Sunday Session: February 24, 2019

Billie Holiday

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:

* Ken Nordine, Chicago creator of 'word jazz' who had a voice that 'could give you the chills,' dies at 98 (Chicago Tribune)
* What happens when you create a fake music record label and upload bad music to Spotify (Salon.com)
* Jazz Musician And Subject Of Iconic Photo Revisits 'A Great Day In Harlem' (NPR)
* Italian town takes vow of silence for digital recording of centuries-old violins (The Telegraph)
* Cultural evolution of music (Nature)
* How streaming music could be harming the planet (BBC)
* Mandatory Music Surcharges Could Pay Musicians More (Offbeat)
* PBS to Air Nat ‘King’ Cole Special, Marking Centennial (DownBeat)
* PledgeMusic's Failed Promise Leaves Artists in Limbo and the Future of Music Crowdfunding in Jeopardy (Billboard)
* Judge Rules Against Both Parties In Lawsuit Over Kansas City's Mutual Musicians Foundation (KCUR)
* Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth (The New Yorker)
* Ethel Ennis, Sophisticated Singer Who Reigned As Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz, Dies at 86 (WBGO)
* Whither “Musicologist”? (MusicologyNow.AMS.net)
* Rough Around the Edges: The Raw Yet Refined Art of Myra Melford (Jazziz)
* For Promotional Use Only (RockAndRollGlobe.com)
* More Than 50 Years In, Mavis Staples Is Still Delivering Messages Of Hope And Justice (NPR)
* Fans of Max Roach drumming up support to rename Bed-Stuy street after genre-busting jazz great (New York Daily News)
* Billie Holiday Documentary in the Works Featuring New Interviews With Contemporaries (Hollywood Reporter)
* McVouty! (Chisler.org)
* “Hearing” the Hammond Organ (New Music Box)
* Folk and Blues: The Tribulations of The Old Town School (NewCity.com)
* Monkees Singer and Bassist Peter Tork Dead at 77 (Rolling Stone)
* Bill Frisell: The ‘favourite guitarist of many people who agree on little else’ (Irish Times)
*''We Need a Jazz Band, but They All Have to Be Foreigners": The Discrimination Faced by Asian Musicians (The Beijinger.com)
* Peter Erskine: Up Front, In Time, and On Call (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Three-Disc Set Documents Ben Sidran’s Voyage (DownBeat)
* The strange truth behind the Amy Winehouse hologram tour (GQ)
* Debunking Green Book: Jazz Greats on What It Was Really Like to Tour During Jim Crow (Pitchfork.com)
* The Uncertain Future of KMHD and Jazz Radio in Portland (Portland Mercury)
* Save JAZZ.FM91 May Just Do It! (FYIMusicNews.ca)
* The Man Who Wasn’t Gershwin (Commentary)
* Jazz City (KCET)
* The Invisible Village - Sasha Frere-Jones on the Music of John Zorn (Art Forum)
* Ray Charles and Country’s Color Barrier (Rolling Stone)
* On the Road with Esperanza Spalding (Mother Jones)

Sunday Session: February 17, 2019

Herbie Hancock

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:

* Pop Hits Were Really Slow (Again) in 2018 (Rolling Stone)
* Daversa, Blanchard, Salvant Win Grammys (DownBeat)
* The Spectacular Failure of the World's Only Hard Rock Theme Park (Vice.com)
* Details of "Bizarre World of Frank Zappa" Hologram Tour Announced (Guitar Player)
* Huey Lewis battles through a hearing loss nightmare (San Francisco Chronicle)
* 2019 Grammy Awards: Why I'm using my nomination to speak out about sexism in the world of jazz (NBC News)
* ‘In jazz, the piano gets to do what guitars get to do in rock’ (Irish Times)
* The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig by Eamonn Forde – review (The Guardian)
* Students in Kazakhstan just built a BANANA piano – and it’s rather appealing (ClassicFM.com)
* Alice Coltrane’s spiritual jazz, 1968-1971 (MusicAficionado.com)
* Minneapolis festival honors Pulitzer-winning jazz great Henry Threadgill: 'Discovery is the greatest thing' (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
* A two-day Walker festival celebrates composer-bandleader Henry Threadgill (City Pages)
* Q&A with Rudresh Mahanthappa: A Jazz Festival Grows in Princeton (Jazziz)
* Herbie Hancock, coming to Clearwater, talks about working with Kendrick Lamar and his big Grammy upset (TampaBay.com)
* Extraordinary Popular Delusions play free jazz two centuries deep (Chicago Reader)
* People Laughed When This Philly Lawyer Sued Led Zeppelin. Nobody’s Laughing Now. (PhillyMag.com)
* A day in the life of Emily Lazar, Grammy-winning mastering engineer (CBCMusic.ca)
* Who’s Hazel Scott? (Unsung Women of Jazz #11) (CurtJazz.com)
* How Talking Heads and Brian Eno Wrote “Once in a Lifetime”: Cutting Edge, Strange & Utterly Brilliant (OpenCulture.com)
* Blue Note Records, 80 years on – A brief History (Jazz in Europe)
* Church of St. John Coltrane Marks 50 Years, Sets Fundraiser (DownBeat)
* Oscar-Nominated Terence Blanchard On 30 Years Of Jazz And Film Scoring For Spike Lee (NPR)
* Pop, Prince and Black Panthers: the glorious life of Chaka Khan (The Guardian)
* Edition Festival a Celebration of Anthony Braxton’s Oeuvre (DownBeat)
* Scam Season Comes for the Orchestra (Vulture.com)
* Ken Nordine, 'Word Jazz' Creator, Dies at 98 (KQED)