Sunday Session: October 6, 2019

Wallace Roney

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

* NIH Bets $20 Million Music Can Heal Our Brains (Forbes.com)
* Chicago’s Hidden Indie Rock Archive (WBEZ)
* The New Golden Age of Jazz Radio (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Wilco’s Search for Joy (SPIN)
* The captivating story behind John Coltrane’s lost soundtrack for a Québécois filmmaker (GQ)
* Theo Croker Steps Out (Jazz Times)
* Larry Willis, Resourceful Pianist at Home in Several Divergent Styles, Has Died at 76 (WBGO)
* Larry Willis 1942-2019 (Jazz Times)
* Tyshawn Sorey: Music and Mindfulness (New Music Box)
* How Wallace Roney Taught His Young Ensemble to ‘Trust the Music’ (DownBeat)
* How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music (The New Yorker)
* King Crimson’s ’21st Century Schizoid Man’: Inside Prog’s Big Bang (Rolling Stone)
* Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter stops mid-concerto as audience member starts filming (ClassicFM.com)
* ACT Devises Tribute to Pannonica de Koenigswarter (DownBeat)
* Richard Wyands 1928-2019 (Jazz Times)
* Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (By the Book) (PopMatters.com)
* Monterey Festival Celebrates Risk-Taking Artists (DownBeat)
* Capturing the Ephemeral Beauty of Improvisation (New York Review of Books)
* Cab Calloway’s childhood house will be razed, HCD says (BaltimoreBrew.com)
* Turning The Tables: Celebrating Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Music (NPR)
* Guitarist Bill Frisell Picks His Favorite Blue Note Albums (Jazziz)
* At A Korean Jazz Picnic, No Need To Know The Music (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The economics of streaming is changing pop songs (The Economist)
* At New York Listening Session, Harry Connick Jr. Connects to Cole Porter (DownBeat)
* The soul of a jazz man (Harvard.edu)

Sunday Session: September 22, 2019

Harold Mabern

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

* California Senate Passes Gig Economy Bill That Could 'Gut the Music Industry' (Billboard)
* The World Of Celia Cruz: A Turning The Tables Playlist (NPR)
* Steve Dalachinsky, Poet Who Chronicled and Championed the Jazz Avant-Garde, Dies at 72 (WBGO)
* Steve Dalachinsky, Poet and Pillar of NYC Jazz Scene, Dies at 72 (Jazz Times)
* In Memory of the Critic’s Trade (21CM.org)
* The Village Vanguard: NYC's Bright Red Shrine To Jazz (Patch.com)
* Martin, Medeski & Wood to Premiere New Documentary (Jazz Times)
* Everybody forgets Creedence Clearwater Revival headlined Woodstock in 1969. A new live recording will change that (Chicago Tribune)
* Celia Cruz: The Voice Of Experience (NPR)
* Apple Sued for Copyright Infringement, Pirating Musical Works Recorded by some of the Greatest Jazz & Popular Artists of all Time (PatentlyApple.com)
* Creepy Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Is Officially Happening (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* The Hardest Song I Ever Chased (Vulture.com)
* Keyboardist Robert Glasper to Play 56 Shows at New York’s Blue Note (DownBeat)
* The Incomparable Django (Commentary)
* Spotify: ‘Owning’ discovery of music will lead to improved gross margin (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* A Century Ago, This Eerie-Sounding Instrument Ushered in Electronic Music (Smithsonian)
* We’ve Got A File On You: Jeff Tweedy (Stereogum.com)
* As jazz elder statesman, Pat Metheny embraces band of up-and-comers (Columbus Dispatch)
* Johnathan Blake: Fascinated by Rhythm (Jazz Times)
* Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash Session Unearthed for Bootleg Series (Pitchfork)
* Memphis jazz great Harold Mabern has died (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Poncho Sanchez Provides the Percussive Punctuation (DownBeat)
* Why Is American Classical Music So White? (NPR)
* Watch Bassist Linda May Han Oh Perform Her Dynamic New Project, 'Aventurine' (NPR)
* With The Emmys Around The Corner, A Look At What Makes Good TV Theme Music (WBUR)
* How composer Terence Blanchard wove history into the score for “Harriet” (Fast Company)
* Jazz Pioneer Bennie Maupin’s Next Chapter (Good Times)
* Sunshine Superman: The Transformation of Donovan Leitch (PleaseKillMe.com)