Sunday Session: May 16, 2021

Melissa Aldana

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

* Computer World at 40: How Kraftwerk Predicted Our Techno-Utopian Fate (Consequence of Sound)
* Wes Montgomery and friends (TheBlueMoment.com)
* Growth drivers – what comes after streaming (Music Industry Blog)
* Melissa Aldana Signs to Blue Note, Building on the Legacy of Her Saxophone Heroes (WBGO)
* The Weight Of The Ritual: Frank Rynne On The Master Musicians Of Joujouka (TheQuietus.com)
* Vincent Herring: Not the End of the Line (Jazz Times)
* Carla Bley at 85: In Praise and Awe of an Unfettered Genius (WBGO)
* Dave Mason: Feelin’ Alright At 75 (RockAndRollGlobe.com)
* Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to Induct Jay-Z, Carole King, Go-Go’s, Tina Turner, Todd Rundgren and Foo Fighters (Variety)
* Curtis Fuller 1932–2021 (Jazz Times)
* Berlin to officially declare nightclubs as cultural institutions (DJMag.com)
* This man made opera history. Why did I not know him? (The Guardian)
* The Music Industry Is Finally Scaring Spotify (Slate.com)
* Pulling Back the Curtain on Alexander Shustorovich, Classical Music's International Man of Mystery (Billboard)
* Family Company Is Thriving Making Turntables For Vinyl Aficionados (Forbes)
* George Grella on Jazz: Is It Safe? (Red Hook Star-Revue)
* Kind of Blue Books: Novels about Jazz Musicians (NeglectedBooks.com)
* How James Brown’s Star Time Revolutionized the Box-Set Game—and Cemented His Legacy (Pitchfork.com)

Sunday Session: May 31, 2020

Jimmy Cobb

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

* Jimmy Cobb, The Pulse Of 'Kind Of Blue,' Dies At 91 (NPR)
* Drummer Jimmy Cobb Dies at 91 (DownBeat)
* Anthony Davis’s Revolutionary Opera: “X” (The New Yorker)
* Superb-Lee: A JazzTimes Tribute to Lee Konitz (1927–2020) (Jazz Times)
* From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange (The Guardian)
* Little Richard statue to be built outside musician’s childhood home (NME.com)
* 'Like a tap being turned off': music magazines fight for survival in UK (The Guardian)
* The Many Faces Of Housekeeping: How Wealth & Privilege Are Distorting Underground Music (TheQuietus.com)
* 'Milli Violini': I was a fake violinist in a world-class miming orchestra (The Guardian)
* A Guide to the Mind-Bending Jazz of François Tusques (Bandcamp.com)
* Add some township jive! How London's jazz scene set itself apart (The Guardian)
* John Medeski Demonstrates Startling Adaptability (DownBeat)
* How Rahsaan Roland Kirk Modified Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Covid Confidential: Ben Goldberg’s Notes From a Pandemic (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram Are Each Launching Music-Tech Projects (Rolling Stone)
* Premiere: Watch A Video For ‘Desert Song,’ The Debut Single By Vocal Group säje (DownBeat)
* ‘Those Were Memorable Times. But I Don’t Want to Live There.’ Reggie Workman played with John Coltrane, won a Guggenheim at 82, and is tired of Zoom (Vulture.com)
* CM von Hausswolff curates seven sound installations for the web (The Wire)
* Why Public Musicology Matters (21cm.org)
* Michael McDonald: A Conversation in Lockdown Times (American Songwriter)
* Utility player (Rochester City Paper)
* The fast life of Buddy Featherstonhaugh (TheBlueMoment.com)
* Jimmy Cobb 1929–2020 (Jazz Times)