Sunday Session: July 28, 2019

Antonio Sánchez

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

* Cannonball: A Man of the People (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Curator’s Roundtable (OpenSkyJazz.com)
* The Bohemian Caverns building has a new tenant: restaurant and jazz venue Mama ‘San (CapitalBop.com)
* The ARP 2600 is still one of the most prized synthesizers today, here’s why (MusicTech.net)
* Antonio Sánchez on Touring Political Music and the Latitude ‘Bad Hombre’ has Provided (DownBeat)
* The Spirituality of Jazz at American Baptist College (Tennessee Tribune)
* Kit Downes Strikes a Balance (DownBeat)
* Art Neville, founding member of The Meters and Neville Brothers, has died (Offbeat)
* Experimentation and a Mastery of Music at Funchal Jazz Festival (DownBeat)
* New Orleans legend Art Neville, founder of the Meters and Neville Brothers, dies at 81 (NOLA.com)
* Jessye Norman Reflects on Her Jazz Influences, in Conversation with Rhonda Hamilton (WBGO)
* New York City’s Piano Bar Players Spill Their Secrets (InsideHook.com)
* The future of music notation in a digital world (Monash.edu)
* Felix Pastorius Pursues Multiple Paths (DownBeat)
* John Simon's Musical Life: Cheap Thrills, Big Pink & Other Hearsay (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Guitarist Bill Frisell goes solo at the Regattabar in Cambridge (WickedLocal.com)
* Yes, 85 Year Old Bluesman Bobby Rush Still Has It On New LP ‘Sitting On Top Of The Blues’ (INTERVIEW)(GlideMagazine.com)
* WOKE JAZZ: The Fast-Forward Evolution of British Jazz (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Rainbows, Frogs, Dogs, And 'The Muppet Movie' Soundtrack At 40 (NPR)
* The Language I Learned From Cassettes (NPR)
* The Green New Deal: Where Spotify Stands, And Where Artists Wish It Would (NPR)
* Preservation Hall Jazz Band Pilgramage to Cuba (SFJAZZ.org)
* How Long Does It Take to Make a Classic Album? (Pitchfork.com)
* More Complex Than Fame and Fortune: Bob Moog and the Modular Synth Boom (PopMatters.com)
* The Empathy and Interplay of Sullivan Fortner (DownBeat)
* Theo Bleckmann, Joseph Branciforte Investigate the Art of Ambient Improvisation (DownBeat)
* A Conversation with Jazz Legend Ron Carter (WhatsUpNewp.com)
* The Many Threads And Generations Of Chicano Soul, All In One Place (NPR)

Sunday Session: March 10, 2019

Dave Burrell

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:

* Kenny Garrett Interview (Jazz in Europe)
* This North Philly bar near Temple hosted legends like Coltrane and Patti LaBelle, but its owner refuses to sell (Philly.com)
* The Complex Sounds of Caspar Brötzmann (DownBeat)
* Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive (The New Yorker)
* Song You Need to Know: Joey DeFrancesco and Pharoah Sanders, ‘The Creator Has a Master Plan’ (Rolling Stone)
* Celebrating Pianist and Composer Dave Burrell at the Vision Festival — and on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Rebirth of the Cool (TheLAndMag.com)
* Smithsonian Folkways Details Massive New Orleans Jazz Fest Box Set (Rolling Stone)
* Is the album format irrelevant in the digital age? Let's investigate (Beat.com)
* World’s Largest Music Publishers Offer ‘Full Support of Warner/Chappell’ Against Spotify — Here’s Their Statement (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* When Jerry Lee Lewis Was Accused of Planning to Shoot Elvis Presley (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Wadada Leo Smith Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks in New Album (Qwest.tv)
* City to Honor ‘Lady Day’ with Statue at Queens Borough Hall (Queens Daily Eagle)
* The Sound of Evil (The American Scholar)
* Producer of ‘Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings’ Discusses Project in New Video (DownBeat)
* Eliane Elias: The Soul of Brazil (SFJAZZ.org)
* Revisit 50 years of Jazz Fest with comprehensive box set of live performances (Offbeat)
* A two-dimensional matrix: Carl Stone speaks to Emily Bick (The Wire)
* International Women’s Day: Meet the women shaping the future of music (Pro Sound News Europe)
* Spotify and Amazon ‘sue songwriters’ with appeal against 44% royalty rise in the United States (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Got $100k? Steinway’s iPad-capable piano turns you into a classical mixmaster (Syfy.com)
* Janis Joplin’s producer John Simon, a Norwalk native, has musical tastes that might surprise fan (Connecticut Post)
* Sandy Jordan: Keeping the Legacies Alive (Jazz Times)
* Laurie Anderson Interview: The Nature of the Mind (Atavist.com)
* Biamp PDX Jazz Festival Tastefully Pays Tribute to the Past (DownBeat)
* Take note – why do women composers still take up less musical space? (The Guardian)
* An interview with Bill Folwell (Point of Departure)
* In Memoriam: Ira Gitler (1928–2019) (DownBeat)