Sunday Session: July 14, 2019

Abdullah Ibrahim

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

* All hail young blues aristocrat Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram (Guitar)
* An evening with João Gilberto, the bright wallflower of bossa nova (The Guardian)
* Burning Its Way Toward A Musical Sweet Spot - Interview With Burnt Sugar Founder Greg Tate (SFJAZZ.org)
* How Richmond jazz legend Lonnie Liston Smith is bridging generations (WTVR)
* Herbie Hancock still experimenting after six musical decades (Vancouver Sun)
* When Mingus met Mitchell (Jazz Journal)
* The Black Swan: A History of Race Records (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Snapshot NY: Tiny Harlem Apartment Home To Popular Jazz Parlor (NewYork.CBSLocal.com)
* Artist Spotlight: Vijay Iyer (Jazz Times)
* An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness (The New Yorker)
* Kamasi Washington Says Security Guard Assaulted His Father at Austria Show, Cuts Set Short (Pitchfork.com)
* ‘Getz At The Gate’: A Scintillating Performance By A Dynamic Stan Getz (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Sun Ra: The Philadelphia Years (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Sisters of Swing (Vanity Fair)
* 'We need to put inclusion at the start of the process': the disabled musicians making their own instruments (The Guardian)
* Ernest Dawkins on AACM, Conduction and Dictators (DownBeat)
* Seamus Blake Is Playing Between Many Worlds (Jazz Times)
* Steps Taken That Could Determine The Fate Of The Former Home Of Jazz Musician Cab Calloway (Baltimore.CBSLocal.com)
* Finding 'The Balance': Jazz Legend Abdullah Ibrahim Looks To Past, Present And Future (NPR)
* Ban Brass Bands On Frenchmen? (Offbeat)
* Mini model of Stonehenge created by scientists could reveal how the ancient monument SOUNDED during the mysterious rituals held at the site more than 2,000 years ago (Daily Mail)
* A jazz legend said he was in desperate need of money. His friends had questions (Washington Post)
* An Alternate Canon of Afrofuturist Classics (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Jimmie Vaughan Digs into Covers (DownBeat)
* Flutes you: Lizzo and the woodwind renaissance (The Guardian)
* The Legacy of Live Aid, 30 Years Later (The Atlantic)
* The Science of Sound: An Interview with Alvin Lucier (SecondInversion.com)
* In Conversation: The Fast-Paced Life of Bill Frisell (Jazz in Europe)
* Janis Siegel: Answering the Calling of Vocal Jazz (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: April 19, 2015

Herbie Hancock

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

* Cecil Taylor in 1983 (Burning Ambulance)
* Listen to the Future (The New Yorker)
* How Lester Young Invented Cool (The Daily Beast)
* At Corea and Hancock’s performance, crowd-pleasers and timeless classics (Washington Post)
* This New Collection of 12,000 Photographs Chronicles the American Jazz Scene (Smithsonian)
* Lonnie Liston Smith’s life in jazz (Red Bull Music Academy)
* The Media Column: The music business is starting to think the next big thing is just a computer algorithm away (The Independent UK)
* Rewind The Biggest Instrumental Hits of the Past 50 Years (Medium.com)
* Bill Withers: The Soul Man Who Walked Away (Rolling Stone)
* Stan Freberg 1926-2015 (Pro Sound News)
* Universal Music Agrees to Pay $11.5 Million to Settle Digital Royalties Class Action (Hollywood Reporter)
* A Pressing Business: tQ Goes Inside A Czech Vinyl Plant (The Quietus)
* Revenge Of The Record Labels: How The Majors Renewed Their Grip On Music (Forbes)
* This record store will lathe-cut any song you want to 7-inch disc (Consequence of Sound)
* Being Ringo: A Beatle's All-Starr Life (Rolling Stone)
* Anna Clyne, a Composer Who Creates With Images (New York Times)
* The Story Behind the Robert Johnson and Johnny Shines Cover Photo (American Songwriter)
* From Woody to Lead Belly, the master of Smithsonian Folkways (Washington Post)
* Tour the Wild, Modular Robotic Percussion of Bastl Instruments (CreateDigitalMusic.com)