Sunday Session: March 24, 2019

Kahil El'Zabar

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:

* What Happens if Google Buys the World’s Biggest Music Company? (Rolling Stone)
* Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Jazz Journal)
* Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes review – pristine doc of tonal clarity (The Guardian)
* Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81 (The Guardian)
* Nat King Cole Still Remains 'One Of The Great Gifts Of Nature' 100 Years Later (NPR)
* Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 (Boing Boing)
* Verve Celebrates Norman Granz’s Vision (DownBeat)
* ‘It Was A Social Revolution’: The Turkish Embassy’s Surprising Role In Desegregating D.C. Jazz (WAMU)
* Lionel Loueke’s Winding Musical Journey (Jazz Times)
* On the Road With Jacob Collier (Mother Jones)
* Avant garde jazz and black rights activism in 1960s Cleveland, Ohio: an interview with Mutawaf A Shaheed (The Wire)
* Andre Williams: farewell to R&B's raunchiest raconteur (The Guardian)
* Bacon fat, corn liquor, and tail feathers: remembering R&B legend Andre Williams (Chicago Reader)
* Dick Dale, the Inventor of Surf Rock, Was a Lebanese-American Kid from Boston (The New Yorker)
* Class Struggle at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Jacobin)
* “Music Is A Portal”: Sophie Huber On Blue Note Documentary ‘Beyond The Notes’ (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Brian Auger: Bridging the gap (Jazz Journal)
* Here are some of the weirdest musical instrument ideas from NAMM (Create Digital Music)
* E.J. Strickland – A warrior for peace (Jazz in Europe)
* ‘Contours’: How Sam Rivers Hit New Heights Of Creativity (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Boz Scaggs Premieres 'Little Miss Night and Day' Video, Talks Next Moves (Billboard)
* History Disappeared When Myspace Lost 12 Years of Music, and It Will Happen Again (Pitchfork.com)
* Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies Acquires Chico O'Farrill Music & Archives (Billboard)
* Kahil El’Zabar on the Expansiveness of Music History (DownBeat)
* Bright Moments with William Parker (Jazz Times)
* "It identifies what I believe from here": Sam Moore reflects on his hit "Soul Man" (CBS News)
* What Does A New Orleans Music Industry Actually Mean? Guest Editorial (Offbeat)
* Interview: Factory Manager Forrest White on the Truth Behind "Fender Fiction" (Reverb.com)
* Rosanne Cash Opens Up About Her #MeToo Experiences -- And How The Industry Can Avoid Further 'Collateral Damage' (Billboard)
* Chet Baker’s Singing: A Cultural Shift (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Adonis Rose: To Swing Toussaint (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: July 31, 2016

Johnny Hodges

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

* Jane Monheit: Beyond Ella (Los Angeles Review of Books)
* Live: Famoudou Don Moye & Hartmut Geerken - A historic free-improv set in Berlin (Jazz Times)
* The Linguistics of My Next Band Name (JStor.org)
* Why is new classical music left to wither and die? (The Telegraph UK)
* New Ensembles, Inspired Pairings Animate Umbria Jazz Fest (DownBeat)
* Johnny Hodges - The Timeless Artistry of a Great Ellingtonian (New England Public Radio)
* Record Labels Need a Change of Culture in the ‘Dashboard Era’ of the Music Industry (Medium.com)
* The mystery of the phantom Billboard hit, “Ready ‘N’ Steady,” is finally solved (AV Club)
* Pitchfork Fest, a Bastion of Rock and Pop, Opens Doors to Jazz (DownBeat)
* Dave Douglas review – jolting backbeats and hip-hop highjinks (The Guardian UK)
* Born to Be Blue: Ethan Hawke on the fast life and mysterious death of Chet Baker (The Guardian UK)
* Inside The Playlist Factory (Buzzfeed.com)
* Free-Improv Players Soar During Astral Spirits Showcase (DownBeat)
* Why Beijing Is (Still) A Great City For Jazz Music (Forbes)
* How Being a Music Journalist Made Me Wind Up in a Psychiatric Hospital (Vice.com)
* Charles Davis obituary (The Guardian UK)
* Rock, racism and rebel music: 1970s Britain through a photographer’s lens (HuckMagazine.com)
* Brian Eno Explains the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music (OpenCulture.com)
* Remembering Marni Nixon, the Invisible Voice of ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘West Side Story,’ and ‘The King and I’ (The Daily Beast)
* The leading manufacturer of music boxes for ice cream trucks calls Minnesota home (TheCurrent.org)
* THE BLURT JAZZ DESK: Sonny Rollins (BlurtOnline.com)
* Carla Bley: Shoe Leather, Mystery & Moxie (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Behind the Lens: A Deep Dive into the New Frank Zappa Doc ‘Eat That Question’ (Vice.com)
* How the pop video got weird again (The Guardian UK)
* David Bowie’s Blackstar Band Announces New Album, Shares “A Small Plot of Land” Cover (Pitchfork)
* This 1960 Jazz Film Shaped Concert Documentaries as We Know Them (Vice.com)

Sunday Session: March 27, 2016

Arturo O'Farrill

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

* Malcolm McLaren's son to burn £5m of punk memorabilia (The Guardian UK)
* Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (The Quietus)
* What Happens When Pop/Alternative Radio Runs Out of Alternatives? (Billboard)
* Coltrane Church to vacate Western Addition at end of April (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Ray Davies: The Lonely Kink (Rolling Stone)
* Historic days for US and Cuba, accompanied by jazz (Jazz Beyond Jazz)
* How we made Motown (The Guardian UK)
* Paul McCartney strikes out to gain control of his share of the Beatles catalogue (The Guardian UK)
* Concord to Release Lee Ritenour Vinyl Box Set (Jazz Times)
* 10 Records You Might Have Owned That Are Now Worth a Fortune (MentalFloss.com)
* Vinyl sales in 2015 worth more than Spotify Free and YouTube combined (FactMag.com)
* Verve to Release “Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set” (Jazz Times)
* Cosmic Slop: Pedro Bell’s fantastic, far-out and funky Funkadelic album art (DangerousMinds.net)
* Jazz Record Mart collection is now in distinguished company (Medill Reports Chicago)
* For jazz pianist, Obama's trip to Cuba 'beyond what I'd ever thought I'd see' (PRI)
* Born To Be Blue: Chet Baker In 5 Songs (NPR)
* Uri Caine: In dialogue with music history (Stuff.co.nz)
* Blue Note Becomes Apple Music Curator, Reissues Gems on Vinyl (DownBeat)
* Award-winning Composer David Baker Dies At 84 (Indiana Public Media)

Sunday Session: October 11, 2015

Erroll Garner

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

* Rise of the Synthesizer: How an Electronics Whiz Kid Gave the 1980s Its Signature Sound (Collector's Weekly)
* Review: Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert by the Sea (Jazz Times)

* Max Richter breaks world records with radio performance of Sleep (FactMag.com)
* Should Composers Read Music Critics? (New Music Box)
* Why You Can Never Tune a Piano (OpenCulture.com)
* Legendary Jazz Club Uses Virtual Reality to Bring Concerts to Your Couch (Yahoo)
* Eavesdropping on Dianne Reeves and Christian McBride (Indianapolis Star)
* The new jazz age: New York City's jazz venue renaissance (The Guardian UK)
* Making waves: classical music and the rise of streaming (Gramophone UK)
* Interview with Fusion Trailblazer John McLaughlin (ProgressiveRockCentral.com)
* A Cover That Gave Jazz Lots of Soul (Wall Street Journal)
* Reel-to-reel tape is the new vinyl (TheVerge.com)
* Full Stack Music: 1 Trillion Streams, 200 Million Tickets (TechCrunch.com)
* Ethan Hawke’s Chet Baker Biopic ‘Born to Be Blue’ Sold to IFC (Variety)
* 10 Things Sun Ra Can Teach You About Band Leadership (SonicBids.com)
* Innovative Saxophonists Enliven Guelph Jazz Festival (DownBeat)

Chet Baker biopic playing at the Tivoli through February 15

Let's Get Lost, the 1988 film biography of jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker (pictured), has been re-released to movie theaters in a new 35mm print, and will play the Tivoli Theatre in University City from Friday, February 8 through Friday, February 15.

Filmmaker Bruce Weber traveled extensively with Baker during the last year of the trumpeter's life to capture rare performance footage and interviews for the film, which won the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. St. Louis Post-Dispatch movie critic Joe Williams reviews the re-release of Let's Get Lost here.