Sunday Session: May 3, 2020

Tony Allen

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

* Mark Guiliana Meets Kneebody (Jazz Times)
* Billboard's Coverage of 1918 PANDEMIC Reveals Eerie Similarities (Billboard)
* Charles Tolliver Set To Issue New Album Through UK Label Gearbox (DownBeat)
* Charlie Parker's Story to Be Told in Graphic Novel 'Chasin' the Bird' (Exclusive) (Hollywood Reporter)
* Because You're Mine: Searching For The Children Of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (NPR)
* How One Article Changed Fair Use (PlagiarismToday.com)
* How Aaron Parks Creates New Worlds On His Second Little Big Album (DownBeat)
* Jazz Artists Join Music Workers Alliance Call for Economic Justice Online (Jazz Times)
* Gary Bartz And Maisha Spark An Intergenerational Conversation (DownBeat)
* Why We Picked Erroll Garner’s Last Album As This Month’s Classics Release (VinylMePlease.com)
* A Month To Celebrate Jazz, Turned Tragic (NPR)
* Kurt Rosenwinkel: One World, One Music (Blues.gr)
* Donald Fagen is Keeping His Sense of Humor in Isolation (Rolling Stone)
* David Crosby on Live Music’s Uncertain Future — and Why He Hasn’t Given Up on Reuniting CSNY (Rolling Stone)
* Tony Allen, Pioneering Afrobeat Drummer, Has Died (Rolling Stone)
* Novelty and Identity: An Interview With Colin Stetson (PopMatters.com)
* Tony Allen, Afrobeat's Foundational Drummer, Has Died At Age 79 (NPR)
* At the drive-in: ENO to stage opera at a safe physical distance (The Guardian)
* The Music Industry Is About to Put Out a Lot of Very, Very Uplifting Songs (Rolling Stone)
* So Drive-In Concerts Are a Thing Now (LoudWire.com)
* Wayne Escoffery On Yale, Repertoire And Humble Warriors (DownBeat)
* Herbie Hancock and the recurring bridging of time (Johannesburg Mail & Guardian)
* How Do We Safely Reopen Music Venues? (Offbeat)
* 84% of Freelance Musicians Still Haven’t Received Government Relief (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Missouri Governor Says Concerts Can Resume Monday (Billboard)

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)