Showing posts with label João Gilberto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label João Gilberto. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Sunday Session: July 14, 2019

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

* All hail young blues aristocrat Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram (Guitar)
* An evening with João Gilberto, the bright wallflower of bossa nova (The Guardian)
* Burning Its Way Toward A Musical Sweet Spot - Interview With Burnt Sugar Founder Greg Tate (SFJAZZ.org)
* How Richmond jazz legend Lonnie Liston Smith is bridging generations (WTVR)
* Herbie Hancock still experimenting after six musical decades (Vancouver Sun)
* When Mingus met Mitchell (Jazz Journal)
* The Black Swan: A History of Race Records (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Snapshot NY: Tiny Harlem Apartment Home To Popular Jazz Parlor (NewYork.CBSLocal.com)
* Artist Spotlight: Vijay Iyer (Jazz Times)
* An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness (The New Yorker)
* Kamasi Washington Says Security Guard Assaulted His Father at Austria Show, Cuts Set Short (Pitchfork.com)
* ‘Getz At The Gate’: A Scintillating Performance By A Dynamic Stan Getz (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Sun Ra: The Philadelphia Years (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Sisters of Swing (Vanity Fair)
* 'We need to put inclusion at the start of the process': the disabled musicians making their own instruments (The Guardian)
* Ernest Dawkins on AACM, Conduction and Dictators (DownBeat)
* Seamus Blake Is Playing Between Many Worlds (Jazz Times)
* Steps Taken That Could Determine The Fate Of The Former Home Of Jazz Musician Cab Calloway (Baltimore.CBSLocal.com)
* Finding 'The Balance': Jazz Legend Abdullah Ibrahim Looks To Past, Present And Future (NPR)
* Ban Brass Bands On Frenchmen? (Offbeat)
* Mini model of Stonehenge created by scientists could reveal how the ancient monument SOUNDED during the mysterious rituals held at the site more than 2,000 years ago (Daily Mail)
* A jazz legend said he was in desperate need of money. His friends had questions (Washington Post)
* An Alternate Canon of Afrofuturist Classics (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Jimmie Vaughan Digs into Covers (DownBeat)
* Flutes you: Lizzo and the woodwind renaissance (The Guardian)
* The Legacy of Live Aid, 30 Years Later (The Atlantic)
* The Science of Sound: An Interview with Alvin Lucier (SecondInversion.com)
* In Conversation: The Fast-Paced Life of Bill Frisell (Jazz in Europe)
* Janis Siegel: Answering the Calling of Vocal Jazz (Jazz Times)

Sunday, July 07, 2019

Sunday Session: July 7, 2019

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

* Mo’ Fess: Professor Longhair’s band brings the magic back (Offbeat)
* Fight The Power: The Most Provocative Song Ever (BBC)
* The Lighthouse celebrates 70th year as bastion of jazz in Hermosa Beach (The Beach Reporter)
* Remembering American Roots Inspiration Delaney Bramlett (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Ivan Conti’s Been Combining Jazz, Rock, Samba for Decade (DownBeat)
* Suzanne Ciani Gets Loud at the Library (Pro Sound News)
* Epidemic Sound raises $20M at a $370M valuation for its soundtrack music discovery and licensing platform (TechCrunch.com)
* The story of Duke Ellington’s Anatomy of a Murder score (Little White Lies)
* Rick Lawn: The Evolution of Big Band Sounds in America (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Spotify ends direct music uploads for indie artists (Engadget.com)
* Jazz Community Takes Action for Kenny Burrell (Jazz Times)
* Jimmie Vaughan: Emperor of Tone (Premier Guitar)
* Gibson Guitar Declares Shift In IP Enforcement After Most Recent Public Backlash (TechDirt.com)
* Stevie Wonder has ongoing medical issue but remains in 'great spirits,' friends say (Detroit Free Press)
* Stevie Wonder Announces Plans for Kidney Transplant Surgery: 'I Have a Donor, It’s All Good' (People)
* How music about space became music about drugs (MIT Technology Review)
* Dr. John: A Pianist’s Remembrance (Jazz Times)
* JazzTimes 10: Very Late Duke Ellington Albums (Jazz Times)
* João Gilberto, a pioneer of bossa nova, has died at 88 (CNN)