Sunday Session: May 5, 2019

Regina Carter

Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest, drawn from StLJN's inboxes, newsfeeds, and assorted other sources:

* Wynton Marsalis on Bringing the Story of Jazz Originator Buddy Bolden to the Big Screen (Billboard)
* More Than 'Kind Of Blue': In 1959, A Few Albums Changed Jazz Forever (NPR)
* An Open Letter to Bill Frisell (ImmuneToBoredom.com)
* Violinist Regina Carter Searches For Roots, in an Excerpt of Mark Stryker's 'Jazz From Detroit' (WBGO)
* Ralph Alessi Reconvenes Ensemble for ‘Imaginary Friends’ (DownBeat)
* We untangle the many strings of North Philly poet, actor and activist Moor Mother (Philadelphia Weekly)
* Black Utopia: The Funkadelic Art of Pedro Bell (Afropunk.com)
* 13 Young Jazz Musicians Shaping The Future Of Jazz (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Music Streaming Services Are Gaslighting Us (UseJournal.com)
* Playing Changes: Music And Conversation With Jazz Writer Nate Chinen (WFIU)
* Wynton Marsalis on 12 Essential Jazz Recordings (Rolling Stone)
* Herbie Hancock: 'I felt like I stood on the shoulders of giants and now it's my turn' (The Guardian)
* Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram Carries the Blues Forward (Nashville Scene)
* Interview: Dan Tepfer, the Musician Coding the Future of Concerts (CoolHunting.com)
* Field Notes From the Rock Critic Wars (Rolling Stone)
* In Melbourne and Sydney, International Jazz Day Explores Cultural Exchange (DownBeat)
* Machines Can Create Art, but Can They Jam? (Scientific American)
* How does music affect our emotions? Neuroscience may hold the key (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
* Louis Armstrong: nobody’s fool (Jazz Journal)
* Wayne Shorter, Linda May Han Oh Among 2019 JJA Jazz Awards Winners (Jazz Times)
* Good vibrations: I purified myself in a sound bath (TheOutline.com)
* The Birthplace Of Country Music's First Hit Is Being Threatened By Modern Construction (NPR)
* The Scott Joplin Memorial Concerts at St. Michael’s Cemetery (The Syncopated Times)

Sunday Session: July 30, 2017

Mal Waldron

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

* Jimmy Heath: A Little Bird Told Me (Jazz Times)
* Such Sweet Thunder: inside Duke Ellington's literary world (Jazzwise)
* REVIEW: Mary Halvorson Octet at the Village Vanguard in New York (London Jazz News)
* Mary Halvorson Makes Village Vanguard Debut (DownBeat)
* Scott Hanley signs on as jazz station GM (Current.org)
* The night I drove George Melly home from the Cricklewood Tavern (The Guardian)
* Why Vinyl’s Boom Is Over (Wall Street Journal)
* The Ultimate Playlist Of Banned Wedding Songs (FiveThirtyEight.com)
* New Orleans music legend Dr. John reflects on a lifetime of song and adversity (San Diego Union Tribune)
* The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (NPR)
* Fascinating Algorithm: Dan Tepfer's Player Piano Is His Composing Partner (NPR)
* Q&A with David Lynch’s Music Collaborator Dean Hurley – Part 1: Working On and “Protecting the Experience” of Twin Peaks: The Return (SynchBlog.com)
* Q&A with David Lynch’s Music Collaborator Dean Hurley – Part 2: Being “Open Creatively” and “Knowing When to Walk Away” (SynchBlog.com)
* After Surviving Lightning Strike, Vocalist Evans Prepares for Comeback (DownBeat)
* How SoundCloud's broken business model drove artists away (TheVerge.com)
* A New Job At Wesleyan, A New Album And A New Direction For Drummer Tyshawn Sorey (Hartford Courant)
* Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones will record new, original music 'very shortly' (New York Daily News)
* How Southern-Soul Survivor Don Bryant Finally Got His Second Chance (Rolling Stone)
* Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Tours With Young ‘Nightflyers’ (Wall Street Journal)
* Free at Last: Mal Waldron’s ecstatic minimalism. (The Nation)
* Hippies, Guns, and LSD: The San Francisco Rock Band That Was Too Wild For the Sixties (CollectorsWeekly.com)
* Changing the face of American orchestras, one player at a time (Cincinnati.com)
* Alan Lomax’s Timeless American Recordings Find a New Audience (Bandcamp.com)
* The Top Ten Most Overrated Drummers Of All Time (TheZReview.com)
* A Fearless and Kind Leader—Remembering Geri Allen (1957-2017) (New Music Box)
* UK Music chief warns of 'perfect storm' facing music industry (MusicWeek.com)
* Roscoe Mitchell Captures the Eternal Now on Remarkable New Album (Village Voice)
* 45 45s That Changed The World (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* What is Jack DeJohnette's Native American Spirit Name? (WBGO)
* Orrin Evans on Joining the Bad Plus (Jazz Times)
* Angels and Demons at Play: Jim Knipfel on Reclaiming Sun Ra’s Legacy (BelieverMag.com)
* The Jazz & Blues Art Box — instant collection, rare data trove (Jazz Beyond Jazz)
* The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense (Vox.com)
* How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music (Nautil.us)
* The reissue racket: how many more ‘classic’ albums will be repackaged? (The Guardian)
* Whatever Happened to Indie Rock? (Popmatters.com)
* Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautifully-Shot Documentary (OpenCulture.com)