Sunday Session: June 30, 2019

Dave Bartholomew

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

* In Memoriam: Dave Bartholomew (WWOZ)
* Dave Bartholomew, A Father Of Rock And Roll, Dead At 100 (NPR)
* Paul McCartney opens up about Abbey Road, the Beatles' breakup in wide-ranging interview (CBS News)
* Spotify: We ‘overpaid’ songwriters and their publishers in 2018, and we would like our money back (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* The hologram concert revolution is here, whether you like it or not: Meet the company touring Whitney Houston and Buddy Holly (Fast Company)
* Tacuma and The Last Poets Move Beyond the Nation’s Combative Moment (DownBeat)
* Pro Audio Weighs the Troubles with Tariffs (Pro Sound News)
* The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* 'Frank Zappa Coloring Book' to Be Released in November (Hollywood Reporter)
* Scenes From The Life Of A Young Jazz Musician (AllAboutJazz.com)
* This Drum Company Has Hardly Changed Since Lincoln Was President. Now It Serves the World's Best Musicians (Inc)
* Tony Bennett Boldly Delivers Imaginative Set at Ravinia (DownBeat)
* Riding high with Stanley Clarke (Jerusalem Post)
* No Cliches Allowed: Guitar Innovator Mary Halvorson Forges a New Way Ahead (SFJAZZ.org)
* Universal Music Group Archivist: Vault Fire Damage 'Surprisingly Overstated,' But Any Loss Is 'Painful for Us' (Billboard)
* A Beginner’s Guide to the epic music of King Crimson (TrebleZine.com)
* Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion (Longreads.com)
* Sadao Watanabe, Japan's godfather of jazz, passes on his wisdom (Japan Times)
* Searching for Scrapper Blackwell, the Most Popular Bluesman You've Never Heard (GuitarWorld.com)
* College music department resurrects long-lost funk music (Associated Press)
* Jenny Scheinman on Risk, Adventure and Starting a New Band with Allison Miller (DownBeat)
* Terence Blanchard on How Dr. John Captured the Sound of New Orleans (Time)
* Sound Hounds: How One Research Team Is Helping Preserve the Acoustics of Historic Places (SavingPlaces.org)
* Saying goodbye to Dr. John: Mac Rebennack’s memorial (Offbeat)
* The Accidental Beatle (Slate)
* British jazz gets a chance to shine at Glastonbury (The Guardian)

Sunday Session: May 13, 2018

Professor Longhair

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:

* How Avant-Garde Legend Cecil Taylor Inspired Idris Ackamoor’s Psychedelic Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Q&A: Former Times critic Robert Hilburn on writing about Paul Simon and the struggle to protect artistry (Los Angeles Times)
* The art of writing the perfect lullaby (QZ.com)
* 1920s to Now: Comparing Tonal Balance in Popular Music (Izotope.com)
* Healdsburg Fest ‘Spiritually’ Important for California  (DownBeat)
* Benny Golson, Matt Wilson, Maria Schneider Are Among the Winners of the JJA Awards (WBGO)
* 'It is a significant moment in the history of the music industry': Air Studios up for sale (Music Week)
* Jazz Giants Take The Stage At The NEA Jazz Masters Listening Party (NPR)
* Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man Brings Ancient Chinese Music To The Present (NPR)
* Johnny Cash's 'At Folsom Prison' at 50: An Oral History (Rolling Stone)
* Why Spotify Will Never Make Money (Fortune)
* TIDAL accused of deliberately faking Kanye West and Beyoncé streaming numbers (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Jazz Conversations — Azar Lawrence (WGBH)
* Do the major labels know something about Spotify that Wall Street doesn’t? (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Outsiders Festival a Showcase for Tacuma (DownBeat)
* Blue Note Documentary Screens at Tribeca Film Fest (DownBeat)
* Digital Jukeboxes Are Eroding the Dive-Bar Experience (The Atlantic)
* The Bad Plus: The Band That Never Stops (NPR)
* Bright Moments with Bassist Ron Carter (Jazz Times)
* Kinetic Improvisation - The guitarist Mary Halvorson’s music is exhilarating, unapologetically smart, and unspoiled by phoniness or pretense (The Nation)
* The Still-Burning Piano Genius of Professor Longhair (The New Yorker)
* Whole lotta debt: can Gibson guitars strike a chord again? (The Guardian)
* In Buffalo, hip-hop and jazz have formed a beautiful union (Buffalo News)
* Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Builds on the City’s History (DownBeat)
* [Photo Essay] Jazz Fest 2018: Late Night Ventures (Offbeat)
* Marcus Miller Hosts ASCAP Panel at ‘I Create Music’ Expo (DownBeat)
* iHeartMedia Still Owes Artists $16.4 Million. Now, It Wants to Pay Itself $108 Million in Bonuses (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* R+R=NOW to Release Debut Album in June - All-star sextet led by Robert Glasper blends multiple genres on "Collagically Speaking" (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: May 6, 2018

Dave Holland

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:

* No, Streaming Services Are Not 'Saving The Music Industry' (TheQuietus.com)
* Electricity: Conversations With Captain Beefheart (KCRW)
* Photos: Fats Domino's legacy enshrined with jazz funeral, totem unveiling at 2018 Jazz Fest (New Orleans Advocate)
* 50 years ago, a piano was dropped from a helicopter near Seattle: Here's what happened (KIRO)
* John Zorn’s Done With His Masada Project. So, What’s Next? (The Forward)
* Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (Pitchfork.com)
* Has Kansas City given the American Jazz Museum a fair shot at success? (Kansas City Star)
* On Music and Activism (Atavist.com)
* Jazz improv and your brain: The key to creativity? (CNN)
* Chick Corea On World Cafe (NPR)
* Tropicália: 5 Essential Albums That Defined Tropicalismo (Discogs.com)
* School Days: Jazz All-Stars Remember CAPA (Jazz Times)
* More music is played on YouTube than on Spotify, Apple Music and every other audio streaming platform combined (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Gibson Guitar Maker Files for Bankruptcy Protection (Billboard)
* Delmark Records founder sells label to Chicago musicians Julia A. Miller and Elbio Barilari (Chicago Tribune)
* A Map To The Line, And How Not To Cross It: A Code Of Conduct For The Performing Arts (NPR)
* Photos: 2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazz Times)
* Before & After with Bill Laswell (Jazz Times)
* James Brown Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks Dead at 79 (Rolling Stone)
* When Critics Could Kill (Slate)
* In Russia, International Jazz Day Reaches Across Borders (DownBeat)
* Dave Holland: A Seasoned Explorer Sails into Uncharted Territories (NationalSawdust.org)
* A Word with Award-Winning Jazz Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (WRTI)
* When America's hottest jazz stars were sent to cool cold-war tensions (The Guardian)
* Folkways - 70 Years, 70 Stories 1948-2018 (Smithsonian Institution)
* New Orleans Jazz Fest 2018: The 7 Best Things We Saw (Rolling Stone)
* All 214 Artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ranked From Best to Worst (Vulture.com)
* The secret life of a music director (Washington Post)
* Thomas Morgan: The Universal Answer (Jazz Times)
* We asked musicians why guitar companies like Gibson are struggling and how to revive them (MarketWatch.com)
* Orchestral musicians 'living on breadline' (BBC)