Sunday Session: February 16, 2020

Roberta Flack

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

* Philadelphia jazz great John Coltrane’s house ‘at risk,’ preservationists say (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Johnny Cash’s Gospel (The New Yorker)
* Photos: Winter Jazzfest 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Jeff Parker’s Shifting Mentality (DownBeat)
* Revisiting the ‘Stank Groove’ of Jimi Hendrix (DownBeat)
* The Virtuoso: Roberta Flack's career demands a new way of thinking about the word 'genius.' (NPR)
* How Will the Fire At Apollo Masters Affect the Local Music Industry? (Portland Mercury)
* New music label says it can use AI to find the next big artist (Engadget.com)
* 1,000 True Fans? Try 100 (A16Z.com)
* Vinyl Record Industry Fears 'Vinylgeddon' After Fire Burns Down Apollo Masters Plant (Billboard)
* Eddie Kendricks’ ‘People’ Was No Accident (DownBeat)
* Joanne Brackeen: Still Proudly Unorthodox (Jazz Times)
* Lyle Mays 1953 – 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Keyboard Remembers Lyle Mays (Keyboard)
* What Makes A Hit Pop Song (NPR)
* Oscar Peterson's Africa Suite has never been performed in its entirety — until now (CBC)
* Are Musicians Better Than They Were 30 Years Ago? (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Steve Feigenbaum Talks About Cuneiform Records, His Four-Plus Decades Selling Fringe Music, 
And Why He Thinks The Vinyl Revival Is Mostly Hype (Substack.com)
* Brain Wave Binaural beats and the poetics of brainhacking (RealLifeMag.com)
* Meet the Baltimore Jazz Collective and more faces of Charm City’s swing renaissance (Baltimore Sun)
* The story of Moondog: blind poet, Viking vagabond, genius composer (HappyMag.TV)
* ‘The Whole System Collapsed’: Inside the Music Industry’s Ongoing Distribution Crisis (Rolling Stone)
* Time Is on Dave Grusin’s Side (Jazz Times)
* Dopolarians: Free-Jazz Collaborators With a Southern Sound (Memphis Flyer)
* Carol Kaye: The Boss of the Bass Guitar (PleaseKillMe.com)
* In Memoriam: Claudio Roditi (1946–2020) (DownBeat)
* The Continuing Impact of the Detroit Jazz Collective Tribe (Bandcamp.com)
* On 'Standards Vol. 1,' Rafiq Bhatia Questions The Act Of Reinterpretation (NPR)

Sunday Session: December 15, 2019

Coleman Hawkins

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

* Shush... and enjoy the music: how listening bars have hit the right note (The Guardian)
* The Jewish Music of Woody Guthrie - The Klezmatics Interview (SFJAZZ.org)
* We Jazz Festival Depicts the Evolving World of Finnish Jazz (DownBeat)
* Inside the Rebirth of Capricorn Sound Studios, Ground Zero for Southern Rock (Rolling Stone)
* 'Death metal rarely works': how restaurateurs choose the perfect dinner playlist (The Guardian)
* The Whitefish Review Interview: Huey Lewis (WhitefishReview.org)
* ECM: Birth Of A Label (IndianaPublicMedia.org)
* How Moondog Captured the Sounds of New York (The New Yorker)
* Interview: Brian Eno On Music, Art and Astronauts (HotPress.com)
* Music collectors seek out rare albums not available on streaming (TheConversation.com)
* Why Davina & The Vagabonds Finally Recorded at a World-Class Studio (DownBeat)
* Jazz Wars in the ’70s (VillageVoice.com)
* Quincy’s Danilo Perez leads a celebration of jazz (Quincy Patriot Ledger)
* These Musicians Were 'Canceled,' But People Kept Listening (Jezebel.com)
* Coleman Hawkins: Fifty Years Gone, A Saxophone Across Time (AllAboutJazz.com)
* TV and Film Composers Say Netflix, Other Streaming Services Insist on Buying Out Their Music Rights (Hollywood Reporter)
* T.K. Blue Explores the Legacy of Randy Weston (DownBeat)
* The Deceptive Ease Of Cole Porter: In-Depth With Harry Connick, Jr. (NPR)
* The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde Goes For Jazz Karaoke On 'Valve Bone Woe' Covers (NPR)
* Discovery Networks Corners Composers in Music Royalties Battle (Variety)
* No Matter the Coast, Bill Frisell’s Guitar Sings (DownBeat)
* 'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50 (The Guardian)
* 15 sounds people under 40 won’t recognize — but will trigger instant memories if you’re 50+ (Considerable.com)
* Van Morrison: “I’m current – I’m always current” (Uncut)
* Jacob Collier: Live from His Room (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: December 4, 2016

Charles Lloyd

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

* Why Mary Halvorson Sounds Like No Other Guitarist (NPR)
* Jazz great Anthony Ortega maintains his sax appeal at 88 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
* Sun Ra: Singles review – a cosmic ride (The Guardian UK)
* The Top 25 Music Schools 2016 (Hollywood Reporter)
* Andrew Norman Wins The Grawemeyer Award For Music (NPR)
* Cuba: Music of a 'New Era' (Billboard)
* Recycling My Back Pages: A Music Writer/Collector Reflects on Disposing of His Magazine Archive (The Stranger)
* Forgotten audio formats: Wire recording - From espionage to home recording, the colorful life of the longest-used audio medium. (Ars Technica)
* Corea Elektric Band, Béla & Flecktones To Join Forces for 2017 Summer Tour (DownBeat)
* In Defense of Jazz (New Music Box)
* James Booker Was Hands Down the Greatest New Orleans Piano Player Ever (The Daily Beast)
* Darryl Jones: The unknown Stone (BBC)
* The weird and true story of Moondog (Macleans)
* God Is on the Loose! How the Tropicália Movement Provided Hope During Brazil’s Darkest Years (Pitchfork)
* What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music (Washington.edu)
* The Sex Pistols’ ‘Anarchy in the UK’ Is More Relevant Now Than Ever (Observer.com)
* The Re-Flowering: Charles Lloyd's Second Golden Age (The Atlantic)
* At 85, Jazz Guitarist and Educator Kenny Burrell Is Still Going Strong (LA Weekly)
* Chicago's new generation of bluesmen (The Guardian UK)
* Fidel Castro: A First-Person Account of the Day the Music Stopped in Cuba (Billboard)
* The Band Before They Were The Band: A Listening Guide (Pitchfork)
* Cécile McLorin Salvant On Past, Present, Future (RevueWM.com)