Sunday Session: September 6, 2020

Makaya McCraven

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

* Play what you see: how graphic scores can unleash your inner musical genius (The Guardian)
* At home with Paul McCartney: His most candid interview yet (GQ)
* Trent Reznor talks ‘Watchmen’ score, covering Bowie’s “Life on Mars” & more in new interview (BrooklynVegan.com)
* Chick Corea: Chelsea boy makes good (Bay State Banner)
* The Friendship Of Kahil El’Zabar And David Murray Grows Deeper (DownBeat)
* Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument (Science News)
* Dolly Jones, the First Recorded Female Jazz Trumpeter (Reverb.com)
* Endless Field Records in the Wild (Jazz Times)
* In Memoriam: Saxophonist Mark Colby (DownBeat)
* Kenny Washington’s Slow Rise to Vocal Stardom (Jazz Times)
* Who will own the virtual concert space? (Music Industry Blog)
* Makaya McCraven: Cross Border Traffic (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Personal Story: My failed music career (New Statesman)
* Live Music Is On Life Support (Offbeat)
* Wynton Marsalis: ‘Continue to fight for the world you envision’ (San Jose Mercury News)
* Meet the Man Who Used Kraftwerk, Fela Kuti, and Other Fascinating Music to Try to Lure Aliens to Earth (Pitchfork.com)
* Maria Schneider Split Between Natural, Digital Worlds (DownBeat)
* “It Takes a While to Perfect Your Soul”: A Conversation With Sonny Rollins (Tidal.com)
* The Jazz Collective Drowning Out Far-Right Rallies with Terrible Music (Vice.com)
* The John Cage work performed over 639 years (DW.com)

Sunday Session: March 24, 2019

Kahil El'Zabar

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:

* What Happens if Google Buys the World’s Biggest Music Company? (Rolling Stone)
* Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Jazz Journal)
* Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes review – pristine doc of tonal clarity (The Guardian)
* Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81 (The Guardian)
* Nat King Cole Still Remains 'One Of The Great Gifts Of Nature' 100 Years Later (NPR)
* Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 (Boing Boing)
* Verve Celebrates Norman Granz’s Vision (DownBeat)
* ‘It Was A Social Revolution’: The Turkish Embassy’s Surprising Role In Desegregating D.C. Jazz (WAMU)
* Lionel Loueke’s Winding Musical Journey (Jazz Times)
* On the Road With Jacob Collier (Mother Jones)
* Avant garde jazz and black rights activism in 1960s Cleveland, Ohio: an interview with Mutawaf A Shaheed (The Wire)
* Andre Williams: farewell to R&B's raunchiest raconteur (The Guardian)
* Bacon fat, corn liquor, and tail feathers: remembering R&B legend Andre Williams (Chicago Reader)
* Dick Dale, the Inventor of Surf Rock, Was a Lebanese-American Kid from Boston (The New Yorker)
* Class Struggle at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Jacobin)
* “Music Is A Portal”: Sophie Huber On Blue Note Documentary ‘Beyond The Notes’ (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Brian Auger: Bridging the gap (Jazz Journal)
* Here are some of the weirdest musical instrument ideas from NAMM (Create Digital Music)
* E.J. Strickland – A warrior for peace (Jazz in Europe)
* ‘Contours’: How Sam Rivers Hit New Heights Of Creativity (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Boz Scaggs Premieres 'Little Miss Night and Day' Video, Talks Next Moves (Billboard)
* History Disappeared When Myspace Lost 12 Years of Music, and It Will Happen Again (Pitchfork.com)
* Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies Acquires Chico O'Farrill Music & Archives (Billboard)
* Kahil El’Zabar on the Expansiveness of Music History (DownBeat)
* Bright Moments with William Parker (Jazz Times)
* "It identifies what I believe from here": Sam Moore reflects on his hit "Soul Man" (CBS News)
* What Does A New Orleans Music Industry Actually Mean? Guest Editorial (Offbeat)
* Interview: Factory Manager Forrest White on the Truth Behind "Fender Fiction" (Reverb.com)
* Rosanne Cash Opens Up About Her #MeToo Experiences -- And How The Industry Can Avoid Further 'Collateral Damage' (Billboard)
* Chet Baker’s Singing: A Cultural Shift (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Adonis Rose: To Swing Toussaint (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: February 28, 2016

Kahil El'Zabar

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

* Inside Pete Townshend's Studio Barge (Pro Sound News)
* Blues Is The Cool, 'New' Genre In Music....Again (Forbes)
* Kahil El’Zabar: Jazz as spiritual experience (Washington Post)
* Unseen Interview with ARP 2600 Co-inventor, Dennis P Colin (Keyboard)
* "There Are No Flaws in Art": Esperanza Spalding Shares Her D+Evolution (Vice.com)
* What I Learned Working At A Record Label That Failed (Hypebot.com)
* A memory of a lifetime: Shopping with August Wilson at Jazz Record Mart (Chicago Tribune)
* A History of Police Boycotting Musicians in America (Pitchfork)
* Jazz Saxophonist Branford Marsalis: Jay-Z Doesn't Know What He's Talking About (San Antonio Current)
* Recording Icon Al Schmitt Mentors Students at Grammy Camp (DownBeat)
* SFJAZZ Collective Interprets Michael Jackson Songs (DownBeat)
* The school bus driver with a Grammy (Nashville Tennessean)
* Are old-school entertainers a dying breed? (Las Vegas Review Journal)
* The Eloquent Firing of Charles Mingus by Duke Ellington (Medium.com)
* How the Moog Synthesizer Changed the Sound of Music (OpenCulture.com)
* Laurie Anderson: An artist like no other (Washington Post)
* Can Steinway Lure a New Generation of Piano Lovers and 'Cultured Achievers'? Inside the legacy brand's unprecedented campaign (Adweek)
* Verve Reissues Classic Jazz Albums for 60th Anniversary (DownBeat)
* Inside Rock Legend Fats Domino's World: Crawfish, Cards, Boogie-Woogie (Rolling Stone)
* Photos: One Last Sad Glimpse Of Midtown's Now-Defunct Music Row (Gothamist)
* Wild gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals (New Scientist)