ Make Six-Figure Salaries (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* The Inventive Traditions of South African Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Dickey Betts: The Lost Allman Brother (Rolling Stone)
* Jon Hendricks, Genre-Pushing Jazz Vocalist, Dead At 96 (NPR)
* Toledo jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks redefined jazz (Toledo Blade)
* George Avakian Dies at 98 - Groundbreaking producer and manager worked with Miles, Armstrong, Ellington, Lloyd, Jarrett and others (Jazz Times)
* George Avakian, Record Producer of Singular Influence, Dies at 98 (WBGO)
* The World of Captain Beefheart: An Interview with Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx (Popmatters.com)
* Musicians Backstage in the 1970s: The Photos (Esquire)
* Clifford Brown - The Bach of Jazz (Jazz in Europe)
* George Clinton talks back (Offbeat)
* The Delights of Parsing the Beatles' Most Nonsensical Song (The Atlantic)
* The FBI's Long, Alarming History of Investigating Black Musicians (Pacific Standard)
* INTERVIEW: Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus (London Jazz News)

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)