Sunday Session: January 27, 2019

Terri Lyne Carrington

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:

* Houzz Tour: Rock Musician’s Tiny House Wakes Up the Neighborhood (Houzz.com)
* FIRST LISTEN: Brand new Snarky Puppy unveiled (JazzFM.com)
* Festival of New Trumpet Music West to debut in San Diego at eight venues in one week in January (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Pharoah Sanders – The Creator's Master Plan (Q&A) (Pollstar.com)
* Mark Mothersbaugh on his journey from Devo to Hollywood (AV Club)
* Scenes From the Winter Jazzfest: A Slide Show (WBGO)
* Makaya McCraven’s ‘Distillation of Ideas’ (DownBeat)
* Myra Melford: Both Sides Now (Jazz Times)
* Bob Clearmountain: Living in the Mix (Tape Op)
* Why won’t City Hall fight for Chicago’s homegrown music scene? (Chicago Reader)
* Hugh Masekela’s legacy can still be heard throughout South Africa (QZ.com)
* Donny McCaslin: ‘Just Be Brave’ (DownBeat)
* 'Swingin' in Seattle' Finds Cannonball Adderley at a Crossroads, Reaching Out and Speaking Up (WBGO)
* Spotify data shows how music preferences change with latitude (ArsTechnica.com)
* Eric Dolphy: It’s All Out There Now (Jazz Times)
* Terri Lyne Carrington Looks to Transform the Culture (DownBeat)
* Blue Note Records Presents The Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series (BlueNote.com)
* Jaco Pastorius Shares How He Learned Bass and Composition in Unpublished Interview (Reverb.com)
* We Analyzed Every Dang Song That Cracked the Billboard Top 5 in 2018 (Soundfly.com)
* ‘Magic baton’ helps blind musicians feel conductor (BBC)
* This mouth-controlled synthesizer is the wildest instrument I’ve ever heard (TheVerge.com)
* Michel Legrand, Oscar-winning composer, dies aged 86 (The Guardian)
* How Eric Dolphy Sparked My Love of Jazz (The New Yorker)

Sunday Session: November 6, 2016

Bob Cranshaw

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

* What Lady Gaga Finds Appealing in Reel-to-Reel (The New Yorker)
* How TV Is Making Us Hear ’80s Music in a Whole New Way (Vulture.com)
* 35 Greatest Horror Soundtracks: Modern Masters, Gatekeepers Choose (Rolling Stone)
* Esperanza Spalding Wins 2016 MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act (Jazz Times)
* Phil Ranelin revisits ‘Vibes From the Tribe’ on its 40th anniversary (Detroit Metro Times)
* Wayne Shorter: 'Jazz isn’t chewing gum – you can’t market it' (The Telegraph UK)
* Corea Assembles Supergroup for Miles Tribute at Blue Note NYC (DownBeat)
* Anthony Braxton still knows no boundaries (HeraldScotland.com)
* 15th Annual "A Great Night in Harlem" Honoring Dr. John and McCoy Tyner (Jazz Times)
* Roli Blocks are expressive multitouch musical instruments for everyone (Ars Technica)
* 23% Of CDs Sold On Amazon Are Counterfeit, Say Investigators (HypeBot.com)
* Marsalis & Friends Honor the Jazz Spirit of Ralph Ellison at NJPAC (DownBeat)
* Kamasi Washington Has Conquered the Jazz World. What Does He Do Next? (LA Weekly)
* The Way Forward: An Interview With Electronic Music Pioneer Richard Pinhas (SubRewind.com)
* Beyoncé and Dixie Chicks incited a country music civil war (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Bassist Bob Cranshaw Dies at 83 (Jazz Times)
* Tribune Literary Prize winner Philip Glass reflects on his life, music (Chicago Tribune)
* Dynamic Duo of Jazz Piano Improvisation: Herbie Hancock Converses Musically With Chick Corea in His Birthday Engagement at the Blue Note (ZealNYC.com)
* Natural Selection: How a New Age Hustler Sold the Sound of the World (Pitchfork.com)
* A subsidised critic is the thin end of a dangerous wedge (The Guardian UK)
* Rolling Stone Magazine Faces Shutdown Over Fake Gang-Rape Story; $7.5 Million Defamation Ruling (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh On The Synths That Changed Pop Forever (NPR)
* In the key of zzz: the concerts intended to send you to sleep (The Guardian UK)

* Composing Paranoia: A Conversation With Darcy James Argue (HeavyBlogIsHeavy.com)
* The Greatest Invention of One Thousand Years Ago (Fee.org)
* Coltrane Crumbles: The jazz legend's neglected house in Philly (Philadephia Weekly)

Sunday Session: October 2, 2016

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

* TV and Film Music Supervisors Are Killing Real Songwriting (LA Weekly)
* The greatest record sleeves – as chosen by the designers (The Guardian UK)
* Hill & Trumpet Peers Offer Captivating Set at FONT (DownBeat)
* INTERVIEW: Mark Wingfield (Specialist Mixing and Mastering Service for Jazz at Heron Island Studio) (London Jazz News)
* Female Composers in Games Industry See Gender-Based Pay Penalty, New Study Finds (Billboard)
* When jazz stopped being cool (CNN)
* The Story of AllMusic, the Internet’s Largest, Most Influential Music Database (Vice.com)
* Listen to this AI-composed song in the style of The Beatles (DigitalTrends.com)
* Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra is more than just a memorable gimmick (AV Club)
* From Audio, To 3D Printed Sculpture, And Back Again (HackADay.com)
* Hyde Park Jazz Fest Offers Diverse, Progressive Program (DownBeat)
* 1966 Vs. 1971: When 'Rock 'n' Roll' Became 'Rock,' And What We Lost (NPR)
* How Seasick Steve turned out to be Session Man Steve (The Guardian UK)
* Scofield Gets ‘A Little Bit Country’ for New Jazz Album (DownBeat)
* Inside Stevie Wonder's Epic Magnum Opus 'Songs in the Key of Life' (Rolling Stone)
* Hear, kitty kitty: With ‘Music for Cats,’ is a new industry born? (Charleston Post and Courier)
* Cuba: While The Politicians Argued, The Musicians Jammed (NPR)
* Mutate, don’t stagnate: Mark Mothersbaugh in conversation (Detroit Metro Times)
* All 88 Diamond-Certified Albums Ranked From Worst to Best: Critic's Take (Billboard)
* The Fight Over Prince’s Estate Continues to Be a Purple-Tinged Nightmare (Vulture.com)
* Martin Scorsese: When Muddy Waters met my Last Waltz (The Guardian UK)
* Newlywed Composer Christopher Rouse On His Encoded Musical Love Letters (NPR)