Sunday Session: March 3, 2019

Kurt Elling

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:

* Ennio Morricone settles old scores with ‘simplistic’ directors (The Guardian)
* High Point Plans To Preserve John Coltrane's Childhood Home (WFDD)
* Cosmic jazz for modern times: an interview with Sun Ra Arkestra (Beat.com.au)
* Ira Gitler, Influential and Impassioned Jazz Critic, Historian and Advocate, Dies at 90 (WBGO)
* Worcester native Jaki Byard inspires as jazz artist, educator (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
* Kurt Elling Talks About 'The Big Blind,' His New Jazz Melodrama, Coming to JALC (WBGO)
* Kurt Elling Readies The Big Blind for NYC Premiere (Jazz Times)
* Jamie Saft Delves into Rich Conversations on new RareNoise Disc (DownBeat)
* Tea at The St. Regis (GreenleafMusic.com)
* EXCLUSIVE TRAILER: Wynton Marsalis Brings Jazz Pioneer Buddy Bolden’s music to life in ‘Bolden’ (TheGrio.com)
* The So-Called 'Local Radio Freedom Act' Is Actually an Anti-Creator, Anti-Property-Rights Bill (Guest Column) (Billboard)
* Oscar Peterson Festival Highlights Canadian Talent (DownBeat)
* Cooper-Moore: Catharsis and Creation in Community Spirit (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The many faces of Bill Frisell in Berkeley residency (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Rhiannon Giddens’ 21st-Century Sound Has a Long History (Smithsonian)
* Neneh Cherry: ‘All that awkward stuff became a force’ (Yorkshire Post)
* The web is killing newspaper arts critics like me. Why that matters (Fast Company)
* WATCH: See Soul Singer Al Green Preach at His Church in Memphis (Southern Living)
* A Guide to Harry Nilsson, Who You've Loved Forever Without Knowing It (Vice.com)
* Gaffer Tape Inventor Ross Lowell Dead at 92 (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Allison Miller’s Life of Juxtapositions (DownBeat)
* U.S. Music Industry Generated $9.8 Billion in 2018, Third Straight Year of Double-Digit Growth: RIAA (Billboard)
* André Previn, Musical Polymath, Has Died At Age 89 (NPR)
* Do the Rite thing: how Stravinsky's Rite of Spring changed music for ever (The Guardian)
* RIP, Ed Bickert (Ottawa Citizen)
* Yusuke Ogawa: The man in Japan giving jazz fans their rare record fix (Japan Times)
* Delving deep into the Kanto jazz bar scene (Japan Times)
* Joe Lovano Moves on to the Next Chapter (DownBeat)
* Sun Ra: “There’s a lot of strange stuff that goes on around the pyramids – why don’t you bring a tape?” (Uncut)
* New Orleans Music: From Mardi Gras To The Meters… And All That Jazz (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Has Spotify’s Warner bust-up spooked Wall Street? (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Ears Embiggened – 50 Years of Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future (ImmuneToBoredom.com)

Sunday Session: December 31, 2017

Donny Hathaway

Here's the roundup of various music-related items of interest that have shown up in one of StLJN's inboxes over the past week:

* Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield keeps on making music, despite federal indictment (New Orleans Advocate)
* Is Music Getting Shorter? How Hot 100 Hits Downsized In 2017 (Billboard)
* Holiday travel woes? Try flying with a tuba (Cincinnati Enquirer)
* 'This Christmas': How a Chicago postal worker and Donny Hathaway created a holiday classic (Chicago Tribune)
* The Bad Plus Interviews 2017: Introduction (Bebopified.com)
* Interview: Jamie Saft (Burning Ambulance)
* This Is The Odd Writing Technique Used by David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, and Bob Dylan (Curiosity.com)
* Streaming Services and the End of Music Collection (Variety)
* Brian Eno Presents a Crash Course on How the Recording Studio Radically Changed Music: Hear His Influential Lecture “The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool” (1979) (OpenCulture.com)
* Hackers Can Rickroll Thousands of Sonos and Bose Speakers Over the Internet (Wired)
* Paul McCartney's One on One Tour Earns $132 Million in 2017 (Billboard)
* Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri Doesn't Miss A Beat at 81 (NPR)
* Sidran, Willis Deliver Intense Sets in Paris (DownBeat)
* In A New Book, A Musician And A Scientist Describe Their Lives At the South Pole (KUT)
* Five visions for the future of music (BBC)
* Deluxe Reissue of Sonny Rollins’ “Way Out West” Out Feb. 16 (Jazz Times)
* 'The Coolest Job In The World': Fenway's Organist Talks Music And Baseball (WBUR)
* Tropicalia Music Still Speaks To Young Marginalized Urban Brazilians (NPR)
* Not dead yet: Record executives fight for compact disc's future (CBC)
* The explosive influence of Chicago’s AACM and the records it created (TheVinylFactory.com)
* A bluesy winter night in New York with Slim Harpo (Salon.com)