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: January 6, 2019

Ron Carter

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:

* A Jazz Conversation with Ted Gioia (Jazz Profiles)
* Ron Carter: Still Searching for the Right Notes (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Paul McCartney opens up about Abbey Road, the Beatles' breakup in wide-ranging interview (CBS News)
* The West Coast Jazz Revival (City Journal)
* Jeff Goldblum: Not a Hollywood Square (Jazz Times)
* Helen Sung: Words and Music (Jazz Times)
* These early Louis Armstrong recordings are among the flood of works now in the public domain (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
* New Orleans Is Not Coachella: Guest Editorial (Offbeat)
* Herbie Nichols’ Third World (WFIU)
* Jazz Musician Plays Acoustic Guitar While Undergoing Brain Surgery, Helping Doctors Monitor Their Progress (OpenCulture.com)
* The Price, Cost and Value of Digital Music (DownBeat)
* Is this the end of owning music? (BBC)
* Bill Charlap: Life, Love, Songs, and Pianos (Stereophile)
* DJ Art Laboe, 93, spins oldies to link inmates and family (Associated Press)
* Dickey Betts returns to performing following brain surgery (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
* Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (Rolling Stone)
* How Soul Train became the most radical show on American television (DazedDigital.com)
* Blue Note “As Important As The Beatles Or Dylan” Says Don Was (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Bootsy Collins Announces Retirement from Live Bass Playing (NoTreble.com)
* Carlos Santana Announces New EP, Signs to Concord Records (Jambands.com)
* 12 New Jazz Artists to Watch in 2019 (Paste)
* The Jazz Glories of 1959, One Day at a Time: A Conversation with Critic Natalie Weiner (WBGO)
* Green Book Director Peter Farrelly Defends Film Amid Criticism by Don Shirley’s Family (Vanity Fair)
* Spike Lee’s Secret Weapon For 30 Years: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Composer Terence Blanchard (IndieWire.com)

Sunday Session: September 23, 2018

John Scofield

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:

* Sons of Kemet frontman Shabaka Hutchings: 'I trust in my ability to write really dope s***' (The Standard)
* R.I.P. Big Jay McNeely, April 29, 1927-Sept. 16, 2018 (LA Weekly)
* A conversation with DJ Amir Abdullah about newly unearthed Charles Mingus recordings (TrebleZine.com)
* Congressional Black Caucus Honors Jazz Players During Annual Washington Concert (DownBeat)
* Jazz From Monterey: 1958, The Birth Of A Festival (WFIU)
* Music from many if not all points of the compass: Rhys Chatham interviewed (Freq.org.uk)
* New Orleans Jazz Makes Room for All the Grooves (64Parishes.org)
* Fired or retired? What happens to the aging orchestral musician (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
* The Guide to Getting into John Coltrane's Quasi-Religious Ecstasy (Vice.com)
* The Women of Detroit Music, Living and Gone, Take Spotlight at Detroit Jazz Festival (Billboard)
* Tiny Desk Concert: GoGo Penguin (NPR)
* Vinyl Is Bigger Than We Thought. Much Bigger (Forbes)
* Tracing The Genetic Code Of New Orleans Funk Music (LiveForLiveMusic.com)
* The Poetic Inspiration of Pianist Lynne Arriale (DownBeat)
* 5 Vibraphonists You Should Know About (Revive-Music.com)
* Music Modernization Act Passes, Despite Music Industry Infighting (Rolling Stone)
* India's singing village, where everyone has their melody (France24.com)
* Americans Listen to 151 Minutes of Music Each Day (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Spotify to Allow Indie Artists to Upload Music Directly to Service, Bypassing Distributors (Billboard)
* Comprehensive history of KC Women’s Jazz Festival (JazzJournalists.org)
* How David Crosby Found a New Harmony (Rolling Stone)
* The Fat Lady Is Singing - Is American opera in terminal condition? (Commentary)
* Roy Babbington on the 50-Year Evolution of Soft Machine (DownBeat)
* Imagine: Previously Unseen Footage Of John Lennon And George Harrison (NPR)
* Ticketmaster stung by undercover journalists, who reveal that the company deliberately enables scalpers and rips off artists (BoingBoing.net)
* John Scofield's Outside-In Approach To Jazz (SFJAZZ.org)
* Founding Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts in critical condition after 'freak accident' (NBC)
* Live Review: 2018 Chicago Jazz Festival (Jazz Times)
* "Three Is One": Thelonious Monk's Influence On Joanne Brackeen, Kris Davis & Helen Sung (SFJAZZ.org)
* The San Francisco Tape Music Center Was an Early Home to the Avant-Garde (Bandcamp.com)
* Tracing Ska Music’s Great Migration (AtlasObscura.com)
* How Auto-Tune Revolutionized the Sound of Popular Music (Pitchfork.com)

Sunday Session: November 26, 2017

Jon Hendricks

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

* Recording Sgt. Pepper's: Unpublished Conversations with George Martin, Geoff Emerick, and Ken Townsend (Reverb.com)
* Review: Berlin Jazz Festival 2017 (Jazz Journal)
* Bright Moments With Louis Hayes (Jazz Times)
* The music you didn’t realize you grew up with: Chip Tanaka’s 8-bit revolution (Japan Times)
* The Vast, Versatile Range Of Cécile McLorin Salvant (NPR)
* Bandcamp Is Bringing Back the Record Rack (Jazz Times)
* The New Golden Age Of Jazz (LNWY.co)
* Mick Goodrick: Six-String Theorist (Jazz Times)
* Steely Dan Singer Sues Bandmate's Estate (Billboard)
* Quietly successful: Meet the man behind ECM Records (Irish Examiner)
* The vinyl frontier: why do we keep sending music to outer space? (The Guardian)
* Epidemic Sound gives its side of the Spotify ‘fake artists’ controversy (Musically.com)
* Spotify’s Top ‘Fake Artists’ Make Six-Figure Salaries (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* The Inventive Traditions of South African Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Dickey Betts: The Lost Allman Brother (Rolling Stone)
* Jon Hendricks, Genre-Pushing Jazz Vocalist, Dead At 96 (NPR)
* Toledo jazz vocalist Jon Hendricks redefined jazz (Toledo Blade)
* George Avakian Dies at 98 - Groundbreaking producer and manager worked with Miles, Armstrong, Ellington, Lloyd, Jarrett and others (Jazz Times)
* George Avakian, Record Producer of Singular Influence, Dies at 98 (WBGO)
* The World of Captain Beefheart: An Interview with Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx (Popmatters.com)
* Musicians Backstage in the 1970s: The Photos (Esquire)
* Clifford Brown - The Bach of Jazz (Jazz in Europe)
* George Clinton talks back (Offbeat)
* The Delights of Parsing the Beatles' Most Nonsensical Song (The Atlantic)
* The FBI's Long, Alarming History of Investigating Black Musicians (Pacific Standard)
* INTERVIEW: Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus (London Jazz News)