Sunday Session: January 31, 2021

Sonny Rollins

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

* 'Honeycomb' Singer Jimmie Rodgers Dies at 87 (Billboard)
* Jonas Gwangwa, South African Musician And Activist, Dies At 83 (WBGO)
* When The Giants Of Indian Classical Music Collided With Psychedelic San Francisco (NPR)
* Philadelphia International Records Marks 50th Anniversary With Yearlong Celebration: Exclusive (Billboard)
* Levon Helm grew up in Arkansas before finding fame in The Band (ArkansasOnline.com)
* Why Do So Many Recorded Songs End With a Fadeout? (Phoenix New Times)
* When Appliance Hackers Hit The Music Scene (HackADay.com)
* Which Sounds Are the Most Annoying to Humans? (Gizmodo.com)
* The Strange World Of... Pere Ubu (TheQuietus.com)
* The O’Jays Walter Williams, Sr: An inspiration, legend and man of great wisdom (Newsbreak.com)
* The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Unveils the Jazz Media Lab, a Major Radio Initiative (WBGO)
* Buying Beats for Viral Songs Is Becoming a Popular (and Messy) Business (Rolling Stone)
* Birdland Saved By GoFundMe Campaign to Tune of $400,000 (WBGO)
* Lost (And Found) In Yonkers: The Billy Lester Story (NPR)
* Celeste: 'Black women singing soul, blues and jazz aren't being heard in the mainstream' (The Guardian)
* Surveying the Grand Musical Sprawl of Bassist and Composer William Parker, on Jazz United (WBGO)
* Spotify Is Testing a New System That Inserts ‘Slow Down’ Songs Into Playlists When Listeners Approach School Zones (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* What is MPE… and why should you care about it? (MusicRadar.com)
* William Parker And The Observance Of Beauty (DownBeat)
* Sonny Rollins Speaks (Jazz Tines)
* Did Everyone Buy a Guitar in Quarantine or What? (Rolling Stone)

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)