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: June 28, 2020

Sun Ra Arkestra

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

* On identifying ragas, and how the intoxicating and often frustrating challenge for a lay listener can become an obsession (FirstPost.com)
* B.B. King and Eric Clapton’s ‘Riding with the King’ album like working with ‘blues royalty’ for Nathan East (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Bettye LaVette on Why She’s Singing ‘Strange Fruit’ Now (Rolling Stone)
* ‘He Made the World Bigger’: Inside John Zorn’s Jazz-Metal Multiverse (Rolling Stone)
* Watch Paul McCartney Play Trumpet With Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Charles Lloyd: “The thing is I want to share the music. I’m still on a mission and it can’t happen – this is plague time…” (Jazzwise)
* Sun Ra Arkestra Announce First Album in 20 Years (Rolling Stone)
* Drummer Sherrie Maricle On The 3D Jazz Trio And Developing DIVA (DownBeat)
* How Jazz Is Coping with COVID-19 (Jazz Times)
* Henry Grimes and Giuseppi Logan: Parallel Lives (Jazz Times)
* Montreal unlikely to rename Metro station after Oscar Peterson, despite petition (CBC)
* The Jazz Gallery, Which Built a Vibrant Online Community, Opens the Door to a Livestream (WBGO)
* Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, and 9th Wonder Form Supergroup Dinner Party, Share New Song “Freeze Tag”: Listen (Pitchfork.com)
* Music For the Movement on Jazz United (WBGO)
* Where did that love go? (Jazz Journal)
* Gregory Porter and Don Was: Before & After (Jazz Times)
* The Stranger-Than-Fiction Secret History of Prog-Rock Icon Rick Wakeman (Vanity Fair)
* Good vibrations: how Bandcamp became the heroes of streaming (The Guardian)
* Societal Reckoning Over Racism Encompasses The Jazz Community (DownBeat)
* Henry Kaiser, Mike Baggetta and the New “Live” (GuitarModerne.com)
* Whit Dickey :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (AquariumDrunkard.com)
* We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence (NPR)
* The history of the West Coast Get Down, LA’s jazz giants (DazedDigital.com)
* The Story Behind the Greatest Bob Dylan Parody of All Time (GQ)
* The Turtles run with the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ concept on their brilliant 1968 LP, ‘Battle of the Bands’ (DangerousMinds.net)

Sunday Session: April 19, 2020

Henry Grimes

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

* These are the musicians being listened to more (and less) during the pandemic (QZ.com)
* A Titan of Tumbao: Remembering Latin Jazz Bassist and Bandleader Andy González (WBGO)
* Lockdown learning: How a techno-head got into Beethoven (The Guardian)
* Why Do We Even Listen to New Music? (Pitchfork.com)
* Live Concerts Won’t Return Until “Fall 2021 at the Earliest,” Health Expert Warns (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Just Play - Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing (TheNewInquiry.com)
* Coronavirus: Healthcare expert predicts concerts and festivals will not return until autumn 2021 (NME.com)
* Band Practice at Home Alone, Together: How JamKazam Became an Essential App Amid Self-Isolation (Billboard)
* Charles Lloyd Offers A Respite From Life’s Countless Dilemmas (DownBeat)
* Ticketmaster Slammed by US Congresswoman: ‘Worst Customer Service In Any Industry’ (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Hands Off: A 100th Anniversary Guide to Theremin Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Pandemic Complicates Nashville's Already Fragile Studio Business: 'We're Dealing In This Unknown' (Billboard)
* Behind The Scenes: Mixing Monitors On A Late-Night TV Show (ProSoundWeb.com)
* Lightning Strikes Twice: Songs Topping the Billboard Hot 100 Twice (MusicTimes.com)
* For Asian-American Jazz Artists, The Pandemic Uncovers Deep Wounds (DownBeat)
* The Morbid Comforts of Pandemic Playlists (Pitchfork.com)
* Tenor badness: Benny Golson, last legend of bebop (The Spectator)
* Ryo Kawasaki, Jazz Fusion Guitarist and Guitar Synth Inventor, Dies at 73 (Billboard)
* Lee Konitz, Alto Saxophonist Who Exemplified Jazz's Imperative to Make It New, Is Dead at 92 (WBGO)
* Exhibiting Wit And Chops Until The End, Saxophonist Lee Konitz Dies At 92 (DownBeat)
* John Prine: The Last Days and Beautiful Life of an American Original (Rolling Stone)
* A Touring-Dependent Genre Feels the Pain: ‘I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues’ (Billboard)
* Music to his ears: How Jackie Robinson’s love of jazz helped civil rights movement (TheUndefeated.com)
* Van Dyke Parks’ existential awakening: ‘This is a time for reimagining’ (Los Angeles Times)
* Giuseppi Logan, Free-Jazz Multireedist Who Returned Once From Oblivion, Has Died at 84 (WBGO)
* Henry Grimes, Bassist of Avant-Garde Pedigree and a Storied Return, Dies of COVID-19 at 84 (WBGO)
* You Have a TikTok Hit! Now, Quick — Change the Title (Rolling Stone)
* Delfeayo Marsalis Is A Merchant Of Joy (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: September 8, 2019

Hamid Drake

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

* Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice (The New Yorker)
* Charles Lloyd: 'Looking for the one note that can say it all' (Japan Times)
* White Supremacy Tried to Kill Jazz. The Music Triumphed (TruthOut.org)
* Vijay Iyer (Musicality, Wigmore Hall residency, 2019/20) (London Jazz News)
* Drummer Rudy Royston’s Always Listening (DownBeat)
* Michael Brecker Competition Continues Legacy of Generous Musician (Jazz Times)
* The Voice That Shattered Glass (NPR)
* Detroit Jazz Festival Offers a Mixed Bag (DownBeat)
* CBS SF Talks To King Crimson Bassist Tony Levin (CBSLocal.com)
* The Many Requirements Of Hold Music, A Genre For No One (NPR)
* Jimmy Johnson, Muscle Shoals Guitarist Who Backed Soul & Rock Giants, Dead at 76 (Rolling Stone)
* A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are The Deleted Years. Now Let Us Praise Them (Esquire)
* Brian Blade & Life Cycles: Uncorking The Spirit of Bobby Hutcherson (SFJAZZ.org)
* How Ella Fitzgerald Turned Forgotten Lyrics Into One Of Her Best Performances Ever (NPR)
* Vinyl Is Poised to Outsell CDs For the First Time Since 1986 (Rolling Stone)
* Iggy Pop: 'I've finally got the voice I was supposed to have' (BBC)
* ‘We Always Swing’ To Launch 25th Anniversary Season (DownBeat)
* Music legend Taj Mahal talks music, race and the Rolling Stones (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Delving Into Consciousness: Hamid Drake's Favourite Music (TheQuietus.com)
* Abdullah Ibrahim: Grace Under Pressure (Jazz Times)
* “I Was Always Trying To Get Better”: Sonny Rollins On A Life In Jazz (UDiscoverMusic.com)

Sunday Session: December 16, 2018

Nancy Wilson

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:

* American Pop Music No Longer The Global King, But Its Christmas Music Can't Be Beat (Forbes.com)
* The Untold Labor That Helped Make Charlie Chaplin’s Film Scores (The Atlantic)
* Michael League: Snarky Puppy's Jazz-Schooled, Grassroots Visionary (AllAboutJazz.com)
* John Scofield: Old and New Inspirations (DownBeat)
* Blood on the Tracks: How Bob Dylan Birthed Bootleg Culture (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Jason Moran offers sublime tribute to WWI hero and ragtime pioneer James Reese Europe (Washington Post)
* Charles Lloyd is not into ‘ageism.’ The musician still loves touring at 80 (Durham Herald-Sun)
* The Wild Story Behind Aretha Franklin’s Long-Delayed Documentary (Vulture.com)
* Dave Douglas Interview (BurningAmbulance.com)
* We Jazz Festival Fosters Surprise and Discovery in Helsinki (DownBeat)
* Rediscovered Duke Ellington Film to Be Reshown After More Than 50 Years (Jazz Times)
* In a world of ‘algorithmic culture,’ music critics fight for relevance (Columbia Journalism Review)
* Wayne Shorter: How the Future Would Be (Stereophile)
* Streambait Pop - The emergence of a total Spotify genre (TheBaffler.com)
* Interview with Billy Cobham – Crosswinds and more! (Jazz in Europe)
* WFMU’s Free Music Archive Is Saved, Moving to New Home (Pitchfork.com)
* Donny McCaslin: In a Different Place (Jazz Times)
* Is It Important To Own Music? (Offbeat)
* The Cure, Janet Jackson, Radiohead Among Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees For 2019 (NPR)
* John Coltrane’s Giant Steps and My Favorite Things Earn Gold Status (Jazz Times)
* Nancy Wilson, Legendary Vocalist And NPR 'Jazz Profiles' Host, Dies At 81 (NPR)
* Placemakers: Why Midsize Cities Are the Next Music Hubs (Hypebot.com)
* Van Morrison Discusses How Music Used to Be More Spontaneous and Communal (The New Yorker)
* Photographer Spends 10 Years Tracking Down The Original Locations Of Vinyl Covers (Demilked.com)
* 15 Saxophone Albums You Should Hear (SFJAZZ.ORG)

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: August 5, 2018

Gregory Porter

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:

* Sax player Charles Lloyd, Newport Jazz Festival’s artist-in-residence, is a ‘bluesman on a spiritual path’ (Providence Journal)
* A jazz legend’s Philadelphia home fading away (WHYY)
* Jazz.FM workers say the CEO harassed them. Now, they’re accused of plotting a coup (Toronto Star)
* The Top 10 Jazz Album Covers of All Time (Jazz Times)
* Where are musicians making money these days? On the road — and that’s about it (GlobalNews.ca)
* Why young people have fallen in love with jazz (The Telegraph)
* Lost Neil Young, Joni Mitchell Concert Recordings From 1968 Unearthed (Rolling Stone)
* Trumpeter Tomasz Stańko Dies at 76 (Jazz Times)
* Tomasz Stanko, A Trumpeter Whose Music Spoke To Freedom, Has Died (NPR)
* Gregory Porter: Soul Connections (SFJAZZ.org)
* Jazz and Pop Worlds Collide in Molde (DownBeat)
* How we made Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild (The Guardian)
* Berkeley’s famed Fantasy Studios set to close in September (SFGate.com)
* French Media Giant Vivendi Announces Plans To Sell As Much As Half Of Universal Music (NPR)
* Watch out Billboard: Variety and Rolling Stone owner buys into Nielsen rival BuzzAngle for ‘aggressive’ music charts push (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Bettye Lavette: Soul Survivor (Rolling Stone)
* The Alphabet Of Dewey Johnson 1939–2018 (The Wire)
* What’s Behind the New Jazz Resurgence? (Rolling Stone)
* The Rolling Stones curate album of inspirational blues classics (NME.com)
* Are Record Labels Facing an A&R Crisis? (Music Industry Blog)
* Reclaiming The Rhyme: How Black Women and Latinas Have Reshaped Pop Music (NPR)
* How Carol Kaye Became the Most Prolific Session Musician in History (OpenCulture.com)
* Broken Time - “Nardis” and the Curious History of a Jazz Obsession (The Believer)
* BeatCaffeine’s 100 Best Jazz-Funk Songs (BeatCaffeine.com)
* As Umbria Jazz Marks 45 Years, as Quincy, Iverson Evolve (DownBeat)
* Alan Braufman, Cooper-Moore, and Nabil Ayers: Return to the Valley (NationalSawdust.org)
* Work, Money Worries Leave Many Musicians Singing the Blues (UTexas.edu)
* Newport Festivals Sign 25-Year Agreement (Jazz Times)
* How Steely Dan Went Through Seven Guitarists and Dozens of Hours of Tape to Get the Perfect Guitar Solo on “Peg” (OpenCulture.com)

Sunday Session: July 22, 2018

Chucho Valdés

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:

* Major Labels Are Upset That They Aren’t Getting More Songs Onto Spotify Playlists, Deutsche Bank Says (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Classical Composers Have Been Inspired For Centuries By Insects (NPR)
* Montreal Jazz Fest Shapes Surrounding City—and Vice Versa (DownBeat)
* The Stone: An Oral History - Musicians and scenesters recount their experiences at John Zorn's storied NYC venue (Jazz Times)
* Guru’s ‘Jazzmatazz’ Uniquely Tied Together Jazz and Hip-Hop (DownBeat)
* In Tandem, the Morans Expand Notions of Art (DownBeat)
* Mary Halvorson: Reinventing the Identity of the Jazz Guitarist (Jazz Times)
* Joey DeFrancesco on Working With Van Morrison (Jazz Times)
* Vijay Iyer: 'We're all improvisers and we're all creative people making choices every step of the way.' (List.co.uk)
* Sound Matters: A History Of Legendary Recording Studios (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* The Perils Of A Cruise Ship Musician (FYIMusicNews.ca)
* Universal Music Group Is Making a Huge Move Into Nigeria (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Billie Holiday: A Complex Woman, A Jazz Legend (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Copenhagen Festival Spans Poetic Swing, Hard-Bop Themes (DownBeat)
* The Charles Lloyd Interview: Life of a Song (Jazz Times)
* George Wein: A Life and Legend in Jazz (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The scam industry: How the hip-hop boom sets hopefuls up for failure (AV Club)
* Asante Drum Language (Afropop.org)
* Chucho Valdés and Irakere: A Musical Revolution (SFJAZZ.org)
* Sun Ra in Sin City The origins of an outer-space empire (Lapham's Quarterly)
* The Music of Fred Rogers’ Neighborhood (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: March 25, 2018

Sun Ra

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:

* Chick Corea remains perpetually active: "I don't know what 'retire' means." (San Diego Union Tribune)
* ‘Keeping The Blues Alive’: Watch Exclusive Interview With Muddy Waters’ Daughter (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Streaming is easy but I don't want idiots listening to my favourite albums (The Guardian)
* Q&A with Ethan Iverson (BlueWallStudio.com)
* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Sharing the Passion for Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Buell Neidlinger 1936-2018 (TheBlueMoment.com)
* At 80, Charles Lloyd Continues to Explore (DownBeat)
* A Message Behind the Music: Jazz and Social Justice (SFJazz.org)
* Milford Graves: Full Mantis (4Columns.org)
* Marian McPartland: A Centennial Celebration (NPR)
* How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack (IEEE.org)
* Artist’s Choice Playlist: Steve Jordan on Masters of Swing & Groove (Jazz Times)
* How Today's Blockbuster Soundtracks Are Launching New Artists to Stardom (Rolling Stone)
* The 25 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time (Rolling Stone)
* These Women Make A Living By Singing at People's Funerals (Vice.com)
* How The Sound Of Country Music Changed (NPR)
* Afrofuturist and Jazz Pioneer Sun Ra’s Legendary Indianapolis Concert (Nuvo.net)
* U.S. Music Industry Hits Highest Revenue Mark in a Decade, Fueled by Paid Subscriptions (Billboard)
* Guitar Center’s $1 billion in debt reveals this truth about musical tastes (Los Angeles Daily News)
* Will Spotify Eat the Music Industry? (Motley Fool)
* In Tennessee, music is being made deep below Earth's surface (Rock Hill Herald)
* At Lawrence Jam Sessions, An Unusual Instrument Lets Everyone Make Music Together (KCUR)
* Jane Bunnett And Maqueque: The New Queens of Afro-Cuban Jazz (NPR)
* Brain Damage Saved His Music (Nautil.us)
* ‘I realised that no-one in the music business knew what they were doing’(MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)

Sunday Session: July 16, 2017

Tony Allen

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

* Stream-ripping is 'fastest growing' music piracy (BBC)
* Record Rendezvous: Cleveland cradle of rock 'n' roll sits empty, awaits new life (photos) (Cleveland.com)
* Mulatu Astatke’s “Ethiopia” Is A Love Letter To His Homeland (Bandcamp.com)
* Here’s what happened the last time audio producers got better data (NiemanLab.org)
* Ornette Coleman Takes Flight Again, in Music and Film, This Week at Lincoln Center (WBGO)
* Esperanza Spalding: Jazz Musician, Grammy Award Winner and Now Museum Curator (Smithsonian)
* Kansas City's American Jazz Museum Should Belong To The Entire City, Officials Say (KCUR)
* Lady Gaga's Trumpet Player on 'Insane' Gig With Stevie Wonder, Rose Bar Residency & 'Making It' in NYC (Billboard)
* No Heroes: Lester Bangs on Stage (NoSuchThingAsWas.com)
* Producers Rejoice: Legal Sampling Is Now As Easy As Online Shopping (Video) (AmbrosiaForHeads.com)
* Newark Sings a New Tune on Road To Revival (Wall Street Journal)
* Original Dixie Dregs Announce Reunion (NoTreble.com)
* 6 Nina Simone Songs Brilliantly Sampled by Rappers (Pitchfork.com)
* Spotify denies it’s playlisting fake artists. So why are all these fake artists on its playlists? (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* So… who’s actually behind Spotify’s fake artists? (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Why Spotify’s fake artists problem is an Epidemic. Literally. (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* A Lot of Noise on Spotify (IllusionOfMore.com)
* Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians (OpenCulture.com)
* This Woman Has Engineered Pop’s Biggest Recent Hits, from ‘Melodrama’ to ‘1989’ (Vice.com)
* For Chamber Music in Silicon Valley, Hoodies and Haydn Don’t Mix (KQED)
* The Crate Crisis: How the Used Vinyl Market is Changing (GetItOnVinyl.com)
* Is the threat of a copyright lawsuit stifling music? (BBC)
* NEW AGE: jazz in 2017 (M-Magazine.com)
* Diminuendo: Is Classical Music Journalism Fading to Silence? (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Afrobeat Drummer Allen’s Quartet Pays Tribute to Blakey at Poisson Rouge (DownBeat)
* What Can Listening to Nature Teach Us? (EarthEasy.com)
* Mary Halvorson Pushes Jazz Guitar Into New Territory (Village Voice)
* SoundCloud sinks as leaks say layoffs buy little time (TechCrunch.com)
* The avant-garde jazz of Griot Galaxy (Detroit Metro Times)
* Rochester Jazz Fest Emphasizes Jazz at the Fascinating Fringes (DownBeat)
* Bria Skonberg: 5 songs that changed my life (CBCMusic.ca)
* 'A Pocketful Of Blues': Charles Lloyd On 'Passin' Thru' (NPR)
* Photos: 2017 North Sea Jazz Festival (Jazz Times)
* Q&A with Ethan Iverson: Addition through Subtraction (DownBeat)
* Power of the Mind: You Can Play This Instrument Using Just Your Thoughts (Newsweek)
* Van Morrison will salute his blues heroes on new album, 'Roll With the Punches' (Los Angeles Times)
* Robert Mugge’s 1986 film Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus to be rereleased (The Wire)
* The Emergence of A New Black Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Text (BrooklynRail.org)
* Vijay Iyer: Taking Stock of the Ojai Music Festival Experience (TheLogJournal.com)
* The Story Behind the Surge in Vinyl Film Soundtracks (Paste)

Sunday Session: January 1, 2017

Alphonse Mouzon

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

* The Year Jimi Hendrix Spent in Nashville (Nashville Scene)
* Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd on his lifelong intoxication with music (PBS)
* The music theory principle that unifies 2016’s radio hits (Vox.com)
* Crowdsourcing Meets Music for Symphonies of the Future (US News)
* How Kafundó Records is Preserving the Marginalized Cultures of Brazil in a Changing Political Climate (Bandcamp.com)
* Q&A with Terrace Martin: From Hip-Hop to Herbie Hancock (DownBeat)
* A Man at Home On the Road—Remembering Mose Allison (1927-2016) (New Music Box)
* In Gritty Sao Paulo, Samba Reinvents Itself With An Introspective Sound (NPR)
* Mourning Stars Through Streams, Screens And Communities (NPR)
* 5 Ways to Make Opera More Appealing to Young People (Paste)
* Music streaming hailed as industry's saviour as labels enjoy profit surge (The Guardian)
* George Clinton on funk, touring and staying relevant at 75 (The Guardian)
* R.I.P. Alphonse Mouzon, prolific jazz fusion drummer has died at 68 (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL (Washington Post)
* What Happened to Rock Music? (The New Republic)

Sunday Session: December 11, 2016

Eddie Palmieri

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

* Exclusive: Nina Simone as You’ve Never Seen Her (The Daily Beast)
* Harvard’s best listeners (Harvard.edu)
* How Context Awareness Is The Next Frontier In The Music Industry (SynchTank.com)
* Streams ahead: the artists who made it huge without radio support (The Guardian UK)
* Digging Up Rap History: The Story of Chopped Herring Records (Bandcamp.com)
* Grammy Nominations: Full List of Nominees for 59th Annual Awards (Variety)
* These 10 Living Legends of Jazz Prove Nobody Can Out-Dress the OGs (GQ)
* Vinyl albums outsell digital downloads for the first time (The Telegraph UK)
* Jack White to Questlove: Photos of drummers in their studios (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Is Live Performance the Future of Documentaries? (Observer.com)
* Julie Tippetts: Didn't You Used To Be Julie Driscoll? (AllAboutJazz.com)
* When Jazz Was Cool (New Music Box)
* Grammys 2016: As the jazz nominations show, buzz helps (Los Angeles Times)
* Tributaries of Afrobeat/s (3AMMagazine.com)
* Lloyd & Friends Stage ‘Marvel’-ous Show in SoCal (DownBeat)
* “BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack (LongReads.com)
* tony conrad’s grading tips for teachers (with an extended interview) (blogthehum.wordpress.com)
* The Decades-Long Quest to Design a Car Stereo That Can't Be Stolen (Vice.com)
* 'Harlem River Drive' Revisited With Eddie Palmieri (NPR)
* On Being Named Composer of the Year by Musical America (New Music Box)
* ‘To What Degree Are We Really Improvising?’: Avram Fefer on Making Music With Richard Serra Sculptures (Art News)
* Listen: Louis Armstrong Covers John Lennon with “Give Peace a Chance” (Offbeat)

Sunday Session: December 4, 2016

Charles Lloyd

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

* Why Mary Halvorson Sounds Like No Other Guitarist (NPR)
* Jazz great Anthony Ortega maintains his sax appeal at 88 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
* Sun Ra: Singles review – a cosmic ride (The Guardian UK)
* The Top 25 Music Schools 2016 (Hollywood Reporter)
* Andrew Norman Wins The Grawemeyer Award For Music (NPR)
* Cuba: Music of a 'New Era' (Billboard)
* Recycling My Back Pages: A Music Writer/Collector Reflects on Disposing of His Magazine Archive (The Stranger)
* Forgotten audio formats: Wire recording - From espionage to home recording, the colorful life of the longest-used audio medium. (Ars Technica)
* Corea Elektric Band, Béla & Flecktones To Join Forces for 2017 Summer Tour (DownBeat)
* In Defense of Jazz (New Music Box)
* James Booker Was Hands Down the Greatest New Orleans Piano Player Ever (The Daily Beast)
* Darryl Jones: The unknown Stone (BBC)
* The weird and true story of Moondog (Macleans)
* God Is on the Loose! How the Tropicália Movement Provided Hope During Brazil’s Darkest Years (Pitchfork)
* What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music (Washington.edu)
* The Sex Pistols’ ‘Anarchy in the UK’ Is More Relevant Now Than Ever (Observer.com)
* The Re-Flowering: Charles Lloyd's Second Golden Age (The Atlantic)
* At 85, Jazz Guitarist and Educator Kenny Burrell Is Still Going Strong (LA Weekly)
* Chicago's new generation of bluesmen (The Guardian UK)
* Fidel Castro: A First-Person Account of the Day the Music Stopped in Cuba (Billboard)
* The Band Before They Were The Band: A Listening Guide (Pitchfork)
* Cécile McLorin Salvant On Past, Present, Future (RevueWM.com)

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 31, 2016

Thelonious Monk

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

* Incoming Director On Her Vision For The American Jazz Museum In Kansas City (KCUR)
* Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track (BBC)
* Quarter streets are just fine for classically trained Ketchens (WGNO)
* The life and death of early jazz drummer Black Benny Williams (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
* Streaming Is Killing Great Music in Favor of Familiar Formulas (Newsweek)
* Live365 to close because of SoundExchange rate changes (CompleteMusicUpdate.com)
* Opinion: Electronic artists should make their own music (ResidentAdvisor.net)
* “The Best Of Friends Must Part Someday” "The Lonesome Road" and the folk-pop divide. (Washington University Common Reader)
* New and interesting music is harder to find than ever (The Economist)
* David Bowie’s Blackstar - Philip Clark reflects on Bowie's final album and its engagement with free jazz and the avant-garde (Gramophone UK)
* The Case For Original Jazz (Jazz Truth)
* Are Sixty Second Songs The Future Of Pop? (HypeBot.com)
* Vandermark Celebrates Photo Book Release in Chicago (DownBeat)
* Unreleased Live Professor Longhair Album Due in April - Recorded in Chicago in 1976 (Jazz Times)
* Judge LaDoris Cordell: A secret musical life (San Jose Mercury News)
* The Death of Internet Radio (New Jersey Stage)
* Sax legend Lloyd still chasing ‘sound in my head’ (Boston Globe)
* Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Don’t Stream; Stretch (Jazz Times)
* Americana: is the 'dirt in your ears' genre a way forward for country? (The Guardian UK)
* Is YouTube killing the UK’s live music scene? (BBC)
* Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche explores percussive byways (Boston Globe)
* Carnival Tales (Offbeat)
* Black Death - How Africa Became Heavy Metal’s New Frontier (FactMag.com)
* Terry Adams on Monk: ‘Like Nothing I Had Ever Heard’ (DownBeat)
* Jazz Record Mart for sale (Chicago Tribune)

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)

Sunday Session: September 6, 2015

Marshall Allen

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

* Yale Students Campaign for All That Jazz (New York Times)
* God and jazz at Yale (The Rest Is Noise)
* Watch a 1986 TV story on house music, plus too many documentaries (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* Contemporary Opera: Pleasing Both Connoisseurs and the Masses? (WQXR)
* Sarah Vaughan to Appear on U.S. Postage Stamp in 2016 (Jazz Times)
* Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Ben Jaffe Remembers Hurricane Katrina Ten Years Later (Relix)
* Biography of Charles Lloyd by Josef Woodard to be published in September 2015 (JazzCorner.com)
* Smith, Watts, Bey Extend Bird’s Legacy at Charlie Parker Fest (DownBeat)
* Is Copyright Duration Too Long? (Arts Law Journal)
* Noise Uprising - The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (PopMatters)
* Nashville's Cheatin' Heart: Why Country Music Has Been Obsessed With Adultery for the Last Century (Atlas Obscura)
* Billboard Music Executive Survey: Top Brass Weigh In On the Artists They Covet Most, Taylor Swift and More (Billboard)
* How long can go-go keep going? (Washington Post)
* Maria Schneider on her hometown of Windom, leading the band and working with David Bowie (MinnPost.com)
* Original 1890s Manuscript of “Happy Birthday” Found In a Filing Cabinet (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Carla Bley conducts the Charlie Haden Jazz Liberation Music Orchestra at the Detroit Jazz Festival (Detroit Metro Times)
* Are Movie Theaters the New Music Venue?(LiveNationTV.com)
* The Last Audio Cassette Factory (Bloomberg News)
* How Record Labels Conspired To Kill Off Public Domain Beatles Music In Canada (TechDirt.com)
* Washington Lives Up to Hype in Howard Theatre Performance (DownBeat)
* The piano: Keys of the future (Washington Post)
* White Noise Wackiness (Pro Sound News)
* “Where can you go if you’re in a box?”: Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra interviewed (FactMag.com)

Sunday Session: April 26, 2015

Chick Corea

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

* Jazz's 'Sound Seeker' Finds Ancient Strings From Hungary And Greece (NPR)
* Music industry playing a sour jobs tune (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
* Inside The Black Box: A Deep Dive Into Music's Monetization Mystery (Forbes)
* Bernard Stollman, ESP Disk' Founder, Dies at 85 (Jazz Times)
* Remembering Bernard Stollman: 10 Essential ESP-Disk Albums (Stereogum)
* The Man Who Broke the Music Business - The dawn of online piracy (The New Yorker)
* “Frantic comes with the territory”: Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini talks horror, synths and jazz (Fact magazine)
* It's Thin, It's Plastic, It's Back: Flexi Discs Find New Fans (NPR)
* Hancock, Corea Deliver Spirited Duo Performance in Chicago (DownBeat)
* How Herbie Hancock Crafted a Hip-Hop Classic (Medium.com)
* Steve Earle Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Mother Jones)
* Old Friends, Deep Truths and New Music at the Annual NEA Jazz Masters Awards (Blouin Art Info)
* ‘Free at First: The Audacious Journey of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians’ Review (Wall Street Journal)
* Celebrate New Orleans Jazz Fest With These Photos of the 1940s Jazz Scene (LIFE)