Sunday Session: July 4, 2021

Sun Ra

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

* Congressmen Introduce American Music Fairness Act to Compel Radio to Pay Royalties on Recorded Music (Variety)
* Experimental Musicians Turn to Multimedia Art During the COVID-19 Pandemic (TheRoadToSound.com)
* Jon Hassell, avant garde US composer, dies aged 84 (The Guardian)
* How Sun Ra Taught Us to Believe in the Impossible (The New Yorker)
* Anitta, ‘The Girl From Rio,’ on Interpolating the Classic ‘Ipanema’ Melody for a U.S. Pop Breakthrough (Variety)
* Burton Greene, Pioneering Free Jazz Pianist, Dies at 84 (WBGO)
* Zenón Finds Light in Ornette (DownBeat)
* 20-Year-Old Pi Recordings Builds Path from Past to Future (DownBeat)
* The pop star versus the playlist (Vox.com)
* Spotify Executive Calls Artist ‘Entitled’ for Requesting Payment of One Penny Per Stream (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Elk Live promises next-gen remote collaboration: “play music together like you’re in the same room” (MusicRadar.com)
* The Smithsonian Institution to release 129-song anthology of rap music (NME.com)
* Queen are making £100,000 a day from ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ biopic (NME.com)
* Rock sideman Earl Slick: ‘Bowie had gone levels into insanity’ (The Guardian)
* Less Than 5% of Pandemic Relief Funds for Nightlife Venues Have Been Distributed. Owners Fear the Show Might Not Go On (Time)
* “Blue” Gene Tyranny Was Texas’s Greatest Piano Prodigy (Texas Monthly)
* Herbie Hancock’s favourite books of all time (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Nels Cline: "I had no desire to gyrate and hump my amplifier and set my guitar on fire – I wanted to take a modest path" (Guitar World)
* A Conversation with Mr. Ron Carter (BassMusicianMagazine.com)

Sunday Session: August 2, 2020

Ornette Coleman

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

* Chris Spedding: living life backwards (Jazz Journal)
* What Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Mean To Jazz (DownBeat)
* Sullivan Fortner: Before & After (Jazz Times)
* Unsolved Mysteries: Conglomerate Records (AnomalyIndex.com)
* Jon Hassell, music's great globetrotter: 'Be more aware of the rest of the world!' (The Guardian)
* New Lives: Experimental, Folk, and Jazz Artists Revitalize the Live Album (Bandcamp.com)

* Book Review: Ornette Coleman –The Life of a Jazz Visionary (ArtFuse.org)
* Jazz Commentary: Ornette Coleman — An Outsider Cracks the Egg (ArtsFuse.org)
* TRIBUTE: Anita Wardell remembers Annie Ross (London Jazz News)
* When jazz royalty came to Paly: Monk's long-lost record (nearly) goes public (PaloAltoOnline.com)
* New Bill Aims To Help Music Venues Suffering Amid COVID-19 Pandemic (NPR)
* 17 pro guitarists who play cheap guitars (Guitar World)
* Remembering Fleetwood Mac Founder Peter Green, The Soulful Voice Of British Blues (NPR)
* Senators Introduce Bill to Fund Independent Venues Struggling During COVID-19 (Rolling Stone)
* Rhiannon Giddens Named Artistic Director of Silkroad (BroadwayWorld.com)
* Danny Scher: Back To School With Thelonious Monk (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Academic Programs Restructure Amid Pandemic (DownBeat)
* Interview with Latin Jazz Musician and Educator John Santos (WorldMusicCentral.org)
* Fishbone’s (mostly) original lineup working on first new album in decades; Fat Mike producing (Brooklyn Vegan)
* Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians may no longer be able to release music only “once every three to four years” (TheFader.com)
* Interview: Jeff Parker on Chopping and Assembling "Max Brown" (Reverb.com)
* Where Are The Thousands Of Nazi-Looted Musical Instruments? (NPR)
* Spotify thinks the Top 40 is over (and other key takeaways from its Q2 results) (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* The Stars Shine: A Newport Jazz Festival Special (NPR)
* The “Palo Alto” record: How a high schooler, a janitor and Thelonius Monk made local history (TheSixFifty.com)
* Spotify CEO talks Covid-19, artist incomes and podcasting (interview) (MusicAlly.com)

Sunday Session: April 26, 2020

Cándido Camero

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

* Kansas City Musicians Win Grocery Money In Charlie Parker Song Contest (KCUR)
* Giuseppi Logan 1935–2020 (The Wire)
* Ian Whitcomb ‘You Turn Me On’ Singer, Dead at 78 (BestClassicBands.com)
* Facing An Uncertain Future, Jazz Artists Get Creative (DownBeat)
* Checking in on the Village Vanguard, New York’s oldest jazz club (JewishInsider.com)
* Jon Hassell: Words with the Shaman (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Deep Dive: A Toast to Candido, Who Holds the Key to Conga Drumming, As He Turns 99 (WBGO)
* REPORT | Live Streaming Is Here To Stay — The Future Of An Emerging Technology (Ludwig-Van.com)
* The coronavirus-related death toll in jazz keeps rising, to tragic effect (Chicago Tribune)
* Giuseppi Logan rises to the stars (NoSoundLeftBehind.com)
* William Parker pays tribute to Henry Grimes (1935–2020) (The Wire)
* More Than 800 Music Venues Join Together to Ask Congressional Leaders for Aid (Rolling Stone)
* 'Fetch Your Tool Of Liberation': Fiona Apple On Setting Herself Free (NPR)
* COVID-19 Claims The Lives Of Countless Artists (DownBeat)
* Angel Bat Dawid: An Epic Artist’s Choice (Jazz Times)
* What Brought Beyoncé, U2, and BTS to Amish Country? (Esquire)
* Makaya McCraven Makes The Old New Again (DownBeat)
* How the fake Beatles conned South America (BBC)
* Bootsie Barnes, Saxophonist and Cornerstone of Philadelphia Jazz, Dies of COVID-19 at 82 (WBGO)
* Sales of Instruments and Music Gear Are Soaring. Will Quarantine Spark a Renaissance? (Rolling Stone)
* Zena’s Flyer (CarnegieHall.org)
* Music legend Bohannon passes (Newnan Times-Herald)
* Library of Congress Launches Open-Source Hip-Hop Sampling Tool (ConsequenceOfSound.net)

Sunday Session: March 15, 2020

Roy Haynes

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

* Long-Overdue Love for Louie (Premier Guitar)
* Word crimes? 'Weird Al Seriously' takes academic look at beloved parody musician (Bakersfield Californian)
* “An Evening with Branford Marsalis” at the Patchogue Theatre (Long Island Advance)
* In Praise of Roy Haynes: A Take Five Tribute to the Peerless Jazz Drummer, As He Turns 95 (WBGO)
* Interview: South Africa's Nduduzo Makhathini On His Upcoming Blue Note Records Debut (OkayAfrica.com)
* Trad-Jazz Revivalist Bria Skonberg Explores New Territory (Jazz Times)
* Growth, Change Apparent at PDX Festival (DownBeat)
* Jon Hassell :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (AquariumDrunkard.com)
* How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System (NYU.edu)
* Co-Producer Of PBS Chuck Berry Show Talks Star-Studded Guest List (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* For Jeff “Tain” Watts, it’s all about the purity in music (Jazz.fm)
* The confounding career of Pat Metheny (New Zealand Listener)
* Cold Fusion: The Search for the Jazz/Rock Unicorn, Part 1 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* McCoy Tyner: essential albums (Jazzwise)
* James Taylor & John Pizzarelli: Setting a Standard (Jazz Times)
* Kassa Overall Unpacks His “Backpack Jazz” Approach (Bandcamp.com)
* ‘Everything Is in Chaos’: The Concert Business Stands to Lose Billions From Coronavirus (Rolling Stone)
* Why Cancel Concerts? A Doctor Explains Coronavirus’ Spread (Rolling Stone)
* Bassist Linda May Han Oh Is A Musician Rooted In Curiosity (NPR)
* Musicians Were Depending On Those Jazz Nights And Senior Living Gigs (NPR)
* Pat Metheny Expands His Vision on ‘From This Place’ (DownBeat)
* Bird land: Jaimie Branch takes jazz to new heights (Columbia Daily Tribune)
* Sound Of Silence Banishes Music Across The Land (ClassicalVoiceAmerica.org)

Sunday Session: July 1, 2018

Don Cherry

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:

* Catherine Russell: Queen of the Armstrong Blues (Jazz Times)
* Legendary Experimental Composer Jon Hassell Is Still Dreaming Up New Worlds (Vice.com)
* What happened to the blues? (Chicago Defender)
* DC Jazz Festival Reaches New Peak with Sanders, Carrington (DownBeat)
* Spotify Can Boost an Artist’s Royalties by $163,000 With One Playlist Add, Study Calculates (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* DownBeat Announces Winners of 2018 Critics Poll (DownBeat)
* Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas step up with Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard (Jazzwise)
* The Saxophone’s Unlikely Journey Out of Meme Hell (Vice.com)
* Thelonious Monk Inside Out: A Fresh Perspective On His Music (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Story of Don Cherry’s Forgotten Classic “Home Boy (Sister Out)” (Bandcamp.com)
* Swedish Jazz, Excavated (DownBeat)
* How Did A Major Label Manage To Lose A John Coltrane Record? (TheQuietus.com)
* Composing Your Thoughts (Nautilus)
* WOULD SUIT MUSIC SCHOOL: How Total Refreshment Centre became the collaborative heart of London (TheVinylFactory.com)
* R+R=NOW’s Robert Glasper On Being Free AF For Juneteenth, ‘Collagically Speaking’ & More [Interview] (OkayPlayer.com)
* Kamasi Washington, the wisest man on Earth (TheFader.com)
* Jazz great Sheila Jordan's 70-year career was launched by a single song (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
* A Year After Geri Allen’s Death, A Tribute From Howard University (DownBeat)
* John Coltrane's 'Lost Album' Is A Window Into His Pursuit Of The Impossible (NPR)
* The Average Working Musician Makes Less Than an Uber Driver, Study Finds (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Antiquated copyright laws threaten aging musicians: Guest opinion (Portland Oregonian)
* A sound supreme: lost John Coltrane treasures rediscovered (Irish Times)
* When Miles Davis and Charlie Parker were in SF, this was the go-to club (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Deep Dive with Lewis Porter: Considering John Coltrane's 'Lost Album,' From All Directions (WBGO)
* This music is designed for extraterrestrials. Listen carefully (BigThink.com)
* Jon Hassell at 81: Visionary Composer-Trumpeter Reflects on a Half Century of Music on His Own Terms (Billboard)
* Angry George Benson fans BOO legendary star and demand refunds when he loses his voice and can't sing during Royal Albert Hall concert (Daily Mail)
* Raymond Scott, the musical genius you probably don't know, is getting his own L.A. festival (Los Angeles Times)
* 50th anniversary editions of The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' due Aug. 31 (Los Angeles Times)
* Ravi Coltrane On the State of Jazz & Why John Coltrane's Lost Album Couldn't Have Been Found at a Better Time (Billboard)

Sunday Session: October 1, 2017

Bud Powell

Here's the roundup of various music-related items of interest that have appeared in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Why Do Orchestras Seem to Play Behind the Beat? (WQXR)
* How jazz is becoming the sound of resistance once again (Salon.com)
* Patti LaBelle: New Jazz Attitude (Jazz Times)
* An introduction to Jon Hassell in 10 records (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Giving peace a chance? Music can drive us apart as much as it unites (TheConversation.com)
* Reminiscing with Latin-jazz legend Eddie Palmieri (Jazz Times)
* From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity (The New Yorker)
* Labels And Artists Lending A Hand To Those Affected By Natural Disasters (NPR)
* Meet Jason DeMarco, The Reason Adult Swim’s Music Is So Good (Pitchfork.com)
* A Century Of Song: Monk At 100 (SFJAZZ.org)
* Playlist of the Lambs: psychopaths may have distinct musical preferences (The Guardian)
* Frank Zappa’s 1977 Halloween residency to be released as 158-track costume box set (ConsequenceOfSound.com)
* 70s boombox makes comeback, attracts new generation (KyodoNews.com)
* Was the Blues Born on a Vaudeville Stage? (PopMatters.com)
* Spotify Is Paying $2.77 Million a Month In Rent for Its World Trade Center Offices (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* How Facebook Is Trying to Avoid a Public Relations Disaster with Songwriters (TheStreet.com)
* Bizarre footage shows trumpet-playing bear travelling in motorcyclist's sidecar while sitting at traffic lights (The Mirror)
* America's Small Cities Are Betting Their Second Act on Festivals (Jezebel.com)
* New York Hot Jazz Festival Electrifies McKittrick Hotel (DownBeat)
* The Summer of Yoko Ono Ends with Shrieks and Screams (Smithsonian)
* Bud Powell Revisited (NEPR.net)
* Coltrane’s Hidden Gems: A Seeker’s Guide (EstheticLens.com)
* A Walk Through The Avant-Garde World of ‘Art Rap’ Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Hugh Hefner's Big Contributions to Jazz (WBGO)
* Technician of the Sacred - Three recent books demonstrate that John Cage is overdue for a populist revival (Utne.com)
* Ostrava Days, Brooklyn Nights - On Hypocrisy and Insularity in New Music (Atavist.com)
* Linda Ronstadt: 'I don’t like any of my albums' (The Guardian)
* Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans and Chicago (AllAboutJazz.com)
* How Instagram Became The Music Industry’s Secret Weapon (Fast Company)
* A Guide to U.K. Jazz in 2017 (Bandcamp.com)
* Q&A: John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring (Jazz Times)
* Which Two Songs Are the First to Be Encoded Into the Fabric of Life? (AtlasObscura.com)