Sunday Session: September 13, 2020

Gary Peacock

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

* 'Masses of performers are still grounded': pianist Sophia Rahman on a UK music scene in crisis (TheArtsDesk.com)
* Sonny Rollins at 90: A Guided Tour of the Saxophone Colossus on Record, By Decade (WBGO)
* How a musician locks onto a rhythm, according to science (BigThink.com)
* Gary Peacock, A Jazz Bassist Always Ahead Of His Time, Dies At 85 (NPR)
* Rollins '57: Sonny Rollins Takes The Lead (WFIU)
* How Keith Richards is Spending His Quarantine (Rolling Stone)
* Paused Jazz Venues Hit a Low Note and Warn Music Could Soon Stop (TheCity.nyc)
* In Newport, A Quiet August And The Virus’ Financial Fallout (DownBeat)
* Gary Peacock 1935–2020 (Jazz Times)
* Former Baltimore house of jazz legend Cab Calloway demolished despite activists’ push (Baltimore Sun)
* How Jimmy Carter (Literally) Rocked the Presidency (Rolling Stone)
* Silver Apples synth pioneer Simeon Coxe dies aged 82 (The Guardian)
* Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe: visionary who saw music's electronic future (The Guardian)
* A Final Bow From Hal Willner, The Producer With The Golden Rolodex (NPR)
* Interview: Gregory Porter on the loss of his brother to Covid and his new album (The Scotsman)
* Understanding Bird (Tidal.com)
* Lifetime Achievement: Doug Hammond’s Kaleidoscopic Jazz, Funk, and Blues (Bandcamp.com)
* Remembering Lenny Breau, jazz’s most inventive guitarist (LiveMint.com)
* Charles Tolliver: Before & After (Jazz Times)
* Kool & the Gang Co-Founder Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell Dead at 68 (Rolling Stone)
* A Former Spotify Exec Explains Why Artists Get Paid So Little on Streaming (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* A Deep Dive into John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' by His Biographer Lewis Porter (Pt. 2) (WBGO)
* Sparks Of Wonder, Discovery Propel Rising Stars (DownBeat)
* In Newport, A Quiet August And The Virus’ Financial Fallout (DownBeat)
* Alice Coltrane: A Partial Primer (River Cities Reader)
* Ornette Coleman: An Outsider Cracks the Egg (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Black Women Jazz Artists Are Using Virtual Spaces To Speak On Race, Gender (DownBeat)
* My Conversation with Gary Peacock (AllAboutJazz.com)
* 1% of Artists Generate 90% of All Music Streams, Latest Data Shows (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Nina Simone's childhood home is now permanently protected (CNN)

Sunday Session: August 23, 2020

Charlie Parker

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

* Don’t Give Up: An Interview with John Hollenbeck (Night After Night)
* Music zooms into nursing homes (Limelight)
* Dickey Betts on the real Allman Brothers Band stories behind the film ‘Almost Famous’ (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
* Ornette Coleman: The Territory And The Adventure (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Two Maria Schneiders (The Nation)
* 2020 NEA Jazz Masters: A Q&A with Roscoe Mitchell (SFJAZZ.org)
* Now’s the Time for the Charlie Parker Centennial (Jazz Times)
* Steve Grossman, Saxophonist And Post-Coltrane Leading Light, Dead At 69 (NPR)
* The Strange World Of... Hawkwind (The Quietus)
* The History of ESP-Disk’ (Jazz Times)
* Archie Shepp Bridges Jazz, Hip-Hop On New Recording (DownBeat)
* Time’s Arrow Flies through 500 Years of Classical Music, Physicists Say (Scientific American)
* And in the End (Rolling Stone)
* Chris Dingman Wants To Help Others Find ‘Peace’ (DownBeat)
* What Store Stickers On Old Records Reveal About History Of Mexican American Music (NPR)
* 2020 NEA Jazz Masters: A Q&A with Music Director Terri Lyne Carrington (SFJAZZ.org)
* We Insist!: Jazz and Racial Injustice (Jazz Times)
* The Latest from Jazz Icon Charles Tolliver Reflects His 50-Plus Years in Music (Bandcamp.com)
* A mushroom-related brush with mortality: how John Cage fell for fungi (The Guardian)
* The Tiny Desk Guide To Rare And Amazing Instruments (NPR)
* Have a First Taste of 'The Lost Berlin Tapes,' Which Casts Ella Fitzgerald As a Returning Hero (WBGO)
* Remembering Santa Cruz Jazz Great Don McCaslin (Good Times)
* David Sancious on His Journey From the E Street Band to Tours With Sting, Peter Gabriel (Rolling Stone)

Sunday Session: July 26, 2020

Charles Tolliver

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

* After The All-Stars: Live At The Lighthouse 1960-1972 (WFIU)
* Of “St. James Infirmary” and COVID-19 (Jazz Times)
* Wynton Marsalis On The Future Of New York City (Gothamist.com)
* Emitt Rhodes, RIP (BrooklynVegan.com)
* Soft Machine today (TheBlueMoment.com)
* Charles Tolliver: Blowing Down The Walls Of Trump’s Jericho (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Electric Sitars of the Psychedelic Era (Reverb.com)
* Setbacks Are Not Defeats For James Carter, Regina Carter (DownBeat)
* The Force Is Still Strong with John Williams (The New Yorker)
* The Man They Called ‘Trane’, Remembering A Jazz Giant (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Muddy Waters’ Former Chicago Home to Be Converted Into Museum (Rolling Stone)
* Q magazine's demise signals the end of the old music press (The Guardian)
* The Shifting Technique Of Kurt Rosenwinkel (DownBeat)
* Vocalist Annie Ross Dies At 89 (DownBeat)
* Sing into the funnel please: inside the Covid-19 lab hoping to declare singing safe (The Guardian)
* A Genre of Myths: A Jazz Reading List (Longreads.com)
* Annie Ross 1930–2020 (Jazz Times)
* Back To Square One, Uh, Phase Two (Offbeat)
* Lift Every Voice And Sing: Twenty Rousing #BlackLivesMatter Albums (AllAboutJazz.com)
* From a funk band to The Rex to Downbeat magazine. Jazz pianist Kris Davis won’t be pigeonholed (Toronto Star)
* Trane of No-Thought: How Meditation Inspired Jazz Great John Coltrane (LionsRoar.com)
* Gregory Porter To Perform For Launch Of NASA’S Mars 2020 Mission (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Annie Ross, Mid-Century Jazz Icon, Dead At 89 (NPR)
* The Newport Rebels and Jazz as Protest (JStor.org)
* The Golden Age: A Newport Jazz Festival Special (NPR)
* Composer Maria Schneider Returns, With A Reckoning, On 'Data Lords' (WBGO)
* Self-Determined, Then and Now: A Focus on Charles Tolliver (WBGO)
* In Conversation: Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, and Terrace Martin Invite You to Their Dinner Party (FloodMagazine.com)
* We Bet You Miss Weddings. America's Greatest Wedding Band Does Too (GQ)
* ‘Sex Machine’ at 50: Bootsy Collins Recalls ‘Twilight Zone’ Origins of Funky James Brown Hit (Rolling Stone)
* How Long Can New Orleans Survive Without Live Music? (Slate.com)

Items re-ordered 8/1/20 to fix a display issue.

Sunday Session: May 3, 2020

Tony Allen

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

* Mark Guiliana Meets Kneebody (Jazz Times)
* Billboard's Coverage of 1918 PANDEMIC Reveals Eerie Similarities (Billboard)
* Charles Tolliver Set To Issue New Album Through UK Label Gearbox (DownBeat)
* Charlie Parker's Story to Be Told in Graphic Novel 'Chasin' the Bird' (Exclusive) (Hollywood Reporter)
* Because You're Mine: Searching For The Children Of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (NPR)
* How One Article Changed Fair Use (PlagiarismToday.com)
* How Aaron Parks Creates New Worlds On His Second Little Big Album (DownBeat)
* Jazz Artists Join Music Workers Alliance Call for Economic Justice Online (Jazz Times)
* Gary Bartz And Maisha Spark An Intergenerational Conversation (DownBeat)
* Why We Picked Erroll Garner’s Last Album As This Month’s Classics Release (VinylMePlease.com)
* A Month To Celebrate Jazz, Turned Tragic (NPR)
* Kurt Rosenwinkel: One World, One Music (Blues.gr)
* Donald Fagen is Keeping His Sense of Humor in Isolation (Rolling Stone)
* David Crosby on Live Music’s Uncertain Future — and Why He Hasn’t Given Up on Reuniting CSNY (Rolling Stone)
* Tony Allen, Pioneering Afrobeat Drummer, Has Died (Rolling Stone)
* Novelty and Identity: An Interview With Colin Stetson (PopMatters.com)
* Tony Allen, Afrobeat's Foundational Drummer, Has Died At Age 79 (NPR)
* At the drive-in: ENO to stage opera at a safe physical distance (The Guardian)
* The Music Industry Is About to Put Out a Lot of Very, Very Uplifting Songs (Rolling Stone)
* So Drive-In Concerts Are a Thing Now (LoudWire.com)
* Wayne Escoffery On Yale, Repertoire And Humble Warriors (DownBeat)
* Herbie Hancock and the recurring bridging of time (Johannesburg Mail & Guardian)
* How Do We Safely Reopen Music Venues? (Offbeat)
* 84% of Freelance Musicians Still Haven’t Received Government Relief (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Missouri Governor Says Concerts Can Resume Monday (Billboard)