Sunday Session: January 17, 2021

Kenny Garrett

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

* Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine (San Diego Union Tribune)
* From Chuck Berry to Muddy Waters: 15 of Keith Richards’ favourite songs (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* The Insular Jazz of Lockdown Rediscovers a Pioneering Sounds of the Past (PopMatters.com)
* Geri Allen and ‘The Printmakers’ (1985) – by Rick Simpson (London Jazz News)
* Punk rocker Adam Ant lived in Pikeville, Tennessee, and left boxes of stuff behind (Chatanooga Times Free Press)
* Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Live Music Could Be Back This Fall (Stereogum.com)
* A Q&A with saxophonist Kenny Garrett (SFJAZZ.org)
* Equal At Last? Women In Jazz, By The Numbers (NPR)
* Charles Lloyd’s Dynamic Pandemic Year (DownBeat)
* ‘Like many African American musicians, Sun Ra fantasised about Africa,’ says writer Joseph Ghosn (TheAfricaReport.com)
* 2020: A Jazz Reckoning (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Capitol Studios Shutters Its Mastering Division (Variety)
* Marion Brown's musical portrait of Georgia (BitterSoutherner.com)
* Let it rain: Bobby Few 1935–2021 (The Wire)
* Sony takes wraps off secret Unreal Engine project, unveils new subsidiary: Sony Immersive Music Studios (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* LIFE AS A COSMOPOLITAN: GIRLS GONE GO-GO, NYC, 1977-‘82 (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Howard Johnson 1941–2021 (Jazz Times)
* In A Cultural Landscape Beset With Loss, This Community Music Studio Is Expanding (WBUR)
* Two Coltrane Classics Reimagined, 21st Century Electric Style (RockAndRollGlobe.com)
* DON VAN VLIET AND FRANK ZAPPA: TWO PEAS IN A MISSHAPEN POD (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Teodross Avery Recruits Stellar Cast To Salute Monk (DownBeat)
* O brothers: drummers Brian and Brady Blade (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
* Sylvie Courvoisier Is a Serious Player (Jazz Times)
* John Coltrane, Out Of Obscurity (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: November 29, 2020

Maria Schneider

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

* 'The Last Shall Be First': A Lost Chapter Of Gospel, Saved From Extinction (NPR)
* Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name (LitHub.com)
* Jazz Composer Maria Schneider Takes on the "Data Lords" in Song (PopMatters.com)
* Nile Rodgers on ‘A Love Supreme’: ‘It Felt Like I Was Getting a Look Into Coltrane’s Soul’ (Rolling Stone)
* Excluded, Penalized, Indebted, Harassed: A Study of Systemic Discrimination Against Women in Opera (MiddleClassArtist.com)
* JT Video Premiere: Sonny Rollins in Holland Mini-Documentary (Jazz Times)
* Calming monkeys with piano music is harder than you think (CNN)
* Veronica Swift’s Unconventional Turns (DownBeat)
* A Tense New Classical Work Bottles The Feeling Of A Police Stop (NPR)
* Chops: Drummers Go Off the Grid (Jazz Times)
* 'I thought ours was better': Keith Richards on recording a Beatles song, solo work and new Rolling Stones (USA Today)
* I'm a sound technician. Losing my hearing was devastating (CBC)
* Jeff Gold – ‘Sittin’ In – Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s’ (London Jazz News)
* 'Frank didn't adhere to any movements': behind the Zappa documentary (The Guardian)
* Buddy Bolden, Known As ‘The Father Of Jazz’ Honored In New Opera (WABE)
* Chick Corea: Accomplishing the goal of art (BBC)
* Warner is signing double the number of artists via AI-driven A&R tool Sodatone than it did last year. Now, it’s hired a global head of Data Science. (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* The legend of Yahya Abdul-Majid (CapitalBop.com)
* The Checkout: Meet Laura Perrudin, A French Harpist with a Jagged Edge (WBGO)
* All doom and boom: what’s the heaviest music ever made? (The Guardian)
* Zev Feldman of Resonance Records (‘Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott’s’) (London Jazz News)
* 'People in their 40s were crying': the sad final days of New York's coolest record store (The Guardian)
* How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube (ArsTechnica.com)
* Charles McPherson Turns to Ballet (Jazz Times)
* Branford and Wynton Marsalis Are Keeping New York's Jazz Scene Alive (Town and Country)
* 'I will remember this for the rest of my life': John Fogerty on rerecording classic songs with his kids (USA Today)

Sunday Session: November 15, 2020

Herbie Hancock

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

* Lakecia Benjamin: The future of jazz is now (Bay State Banner)
* What’s in a Name? (Jazz Times)
* Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana (ScalawagMagazine.org)
* Live Nation expects that “shows at scale” will return next summer (NME.com)
* Review of Jazzfest Berlin 2020 (London Jazz News)
* Sun Ra's Cosmic Keys (Reverb.com)
* Tomeka Reid Looks For Challenging Situations (DownBeat)
* Sleeping Giants: The Brief Reign and Brilliant Legacy of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Band (WBGO)
* Alone Together: A Q&A with Tabla Master Zakir Hussain (SFJAZZ.org)
* Mayfield and Markham Plead Guilty in a Plea Deal (Offbeat)
* 50 Years Later: The Surprising Memphis Roots of “Led Zeppelin III.” (MemphisMagazine.com)
* Israeli researchers create AI capable of writing personalized jazz solos (Jerusalem Post)
* Alfredo Rodríguez Deploys Abundant Technique (DownBeat)
* 'It's the screams of the damned!' The eerie AI world of deepfake music (The Guardian)
* Shabaka Hutchings - The Future of Afrofuturism (SFJAZZ.org)
* For The Rolling Stones’ 60th Anniversary, Keith Richards Says “The Plans Are to Still Actually All Be Alive” (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Guitarist Steve Hunter on His Journey From ‘Berlin’ to ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ (Rolling Stone)
* Emerging Opera Singers Now Pay for Online Auditions. Are Companies Watching Them? (MiddleClassArtist.com)
* Joel Ross Doesn’t ‘Do The Obvious Thing’ (DownBeat)
* Meet the guardians of the world’s earliest musical recordings (Los Angeles Times)
* Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony (Seattle Times)
* Sonny Rollins on Jazz as a Music of Freedom (LitHub.com)
* A Brief Guide to the Shape of “Jazz Rap” Today (Bandcamp.com)
* Bassist Eric Revis Revels In Curiosity, Versatility (DownBeat)
* The Experimental Edge of the “New Weird South” (Bandcamp.com)
* Christian Sands Relies On Adaptability (DownBeat)
* State of Play: the rise of in-game concerts (DJMag.com)
* Ronnie Scott understood that for some people music is the only outlet – so he opened a club (New Statesman)
* Seated gigs, no moshing and 'brutally exhausting' sets: the strange new world of live music (The Guardian)
* How Ticketmaster Plans to Check Your Vaccine Status for Concerts: Exclusive (Billboard)
* Inside Sun Ra’s 1971 trip to Egypt (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Big Breaks - What’s Behind Orpheus Classical? (Atavist.com)
* Andrew White, Prolific Multi-Instrumentalist, Scholar and Washington, D.C. Legend, Dies at 78 (WBGO)
* Electrophone: the Victorian-era gadget that was a precursor to live-streaming (TheConversation.com)

Sunday Session: September 13, 2020

Gary Peacock

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

* 'Masses of performers are still grounded': pianist Sophia Rahman on a UK music scene in crisis (TheArtsDesk.com)
* Sonny Rollins at 90: A Guided Tour of the Saxophone Colossus on Record, By Decade (WBGO)
* How a musician locks onto a rhythm, according to science (BigThink.com)
* Gary Peacock, A Jazz Bassist Always Ahead Of His Time, Dies At 85 (NPR)
* Rollins '57: Sonny Rollins Takes The Lead (WFIU)
* How Keith Richards is Spending His Quarantine (Rolling Stone)
* Paused Jazz Venues Hit a Low Note and Warn Music Could Soon Stop (TheCity.nyc)
* In Newport, A Quiet August And The Virus’ Financial Fallout (DownBeat)
* Gary Peacock 1935–2020 (Jazz Times)
* Former Baltimore house of jazz legend Cab Calloway demolished despite activists’ push (Baltimore Sun)
* How Jimmy Carter (Literally) Rocked the Presidency (Rolling Stone)
* Silver Apples synth pioneer Simeon Coxe dies aged 82 (The Guardian)
* Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe: visionary who saw music's electronic future (The Guardian)
* A Final Bow From Hal Willner, The Producer With The Golden Rolodex (NPR)
* Interview: Gregory Porter on the loss of his brother to Covid and his new album (The Scotsman)
* Understanding Bird (Tidal.com)
* Lifetime Achievement: Doug Hammond’s Kaleidoscopic Jazz, Funk, and Blues (Bandcamp.com)
* Remembering Lenny Breau, jazz’s most inventive guitarist (LiveMint.com)
* Charles Tolliver: Before & After (Jazz Times)
* Kool & the Gang Co-Founder Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell Dead at 68 (Rolling Stone)
* A Former Spotify Exec Explains Why Artists Get Paid So Little on Streaming (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* A Deep Dive into John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' by His Biographer Lewis Porter (Pt. 2) (WBGO)
* Sparks Of Wonder, Discovery Propel Rising Stars (DownBeat)
* In Newport, A Quiet August And The Virus’ Financial Fallout (DownBeat)
* Alice Coltrane: A Partial Primer (River Cities Reader)
* Ornette Coleman: An Outsider Cracks the Egg (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Black Women Jazz Artists Are Using Virtual Spaces To Speak On Race, Gender (DownBeat)
* My Conversation with Gary Peacock (AllAboutJazz.com)
* 1% of Artists Generate 90% of All Music Streams, Latest Data Shows (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Nina Simone's childhood home is now permanently protected (CNN)

Sunday Session: July 30, 2017

Mal Waldron

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

* Jimmy Heath: A Little Bird Told Me (Jazz Times)
* Such Sweet Thunder: inside Duke Ellington's literary world (Jazzwise)
* REVIEW: Mary Halvorson Octet at the Village Vanguard in New York (London Jazz News)
* Mary Halvorson Makes Village Vanguard Debut (DownBeat)
* Scott Hanley signs on as jazz station GM (Current.org)
* The night I drove George Melly home from the Cricklewood Tavern (The Guardian)
* Why Vinyl’s Boom Is Over (Wall Street Journal)
* The Ultimate Playlist Of Banned Wedding Songs (FiveThirtyEight.com)
* New Orleans music legend Dr. John reflects on a lifetime of song and adversity (San Diego Union Tribune)
* The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (NPR)
* Fascinating Algorithm: Dan Tepfer's Player Piano Is His Composing Partner (NPR)
* Q&A with David Lynch’s Music Collaborator Dean Hurley – Part 1: Working On and “Protecting the Experience” of Twin Peaks: The Return (SynchBlog.com)
* Q&A with David Lynch’s Music Collaborator Dean Hurley – Part 2: Being “Open Creatively” and “Knowing When to Walk Away” (SynchBlog.com)
* After Surviving Lightning Strike, Vocalist Evans Prepares for Comeback (DownBeat)
* How SoundCloud's broken business model drove artists away (TheVerge.com)
* A New Job At Wesleyan, A New Album And A New Direction For Drummer Tyshawn Sorey (Hartford Courant)
* Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones will record new, original music 'very shortly' (New York Daily News)
* How Southern-Soul Survivor Don Bryant Finally Got His Second Chance (Rolling Stone)
* Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Tours With Young ‘Nightflyers’ (Wall Street Journal)
* Free at Last: Mal Waldron’s ecstatic minimalism. (The Nation)
* Hippies, Guns, and LSD: The San Francisco Rock Band That Was Too Wild For the Sixties (CollectorsWeekly.com)
* Changing the face of American orchestras, one player at a time (Cincinnati.com)
* Alan Lomax’s Timeless American Recordings Find a New Audience (Bandcamp.com)
* The Top Ten Most Overrated Drummers Of All Time (TheZReview.com)
* A Fearless and Kind Leader—Remembering Geri Allen (1957-2017) (New Music Box)
* UK Music chief warns of 'perfect storm' facing music industry (MusicWeek.com)
* Roscoe Mitchell Captures the Eternal Now on Remarkable New Album (Village Voice)
* 45 45s That Changed The World (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* What is Jack DeJohnette's Native American Spirit Name? (WBGO)
* Orrin Evans on Joining the Bad Plus (Jazz Times)
* Angels and Demons at Play: Jim Knipfel on Reclaiming Sun Ra’s Legacy (BelieverMag.com)
* The Jazz & Blues Art Box — instant collection, rare data trove (Jazz Beyond Jazz)
* The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense (Vox.com)
* How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music (Nautil.us)
* The reissue racket: how many more ‘classic’ albums will be repackaged? (The Guardian)
* Whatever Happened to Indie Rock? (Popmatters.com)
* Watch the Making of a Hand-Crafted Violin, from Start to Finish, in a Beautifully-Shot Documentary (OpenCulture.com)