Sunday Session: January 26, 2020

Jimmy Heath

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

* Commentary: George Walker is the black composer you should know but don’t. Why that may change (Los Angeles Times)
* Jimmy Heath, Legendary Saxophonist, Composer and Jazz Educator, Dies at 93 (WBGO)
* Jimmy Heath 1926 – 2020 (Jazz Times)
*Harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite sees the old year out (Sonoma Press Democrat)
* John McLaughlin: “Listening to any kind of real music is a meditative experience” (TheHinduBusinessLine.com)
* Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment' (The Guardian)
* The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain (OpenCulture.com)
* Winter JazzFest Broadens Scope, Encompassing Physical and Mental Well-Being (DownBeat)
* Grammy Awards Nominating Is Marred by Insider Deals, Ousted CEO’s Complaint Alleges (Variety)
* Listen Deeper: The Strange Case Of Iannis Xenakis & Pauline Oliveros (TheQuietus.com)
* Dave Brubeck Archives Headed to Connecticut (Jazz Times)
* Kendrick Scott: Making Walls into Bridges (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Major Undertakings of Meredith Monk (DownBeat)
* All Sound Is Music: Laurie Anderson Interview (SFJAZZ.org)
* Psst! A Peek at 'Secrets Are the Best Stories,' Kurt Elling's New Album with Danilo Perez (WBGO)
* Louis Armstrong Musical A Wonderful World to Have World Premiere in Miami (Playbill)
* Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World (Forbes.com)
* Vincent Herring on Charlie Parker’s Perennial Influence (DownBeat)
* Survival Records Returns with New Jazz Releases (Jazz Times)
* A Long Talk With James Newton Howard, One of Hollywood’s Most Accomplished Composers (Vulture.com)
* Chick Corea Is the Well-Tempered Clavierist (Jazz Times)
* Following Outrage, Discovery Networks Backs Down on Composer Ultimatum (Variety)
* Cecil Taylor: Looking (BurningAmbulance.com)
* Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 1 (AllAboutJazz.com)

Sunday Session: June 2, 2019

Dr. Lonnie Smith

Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest, drawn from StLJN's inboxes, newsfeeds, and assorted other sources:

* The Dreamers and John Daversa: Message, Intention, Purpose (DownBeat)
* CBS Sued Over 'Andy Griffith Show' Theme Song (Hollywood Reporter)
* Lisa Coleman: “Prince would just use a preset and then brighten the f**k out of it!” (MusicRadar.com)
* Lee Ranaldo Discusses His Return to Improv Music with New Album 'Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi' (Exclaim.ca)
* Kendrick Scott at the ‘Height of Optimism’ (DownBeat)
* Antonio Salieri’s Revenge (The New Yorker)
* Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers (KQED)
* King Weir (GQ)
* Jazz Currents Surge Along the Rhine (DownBeat)
* After a Scandal, the New Orleans Jazz Market Rises Again (New York Times)
* Carlos Santana on Celebrating 'Supernatural' and Returning to Woodstock: 'We're Better Than the First Time' (Billboard)
* The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels (OpenCulture.com)
* Steinway & Sons Has a Secret ‘Vault’ for Its Most Exclusive Pianos. Here’s What’s Inside (RobbReport.com)
* The Egging of Frank Sinatra (Medium.com)
* Tower of Power at 50: What Is Hip? (Jazz Journal)
* 'Two Wings: The Music Of Black America In Migration' Celebrates Journey Millions Took (WBGO)
* Bright Moments: Ron Carter – Looking Back with the Bass Icon (Jazz Times)
* DC's go-go sound becomes anti-gentrification battle cry (Associated Press)
* Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry (TheVerge.com)
* Minnesota blues hero Tony Glover, an influence on Dylan and the Stones, dies at 79 (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
* This Is Where I Live: A Q&A With William Bell (SFJAZZ.org)
* Singer Leon Redbone Dies at 69 (Variety)
* "Dead Sound": The Grateful Dead and the evolution of modern concert sound (CBS News)
* Linda May Han Oh Reaches Across the Musical Spectrum (DownBeat)
* The Record Industry Expects a Windfall. Where Will the Money Go? (Pitchfork.com)
* Chops: David Binney on Why Musicians May Not Need a Bite of the Big Apple (Jazz Times)
* The Baltimore Symphony in the Twilight Zone (SongOfTheLarkBlog.com)
* How Bossa Nova Is Infiltrating Rap and R&B (Rolling Stone)
* Dr. Lonnie Smith Meets the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw at Birdland (DownBeat)
* Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes (Rolling Stone)

Sunday Session: October 8, 2017

Antonio Sanchez

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

* Trane of No-Thought: How Meditation Inspired Jazz Great John Coltrane (LionsRoar.com)
* Jazz and Communism? The Perfect Oxymoron - Paquito D’Rivera considers the implications of International Jazz Day 2017 (Jazz Times)
* Tom Petty, Rock Iconoclast Who Led the Heartbreakers, Dead at 66 (Rolling Stone)
* An Appreciation of Tom Petty: Rock’s Superstar Everyman (Variety)
* Free Falling with Tom Petty (The New Yorker)
* Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more (Los Angeles Times)
* Judd Apatow Revives Mainstream, Bob Shad's Independent Record Label (WBGO)
* Nextbop Interviews Kendrick Scott (NextBop.com)
* The Meaning of Soul Music According to Raphael Saadiq (Pitchfork.com)
* Interview: Ashley Kahn on Thelonious Monk's Legacy (Keyboard)
* Antonio Sánchez Brings Electronics and Politics To 'Bad Hombre' (NPR)
* Herbie Hancock: Why he thinks the audience is a member of his band (Philly.com)* A New Model for Paying Musicians a Living Wage? (East Bay Express)
* Esperanza Spalding Talks Recording an Album in 77 Hours, Sexism in Music & Nicki Minaj (Billboard)
* Kamasi Washington on the Music That Made Him a Jazz Colossus (Pitchfork.com)
* Why British DJs From the ’60s and ’70s Kept Their Best Records Secret (AtlasObscura.com)
* The Philosophy & Music of Devo, the Avant-Garde Art Project Dedicated to Revealing the Truth About De-Evolution (Open Culture.com)
* Puerto Rico's 'Singing Newspapers' (NPR)
* The Unknowable Joni Mitchell (The Atlantic)
* Live Sound Processing and Improvisation (New Music Box)
* Mike Stern: Playing Through the Pain (Jazz Times)
* Photos: New York Hot Jazz Festival at the McKittrick Hotel - Cyrille Aimée, Bria Skonberg, Anat Cohen and more swing the fest's fifth edition (Jazz Times)
* European Jazz Conference 2017 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Speed of sound – how Spotify killed the long intro (The Guardian)
* After year of silence, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra ready to move on without founder Irvin Mayfield (New Orleans Advocate)
* I Wrote a Hit Song With Justin Bieber. Want to See My Royalties? (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Beats? How Blade Runner impacted electronic music (FactMag.com)
* Kate Bush, Radiohead, Sister Rosetta Tharpe Nominated For Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (NPR)
* The Art Ensemble of Chicago Celebrates 50 Years Of Channeling And Challenging History (NPR)
* Jazz Drummer Alvin Queen Denied Entry to U.S. Due to Dropped Charges From 50 Years Ago (Billboard)
* On the Cultural Specificity of Symphony Orchestras (CreateEquity.com)

Sunday Session: August 7, 2016

Kendrick Scott

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Ten Louis Armstrong Landmarks (Offbeat)
* Quantum Computers Don’t Make Sense. But This One Makes Music (Wired)

* See John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie As You've Never Seen Them Before (Vanity Fair)
* Why Festivals Are More Popular Than Ever (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Classic and unreleased Sun Ra tracks pressed to coloured 10″ EPs (TheVinylFactory.com)
* JT Essentials: Forgotten Fusion Classics - The Gary Burton Quartet, Jack DeJohnette and more (Jazz Times)
* Nate Wooley’s guide to American weirdos (The Wire)
* Sound Art Shows You What Musical Notes Actually Look Like (Gizmodo)
* Are corporate music festivals killing local venues? (AL.com)
* Kamasi Washington Talks Jazz-Ambassador Status, Life on the Road (Rolling Stone)
* Shopping for classical music: A remembrance (Philly.com)
* Scott Injects Dramatic Political Message into Drum Showcase (DownBeat)
* From Bowie to Prince: 10 Weird Video Games About Musicians (ElectronicBeats.net)
* Inside the Zappa Family Feud (Rolling Stone)
* Playing outside the box (The Economist)
* Herbie Hancock On His Next Album, Flying Lotus And Jupiter's Satellite (NPR)
* Headhunter Mike Clark Brings The Rhythm To The Checkout (WBGO)
* Roland: Moving forward (ResidentAdvisor.net)
* Audio-fail: why is so much sound art so bad? (The Guardian UK)
* Pete Fountain, New Orleans' clarinet-playing musical ambassador, dies at 86 (NOLA.com)