Sunday Session: August 25, 2019

Ahmad Jamal

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

* Tenor Sax Hero David Murray Opens Up About His Journey and His Legacy, on The Checkout (WBGO)
* How Was Woodstock Originally Reported 50 Years Ago? (Billboard)
* In his own words: New Leon Russell book shares remembrances from Tulsa music legend (Tulsa World)
* The History of Record Guides, 1934-79 (Part One) (DonaldEArmstrong.com)
* Duane Allman’s ‘Layla’ Guitar Sells for $1 Million at Auction (Rolling Stone)
* The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians (The Guardian)
* Caretakers Help the Detroit Festival Hit the 40-Year Mark (DownBeat)
* Elvis Presley’s Bandleader Looks Back on His Wild Vegas Years: ‘Elvis Was Really Nervous’ (TheDailyBeast.com)
* This is the Album of the Future (New Music Box)
* Billie Full Of Grace (NPR)
* A Conversation with Ahmad Jamal (SFJAZZ.org)
* (Un)happy Partners: On Jazz and Independent Film (Los Angeles Review of Books)
* Nina Simone: Anthems, anguish and resistance (The Times Literary Supplement)
* Can music journalism transcend its access problem? (Columbia Journalism Review)
* Films for Big Eyes: Charlemagne Palestine’s Baker’s Dozen (TheQuietus.com)
* Does humour belong in music? (Jazz Journal)
* Why Wil Blades is the Latest Celebrated Jazz Musician to Leave the Bay Area (KQED)
* Forget Guitars. Buy a Rocker’s Childhood Home (Rolling Stone)
* A Serious Jazz Take on "Old Town Road"? Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. Has Got It Covered (WBGO)
* Sara Gazarek Charts a Path Through Loss, Heartache on ‘Thirsty Ghost’ (DownBeat)
* A Toy Company Now Owns Death Row Records (Rolling Stone)
* How Artist Imposters and Fake Songs Sneak Onto Streaming Services (Pitchfork)
* How a Québécois filmmaker got John Coltrane to record the only soundtrack of his career (CBC.ca)

Sunday Session: December 30, 2018

Wayne Shorter

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:

* Robot improves your guitar playing by zapping you with a taser when you screw up (DigitalTrends.com)
* "The Chipmunk Song" Turns 60: Secrets of a Holiday Novelty Smash (Hollywood Reporter)
* Luminous PoKempner pix of Sun Ra’s celestial music (Jazz Beyond Jazz)
* What Streaming Music Services Pay (Updated for 2019) (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Jazz legend Wayne Shorter on personal tragedy, career triumphs (CBS News)
* Artists We Lost in ’18 (DownBeat)
* The Best Music Books of 2018 (Billboard)
* Jazz in Focus: The Photos of Arthur Elgort (Jazz Times)
* A Musique Concrète Landmark Closes Its Doors (Hyperallergic.com)
* Interview: Jorma Kaukonen (Relix)
* Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone? (LongReads.com)
* Renovation unearths Seattle Prohibition-era jazz club art (Crosscut.com)
* Over 2,000 Musicians Perform At London's Annual Jazz Festival (Forbes.com)
* Kamasi Washington to Debut Short Film at Sundance (Jazz Times)
* Gary Giddins: A Conversation About Jazz (Jazz Profiles)
* Music lyrics are getting angrier, sadder over time, study finds (Detroit Free Press)
* Original Woodstock Site to Host 50th Anniversary Concert (Hollywood Reporter)
* Presley’s ‘Comeback Special’ still relevant, 50 years later (Associated Press)
* 2,200 jobs at risk as HMV collapses into administration (Sky News)
* Green Book: A Serious Comedy and Jazz Allegory (AllAboutJazz.com)

Sunday Session: September 3, 2017

Thelonious Monk

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

* Elvis Presley’s Archivist on the Heartbreak of Tapes Trashed by RCA, Scouring the South for Lost Recordings (Variety)
* Esperanza Spalding’s Pop Culture Loves (Smithsonian)
* Tin Men and the Telephone: the jazz band you control with a smartphone (The Guardian)
* Review: The Mingus Prom (Jazz Journal)
* The Devo De-Evolution Of Golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez (WBUR)
* Close Encounters of the 4th Kind with the Sun Ra Arkestra in San Francisco (PopMatters.com)
* Pharaoh’s Den, the Sun Ra-themed grocery store in Philadelphia (DangerousMinds.net)
* Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Whole New Vista (Jazz Times)
* Hancock-Washington Double Bill Rocks the Hollywood Bowl (DownBeat)
* INTERVIEW: Marilyn Mazur (London Jazz News)
* Review: Oslo Jazz Festival 2017 (Jazz Times)
* Q&A with Sean Jones: The Spirit Calling (DownBeat)
* Woody Shaw Takes on “’Round Midnight,” the Trumpeter’s Supreme Challenge (The New Yorker)
* The Omnivorous Mind of Pamela Z (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Where's the Best Seat in the Concert Hall? (WQXR)
* The South Side’s Last Remaining Jazz Landmarks (Chicago magazine)
* Rock ’N’ Roll: America’s Midlife Crisis (Talkhouse.com)
* Pop music is rejecting the piano. Why? (The Economist)
* ‘The Simpsons’ Composer Alf Clausen Fired (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
* Review: Jazz re:freshed Live at Nublu in NYC (Jazz Times)
* Traditional Radio Faces a Grim Future, New Study Says (Variety)
* How we made Roy Ayers' "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" (The Guardian)
* Stevie Wonder Reflects On Motown, God And Prince (NPR)
* Off Minor Prophet: Thelonious Monk at 100 (Think Christian)
* Son of Jazz Great Thelonious Monk Sues California Brewery (USNews.com)
* Hudson: Upstate New York’s Supergroup (Jazz Times)
* From Jazz Clubs to Classrooms (The Nation)
* Revitalization project honors jazz great, Toledo native Art Tatum (Toledo Blade)
* Kirk Knuffke’s Time: The Story of Some of the Year’s Best Jazz (Village Voice)
* Avant-garde elder Roscoe Mitchell celebrates 50 years of Nessa Records (Chicago Reader)
* Quincy Jones Looks Back on the Making of Michael Jackson's 'Bad' (Rolling Stone)
* A Brand You Can Trust? Record Nerds’ 20 Favorite Labels From the 20th Century (Variety)
* Jazz trumpeter Hino attacks schoolboy drummer (The Asahi Shimbun)
* First Listen: Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdés, 'Familia: Tribute To Bebo & Chico' (NPR)
* Meet the Ace of Cups, the Haight’s (Almost) Forgotten All-Girl Band (KQED)

Sunday Session: August 13, 2017

Rudresh Mahanthappa

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

* Kamasi Washington: An Opinion of Difference (Jazz Times)
* Neither bills nor advancing age can dim the glow of a drummer's dream (Los Angeles Times)
* Was Elvis a thief? Yes! No! Maybe? Music stars weigh in on Presley's legacy (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day One - Cécile McLorin Salvant and more at the fest's first McBride-led edition (Jazz Times)
* Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Two - A touching tribute to Geri Allen highlights Saturday at Fort Adams (Jazz Times)
* Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Three - The fest wraps with plenty of sun and groove (Jazz Times)
* The Power of Sound: Using the Shepard Tone In Filmmaking (PremiumBeat.com)
* Suzanne Ciani and the Subliminal Property of Being Human (The Paris Review)
* 'The Green Book' Guided Black Travelers to L.A.'s Central Avenue Jazz Scene (KCET)
* Interim Thoughts on the Life and Career of Chubby Checker (PopMatters.com)
* Grammys boss knuckles under China censors as show readies tour (Japan Times)
* Anything is possible when jazz master Henry Threadgill plays at Newport (Boston Globe)
* AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm? (The Guardian)
* Southern Exposure: Searching for clues to the death of a bandleader (Daily Astorian)
* Jimmy Webb, Writer of Glen Campbell Classics, Remembers ‘My Big Brother, My Co-Culprit’ (Variety)
* Creating the world’s largest cat sound effects library – with Yarron Katz (ASoundEffect.com)
* Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? (The Guardian)
* Forebears: The Mercurial And Majestic Dinah Washington (NPR)
* Q&A with Rudresh Mahanthappa: Connected Spaces (DownBeat)
* The Internet Doesn’t Matter, You’re Making Music in L.A. (Vulture.com)
* Know your customers: Costa Pilavachi on the classical recording industry (Rhinegold.co.uk)
* Steve Martin Explains His Love of Banjo Music: 'It Rivals Any Specialized Genre' (Billboard)
* The Rich History—and Present—of Latin American Prog (Bandcamp.com)
* SoundCloud Saved By The Bell Of A Big Chunk Of Financing (NPR)
* Eagle Saloon unveils historical plaques, window displays (Offbeat)
* Party Over Here: An Oral History of Kool Herc’s Historic Back-to-School Jam (MassAppeal.com)
* When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality: Pink Floyd, Metallica, The Breeders, Steely Dan & More (OpenCulture.com)

Sunday Session: May 14, 2017

Tyshawn Sorey

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

* Can’t help falling in price: why Elvis memorabilia is plummeting in value (The Guardian)
* Photos & Review: Stevie, Snoop, Tank and the Bangas shine on Jazz Fest’s biggest day (Offbeat)
* Louis Armstrong and the jazz heritage of the Fair Grounds (New Orleans Times-Picayune/NOLA.com)
* Béla Fleck: Things That Sound Right (New Music Box)
* "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," Baseball's National Anthem (Neatorama.com)
* Jazz Fest wraps up with big sets from The Meters, Kings of Leon (Offbeat)
* Q&A with Orrin Evans: The Bad Plus’ New Addition (DownBeat)
* Cassettes Are Making A Comeback, But Which Artists Are Actually Selling Them? (Forbes)
* What does ‘rock music’ even mean anymore anyway? (City Pages)
* This cybernetic synth contains a brain grown from the inventor’s cells (CreateDigitalMusic.link)
* How Preservation Hall Jazz Band Found Their New Sound in Cuba (Rolling Stone)
* New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest: A Photo Recap (DownBeat)
* The Colonel Has a Master Plan (OtielBurbridge.com)
* Scofield Revisits His Past in Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert (DownBeat)
* The Decline of the Yellow Label (Atavist.com)
* Universal Demands Cancellation of $30 Million Deal With Prince Estate (Billboard)
* The MP3 Is Officially Dead, According To Its Creators (NPR)
* eMusic Relaunches Indie-Centric Music Service (Billboard)
* New Orleans Jazz Festival: 2nd Weekend Photos (Jazz Times)
* “Play Without Bitching About the Key,” and Other Humorous, Blunt Annotations Added to Musical Scores (OpenCulture.com)
* Here comes the science bit: why music festivals are going geek (The Guardian)
* Paradise Blue: A Fictional Jazz Club in a Real Time (DownBeat)
* The Checkout: Drummer Tyshawn Sorey Reflects on His Spectrum of Imagination (WBGO)
* In full, on vinyl, no talking: have we lost the art of listening to music? (The Guardian)
* Valdés Puts Efflorescent Pianism on Display at Birdland (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: July 24, 2016

Irma Thomas

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

* A Visit to the Pops Home (Stereophile)
* Chas Chandler: The man who discovered Jimi Hendrix (BBC)
* …But I Hate Modern Music (New Music Box)
* Solving the Mystery of 'Heartbreak Hotel' (Rolling Stone)
* How a little mathematics can help create some beautiful music (TheConversation.com)
* How Do Music Preferences Differ Place To Place? Pandora Shares State By State Data (HypeBot.com)
* Just Three Albums Have Sold Over 1 Million Units This Year (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* The Surprising Musical Preferences of an Amazon Tribe (The Atlantic)
* How Composer Howard Shore Brought the Sounds of Tangier to William S. Burroughs' ‘Naked Lunch’ (Vice.com)
* Hersch, Sanchez, Porter Delve Deep at Portugal’s Funchal Jazz Festival (DownBeat)
* Pokemon Go Invades Pro Audio (Pro Sound News)
* Interview: Fred Hersch (Stereophile)
* Billboard's First Hitmakers Roundtable: 7 of Music's Top Creatives and Influencers on the State of Pop, 10-Second Attention Spans and the Song of the Summer (Billboard)
* One of the nation’s most successful musicians dies (Antigua Observer)
* New Orleans 'Soul Queen' Irma Thomas: ' I can't choose a song that doesn't make sense to me' (KPCC)
* Where have the great composers gone? (The Guardian UK)
* Jazz Museum in New Orleans gains a new director (New Orleans Advocate)
* The Mad Scientists Of Vinyl Record Design (Fast Company)
* More Bird With Strings (Jazzwax.com)
* Composing in the Entrepreneurial Era (Van magazine)
* Richard Corsello, Sonny Rollins' Go-To Engineer - How he transformed subpar source recordings into Rollins' triumphant "Road Shows" series (Jazz Times)
* Q&A with Guillermo Klein: The Sound of Symmetry (DownBeat)
* Composers seek new definition of greatness in a digital age (The Guardian UK)
* New Orleans jazz drummer Jason Marsalis and his family move to France (New Orleans Advocate)
* Coming to Grips with Dead & Bro: John Mayer and the Improbable Live Rebirth of the Grateful Dead (Pitchfork)
* An Exhibition of Japanese Portable Record Players (Spoon & Tamogo)
* North Beach History: When Bebop Filled The Night (Hoodline.com)
* Enter Brian Wilson’s Creative Process While Making The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds 50 Years Ago: A Fly-on-the Wall View (OpenCulture.com)
* Looking for the great composers? They’re all around us (San Francisco Chronicle)