Sunday Session: December 8, 2019

Roscoe Mitchell

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

* 'A Tribute To Mose Allison' Celebrates The Music Of An Exciting Jazz Master (NPR)
* Why Don’t We Appreciate Local Music, And Why We Should (Offbeat)
* Crossing the Streams (Revisited) (The Big City)
* Musicians Reach Tentative Deal with Film and TV Studios - But No Streaming Residuals (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Bass clarinetist Jason Stein’s Hearts and Minds (BerkeleySide.com)
* John and Alice Coltrane’s jazz perennial philosophy (Medium.com)
* Dr. John Mined Spiritual Connections (DownBeat)
* Historic Meeting: Valdés & Corea Collaborate in NYC (DownBeat)
* Iconic Southern rock recording studio is revived in Georgia (Associated Press)
* The Nat King Cole Harvest Is In (Jazz Times)
* Annie Clark: Down the Rabbit Hole with St. Vincent (Tape Op)
* This Rhodes College professor became the expert voice in Lil Nas X, 'Old Town Road' debate (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Capricorn Records: Dickey Betts, Alan Walden & More on the Iconic Southern Label's 50th (Billboard)
* 2019 Parliamentary Jazz Award winners (London Jazz News)
* Philadelphia Jazz Project launches first graphic novel (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Evgeny Pobozhiy Tops Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Guitar Competition (DownBeat)
* Shabaka Hutchings In Conversation With Art Ensemble Of Chicago's Roscoe Mitchell (ClashMusic.com)
* Darlene Love Calls out ‘Christmas in Rockefeller Center’ Snub (Rolling Stone)
* The World’s Weirdest Guitar Mods and Builds (Premier Guitar)
* Art Ensemble of Chicago: “We were young and foolish. Now we’re old and foolish, but we’re still happy and still trying” (Jazzwise)
* Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Fosters Connection Between Cuban Music, Jazz (DownBeat)
* I Heard God in a Grain of Sound (The Stranger)

Sunday Session: January 1, 2017

Alphonse Mouzon

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

* The Year Jimi Hendrix Spent in Nashville (Nashville Scene)
* Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd on his lifelong intoxication with music (PBS)
* The music theory principle that unifies 2016’s radio hits (Vox.com)
* Crowdsourcing Meets Music for Symphonies of the Future (US News)
* How Kafundó Records is Preserving the Marginalized Cultures of Brazil in a Changing Political Climate (Bandcamp.com)
* Q&A with Terrace Martin: From Hip-Hop to Herbie Hancock (DownBeat)
* A Man at Home On the Road—Remembering Mose Allison (1927-2016) (New Music Box)
* In Gritty Sao Paulo, Samba Reinvents Itself With An Introspective Sound (NPR)
* Mourning Stars Through Streams, Screens And Communities (NPR)
* 5 Ways to Make Opera More Appealing to Young People (Paste)
* Music streaming hailed as industry's saviour as labels enjoy profit surge (The Guardian)
* George Clinton on funk, touring and staying relevant at 75 (The Guardian)
* R.I.P. Alphonse Mouzon, prolific jazz fusion drummer has died at 68 (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL (Washington Post)
* What Happened to Rock Music? (The New Republic)

Sunday Session: November 20, 2016

Mose Allison

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

* Leon Russell Dies; Southern-Rock Legend Was 74 (NPR)
* The Verdict on Stravinsky (Jazz Journal UK)
* London jazz festival review – a dazzling display all across the musical spectrum (The Guardian UK)
* Behind the Scenes With Janis Joplin and Big Brother, Rehearsing for the Summer of Love (Collector's Weekly)
* At 75, Chick Corea Still Has That Magic Touch (NPR)
* Identifying the Musical Tastes of Birds (Hyperallergic.com)
* Jazzman John Thomson's guide to jazz: 'If you can’t swing, you’ve got no soul' (The Guardian UK)
* In Memoriam: DownBeat Bids Farewell to Four Great Artists (DownBeat)
* The Design + Music Industries are BFFs—They Just Don’t Know it Yet (AIGA.org)
* Intersections: 8 Classical Musicians Killing It Right Now Using Live Electronics (Soundfly.com)
* Micro-ritmos turns bacteria and machine learning into spatialized sound (CDM.link)
* How the Hidden Sounds of Horror Movie Soundtracks Freak You Out (Atlas Obscura)
* 10 addictive browser instruments for making music on your lunch break (FactMag.com)
* Harpsi-Gourd Gets You Into Thanksgiving Spirit (HackADay.com)
* Composing An Otherworldly And Intimate Soundtrack To 'Arrival' (NPR)
* Pianist/Vocalist Mose Allison Dies at 89 (DownBeat)
* Ireland's oldest blues/jazz venue J.J. Smyths to close (RTE.ie)
* Robert Glasper: Battling 'the jazz police' (BBC)
* Amazon files its first-ever lawsuits against alleged sellers of counterfeit goods (GeekWire.com)
* The Death Of A Disco Host (NPR)
* A History of Music Bootlegs, Told Through 25 of the Most Significant Recordings (Vulture.com)
* Sharon Jones, Soul and Funk Singer With Dap-Kings, Dead at 60 (Rolling Stone)

Sunday Session: January 17, 2016

Mose Allison

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

* Paul Bley • When Will The Blues Leave (Rant and Dawdle)
* Review: Weather Report - The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Jazz Times)
* Why is modern music so loud? (BBC)
* David Bowie Dies at Age 69 After Battling Cancer (Billboard)
* The South Stole Americana (Los Angeles Review of Books)
* When Jazz Met Photography Met Design (The Online Photographer)
* 30 key blues musicians in pictures (The Telegraph UK)
* In Memoriam: David Bowie’s Diverse Career & Poetic Departure (DownBeat)
* An insider's look behind the making of David Bowie's secretive 'Blackstar' album (Los Angeles Times)
* Jazz Musicians Behind David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Remember the Late Legend (Billboard)
* David Bowie remembered by Blackstar musicians Donny McCaslin, Jason Lindner, Tim Lefebvre and Mark Guiliana (Ottawa Citizen)
* Q&A with Bill Frisell: Thriving on the Unexpected (DownBeat)
* Musical melodies obey same laws as foraging animals (Phys.org)
* How A Korean Jazz Festival Found A Huge Young Audience (NPR)
* A Meeting of the New Music Minds (Wall Street Journal)
* Millennials Are Making The Music Business Bite-Sized (HypeBot.com)
* How crowdfunded music festivals are offering an alternative to increasingly corporate ones (The Independent UK)
* Creativity, Emotions, and the Brain (Pacific Standard)
* The Kamasi Washington Phenomenon (PopMatters)
* How a 90-Year-Old Missing Person Became a Hit on Spotify (Priceonomics.com)
* Cy Walter’s Cocktail Piano, With a Twist (Wall Street Journal)
* Mose Allison Caps Touring Career with Heartfelt Live Album (DownBeat)