Sunday Session: April 5, 2020

Wallace Roney

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

* Out of the Blues: Reflections on the 1960s Revival (Acoustic Guitar)
* What Bob Dylan Is Doing in “Murder Most Foul” (The New Yorker)
* The making of King Crimson's Starless And Bible Black (LouderSound.com)
* Mahler versus Slowthai! - what happened when our pop and classical critics traded jobs? (The Guardian)
* What happens to musicians when all the gigs stop? (The Undefeated.com)
* Robert Glasper On Nu Deco Collab, Crossing Over, Blue Note NYC, Surprise Sets With Dave Chappelle & More [Interview] (LiveForLiveMusic.com)
* Stefon Harris — Vibraphonist, Educator, Thinker — Teaches Empathy From The Bandstand (NPR)
* Van Morrison in lockdown: ‘I am trying to get back into writing songs’ (The Independent)
* Why Astrud Gilberto Is So Much More Than ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Wallace Roney, Intrepid Jazz Trumpeter, Dies From COVID-19 Complications At 59 (NPR)
* The blistering cosmic music of The Black Unity Trio (The Wire)
* Reinventing the Sound of Protest (The Nation)
* Jazz and the Vinyl Renaissance (Jazz Times)
* Here’s Every Painstaking Step That Goes Into Making a Steinway & Sons Grand Piano (RobbReport.com)
* More Jazz Added to National Recording Registry (Jazz Times)
* In Memoriam: Ellis Marsalis (1934–2020) (DownBeat)
* Ellis Marsalis, New Orleans Jazz Patriarch, Dies at 85 (Billboard)
* Pianist and Educator Ellis Marsalis Dies at 85 (Keyboard)
* Branford Marsalis Pays Tribute to His Late Father, Ellis Marsalis Jr. (Billboard)
* Legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli dies at 94 (NJArts.net)
* Bucky Pizzarelli, Jazz Guitarist And Prolific Session Musician, Dead At 94 (NPR)
* Remembering Bucky Pizzarelli (DownBeat)
* From Big Pink to Whitney’s Dream House: Here’s What It’s Like to Live in a Pop Star’s Former Home (Rolling Stone)
* Lakecia Benjamin Pursues a Spiritual Quest (DownBeat)
* Downsizing Is Good at Winter NAMM 2020 (Jazz Times)
* The Revolutionary Free Jazz of Irreversible Entanglements (Bandcamp.com)
* ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81 (Associated Press)
* A Moment to Rethink How We Support Music (The New Yorker)

Sunday Session: October 6, 2019

Wallace Roney

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

* NIH Bets $20 Million Music Can Heal Our Brains (Forbes.com)
* Chicago’s Hidden Indie Rock Archive (WBEZ)
* The New Golden Age of Jazz Radio (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Wilco’s Search for Joy (SPIN)
* The captivating story behind John Coltrane’s lost soundtrack for a Québécois filmmaker (GQ)
* Theo Croker Steps Out (Jazz Times)
* Larry Willis, Resourceful Pianist at Home in Several Divergent Styles, Has Died at 76 (WBGO)
* Larry Willis 1942-2019 (Jazz Times)
* Tyshawn Sorey: Music and Mindfulness (New Music Box)
* How Wallace Roney Taught His Young Ensemble to ‘Trust the Music’ (DownBeat)
* How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music (The New Yorker)
* King Crimson’s ’21st Century Schizoid Man’: Inside Prog’s Big Bang (Rolling Stone)
* Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter stops mid-concerto as audience member starts filming (ClassicFM.com)
* ACT Devises Tribute to Pannonica de Koenigswarter (DownBeat)
* Richard Wyands 1928-2019 (Jazz Times)
* Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (By the Book) (PopMatters.com)
* Monterey Festival Celebrates Risk-Taking Artists (DownBeat)
* Capturing the Ephemeral Beauty of Improvisation (New York Review of Books)
* Cab Calloway’s childhood house will be razed, HCD says (BaltimoreBrew.com)
* Turning The Tables: Celebrating Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Music (NPR)
* Guitarist Bill Frisell Picks His Favorite Blue Note Albums (Jazziz)
* At A Korean Jazz Picnic, No Need To Know The Music (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The economics of streaming is changing pop songs (The Economist)
* At New York Listening Session, Harry Connick Jr. Connects to Cole Porter (DownBeat)
* The soul of a jazz man (Harvard.edu)