Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Sunday Session: March 26, 2017

Lee Morgan
Here are some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* How Spotify is finally gaining leverage over record labels (TechCrunch.com)
* Chuck Berry's Family Move Forward With Planned 'Chuck' LP (Rolling Stone)
* That Time Chuck Berry Punched Keith Richards in the Face (Guitar World)
* Chuck Berry's Guitarist Billy Peek Looks Back on 50 Years of Music and Friendship (Billboard)
* How Chuck Berry's Hometown St. Louis Inspired -- and Embittered -- Him (Billboard)
* Business-Savvy Chuck Berry Left Behind An Estimated $50 Million Estate (Billboard)
* Q&A with Dan Brubeck: Exploring Dad’s Songbook (DownBeat)
* Splitting Adams: John Adams' Chamber Symphonies (WQXR)
* Vision Festival 22 Lineup Announced (Jazz Times)
* Detroit Jazz Fest Names Wayne Shorter Artist-in-Residence (DownBeat)
* Rob Mazurek: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (AquariumDrunkard.com)
* Back when pop music was literary (The-TLS.co.uk)
* Is Texas, not Mississippi, the true home of the blues? (ABC.net.au)
* Cracking the Columbia Records Code (AnalogPlanet.com)
* Q&A with Gary Burton: A Fond Farewell (DownBeat)
* Inside Kamasi Washington's New Ode to Unity (Rolling Stone)
* Bob Dylan Talks Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Much More in Rare, Extensive Interview (Pitchfork)
* The Most Expensive Record Never Sold (NPR)
* From 'Hamilton' to Jazz at Lincoln Center: 10 Music Projects You Have the NEA to Thank For (Billboard)
* How Weather Report Rewrote the Rules of Jazz on ‘Heavy Weather’ (Observer.com)
* Muldrow Meets Mingus (NPR)
* Perspectives on music-making in a hyper-connected world (Ableton.com)
* Duke Ellington’s Faith (FirstThings.com)
* Q&A: Making sense of music through math (CBC)
* 'I Called Him Morgan' Is A Tale Of Marriage, Murder And Jazz, Told From Two Sides (WBGO)
* Stop Everything and Behold this Mini Art Deco Telephone Jukebox circa 1935 (MessyNessyChic.com)
* The Unofficial History of Home Recording: Big Hits from Bedroom Studios (SonicScoop.com)

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Sunday Session: January 22, 2017

Matthew Shipp
Here are some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Donny McCaslin: Bowie Deepened The Relationships In My Band (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Julius Eastman’s Guerrilla Minimalism (The New Yorker)
* Ex-Time Warner CEO reopens famed Harlem jazz club (New York Post)
* Why Has This One Bassline Been Sampled Seventy-Seven Times? (Vice.com)
* Prolific Free-Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Leaves Recording Behind (Village Voice)
* Music's Weird Cassette Tape Revival Is Paying Off (Fast Company)
* Mysterious Stone Instruments Keep Being Discovered in Vietnam (Atlas Obscura)
* “Not a political composer”: Interview with John Adams (Bachtrack.com)
* Is NYC (still) capital of jazz? (Jazz Beyond Jazz/ArtsJournal.com)
* Meyer's Ace Hardware Closing, Leaving Historic Jazz-Age Relics At Risk (DNAinfo.com)
* William Onyeabor: one of music’s most insoluble puzzles to the end (The Guardian)
* Susan Rogers: From Prince to Ph.D. (Tape Op)
* This Is the "Jass" Record That Introduced Millions of Americans to a New Kind of Music (Smithsonian)
* Bill Laswell Shares the Stories Behind Some of His Most Memorable Releases (Bandcamp.com)
* What 'La La Land' Gets Right About Jazz (Billboard)
* Projecting Trends: The Music Streaming Playlist Economy (Synchtank.com)
* Maria Schneider: Protecting the Power of Music (Jazz Times)
* If music was a regular job, would anyone do it? (Irish Times)