Sunday Session: November 18, 2018

Marshall Allen

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:

* I Thought CDs Were Supposed To Be Dying, But Maybe I Got It All Wrong (Forbes)
* Entangled in Berlin (TheBlueMoment.com)
* How a Lost Charles Mingus Recording Finally Saw the Light of Day (Bandcamp.com)
* The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album (The New Yorker)
* The Album Is in Deep Trouble – and the Music Business Probably Can’t Save it (Rolling Stone)
* Nate Smith: Taking Jazz Ahead (Jazz Times)
* ‘Black Fire’: The Andrew Hill Classic That Still Burns Bright (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* How Legendary Composer W.C. Handy Became The 'Father Of The Blues' (WBUR)
* Baku Jazz Festival 2018 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* A Legendary Van Morrison Recording Just Hit the Internet and Quickly Disappeared Again (SPIN)
* TONTO: The 50-Year Saga of the Synth Heard on Stevie Wonder Classics (Rolling Stone)
* Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find (The New Yorker)
* ‘Green Book’ Renders Don Shirley in Film (DownBeat)
* Aretha Franklin Touches The Infinite In The Long-Delayed Film 'Amazing Grace' (NPR)
* JazzFest Berlin Challenges Attendees with Audacious Programming (DownBeat)
* Stars Celebrate Joni Mitchell at 75 (DownBeat)
* Roy Clark, country guitar virtuoso, ‘Hee Haw’ star, has died (Associated Press)
* James Booker’s “The Lost Paramount Tapes” to be released on vinyl (Offbeat)
* ’63 Monk Tapes Released (DownBeat)
* Latin Music Is Reaching More Listeners Than Ever — But Who Is Represented? (Rolling Stone)
* Working to Preserve Traditional Gospel Music (LongReads.com)
* Marshall Allen Sticks To The Music (AntiGravityMagazine.com)
* Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art (New York Times)
* Jazz After College (Jazz Times)
* Hitting the Right Notes: Five Actors Who Played Real-Life Jazz Artists (Jazziz)
* Q&A: Ann Hampton Callaway: Creating Landscapes of Human Emotion (Jazziz)
* Strength & Power: In Praise of Roswell Rudd (Jazz Times)
* Crosley Is Now Releasing Retro Cassette Players Starting at $60 (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Setting the Record Straight: Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood On The Tracks’ (Guitarist Kevin Odegard Revisits the Sessions) (RockCellarMagazine.com)
* Iconic Guitar Builder Loses His Home and Workshop to Flames in Paradise (Popular Mechanics)
* Tony Allen: Jack of All Parades (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: December 4, 2016

Charles Lloyd

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

* Why Mary Halvorson Sounds Like No Other Guitarist (NPR)
* Jazz great Anthony Ortega maintains his sax appeal at 88 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
* Sun Ra: Singles review – a cosmic ride (The Guardian UK)
* The Top 25 Music Schools 2016 (Hollywood Reporter)
* Andrew Norman Wins The Grawemeyer Award For Music (NPR)
* Cuba: Music of a 'New Era' (Billboard)
* Recycling My Back Pages: A Music Writer/Collector Reflects on Disposing of His Magazine Archive (The Stranger)
* Forgotten audio formats: Wire recording - From espionage to home recording, the colorful life of the longest-used audio medium. (Ars Technica)
* Corea Elektric Band, Béla & Flecktones To Join Forces for 2017 Summer Tour (DownBeat)
* In Defense of Jazz (New Music Box)
* James Booker Was Hands Down the Greatest New Orleans Piano Player Ever (The Daily Beast)
* Darryl Jones: The unknown Stone (BBC)
* The weird and true story of Moondog (Macleans)
* God Is on the Loose! How the Tropicália Movement Provided Hope During Brazil’s Darkest Years (Pitchfork)
* What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music (Washington.edu)
* The Sex Pistols’ ‘Anarchy in the UK’ Is More Relevant Now Than Ever (Observer.com)
* The Re-Flowering: Charles Lloyd's Second Golden Age (The Atlantic)
* At 85, Jazz Guitarist and Educator Kenny Burrell Is Still Going Strong (LA Weekly)
* Chicago's new generation of bluesmen (The Guardian UK)
* Fidel Castro: A First-Person Account of the Day the Music Stopped in Cuba (Billboard)
* The Band Before They Were The Band: A Listening Guide (Pitchfork)
* Cécile McLorin Salvant On Past, Present, Future (RevueWM.com)

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: August 28, 2016

Wadada Leo Smith

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

* Reimagining Josephine Baker's Music in the Era of Black Lives Matter (New York Times)
* Is Sleep Music a Real Genre? (The Daily Beast)
* How Bad Urban Planning Led To The Birth Of A Billion-Dollar Genre (TheFader.com)
* Harmonica Virtuoso Toots Thielemans Dies at 94 (DownBeat)
* “Champeta is liberation”: The indestructible sound system culture of Afro-Colombia (FactMag.com)
* Zorn & Collaborators Hold Court in Engaging Vanguard Residency (DownBeat)
* Remembering Lou Pearlman: The Ponzi Schemer Who Spawned the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC & More (Billboard)
* A Visual History of Rock and Roll, Room by Empty Room (The New Yorker)
* How Sam Phillips Invented the Sound of Rock and Roll (Popular Mechanics)
* Grandmaster Flash on ‘The Get Down’ and how he used science to pioneer DJ techniques (Washington Post)
* ‘Sunday Night at the Vanguard’ by Fred Hersch Review - Looking at the special bond between a club and a composer (Wall Street Journal)
* Photography Book Documents Young Sinatra in New York (DownBeat)
* Divine disco: the beatific sub-genre that delivered sermons on the dancefloor (The Guardian UK)
* Why Japan has more old-fashioned music stores than anywhere else in the world (QZ.com)
* Sample Clearance Expert Pat “The Detective” Shannahan is The Avalanches’ Secret Weapon - The behind-the-scenes force for records by the Beastie Boys, Janet Jackson, Beck and more on 20 years of tracking down samples (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* See the Photographs That Captured the Icons of Jazz (TIME)
* Wadada Leo Smith Celebrates National Parks with Double Album (DownBeat)
* Legendary Jazz Recording Engineer Rudy Van Gelder Dies at 91 (DownBeat)
* Postscript: Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016), Modern Jazz’s Listener of Genius (The New Yorker)
* Herb Alpert Foundation to donate $10.1 million to LACC — making studies for music majors tuition-free (Los Angeles Times)
* Watch Dr. John Praise James Booker's Piano Genius (Rolling Stone)
* Angelo Badalamenti Reveals How He and David Lynch Composed the Twin Peaks‘ “Love Theme” (OpenCulture.com)
* Keeping the Blues Alive (Smithsonian)
* The Ballad of Big Freedia: How the New Orleans Bounce Icon Was Betrayed By Her City’s Housing Crisis (Pitchfork.com)

Sunday Session: July 10, 2016

Tyshawn Sorey

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

* Photos: DC Jazz Festival - Kamasi, Cécile, Revive, Marquis Hill and more perform (Jazz Times)
* Corea and Friends Take Part in Multi-Generational Tribute to Tyner (DownBeat)
* Jazz Legend Charlie Parker’s Mystery Music Uncovered (The Daily Beast)
* Live Springsteen: The Floodgates Have Opened (No Depression)
* Sony Music Tricked Michael Jackson Fans Into Buying Fake CDs (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Today In History – July 3, 1969: Newport Jazz Fest Experiments With Rock Music (What's Up Newport)
* Irvin Mayfield resigns as director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (Offbeat)
* Irvin Mayfield resigns from New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
* Hear Electronic Ladyland, a Mixtape Featuring 55 Tracks from 35 Pioneering Women in Electronic Music (OpenCulture.com)
* How Jazz-Loving Teenagers–the Swingjugend–Fought the Hitler Youth and Resisted Conformity in Nazi Germany (OpenCulture.com)
* BadBadNotGood: making jazz hip (hop) again (The Guardian UK)
* Critic's Notebook: Who Will Write the First Great Rock 'n' Roll TV Drama? (Hollywood Reporter)
* The Long Play: The Death and Resurrection of the Pop Album (ThirdBridgeCreative.com)
* Carl Allen: Learning From the Giants (Modern Drummer)
* 10 Cutting-Edge Artists That Have Captured the Imagination Mid-Year (WQXR)
* JALC Announces 2016 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Inductees (Jazz Times)
* Iyer, Sorey, Crump Rekindle Bonds at Chicago’s Constellation (DownBeat)
* Beyond “La Bamba”: Los Lobos is the best rock band nobody’s listening to (A.V. Club)
* Review: Steps Ahead at Ronnie Scott's (Jazz Journal UK)
* Bayou Maharaja: James Booker, the tragic genius of New Orleans (The Independent UK)
* Is jazz entering a new golden age? (The Guardian UK)
* Inside the Oldest Labor Union for Black Musicians (Atlas Obscura)
* Benny Golson Remembers John Coltrane (Jazz Times)
* Kansas City Union, Home to Bird and Basie, Plans Centennial Celebration (DownBeat)