Sunday Session: November 10, 2019

Sonny Rollins

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

* How streaming killed underground micro-labels (NowToronto.com)
* Rock legends The Bonzo Dog Band win legal ding-dong to put the Doo Dah back into their name (Daily Mail)
* The 2010s: A Jazz Revival In Black Music (NPR)
* Selling Your Record Collection To Move On In Life The Focus Of New Documentary Based At Dusty Groove (BlockClubChicago.org)
* The Range, Breadth and Development of Keb’ Mo’ (DownBeat)
* Sonny Rollins in the ’70s: Part 1 (Burning Ambulance)
* Sonny Rollins in the ’70s: Part 2 (Burning Ambulance)
* Manfred Eicher: "You Can't Record Everybody" (Stereophile)
* A New World for Coltrane’s ‘Blue World' (DownBeat)
* Jazzrausch Bigband Moves Beyond Tradition (DownBeat)
* Spinal Tap Creators and Universal Music Settle Copyright Dispute (Variety)
* Reissue Captures Nat King Cole Before He Broke Through To Mainstream (NPR)
* Gerry Teekens, Founder of Criss Cross Jazz Label, Dies at 83 (DownBeat)
* On 'Mellotron Variations,' A 1960s-Era Instrument Makes A Comeback (NPR)
* Major Swing: Django Reinhardt, His Disciples, and Their Hot Brand of Acoustic Jazz Guitar (Acoustic Guitar)
* A Detroit homecoming for the illustrious drummer Doug Hammond (Detroit Metro Times)
* 400 Years of slavery and inequality, set to music: Bassist Avery Sharpe’s African American Musical Portrait (Valley Advocate)
* Terri Lyne Carrington Shores Up Her Legacy In New Album Centered On Social Justice (WBUR)
* Photos: 2019 BRIC JazzFest (Jazz Times)
* The Focused Energy of Saxophonist David S. Ware (DownBeat)
* Angel City Festival Strings Together Sets of Innovative Jazz (DownBeat)
* The Curious Case of Keiko Yamada (New Music Box)
* 'Hittin' The Ramp' Traces Nat King Cole's Early Artistic Development (NPR)
* David Byrne Teases New Immersive, Sensory-Based Production ‘Theater of the Mind’ (Rolling Stone)
* ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’: The Ongoing Saga of Pop’s Most Contentious Song (Rolling Stone)
* The Secret Jewish History of Joni Mitchell (The Forward)
* Landmark ECM Anniversary Celebrated at Jazz at Lincoln Center (DownBeat)
* In Lead Up to Disney Plus Launch, Musicians Rally For Fair Pay (AFM.org)
* Ken Vandermark convenes a fresh group of old and new collaborators (Chicago Reader)

Sunday Session: November 29, 2015

Mary Halvorson

For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have turned up recently in StlJN's inbox:

* The Langston Hughes Project, Barbican, review: Ice-T reinvents himself (The Telegraph UK)
* Why rap should share a stage with poetry and jazz (TheConversation.com)
* The Inside Story of David Bowie's Stunning New Album, 'Blackstar' (Rolling Stone)
* What do you get the collector who has everything? How about Ringo Starr’s ‘White Album’ No.0000001? (Dangerous Minds)
* Guitar Trailblazer Mary Halvorson Turns Jazz on Its Head (Rolling Stone)
* Maceo Parker: 98% Funky Stuff (SFJazz.org)
* INTERVIEW: David Amram (CD Box Set David Amram’s Classic American Film Scores 1956-2016 and UK appearances Nov 29 to Dec 3) (LondonJazzNews.com)
* How a Kid Running an Obscure Music Forum Became the Target Of the UK's Biggest Ever Piracy Case (Vice.com)
* What I Learned About The Record Industry By Carsharing With A Millenial (MusicThinkTank.com)
* Watch as Allen Toussaint gets the jazz funeral treatment he richly deserved (AV Club)
* Jazz Guitar Great Bucky Pizzarelli Recovering From Stroke (Jazz Times)
* Moran, Threadgill Lead Tribute to Cecil Taylor in Harlem (DownBeat)
* Interstellar Overdrive: A Heavy Music Fan’s Guide to Forgotten Synth Icons (Vice.com)
* How Kickstarter Helped a 60s Legend Preserve a Piece of Rock History (Vanity Fair)
* Manfred Eicher: the man who made ECM on working with Keith Jarrett, Steve Reich and Arvo Part (Irish Times)
* Train Songs, Freedom, The Blues and Country Music (UDiscoverMusic.com)