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: December 8, 2019

Roscoe Mitchell

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

* 'A Tribute To Mose Allison' Celebrates The Music Of An Exciting Jazz Master (NPR)
* Why Don’t We Appreciate Local Music, And Why We Should (Offbeat)
* Crossing the Streams (Revisited) (The Big City)
* Musicians Reach Tentative Deal with Film and TV Studios - But No Streaming Residuals (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Bass clarinetist Jason Stein’s Hearts and Minds (BerkeleySide.com)
* John and Alice Coltrane’s jazz perennial philosophy (Medium.com)
* Dr. John Mined Spiritual Connections (DownBeat)
* Historic Meeting: Valdés & Corea Collaborate in NYC (DownBeat)
* Iconic Southern rock recording studio is revived in Georgia (Associated Press)
* The Nat King Cole Harvest Is In (Jazz Times)
* Annie Clark: Down the Rabbit Hole with St. Vincent (Tape Op)
* This Rhodes College professor became the expert voice in Lil Nas X, 'Old Town Road' debate (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Capricorn Records: Dickey Betts, Alan Walden & More on the Iconic Southern Label's 50th (Billboard)
* 2019 Parliamentary Jazz Award winners (London Jazz News)
* Philadelphia Jazz Project launches first graphic novel (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Evgeny Pobozhiy Tops Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Guitar Competition (DownBeat)
* Shabaka Hutchings In Conversation With Art Ensemble Of Chicago's Roscoe Mitchell (ClashMusic.com)
* Darlene Love Calls out ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’ Snub (Rolling Stone)
* The World’s Weirdest Guitar Mods and Builds (Premier Guitar)
* Art Ensemble of Chicago: “We were young and foolish. Now we’re old and foolish, but we’re still happy and still trying” (Jazzwise)
* Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Fosters Connection Between Cuban Music, Jazz (DownBeat)
* I Heard God in a Grain of Sound (The Stranger)

Sunday Session: September 27, 2015

Mary Lou Williams

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

* Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Oxford American)
* Coltrane “A Love Supreme Complete Masters” to Be Released - Impulse!/Verve to issue 2- and 3-CD editions (Jazz Times)
* A Hidden Hero of Jazz (The New Yorker)
* Play It Again (for the First Time) (The New Yorker)
* Is Stevie Wonder Cheating a Dead Man? (Daily Beast)
* To the barricades! Why rhythm is the heartbeat of revolution (The Guardian UK)
* Bar-Kays trumpeter Ben Cauley dies (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Panoramical will change the way you conceive of sound (Boing Boing)
* From the Club to the Cathedral: Revisiting Duke Ellington’s Controversial ‘Sacred Concert’ (KQED)
* Why looking at music from a tech and business perspective makes no sense (FactMag.com)
* Kamasi Washington On World Cafe (NPR)
* The EDM Ennio Morricone - How Junkie XL went from making junior varsity electronica to blowing cinematic minds with his scores for ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Black Mass’ (Grantland)
* London, Meader, Pramuk & Ross Showcase Vocalese at Historic Birdland Summit (DownBeat)
* Jaco Pastorius Documentary Set to Premiere Nov. 27 (Jazz Times)
* Inside Bob Dylan's Massive New Sixties Bootleg Series Trove (Rolling Stone)
* What Critics Want (21cm.org)
* Music Coverage Endangered as Writers From USA Today, Times-Picayune, New York Daily News Exit (Billboard)
* 9 Behind-the-Scenes Stories From Darlene Love, the Greatest Backup Singer Ever (Vulture.com)
* Gigantic wooden megaphones amplify the sounds of the forest in Estonia (Inhabitat.com)
* Snarky Puppy: the latest supergroup ripping up the genre rulebook (Irish Times)
* The Secret Jewish History of Joni Mitchell (Forward.com)
* Soul Set Free: The Lost Legacy Of David Ruffin (Trunkworthy.com)
* Louie Pérez and Los Lobos: Still howlin' after all these years (KPCC)
* First Fusion: Jazz-Rock Before Bitches Brew (WFIU)
* Music Heals: MedRhythms Uses Music To Treat Traumatic Brain Injury (Forbes)
* A Brief History of Scratching (FactMag.com)
* The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills (The Paris Review)