Sunday Session: July 12, 2020

Jason Moran

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

* Buddy Guy on Weathering the COVID Storm and the Road Ahead (Rolling Stone)
* Watch Exclusive uDiscover Music Interview With Jazz Saxophonist Azar Lawrence (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* The Story of Louis Armstrong’s Final Tape (LouisArmstrongHouse.org)
* Terri Lyne Carrington Tops 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll (DownBeat)
* Talking Heads Drummer Chris Frantz on His New Memoir and the Last Time He Saw David Byrne (Rolling Stone)
* Ennio Morricone: 10 of his greatest compositions (The Guardian)
* How Ennio Morricone Changed the Way Movies Sound (Pitchfork.com)
* Remembering Ennio Morricone: His 10 most mind-blowing film scores (Los Angeles Times)
* The Great Reformatting (TheAmericanScholar.org)
* The Pedal Steel Guitar Slides Into Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Gearhead: Ralph Towner’s Acoustic Arsenal (Jazz Times)
* Empire at 40 | How Ben Burtt Turned a Bathtub of Raccoons and Industrial Noise into a Star Wars Soundscape (StarWars.com)
* 50 years ago Hendrix, the Allman Brothers and B.B. King played the Byron Pop Festival (Macon Telegraph)
* Krautrock, communism and chaos: the anarchic story of Can (LouderSound.com)
* Joni Mitchell, Isle of Wight 1970: the day the music nearly died (The Guardian)
* The Mid-Atlantic’s Flourishing Jazz, Funk And R&B Scene Spotlit By Black Fire Records (DownBeat)
* Lady A, Formerly Lady Antebellum, Sue Seattle Blues Singer Lady A (Pitchfork.com)
* Anita ‘Lady A’ White Will Not Be Erased (Vulture.com)
* Pop music is getting faster (and happier) (BBC)
* Jason Moran Journeys to the Dawn of Jazz Cinema (Criterion.com)
* France’s Future Jazz Revival Is Built on House and Hip-Hop Grooves (Bandcamp.com)
* Music Maven Steve Stoute’s Pitch for Artists: Keep All the Money (Bloomberg.com)
* Wire Playlist: Musician-Owned Record Labels in Jazz in the 1940s–60s (The Wire)
* ‘I Don’t Think Anybody Alive Can Tell Me What to Do’ Willie Nelson at his most Willie Nelson (Vulture.com)
* The Many Electronic Surprises To Be Found In The Nation's Vast Archive Of Folk Music (NPR)
* Cleve Eaton 1939–2020 (Jazz Times)
* Just for Us (Chamber-Music.org)

Sunday Session: December 6, 2015

Amina Claudine Myers

 For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have turned up recently in StlJN's inbox:

* An Unexpected Reason for the Cassette Revival (NightFlight.com)
* Are these the last days of British bands touring America? (LouderThanWar.com)
* 100 Years Of Billy Strayhorn, Emotional Architect Of Song (NPR)
* Dweezil Zappa: Roots and Branches (Premier Guitar)
* Photos: Celebrating Billy Strayhorn on the A Train (Wall Street Journal)
* Obituary: Allen Toussaint (Offbeat)
* Download 30-gigs of lost cassettes from the 80s underground (FactMag.com)
* This Saxophonist Spends His MacArthur "Genius Grant" on Mentoring Young Jazz Musicians (LA Weekly)
* After 300 Years Of Evolution, Has The Piano Reached Acoustic Perfection? (Gizmodo.com)
* Thom Yorke Compares YouTube and Google to Nazis (FlavorWire.com)
* Stream a Free 65-Hour Playlist of John Cage Music and Discover the Full Scope of His Avant-Garde Compositions (OpenCulture.com)
* Interview: Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (Offbeat)
* From NPR Music, Two Jazz Performances That Wrestle With Race And Policing (NPR)
* Making one album a year is no longer enough (unless you're Adele) (The Guardian UK)
* Wayne Horvitz: The Pianist And The Poet (NPR)
* Amina Claudine Myers, Evolving Song (Clocktower.org)
* Ennio Morricone: 'The Hateful Eight is like no western you have ever seen before' (The Telegraph UK)
* Maria Schneider on The Thompson Fields (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Indie Classical Music? It Exists, And One Nashville Tech Startup Is Trying To Save It (Nashville Public Radio)
* Are Artist Collaborations Making Genres Obsolete? (Medium.com)
* World's first computer-generated musical to debut in London (The Guardian UK)
* Bob Dylan's Setlists Aren't A-Changin' (LiveNationTV)
* Billboard Women in Music 'Legend' Loretta Lynn: 'Call Me Your No. 1 You-Know-What-Kind-Of Stirrer" (Billboard)
* Review: Josef Woodard’s Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth (Jazz Times)