Sunday Session: February 26, 2017

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

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

* How Hans Zimmer Became a Rock Star (The Atlantic)
* Larry Coryell Dies at 73 (Jazz Times)
* Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Reunite in the Studio (Pitchfork.com)
* The American Beat of Bobby Lloyd Hicks (DaveHoekstra.com)
* Learn About Early Audiovisual Art With 10 Pioneering Works (ElectronicBeats.net)
* Tulane archive gets piece of jazz history (Tulane.edu)
* Going Deep (Oxford American)
* What Do Actual L.A. Jazz Musicians Think of La La Land's Portrayal of L.A. Jazz? (LA Weekly)
* Alt.Latino Explores Afro-Latin Music For Black History Month (NPR)
* John Coltrane's 'Interstellar Space' at 50: Legacy of a Free-Jazz Masterpiece (Rolling Stone)
* How the Doctor Who theme reveals our deepest fears about space (BBC)
* Q&A with Anoushka Shankar: Spirit of Collaboration (DownBeat)
* Jazz in the digital age: Tools for exploring the music (San Jose Mercury News)
* Listen: Preservation Hall Jazz Band Doubles Down On Afro-Cuban Connection (NPR)
* Portland Jazz Fest Grooves to Fascinating Rhythms (DownBeat)
* Joshua Bell: VR could popularize classical music (USA Today)
* Welcome to the Jazzless Age: Change in New York Times coverage spells trouble for a scene (Salon.com)
* The Rhythm Changes: Kamasi Washington Interviewed (ClashMusic.com)
* A Jazz Fact Check Of 'La La Land' (NPR)
* THEFT: A History of Music (Boing Boing)
* A New Documentary Explores The Troubled, Brilliant Life Of Pianist Bill Evans (NPR)

Sunday Session: July 19, 2015

Horace Silver

For your Sunday reading, here are some interesting music-related items that have hit StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Red Bull, Awolnation And The Evaporating Division Between Bands And Brands (Forbes)
* Robert Glasper: 'When hip hop took over the world' (TheArtsDesk.com)
* New Coryell Box Set Features Unreleased Live Recordings (DownBeat)
* Jamming with the cosmos: CERN and the music of physics (CERN)
* The portable wilderness of John Luther Adams (Boston Globe)
* Jazz at Lincoln Center and Sony Music Team Up for Blue Engine Records (New York Times)
* Lost Jack Bruce Cream Tapes X: 'Albert King Asked Me, Where's The Money?' For Bad Sign (Forbes)
* Is The Music Industry Sleepwalking Into Disaster? (HypeBot.com)
* Multiple Generations Salute Horace Silver at Pittsburgh JazzLive Fest (DownBeat)
* Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone (New York Times)
* Jazz exhibit opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago with 'music you can see' (Art Daily)
* Rooting Around The Tonight Show's Sound (Pro Sound News)
* Talking Turntable: How Not To Launch A Music Tech Startup (HypeBot.com)
* Is Transparency The Music Industry's Next Battle? (NPR)
* How the Multi-Story Orchestra has transformed a car park in to a concert hall (Classical Muse)
* Why musicians need to get off Apple Music and Spotify immediately (DailyDot.com)
* Shipp, Malaby Embrace Revolutionary Spirit at New York’s Vision Fest (DownBeat)
* What Songs Look Like as 3-D Printed Sculptures (Wired)
* Sounds of the solar system: probing Pluto's predicted score (The Guardian UK)
* 20-50% of Royalties Never Reach the Artist, Study Finds (DigitalMusicNews.com)