Sunday Session: January 20, 2019

Nicole Mitchell

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:

* Why the ‘BlacKkKlansman’ score could (and should) earn Terence Blanchard his first Oscar nod (Los Angeles Times)
* A conversation with Bill Frisell: making music in 2019 and the upcoming concert in Fallon (NevadaCapitalNews.org)
* Javon Jackson Extends the Tradition (DownBeat)
* Winter Jazzfest 2019: 10 Best Things We Saw (Rolling Stone)
* Pitt names Nicole Mitchell as head of jazz studies department (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
* Carlos Santana on the Power of ‘The Mona Lisa,’ Today’s New Hippies (Rolling Stone)
* Q&A with Vibraphonist Joe Locke: Between the Heart and Mind (Jazziz)
* 'Green Book' Composer on Playing Mahershala Ali's Double: "My Life Prepared Me Perfectly" (Hollywood Reporter)
* Melissa Aldana & Sonny Rollins (Burning Ambulance)
* TIDAL ‘fake streams’: Criminal investigation underway over potential data fraud in Norway (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Threadgill Premieres New Composition at Cleveland Museum of Art (DownBeat)
* A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here (LongReads.com)
* Once a Year, Over 27,000 Elvis Fans Flood This Small Australian Town (Smithsonian)
* Double Vision: Winter Jazzfest Fosters Co-Led Ensembles (DownBeat)
* In Memoriam: Joseph Jarman (DownBeat)
* Nina Simone's 'Lovely, Precious Dream' For Black Children (NPR)
* Blue Note Launches Limited Edition Wall Art Series Of Classic Album Designs (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Drummer Nate Smith’s Universe of Beats (DownBeat)
* Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? (TheRinger.com)
* The economics of streaming is making songs shorter (QZ.com)
* Remembering jazz great Perry Robinson, Hoboken's 'most famous non-famous person in music' (NJ.com)
* REPORT: Winter Jazzfest Marathon Weekend in New York (London Jazz News)
* Legendary guitarist Reggie Young — key sideman to Elvis, Waylon, Willie and more — dead at age 82 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Live Review: New York Winter Jazzfest 2019 (Jazz Times)
* Battle of the Ax Men: Who Really Built the First Electric Rock 'n' Roll Guitar? (Collector's Weekly)
* Different Ways To See And Be: The Lives Of Joseph Jarman And Alvin Fielder (NPR)

Sunday Session: December 9, 2018

Dexter Gordon

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:

* All-too-easy listening - The music industry sells classical as soothing background music — robbing a great art of its power (Washington Post)
* Marcus Strickland Harnesses Power of Vocalists, Organ on Latest Album (DownBeat)
* The Multiple Personalities of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Jeff Simon: Is posthumous jazz a problem or a glorious resurrection? (Buffalo News)
* Wynton Marsalis: Jazz And Holiday Music Go Together Like Holly And Ivy (HoustonPublicMedia.org)
* Esperanza Spalding says goodbye to song-driven shows (Washington Post)
* It’s official: Galactic has purchased Tipitina’s (Offbeat)
* This Thing Never Stops: Roscoe Mitchell and Phillip Greenlief in Conversation (SFMOMA.org)
* Jazz Is Dance Music Again (Rolling Stone)
* The Life Force of Esperanza Spalding (OfficeMagazine.net)
* The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition Has a Winner (WBGO)
* Classical Hands: Composer Kris Bowers on Scoring ‘Green Book,’ Teaching Mahershala Ali Piano, Seeing His Hands On Screen (Pollstar)
* The good fight: Jan Ramsey keeps music journalism alive in New Orleans (Columbia Journalism Review)
* St. Nick: The Long, Strange and Wonderful Career of Nick Lowe (Rolling Stone)
* Interview: Milford Graves (Modern Drummer)
* Can We Get to That (Oxford American)
* Indie Labels Now Account for 39.9% of the Global Recorded Music Market (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Dexter Gordon Biography 'Sophisticated Giant' Chronicles a Jazz Life (Billboard)
* The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock (The New Yorker)
* Sachal Vasandani Celebrates the American Songbook (Jazz Times)
* At 80, Saxophonist Charles Lloyd Finds Enlightenment in the Groove (NPR)
* Jazz legend Herbie Hancock becomes first musician to receive Ben Franklin Medal (WHYY)
* Hi Records star and instrumental hitmaker Ace Cannon dead at 84 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Selling Vintage Records in Tokyo (LongReads.com)
* Covering both sides: Catherine Russell and John Pizzarelli (Santa Fe New Mexican)
* Playing the theory of relativity: Sunny Murray in Europe 1968–72 (The Wire)
* Daversa, Salvant, Mehldau Nominated for Grammy Awards (DownBeat)
* 'Fight The Power': A Tale Of 2 Anthems (With The Same Name) (NPR)
* Feds allege wider cover-up by Irvin Mayfield, Ronald Markham in New Orleans Library Foundation scandal (New Orleans Advocate)