Sunday Session: August 19, 2018

Aretha Franklin

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:

* How Much Does It REALLY Cost To Be A Classical Musician? (Ludwig-Van.com)
* Live Review: 45th Umbria Jazz Festival (DownBeat)
* Review: Warsaw Summer Jazz Days (Jazz Journal)
* A Listener’s Guide to “Loud Jazz” (Jazz Times)
* Chicago Jazz Festival to Mark 40th Anniversary (DownBeat)
* Jazz In The 21st Century Is All About 'Playing Changes' (NPR)
* “You Haven’t Done Enough To Be The Way You Are.” Robert Glasper Speaks On Lauryn Hill’s Mistreatment of Artists (MadameNoire.com)
* Top 10 Moments of the 2018 Newport Jazz Festival (Jazz Times)
* The American guitar industry is making a serious comeback (Yahoo.com)
* Warner Music Buying Uproxx Is a Depressing Look Into the Music Industry’s Monolithic Future (SPIN)
* We Shall Overcome publisher handed $352,000 legal bill after song declared public domain (CompleteMusicUpdate.com)
* Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew" (SFJAZZ.org)
* Inhabiting Sound: Matana Roberts Speaks (JazzSpeaks.org)
* A Miraculous Field Recording: The Guitar Playing of Joseph Spence (The New Yorker)
* 'It's a code for living': Gregory Porter and José James on the music of their heroes (Los Angeles Times)
* Nate Chinen on ’70s and ’80s Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Jimmy Page and the Grouses of the Holy (GQ)
* When Music Was Bigger Than Life: Sonny Rollins in New York City (TownTopics.com)
* Why Are Record Companies Dumping Their Spotify Stock? (NoVA.edu)
* Thank god for the return of the generation gap in pop (The Spectator)
* In Memoriam: Aretha Franklin (DownBeat)
* Aretha Franklin Was America's Truest Voice (NPR)
* 'She doesn't just move you, she shakes you': all-star tributes to Aretha Franklin (The Guardian)
* Aretha Franklin, a 'performer without peers' (Detroit News)
* How Aretha Franklin’s Jazz Beginnings Predicted Her Genre-Transcending Career (Rolling Stone)
* Tyshawn Sorey Travels Further Out on New Works (DownBeat)
* "The Sleeping Bear" Awakens: The Revival of the Hammond B-3 Organ (SFJAZZ.org)
* Musicians only received 12% of the music industry’s $43 billion revenue in 2017 (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom (The Nation)
* Pop Songs in English, Written by Native Speakers of Swedish (The Paris Review)
* Ulysses Owens’ Delivers Poignant Messages on Freedom (DownBeat)
* Prince Estate and Sony Release 23 Long-Unavailable Albums Digitally (Variety)
* This Black Woman Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her (Narrative.ly)

Sunday Session: December 27, 2015

Terence Blanchard

For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have turned up recently in StlJN's inbox:

* Did the CIA’s Experiments With Psychedelic Drugs Unwittingly Create the Grateful Dead? (Medium.com/Collector's Weekly)
* A New Music Journey From The U.S. To Havana (NPR)
* 'Chi-Raq' Composer on Longtime Collaboration With Spike Lee: "It's a Mind-Meld Kind of Thing" (Hollywood Reporter)
* Jazz at Lincoln Center Opens Redesigned Atrium (Jazz Times)
* Music in 2030 (DavidEmeryOnline.com)
* Forget 1966, because 1981 was pop's year of revolution (The Guardian UK)
* The Data Behind A Hit Single (Hypebot.com)
* Fusion Reaction - Young artists are drawing new energy from forgotten electric jazz (Jazz Times)
* Dr. John promises a 'different curvature' for each night -- Dec. 27, 28 -- at Tipitina's (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
* Columbia House To Relaunch With Vinyl (Stereogum)
* The Most-Covered Christmas Songs Ever (FiveThirtyEight.com)
* Thanks to Brainfeeder, West Coast Jazz Is Cool Again (LA Weekly)
* Jamie Cullum and José James on Billie Holiday (Jazz Times)
* Interview With Blues Legend And “Last Man Standing,” Bobby Rush (Elmore)
* The strange story of Sun Ra’s lost doo-wop Christmas hit (The Vinyl Factory)
* Bill Evans - The Secret Sessions (Jazz Profiles)
* Pictures Of Infinity: Stewart Smith on the Cosmic Jazz Connection (The Wire)
* Crackle goes pop: how Stockhausen seduced the Beatles (The Guardian UK)
* John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' at 50: Saxophonists Ravi Coltrane & Archie Shepp Look Back (Billboard)