Sunday Session: February 4, 2018

Quincy Jones

Here's the 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:

* Jazz-Related Grammy Award Winners Announced (Jazz Times)
* Jazz and Blues Artists Make a Slippery Impression at the 2018 Grammy Awards (WBGO)
* We Asked a Top A&R Executive If Rock Is Really Dead (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Burkina Faso Music Honored at Grammys, but Artists Cry Foul (VOANews.com)
* Finding meaning in music again (The Globe and Mail)
* Junk Shop Classical On Stravinsky: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP (TheQuietus.com)
* Rhythm and Reaction: how jazz made Britain swing before rock ‘n’roll began (INews.co.uk)
* Quincy Jones Has a Story About That (GQ)
* Chuck Berry-Fats Domino tribute at the Grammys misses the boat (Los Angeles Times)
* Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Groundbreaking Debut @50 (BestClassicBands.com)
* Mingus’ “Tijuana Moods” Reborn (Jazz Times)
* After the Grammys, it may be time's up for the music industry (Los Angeles Times)
* How to Be a Responsible Music Fan in the Age of Streaming (Pitchfork.com)
* Jason Moran: Modernistic, Historical and More (Jazz Times)
* A Q&A with jazz heiress Catherine Russell (Arkansas Times)
* DC-Area Record Label Cuneiform Has Gone on Hiatus, and It May Not Come Back (Washingtonian)
* Keeping the Art of Silent Film Music Alive (AtlasObscura.com)
* Piano Madness: Kris Davis and Craig Taborn in Freewheeling Dialogue (Village Voice)
* David Byrne on Trump, Cultural Appropriation and Why He Won't Reunite Talking Heads (Rolling Stone)
* A Tribute to James Jamerson and His Lost Funk Machine (Reverb.com)
* Link Wray, Inventor of the Power Chord, Snubbed Again (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Drummer Mike Reed Reflects on the Racist Encounter That Sparked 'Flesh & Bone' (WBGO)
* Spotify (Finally) Adds Songwriter and Producer Credits (Variety)
* Wherein three national corporations control nearly all of San Francisco's live music (DNALounge.com)
* Best Buy will cease selling CDs later this year (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Temptations' Dennis Edwards dies at 74: 'Helped define Detroit soul (Detroit Free Press)

Sunday Session: November 27, 2016

Andrew Cyrille

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

* Dap-Kings' Gabriel Roth recalls Sharon Jones' last days: 'She was blaming Trump' (Los Angeles Times)
* Bright Moments With Andrew Cyrille (Jazz Times)
* Review: Berlin Jazz Festival (Jazz Journal UK)
* The Truth About the Tower (Wall Street Journal)
* Exit Zero Festival Offers Global Tastes, Diverse Artists (DownBeat)
* The Forgotten Precursor to iTunes (Pitchfork)
* London jazz festival: Wayne Shorter review – living embodiment of jazz genius (The Guardian UK)
* ‘Look, they’re crucifying Him! And nobody cares!’: When Charlie Chaplin met Igor Stravinsky (DangerousMinds.net)
* The 15 Most Overlooked Albums of 2016 (VinylMePlease.com)
* The Broken Pop of James Bond Songs (LongReads.com)
* Vijay Iyer on Musical and Ethnic Identity (SPIN)
* How Chuck Berry Wrote “Johnny B. Goode” and Created the First Rock and Roll Guitar Hero (Guitar World)
* Why secret album-sharing forum What.CD was a music obsessive’s pirate paradise (FactMag.com)
* How Streaming Is Changing The Sound Of Pop Music (HypeBot.com)
* Sarah Vaughan Competition 2016 - London chanteuse Deelee Dubé takes top prize (Jazz Times)
* Leon Russell in the Dark (Village Voice)
* Rock photographer Michael Zagaris tells the stories behind his most famous shots (The Guardian UK)
* Open Space for Creativity: Cecil Taylor At Antioch (WYSO)
* ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ an Undying Thanksgiving Protest Song (The Atlantic)
* To find success, soul singer Sharon Jones had to leave the US (PRI)
* Tyshawn Sorey: The Maestro (Jazz Times)
* How Sun Ra’s Definitive Singles Catalog Finally Saw The Light of Day (Bandcamp.com)
* Allison Miller: A Life Soaked in Music (Point of Departure)
* Pauline Oliveros Dead at 84 (Pitchfork)
* James Booker Was Hands Down the Greatest New Orleans Piano Player Ever (The Daily Beast)

Sunday Session: November 20, 2016

Mose Allison

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

* Leon Russell Dies; Southern-Rock Legend Was 74 (NPR)
* The Verdict on Stravinsky (Jazz Journal UK)
* London jazz festival review – a dazzling display all across the musical spectrum (The Guardian UK)
* Behind the Scenes With Janis Joplin and Big Brother, Rehearsing for the Summer of Love (Collector's Weekly)
* At 75, Chick Corea Still Has That Magic Touch (NPR)
* Identifying the Musical Tastes of Birds (Hyperallergic.com)
* Jazzman John Thomson's guide to jazz: 'If you can’t swing, you’ve got no soul' (The Guardian UK)
* In Memoriam: DownBeat Bids Farewell to Four Great Artists (DownBeat)
* The Design + Music Industries are BFFs—They Just Don’t Know it Yet (AIGA.org)
* Intersections: 8 Classical Musicians Killing It Right Now Using Live Electronics (Soundfly.com)
* Micro-ritmos turns bacteria and machine learning into spatialized sound (CDM.link)
* How the Hidden Sounds of Horror Movie Soundtracks Freak You Out (Atlas Obscura)
* 10 addictive browser instruments for making music on your lunch break (FactMag.com)
* Harpsi-Gourd Gets You Into Thanksgiving Spirit (HackADay.com)
* Composing An Otherworldly And Intimate Soundtrack To 'Arrival' (NPR)
* Pianist/Vocalist Mose Allison Dies at 89 (DownBeat)
* Ireland's oldest blues/jazz venue J.J. Smyths to close (RTE.ie)
* Robert Glasper: Battling 'the jazz police' (BBC)
* Amazon files its first-ever lawsuits against alleged sellers of counterfeit goods (GeekWire.com)
* The Death Of A Disco Host (NPR)
* A History of Music Bootlegs, Told Through 25 of the Most Significant Recordings (Vulture.com)
* Sharon Jones, Soul and Funk Singer With Dap-Kings, Dead at 60 (Rolling Stone)

Sunday Session: July 3, 2016

John Handy

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

* Philip Glass on David Bowie: 'He was a master unto himself' (The Guardian UK)
* Tupac Shakur, Michael Jackson, Hatsune Miku, Whitney Houston, and Elvis: Dead Artists Are Killing It In Music (The Daily Beast)
* David Lynch is throwing a music festival, and the lineup is absolutely bonkers (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Listen to jazz artist John Handy's collaborations with India's classical music greats (Scroll.in)
* Shuffle Along Revives Legacy of Black Broadway Pioneers (DownBeat)
* Spoleto Festival USA - Performances included René Marie, Randy Weston, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more (Jazz Times)
* Sampled or stolen? Untangling the knotty world of hip-hop copyright (FactMag.com)
* Brian Wilson talks ‘Pet Sounds,’ 50 years later (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Why Music-Based Social Networks are Doomed (Medium.com)
* Tyondai Braxton on His New EP to Raise Money for Everytown for Gun Safety (Bandcamp.com)
* Reverse Engineering The YouTube Algorithm (TubeFilter.com)
* The Miami sound is gone. But the beat goes on. Here is what replaced it (Miami Herald)
* Fuse Commentary: Critical Injury at the “Boston Globe” (ArtsFuse.org)
* DeJohnette, Coltrane & Garrison at Funhouse Fest - All-star trio performs music from "In Movement" (Jazz Times)
* The Story Behind the First Pulitzer for Jazz (NiemanReports.org)
* Smithsonian Exhibit to Showcase Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard (Offbeat)
* The incisive 'Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words' gives the iconic rocker the stage (Los Angeles Times)
* Black Disco: How jazz became the music of resistance in apartheid South Africa (TheVinylFactory.com)
* When Music Is Violence (The New Yorker)
* Moon Zappa Shares Heartfelt Post About Family Drama (Jambase.com)
* Can electronic music revolutionise school music lessons? (The Guardian UK)
* Lawyer Who Pursued ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case Against Led Zeppelin Suspended From Practicing Law (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* The Day Riverport Rioted (Riverfront Times)
* Did the Star-Spangled Banner land Stravinsky in jail? (Boston Globe)
* Watch a beautiful meditation on the function of music (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* FAME Studios: From Revolutionizing ‘60s Soul to Reimagining Nashville Country (Reverb.com)