Sunday Session: October 1, 2017

Bud Powell

Here's the roundup of various music-related items of interest that have appeared in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Why Do Orchestras Seem to Play Behind the Beat? (WQXR)
* How jazz is becoming the sound of resistance once again (Salon.com)
* Patti LaBelle: New Jazz Attitude (Jazz Times)
* An introduction to Jon Hassell in 10 records (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Giving peace a chance? Music can drive us apart as much as it unites (TheConversation.com)
* Reminiscing with Latin-jazz legend Eddie Palmieri (Jazz Times)
* From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity (The New Yorker)
* Labels And Artists Lending A Hand To Those Affected By Natural Disasters (NPR)
* Meet Jason DeMarco, The Reason Adult Swim’s Music Is So Good (Pitchfork.com)
* A Century Of Song: Monk At 100 (SFJAZZ.org)
* Playlist of the Lambs: psychopaths may have distinct musical preferences (The Guardian)
* Frank Zappa’s 1977 Halloween residency to be released as 158-track costume box set (ConsequenceOfSound.com)
* 70s boombox makes comeback, attracts new generation (KyodoNews.com)
* Was the Blues Born on a Vaudeville Stage? (PopMatters.com)
* Spotify Is Paying $2.77 Million a Month In Rent for Its World Trade Center Offices (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* How Facebook Is Trying to Avoid a Public Relations Disaster with Songwriters (TheStreet.com)
* Bizarre footage shows trumpet-playing bear travelling in motorcyclist's sidecar while sitting at traffic lights (The Mirror)
* America's Small Cities Are Betting Their Second Act on Festivals (Jezebel.com)
* New York Hot Jazz Festival Electrifies McKittrick Hotel (DownBeat)
* The Summer of Yoko Ono Ends with Shrieks and Screams (Smithsonian)
* Bud Powell Revisited (NEPR.net)
* Coltrane’s Hidden Gems: A Seeker’s Guide (EstheticLens.com)
* A Walk Through The Avant-Garde World of ‘Art Rap’ Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Hugh Hefner's Big Contributions to Jazz (WBGO)
* Technician of the Sacred - Three recent books demonstrate that John Cage is overdue for a populist revival (Utne.com)
* Ostrava Days, Brooklyn Nights - On Hypocrisy and Insularity in New Music (Atavist.com)
* Linda Ronstadt: 'I don’t like any of my albums' (The Guardian)
* Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans and Chicago (AllAboutJazz.com)
* How Instagram Became The Music Industry’s Secret Weapon (Fast Company)
* A Guide to U.K. Jazz in 2017 (Bandcamp.com)
* Q&A: John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring (Jazz Times)
* Which Two Songs Are the First to Be Encoded Into the Fabric of Life? (AtlasObscura.com)

Sunday Session: May 7, 2017

David Murray

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

* Jonathan Demme's 'Stop Making Sense' Is the Past, Present, and Future of Concert Films (Vice.com)
* The perfect score? How composers are taking pop festivals by storm (The Guardian)
* Henry Threadgill: Dirt, and More Dirt (WQXR)
* Jazz Flutist Nicole Mitchell’s New Concept Album Asks, “What is Progress?” (Bandcamp.com)
* The greatest music teacher who ever lived (BBC)
* R.I.P. Pono, Neil Young Kills Off His Digital Player (Noise11.com)
* ‘Unless you’re 100% sure your artist is wrong, go with their vision’ (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* The Unsettling Performance That Showed the World Through AI’s Eyes (Wired)
* The 2017 International Jazz Day Global Concert - Art, people before politics at this all-star show in Havana, Cuba (Jazz Times)
* A Confluence of Vibrant Rhythm and Hopeful Goodwill in Havana, For International Jazz Day (WGBO)
* Revisiting Alice Coltrane's Lost Spiritual Classics (Rolling Stone)
* Herb Alpert talks back (Offbeat)
* Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala Celebrates Fitzgerald, Features Diverse Lineup (DownBeat)
* The Evolutionary Vocabulary of the Human Voice (PopMatters.com)
* Iggy Pop on Singing Jazz, Turning 70 (Rolling Stone)
* Millennials Are Buying Vinyl, But Not From Record Stores (MusicThinkTank.com)
* Butch Morris’s workbook for spontaneous composition published (Jazz Beyond Jazz/ArtsJournal.com)
* Interview Series: Michael Heller, Loft Jazz (IASPM-US.net)
* On the Record with Pianist Vijay Iyer (OberlinReview.org)
* A Huge Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (1920-2007) Featuring John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart & More (OpenCulture.com)
* Overdue Ovation: John Lindberg - A circle still in progress (Jazz Times)
* Guitarist John McLaughlin Talks Mahavishnu, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Yoga (Newsweek)
* Trevor Watts & Other Intakt Artists Go Exploring in Vortex (DownBeat)
* Marc Ribot: Barriers to Participation (Guernica)
* John Coltrane Documentary Chasing Trane Is a Flub Supreme (Miami New Times)
* Interview: Cooper-Moore on Lifetime Achievement Award From Vision Festival & More (Free Jazz Blog)
* This Record Label Releases Albums That Are Almost Impossible to Play (Vice.com)
* A Young Saxophonist Channels His Inner Jedi, With Music, For International Star Wars Day (WBGO)
* Patti LaBelle on Her First-Ever Jazz Album: ‘It Sounds More Beautiful Than I Ever Imagined’ (Variety)
* Napster, Spotify and the Fall of the 'Middle-Class Musician' (Rolling Stone)
* Chicago musicians speak up about the Affordable Care Act (Chicago Reader)
* Tenor Titans Unite to Honor Sonny Rollins (DownBeat)
* How The Music Industry Is Putting Itself Out Of Business (Forbes)
* David Murray Is Back in Town (Stereophile)
* Trumpeter Sean Jones Aims for ‘Raw’ Sound with Live Album (DownBeat)
* New Orleans Jazz Festival: 1st Weekend Photos (Jazz Times)
* How Star Wars Influenced Funk and Disco, in 7 Songs (Pitchfork.com)
* Remembering Jazz's Greatest Year With the Living Legends of 1959 (Billboard)