Sunday Session: February 2. 2020

Kris Davis

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

* Underground Railroad: A Conductor And Passengers Documented In Music (NPR)
* Kandace Springs Honors History and Personal Growth on ‘The Women Who Raised Me’ (DownBeat)
* The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period (OpenCulture.com)
* Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 2 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Best Music Arrangers: 20 Artists You’ve Heard But Not Seen (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding Among the Winners at 62nd Grammy Awards (WBGO)
* Bob Porter's Portraits In Soul Jazz (IndianaPublicMedia.org)
* UK industry reacts to venues business rates cut (IQ-Mag.net)
* Don’t leave jazz to the jazz guys (TheOutline.com)
* The Unsung Black Musician Who Changed Country Music (Narratively.com)
* Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival (The Guardian)
* In conversation: When Elvis Costello met Tom Waits (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Violinist Regina Carter in full swing for the Charleston Jazz Festival (Charleston Post and Courier)
* Jeff Parker’s Shifting Mentality (DownBeat)
* Singing Songs to Fix the World: A Q&A with Mavis Staples (SFJAZZ.org)
* Eight Artists Fusing Traditional Arabic Music With Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Gordon Goodwin’s Total Devotion (DownBeat)
* From Skepta’s dystopia to Travis Scott’s fairground: are immersive shows the future of live music? (The Guardian)
* BMG responds to artist streaming revolt in Germany: ‘It is time for record companies to change.’ (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* ‘Always finding nice things in a tragic situation’ - Robert Wyatt at 75 (MorningStarOnline.co.uk)
* Innovation is Kris Davis’ Motivation (DownBeat)
* Watch the Residents Perform ‘God in Three Persons’ Live for the First Time (Rolling Stone)
* Rachmaninov is the most innovative composer in 200 years, researchers reveal (ClassicFM.com)
* ‘Are you sure it’s Sun Ra?’: Rare recording by the Philly jazz giant at Haverford College finally sees the light of day (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* How a lost recording became a Philadelphia soul classic (PBS)
* Swinging Modern Sounds #101: A Really Big Band (TheRumpus.net)
* An update to a 37-year-old digital protocol could profoundly change the way music sounds (QZ.com)
* Kris Davis: Ribbons in Rhythm (Jazz Times)
* The electronic genius of Karlheinz Stockhausen (HappyMag.tv)
* Bedroom Music Wars (UndergroundPress.co.za)

Sunday Session: February 24, 2019

Billie Holiday

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:

* Ken Nordine, Chicago creator of 'word jazz' who had a voice that 'could give you the chills,' dies at 98 (Chicago Tribune)
* What happens when you create a fake music record label and upload bad music to Spotify (Salon.com)
* Jazz Musician And Subject Of Iconic Photo Revisits 'A Great Day In Harlem' (NPR)
* Italian town takes vow of silence for digital recording of centuries-old violins (The Telegraph)
* Cultural evolution of music (Nature)
* How streaming music could be harming the planet (BBC)
* Mandatory Music Surcharges Could Pay Musicians More (Offbeat)
* PBS to Air Nat ‘King’ Cole Special, Marking Centennial (DownBeat)
* PledgeMusic's Failed Promise Leaves Artists in Limbo and the Future of Music Crowdfunding in Jeopardy (Billboard)
* Judge Rules Against Both Parties In Lawsuit Over Kansas City's Mutual Musicians Foundation (KCUR)
* Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth (The New Yorker)
* Ethel Ennis, Sophisticated Singer Who Reigned As Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz, Dies at 86 (WBGO)
* Whither “Musicologist”? (MusicologyNow.AMS.net)
* Rough Around the Edges: The Raw Yet Refined Art of Myra Melford (Jazziz)
* For Promotional Use Only (RockAndRollGlobe.com)
* More Than 50 Years In, Mavis Staples Is Still Delivering Messages Of Hope And Justice (NPR)
* Fans of Max Roach drumming up support to rename Bed-Stuy street after genre-busting jazz great (New York Daily News)
* Billie Holiday Documentary in the Works Featuring New Interviews With Contemporaries (Hollywood Reporter)
* McVouty! (Chisler.org)
* “Hearing” the Hammond Organ (New Music Box)
* Folk and Blues: The Tribulations of The Old Town School (NewCity.com)
* Monkees Singer and Bassist Peter Tork Dead at 77 (Rolling Stone)
* Bill Frisell: The ‘favourite guitarist of many people who agree on little else’ (Irish Times)
*''We Need a Jazz Band, but They All Have to Be Foreigners": The Discrimination Faced by Asian Musicians (The Beijinger.com)
* Peter Erskine: Up Front, In Time, and On Call (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Three-Disc Set Documents Ben Sidran’s Voyage (DownBeat)
* The strange truth behind the Amy Winehouse hologram tour (GQ)
* Debunking Green Book: Jazz Greats on What It Was Really Like to Tour During Jim Crow (Pitchfork.com)
* The Uncertain Future of KMHD and Jazz Radio in Portland (Portland Mercury)
* Save JAZZ.FM91 May Just Do It! (FYIMusicNews.ca)
* The Man Who Wasn’t Gershwin (Commentary)
* Jazz City (KCET)
* The Invisible Village - Sasha Frere-Jones on the Music of John Zorn (Art Forum)
* Ray Charles and Country’s Color Barrier (Rolling Stone)
* On the Road with Esperanza Spalding (Mother Jones)

Sunday Session: December 25, 2016

Stevie Wonder

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

* The 84-Year-Old Grandmother Who Fronts D.C.'s Coolest House Band (NPR)
* Chops: Deft Poetry - Kurt Elling, Laurence Hobgood and Roy Nathanson on blending jazz with verse (Jazz Times)
* For Mavis Staples, The Music Of The Civil Rights Era Couldn't Be More Relevant Today (NPR)
* Discovering the Savory Collection (OpenSkyJazz.com)
* 'A True Legend': Bob Krasnow's Legacy Celebrated by Colleagues (Billboard)
* Nina Simone to Be Honored With the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award (Variety)
* Deep-Learning Machine Listens to Bach, Then Writes Its Own Music in the Same Style (Technology Review)
* 9 U.K. Artists Making Jazz Feel Brand New (TheFader.com)
* Motown’s True Visionaries (The New Yorker)
* Love’s in Need of Love Today - Introducing Wonder Week, a toast to Stevie’s greatness (Slate.com)
* Chuck Berry Invented the Idea of Rock and Roll (Vulture.com)
* Dispatches From The War On Marching Bands (Deadspin.com)
* 'Rogue One' Composer on Filling John Williams' Shoes, Pleasing Marvel Franchise Fans (Hollywood Reporter)
* How the Vince Guaraldi Trio's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Became the Soundtrack of the Holidays (Vice.com)
* Interview: Robert Glasper (Keyboard)
* Jazz Caliente: Teaching The Tradition (KNKX)
* The Mariachi Men of Yugoslavia (RoadsAndKingdoms.com)