Sunday Session: March 28, 2021

Billie Holiday

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

* 10 Albums That Explore the Multisided Record Phenomenon (Discogs.com)
* TikTok is changing the rules of the music industry (TechRadar.com)
* Huey Lewis and the News on His Hearing, the Power of Love, and More (Berklee.edu)
* More Oscar History Made as Two Black Composers Are Nominated for Best Original Score (Variety)
* Islands in the Stream (Prospect.org)
* Smalls Jazz Club, Emblem of Pandemic Perseverance, Shifts Gears Yet Again (WBGO)
* Introducing The Singer’s Mask, a costume designer’s invention for COVID-era performances (St. Louis)
* Why Is Tower Records Coming Back Now, of All Times? (Slate.com)
* A Grandson's Gift — A Spotlight — For His Grandfather's WWII Band (NPR)
* Mixtapes Are the Original Playlists, All Thanks to Lou Ottens (Discogs.com)
* Holiday Film Puts Drug War on Trial (DownBeat)
* The Market for Musical Gear Is Amping Up Like Never Before (Bloomberg.com)
* Pharoah Sanders Takes on Electronic Music (The New Yorker)
* Without Limits or Lyrics: The Human Voice as Instrument (Bandcamp.com)
* Indie labels call for end to streaming ‘payola’ – as IMPALA unveils 10-point plan to reform sector (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Saxophone Legends Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp Are Still Pushing Jazz Forward (Rolling Stone)
* Live album featuring Memphis music icons Alex Chilton and Hi Rhythm coming in May (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Global recorded music revenues grew 7.4% to $21.6bn in 2020, in spite of the pandemic (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Is the guitar solo dead in the 21st century? (Guitar World)
* National Identities in Jazz: Is There A British Jazz? (TDE Promotions)
* [Ahmed] Pays Tribute to a Titan of Islamic Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Pioneering Bassist and Guitarist Carol Kaye Surveys Her Career in Music, Including Her Time in Jazz Clubs (WBGO)
* Instrument extinction: musical instruments that did not survive into modernity (ThisCityKnows.com)
* As Streaming Takes Over, Music Metadata Is Becoming More Critical for Musicians. How Critical, You Ask? (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before (ExpMag.com)
* Jaco Pastorius, An Introduction To The Jazz Legend (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Anonymous Songwriters Group Calls for Artists to Stop Demanding Royalties for Songs They Didn’t Write (Variety)

Sunday Session: October 18, 2020

Charles McPherson

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

* The Many Instruments of Stanley Crouch, Who Transformed the Entirety of Jazz and Cultural Criticism (Mother Jones)
* Wynton Marsalis Says Cultural Con Jobs Began Long Before Trump (The Daily Beast)
* Late night TV musicians push for parity in pay, health care and residuals (KCRW)
* Alone Together: A Q&A with Pianist Benny Green (SFJAZZ.org)
* Philly’s jazz community improvising to deal with COVID-19 (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Visionary who turned down a gig with Miles Davis and pivoted to cardiology (among other pursuits) is subject of Philly ICA show (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck music (TheHustle.co)
* Charles McPherson Straddles The Artistic Fence (DownBeat)
* Stevie Wonder Releases First New Music in 15 Years (Rolling Stone)
* He Helps Folk Musicians Stay Alive (Ozy.com)
* Sheet music sales soar 25% as UK turns to piano practice during Covid lockdown (INews.co.uk)
* Theo Croker Exemplifies This Moment In Jazz (DownBeat)
* Mary Halvorson: New York City and the Pull of the Moon (BarryCleveland.com)
* The Spiritual Power of Pharoah Sanders (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Diana Krall Reflects on Her Creative Process, Her Late Producer, and an Emotive New Album (WBGO)
* 50 Years Ago B.B. King's 'Indianola Mississippi Seeds' Retooled R&B (PopMatters.com)
* An Oral History Of Tom Petty’s Landmark 1994 Album, ‘Wildflowers’ (Uproxx.com)
* Billy Childs Engages The Vastness Of Music (DownBeat)
* A Love Supreme: Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman Santana on Coltrane, Miles and Making Music Together (Jazziz)
* Gearhead: Memories of the Guitorgan (Jazz Times)
* Field Studies: Manfred Eicher, Founder of ECM Records, Picks His Top Five Blue Note Albums (WBGO)
* Field Studies: Don Was, President of Blue Note Records, Picks His Top Five ECM Albums (WBGO)
* Are We Reaching Peak Streaming Subscriptions? (Billboard)
* Michael Cuscuna: In The Vault Playing God (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Tragedy of Stanley Crouch (Counterpunch.org)
* Randy Brecker: Overdue Ovation (Jazz Times)
* “AngelHeaded Hipster”: Hal Willner Does T. Rex (The New Yorker)

Sunday Session: January 19, 2020

Gregory Porter

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

* Beatles' Abbey Road tops US bestselling vinyl LPs of the 2010s (The Guardian)
* Gary Clark Jr.: "Music is my religion" (CBS News)
* Jason Moran is making jazz history. Don’t miss it.  (Washington Post)
* “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders (The New Yorker)
* Jonathan Kreisberg: A Spirit Captured in Constant Motion (AllAboutJazz.com)
* A music artist says Apple Music pays her 4 times what Spotify does per stream, and it shows how wildly royalty payments can vary between services (Business Insider)
* The Sound and Myth of Charlie Parker at 100 (DownBeat)
* Jazz singer Gregory Porter is an ex-lineman with a blues-infused soul (TheUndefeated.com)
* Umbria Goes Pop (DownBeat)
* The Past Year, And Decade, In Music Listening: Video Rules, The Boy's Club Remains (NPR)
* New remastered Charlie Parker box set coming this February (JazzFM.com)
* Spotlight: Capitol Records Architect Louis Naidorf Sets the Record Straight on Myth of Tower's Iconic Design (Billboard)
* How Chicago Label International Anthem Is Rewriting the Rules of Jazz (Pitchfork)
* For Its Fifth Collection, Newvelle Issues Material From Staaf, Douglas (DownBeat)
* Telstar: The Song, And The Future That Never Was (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Alex Winter’s Frank Zappa Doc ‘Zappa’ Premieres at South by Southwest (Rolling Stone)
* Watch a Video For "Revival," the Lead Single From Gregory Porter's Forthcoming Album (WBGO)
* New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Announces 2020 Lineup (Jazz Times)
* Jazz pianist Kris Davis on pushing the boundaries of the piano (CBC Radio)
* Andrew Cyrille Lays His Declaration of Musical Independence on UT (Austin Chronicle)
* Inspired by John Cage, an Italian Collector Commissioned Leading Artists to Transform Pianos Into Weird and Wonderful Sculptures—See Them Here (ArtNet.com)

Sunday Session: May 12, 2019

Pharoah Sanders

Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest, drawn from StLJN's inboxes, newsfeeds, and assorted other sources:

* The Resurrection of Buddy Bolden (DownBeat)
* Music Sermon: The Quiet Storm Is Still Brewing (Vibe.com)
* Frank Zappa: making a jazz noise (Jazz Journal)
* Bill Frisell is on the hunt for the next musical epiphany (Guitar.com)
* Preserving The House Of A Pioneering Musician — Who We Will Never Hear (NPR)
* The Blues Trail Is A Soulful Sojourn Into Mississippi’s Past (Uproxx.com)
* Wynton Marsalis Chooses His Top 50 Essential Jazz Recordings (Jazz.org)
* ‘New Bottle Old Wine’: The Gil Evans Classic That Gets Better With Age (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* There’s a Musician’s Union. Many Musicians Are Unaware — or Unable to Join (Rolling Stone)
* Herbie Hancock Aims Jazz Day All-Star Concert Towards A World In 'Turmoil' (NPR)
* David Crosby Doubles Down (Shepherd Express)
* Sly and The Family Stone’s ‘Stand!’ Turns 50 | Anniversary Retrospective (Albumism.com)
* Tucked away in Southwest Baltimore: The low-key cool jazz club of your dreams (BaltimoreBrew.com)
* Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington Talks Berklee Institute of Jazz, Gender Justice: 'Gender Equity Is Everybody's Work' (Billboard)
* Barkan, Wiedmaier Team for Keystone Korner Baltimore (DownBeat)
* Joey DeFrancesco and Pharoah Sanders: Meeting of the Spirits (Jazz Times)
* After 50 Years, Inclusive, Locally Focused Spirit of NOLA Festival Persists (DownBeat)
* New Study Finds 73% of Independent Musicians Suffer From Symptoms of Mental Illness (Billboard)
* Before & After: Lewis Porter (Jazz Times)
* Hearing the “Bo Diddley Beat” in Everything (Soundfly.com)
* 50 Years of Jazz Fest: Mickey Hart’s Ghosts of Congo Square (Relix)
* My father recorded young Bob Dylan: How the historic "Minneapolis Party Tape" was made (Salon.com)

Sunday Session: April 7, 2019

James Carter

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:

* James Carter Revisits the Music of Django Reinhardt (Westword)
* CD REVIEW.. Bill Evans – Evans in England (Ronnie Scotts, Dec 1969) (London Jazz News)
* Hannibal Lokumbe: Always Go With the Feeling (New Music Box)
* Hardly Anyone on the Pop Charts Writes Their Own Music (Alone) Anymore (Rolling Stone)
* Live Review: Big Ears Festival 2019 (Jazz Times)
* We Spoke To The Head Of Music At Ronnie Scott’s About The Rise Of British Jazz (Complex.com)
* Galactic Takes Over Historic New Orleans Venue Tipitina’s (DownBeat)
* Steve Cropper reflects on a lifetime of playing guitar with a who's who of musical titans (Straight.com)
* Colonel Sanders at the Rave: Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Presence at Ultra Music Festival Was Disturbing (Pitchfork.com)
* Sounds from Tomorrow's World - Sun Ra and the Chicago Years, 1946-1961 (UChicago.edu)
* Red Bull Music Academy, Radio to Shut Down After 21-Year Run (Rolling Stone)
* Jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden’s historic house cited for demolition by neglect (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
* Kamasi Washington Is Finding That There Are No Wrong Notes (GQ)
* Pharoah Sanders: Spirit Ascending (BrooklynRail.org)
* Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful (OpenCulture.com)
* Premiere: Hear the Title Track from Melissa Aldana’s Upcoming Motéma Album, ‘Visions’ (DownBeat)
* Melvin Gibbs Isn’t Looking Back (Jazz Times)
* Ruthie Foster, the Blues, and a Town That Needs Lifting (No Depression)
* ‘Old Town Road’ and the History of Black Cowboys in America (Rolling Stone)
* Country Music Excludes Women, Especially Over Age 40, Study Finds (NPR)
* Aaron Diehl: paradox at the piano (Rochester City Newspaper)

Sunday Session: March 10, 2019

Dave Burrell

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:

* Kenny Garrett Interview (Jazz in Europe)
* This North Philly bar near Temple hosted legends like Coltrane and Patti LaBelle, but its owner refuses to sell (Philly.com)
* The Complex Sounds of Caspar Brötzmann (DownBeat)
* Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive (The New Yorker)
* Song You Need to Know: Joey DeFrancesco and Pharoah Sanders, ‘The Creator Has a Master Plan’ (Rolling Stone)
* Celebrating Pianist and Composer Dave Burrell at the Vision Festival — and on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Rebirth of the Cool (TheLAndMag.com)
* Smithsonian Folkways Details Massive New Orleans Jazz Fest Box Set (Rolling Stone)
* Is the album format irrelevant in the digital age? Let's investigate (Beat.com)
* World’s Largest Music Publishers Offer ‘Full Support of Warner/Chappell’ Against Spotify — Here’s Their Statement (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* When Jerry Lee Lewis Was Accused of Planning to Shoot Elvis Presley (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Wadada Leo Smith Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks in New Album (Qwest.tv)
* City to Honor ‘Lady Day’ with Statue at Queens Borough Hall (Queens Daily Eagle)
* The Sound of Evil (The American Scholar)
* Producer of ‘Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings’ Discusses Project in New Video (DownBeat)
* Eliane Elias: The Soul of Brazil (SFJAZZ.org)
* Revisit 50 years of Jazz Fest with comprehensive box set of live performances (Offbeat)
* A two-dimensional matrix: Carl Stone speaks to Emily Bick (The Wire)
* International Women’s Day: Meet the women shaping the future of music (Pro Sound News Europe)
* Spotify and Amazon ‘sue songwriters’ with appeal against 44% royalty rise in the United States (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Got $100k? Steinway’s iPad-capable piano turns you into a classical mixmaster (Syfy.com)
* Janis Joplin’s producer John Simon, a Norwalk native, has musical tastes that might surprise fan (Connecticut Post)
* Sandy Jordan: Keeping the Legacies Alive (Jazz Times)
* Laurie Anderson Interview: The Nature of the Mind (Atavist.com)
* Biamp PDX Jazz Festival Tastefully Pays Tribute to the Past (DownBeat)
* Take note – why do women composers still take up less musical space? (The Guardian)
* An interview with Bill Folwell (Point of Departure)
* In Memoriam: Ira Gitler (1928–2019) (DownBeat)

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: December 17, 2017

Pharoah Sanders

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

* Hearing Otis Redding’s 'Try a Little Tenderness' as a Song of Resistance (The Atlantic)
* Review: Chasing Trane (Jazz Journal)
* My Name Is Dave, I Collect Vinyl Records, and I Have a Problem (The Stranger)
* The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker (The Baffler)
* The Cosmos Is Still Catching Up to Pharaoh Sanders' Earliest Records (Vice.com)
* Matt Wilson Talks About Making Spirits Bright, On the Eve of a Tour with His Christmas Tree-O (WBGO)
* Frankie Newton: The Forgotten Trumpeter (Jazz History Online)
* NRBQ, Steve Ferguson, and the pursuit of the impossible guitar lick (Oxford American)
* Stream 74 Sun Ra Albums Free Online: Decades of “Space Jazz” and Other Forms of Intergalactic, Afrofuturistic Musical Creativity (OpenCulture.com)
* How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Variety)
* MAJOR CHORDS | Can We Really Take Pleasure From Music Born From Suffering? (Ludwig-Van.com
* Stanley Clarke Is the Reason You Love Music (Vice.com)
* Mingus & Joni Mitchell: The Black Saint & the Singer Lady (Jazz Times)
* Irvin Mayfield indicted by federal grand jury on fraud, money laundering charges (NOLA.com)
* The FCC Just Shrunk the Music Industry (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Ben Allison and Think Free Bring 'Layers of the City' into Our Studio, on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Junk Shop Classical On Joyce Hatto: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP (TheQuietus.com)
* Marc Ribot: “It's good to understand not only how to play guitar, but also why to play guitar” (MusicRadar.com)
* Ikue Mori: Sustenance and Renewal in Downtown Music (NationalSawdust.org)
* Minneapolis jazz band the Bad Plus prepares for final shows with original lineup (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
* Institutions raced to dump James Levine. They should look hard at themselves (Washington Post)
* The neuroscience of jazz (PRI.org)

Sunday Session: May 15, 2016

Frank Zappa

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

* How a Chatbot Helped This Vinyl Records Startup Make $1 Million in 8 Months (Billboard)
* How One Man Made The Eiffel Tower Sing (NPR)
* From Steve Reich to rock: why 1976 was a big year for minimal music (The Guardian UK)
* Jazz Music and Physics Have a Lot More in Common Than You Think (Gizmodo)
* Zappa Documentary Reveals Many Faces of Frank (DownBeat)
* Listen to how pop hits have evolved over the years (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* An Alternate History for Music, YouTube, & Everything Else (IllusionOfMore.com)
* The art of bad singing: A legacy lives on (Washington Post)
* The Jukebox At Your Local Bar Just Got More Dangerous (Fast Company)
* Detroit recording studio could be seized by feds (The Detroit News)
* How Music Piracy Is Completely Changing In 2016 (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Henry Kaiser - Clouds of colored light (Innerviews.org)
* Arhoolie Records Acquired by Smithsonian Folkways (Offbeat)
* Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: 50 Years Of Mondays (NPR)
* Classic DEVO guitars recreated (DangerousMinds.net)
* GZ Vinyl to open new pressing plants in North America and Asia (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Can the Church of John Coltrane Survive Gentrification? (Pitchfork.com)
* This app will change the way you hear the world (TheDailyDot.com)
* Prince’s Most Notorious Musical Instruments (Zzounds.com)
* Kamasi, Pharoah & the Arkestra in Brooklyn (Jazz Times)
* Amazon Launches a New Rival for YouTube (Billboard)
* Scientists create a new way to categorize music (Phys.org)
* 16 Pieces of Protest Jazz for 2016 (Revive-Music.com)
* Irvin Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Reportedly Agrees to Pay Back Library Foundation (Offbeat)
* Saxophonist Joe Temperley Dies - Baritone great was invaluable member of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (Jazz Times)
* Other Music and the End of an Era: A Look Back at New York's Legendary Record Store (Billboard)
* T Bone Burnett’s Remarks on Music and the American Story (with intro by Rosanne Cash) (Medium.com)

Sunday Session: April 10, 2016

Pharoah Sanders

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

* Local Jazz Musicians Turn to D.C. Council to Support the Scene (Washington City Paper)
* US Is One Of Just 4 Countries Not Paying Performers For Radio Play, And The Others Are... (Hypebot.com)
* Big Ears Festival diary – three days at Knoxville's genre-spanning event (The Guardian UK)
* Media's Digital Upheaval in 6 Charts (Bloomberg.com)
* Jeff Beck To Release New Album on July 15 (DownBeat)
* Abdullah Ibrahim: A Life in Song (SFJAZZ.org)
* Steven Bernstein Premiers Guitar-Centric Quartet in New York (DownBeat)
* 'The Dude': Remembering Quincy Jones’ Most Important Album Ever (Ebony)
* New owners to take over Heritage Guitar in old Gibson Guitar factory (MLive.com)
* ‘Jazz Masters’ honor genre’s greats, but keep them watching from the audience (Washington Post)
* Photos: NEA Jazz Masters Concert - Gary Burton, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and Wendy Oxenhorn honored (Jazz Times)
* So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star: Photos of the 1960’s Garage Band Explosion (DangerousMinds.net)
* Carol Kaye, 81-Year-Old Pioneer of Rock, Gives Kiss’ Gene Simmons a Bass Lesson (OpenCulture.com)
* Man Who Stole Jazz Pianist Cecil Taylor’s Prize Money Is Sentenced (New York Times)
* Singer Bill Henderson Dies at 90 - Recorded with Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver; was also successful actor (Jazz Times)
* Merle Haggard’s America (DaveHoekstra.com)
* Why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame should be put out of its misery (The Guardian UK)
* Long Live WWOZ (Offbeat)
* Rare Sun Ra singles to be issued on space-age 7″ vinyl (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Sony Sues Rdio Executives for Fraud, A Cautionary Tale for Entrepreneurs (MusicTech.Solutions)
* Branford Marsalis To Release New Album with Kurt Elling on June 10 (DownBeat)
* Silver Swing - 10 must-watch jazz movies (Jazz Times)
* Jazz great Sonny Rollins still not finished at 85 (The Telegraph UK)
* Paul Simon Announces New Album ‘Stranger to Stranger’ (Wall Street Journal)
* The Man Who Recorded, Tamed and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America (Atlas Obscura)
* A Record Shopkeeper Writes: Why Record Store Day Must End (The Quietus)
* These Rarely Seen Images Show Jazz Greats Pouring Out Their Hearts (Smithsonian)

Sunday Session: May 17, 2015

Jack DeJohnette

For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have hit StLJN's inbox over the past week: 

* When does a violin copy become a forgery? (The Strad)
* Review: Pharoah Sanders at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn (New York Times)
* Austin Signal Cuts to the Chase (Pro Sound News)
* Tiny Music Royalties Add Up, Unexpectedly (NPR)
* For orchestra musicians, thrill of Cuba trip tempered by fear over instruments (Minnesota Public Radio)
* Review: The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective (AllAboutJazz.com)
* More Evidence Of Big Changes Coming To Guitar Center (Forbes)
* A holding corporation called old America: Charles Mingus’ religious multitudes (Oxford University Press)
* Spillage and Flow: Notes from the 2015 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (BlouinArtInfo.com)
* Further Spillage (The Good Kind): More Notes on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (BlouinArtInfo.com)
* An Animated John Coltrane Explains His True Reason for Being: “I Want to Be a Force for Real Good” (Open Culture)
* VNYL Sliding: Why The “Netflix For Vinyl” Service Is Such A Mess (Stereogum)
* LOVE WILL FIND A WAY: The VNYL Subscription Service Blows It? (Pt. 1) (Blurt)
* Jerome Cooper, a Multitextured Jazz Percussionist, Dies at 68 (New York Times)
* The Death of the One-Hit Wonder (Priceonomics.com)
* 'The In Crowd': An Audience-Fueled Jazz-Pop Crossover Hit (NPR)
* Spalding Showcases Range, Diversity in San Francisco (DownBeat)
* The Technology That Saved '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' (The Atlantic)
* BB King was that rare thing – a game-changer who was also beloved (The Guardian UK)
* King’s Essential Recordings (DownBeat)
* Composer Philip Glass’s Childhood Gig (Wall Street Journal)
* Even when looking back, Jack DeJohnette forges ahead (Boston Globe)

StLJN Saturday at the Movies:The Pharoah Sanders Quartet featuring John Hicks,plus Dave Brubeck live in 2006

This week's videos put the spotlight on two legendary jazz pianists. First up is a 1988 clip of the Pharoah Sanders Quartet performing in Koeln, Germany, featuring the late, great former St. Louisan John Hicks on piano. There's a brief statement of the head, and then Hicks takes off with a blistering solo, which he makes look as easy as a Sunday afternoon stroll in the park. Along with Hicks and Sanders, you can see the great Idris Muhammad on drums, as well as a few shots of the bass player, who I didn't recognize. Anyone know who it is? The video is more than 20 minutes long, so it may take a while to download, but it's worth it.

The second clip features Dave Brubeck, who will be coming to St. Louis in a couple of weeks to do a benefit performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall. There are several good vintage clips of Brubeck floating around the net, but this one is very recent, featuring his current quartet in a 2006 performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Looks like it may have been shot from the balcony of the hall, but it should provide some idea of what to expect from Brubeck's upcoming show here.