Sunday Session: April 25, 2021

Larry Carlton

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

* Catching Up With Laurie Anderson, An Artist Always Ahead Of Her Time (NPR)
* And all that jazz: innovative album covers from the 1950s on – in pictures (The Guardian)
* Jazz Artists Remember Chick Corea (Jazz Times)
* Apple Music Says It Pays One Penny Per Stream — 2-3 Times What Spotify Pays (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Does Spotify pay artists a fair rate? Here’s what musicians, managers and Apple Music have to say (Los Angeles Times)
* Ethan Iverson: From The Bad Plus to Bebop, Bud Powell and Bach (JazzWeekly.com)
* Tony Bennett: A Hero's Journey in Authenticity (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Sonny Simmons and the Backwoods (The Wire)
* Larry Carlton: My Career in Five Songs (Guitar Player)
* UnitedMasters’ Steve Stoute: ‘Record companies’ ownership in artists’ intellectual property will diminish.’ (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Chops: Branford Marsalis and Howard Alden on Ghost Performances in Movies (Jazz Times)
* Prince’s go-to synths and drum machine: a career in music tech gear (MusicRadar.com)
* 2021 NEA Jazz Masters: A Q&A with Phil Schaap (SFJAZZ.org)
* Why is classical music used in cartoons? (ABC.net.au)
* Tomorrow’s Warriors at 30 - the power behind London’s jazz revival (The Standard)
* 45 Lost Albums We Want To Hear (Stereogum.com)
* International Jazz Day's Global Celebrations Are On, And Again Online (NPR)
* Sounding Out Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers (Metrograph.com)
* Tom Holkenborg: “I think I paid about £15 for my Memorymoog synth - in 1983 you couldn’t give them away” (MusicRadar.com)
* SFJazz hosts inspiring virtual Jazz Masters Tribute Concert (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Recordable and portable: the cassette tape miracle (NewFrame.com)
* Steve Reich: Humans Love to See Other Humans Play Music (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Frank Zappa’s Final American Concert to Be Released as Live Album (Consequence of Sound)
* Sisters With Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers (The Guardian)

Sunday Session: May 10, 2020

Stevie Wonder

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

* Shut In Due to Pandemic, Cuba Opens a Window to the World With Music (Billboard)
* Richie Cole, Esteemed Alto Saxophonist and a Keeper of the Bebop Flame, Has Died at 72 (WBGO)
* Levon Helm’s spirit remains in barn that bears his name (PBS)
* INTERVIEW: Dr. Michael White, the musician who ventures deep into NOLA jazz history (HollywoodSoapbox.com)
* Battered by coronavirus, L.A.'s legendary recording studios prep for a post-shutdown ‘resurgence’ (Los Angeles Times)
* Richie Cole 1948 – 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Bass Magazine Lockdown Check-In With Trevor Dunn (BassMagazine.com)
* The Making of Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, and Mingus - The Steve Katz Interview (JoniMitchell.com)
* Nelson George on Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions" (1973) (Simplecast.com)
* Afrobeat: An Alternative Top Ten (AllAboutJazz.com)
* New Orleans Mourns the Loss of Ellis Marsalis: ‘We Were All His Children’ (The Daily Beast)
* Kurt Elling & Danilo Pérez Share the Secrets of Collaboration (Jazz Times)
* ‘Black Coffee’: Peggy Lee’s “Darker Exploration Of Love” (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* What Will The Future Of Concerts Look Like After The Pandemic? (WBUR)
* ‘It’s a Clusterf-ck’: Musicians Struggle to Get Pandemic Assistance (Rolling Stone)
* Dave Liebman Manifests The Elements (DownBeat)
* New Orleans Music Documentary Set for Home Release Via Local Theaters (Variety)
* Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dies at Age 73 (Billboard)
* Chicago jazz club owners ponder when to reopen, and how (Chicago Tribune)
* Laurie Anderson: where to start in her back catalogue (The Guardian)
* Hillard 'Sweet Pea' Atkinson, Legendary Vocalist With Was (Not Was), Dies at 74 (Billboard)
* Stevie Wonder turns 70: 7 memorable moments in the music icon’s life (New York Post)
* Without Federal Aid, More than 1,000 U.S. Music Venues Are in Danger of Closing (Rolling Stone)
* How Florian Schneider and Kraftwerk influenced five decades of music (BBC)
* The Vintage Vibe of Robert Cray (DownBeat)
* What is the value of exposure when exposure is all there is? (Music Industry Blog)
* Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 (Rolling Stone)
* 'He hit us like a bolt of lightning': stars pay tribute to Little Richard (The Guardian)

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: March 10, 2019

Dave Burrell

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:

* Kenny Garrett Interview (Jazz in Europe)
* This North Philly bar near Temple hosted legends like Coltrane and Patti LaBelle, but its owner refuses to sell (Philly.com)
* The Complex Sounds of Caspar Brötzmann (DownBeat)
* Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive (The New Yorker)
* Song You Need to Know: Joey DeFrancesco and Pharoah Sanders, ‘The Creator Has a Master Plan’ (Rolling Stone)
* Celebrating Pianist and Composer Dave Burrell at the Vision Festival — and on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Rebirth of the Cool (TheLAndMag.com)
* Smithsonian Folkways Details Massive New Orleans Jazz Fest Box Set (Rolling Stone)
* Is the album format irrelevant in the digital age? Let's investigate (Beat.com)
* World’s Largest Music Publishers Offer ‘Full Support of Warner/Chappell’ Against Spotify — Here’s Their Statement (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* When Jerry Lee Lewis Was Accused of Planning to Shoot Elvis Presley (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Wadada Leo Smith Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks in New Album (Qwest.tv)
* City to Honor ‘Lady Day’ with Statue at Queens Borough Hall (Queens Daily Eagle)
* The Sound of Evil (The American Scholar)
* Producer of ‘Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings’ Discusses Project in New Video (DownBeat)
* Eliane Elias: The Soul of Brazil (SFJAZZ.org)
* Revisit 50 years of Jazz Fest with comprehensive box set of live performances (Offbeat)
* A two-dimensional matrix: Carl Stone speaks to Emily Bick (The Wire)
* International Women’s Day: Meet the women shaping the future of music (Pro Sound News Europe)
* Spotify and Amazon ‘sue songwriters’ with appeal against 44% royalty rise in the United States (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Got $100k? Steinway’s iPad-capable piano turns you into a classical mixmaster (Syfy.com)
* Janis Joplin’s producer John Simon, a Norwalk native, has musical tastes that might surprise fan (Connecticut Post)
* Sandy Jordan: Keeping the Legacies Alive (Jazz Times)
* Laurie Anderson Interview: The Nature of the Mind (Atavist.com)
* Biamp PDX Jazz Festival Tastefully Pays Tribute to the Past (DownBeat)
* Take note – why do women composers still take up less musical space? (The Guardian)
* An interview with Bill Folwell (Point of Departure)
* In Memoriam: Ira Gitler (1928–2019) (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: February 18, 2018

Snarky Puppy

Here's the 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:

* Olympic Figure Skaters Perform to Ed Sheeran, 'Wonderwall' & More Pop Songs After Rule Change (Billboard)
* Q&A with Adam Nussbaum: The Drum Thing (DownBeat)
* Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes (WFIU)
* Laurie Anderson Details How Hurricane Sandy & Loss Influenced Her New Album & Book (Billboard)
* Why is the price of vinyl albums at a record high? (Toronto Star)
* Systemic Discrimination: the Burden of Sameness in American Orchestras (ICareIfYouListen.com)
* Honor Society: The Importance of Tributes in Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Gibson ‘running out of time — rapidly’ (Nashville Post)
* The Life and Times of the Late, Great CD (DigitalTrends.com)
* When Quincy Jones Covered The Beatles (And Other Insights From a Shrewd Jazz Career) (WBGO)
* Second Line Blues: A Brief History of New Orleans Brass Bands (Reverb.com)
* Exalting Blackness Amid White Noise: Afro-Latino Artists Speak on Navigating the World & Music Industry (Billboard)
* Why Madison Square Garden Thinks It Has Designed the Venue Of the Future (Billboard)
* Scott LaFaro, how one man redefined the piano trio (Jazz in Europe)
* Iyer Excels in Disparate Settings at Four-Day SFJAZZ Run (DownBeat)
* Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Why Rock Stars Are Suddenly Retiring (Rolling Stone)
* This DC Taxi Driver Was a Superstar in Ethiopia (Vice.com)
* The 50 Greatest Rock and Roll Movies of All Time (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Music Snobs Could Save the Music Industry, But They Won't (TrackRecord.net)
* A Primer on Weird Vinyl Design (Magenta.as)
* 99% of All Music Streaming Comes from Just 10% of Available Songs (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Stream the “Complete” John Coltrane Playlist: A 94-Hour Journey Through 700+ Transformative Tracks (OpenCulture.com)
* Snarky Puppy’s GroundUP Fest Grows in its Second Year (DownBeat)
* Music streaming is booming… So what happens next? (MusicAlly.com)
* Meet the Eccentric Master of Jazz Melody (Ozy.com)
* Who Was Andrea Davis? Revealing Minnie Riperton’s Secret History (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Gilles Peterson: 'The boundary between club culture and jazz is finally breaking' (The Guardian)

Sunday Session: May 1, 2016

Eddie Palmieri

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

* Jazz Fest Day 2: Whatever Happened to Rosie? (Offbeat)
* Before & After with Trevor Dunn - Listening wide, from A to Zappa (Jazz Times)
* New Music From Professor Longhair, Who Taught New Orleans How to Play The Piano (The Daily Beast)
* Artist backlash over YouTube’s royalty payments grows noisier (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Esperanza Spalding: Character Study (Jazz Times)
* How we made Laurie Anderson's O Superman (The Guardian UK)
* That Time I Opened Tower Records Early So Prince Could Shop (NBC)
* The oral history of Eddie Palmieri’s Harlem River Drive (WaxPoetics.com)
* How Jazz Saved Hip-Hop Again (Playboy)
* Photo Album: Highlights of the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest–Part 1 (DownBeat)
* 13 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists (Mother Jones)
* Classical music page-turners turn the page into the modern era (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* 'James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4' Is A Marvelous And Mysterious Time Capsule (NPR)
* Jazz Foundation of America Loft Party - The Cookers, Kahil El'Zabar and more (Jazz Times)
* After The Album: How Playlists Are Re-Defining Listening (MusicIndustryBlog)
* Beyond 'Mrs. Jones': Billy Paul's Music You Might Not Have Heard (NPR)
* Revisiting Loma Records, the L.A. Soul Label That Launched Ike and Tina Turner (LA Weekly)
* The Inside Story on Designing Prince's Paisley Park: Exclusive (Billboard)
* The Unbelievable True Story of the Wrecking Crew’s Max Bennett (Observer.com)
* Phil Kives, K-Tel International founder, dies at 87 (CBC)
* Sonny Rollins: “John Coltrane Was Like A Preacher” (Mojo)
* Photo Highlights of the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest (DownBeat)
* Anat Cohen Tentet Brings Retro Sound and Ebullient Spirit to Jazz Standard (DownBeat)
* The Blur of Music Discovery (Disquiet.com)
* Gregory Porter review – jazz chameleon finds countless ways to seduce (The Guardian UK)
* FootPrince - The jazz side of Prince (Jazz Times)
* Dweezil Zappa Changes Name of Zappa Plays Zappa Due to Sibling Disputes (Relix.com)
* Jazz Fest Day 4: What a Difference a Week Makes (Offbeat)
* Jazz Record Mart founder opens new store (Chicago Tribune)
* The great disappearing venues disaster (CentreForLondon.org)
* Stuck on repeat: why we love repetition in music (The Guardian UK)
* Radiohead's corporate empire: inside the band's dollars and cents (The Guardian UK)