Sunday Session: November 8, 2020

Marshall Allen

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

* Rahsaan Roland Kirk: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Guaranteed To Bend Your Head (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Peter Jones (‘This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz’ to be published November 2020) (London Jazz News)
* Nica's Tempo: More Hipsters, Flipsters, And On-The-Scenesters (WFIU)
* Houston’s Ku-umba Frank Lacy still a messenger for jazz (Houston Chronicle)
* On 'Swirling,' Marshall Allen Keeps The The Sun Ra Arkestra Soaring Through Space (NPR)
* Cindy Blackman Santana: This Drummer Got Some (Jazz Times)
* The film exploring the avant-garde female pioneers of electronic music (DazedDigital.com)
* Benson, McBride and Metheny Among Readers Poll Winners (DownBeat)
* John Hollenbeck: Time to Rearrange (Jazz Times)
* Live from Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio Premieres Nov. 14 (Jazz Times)
* Lakecia Benjamin on a Heavy Year, the Healing Power of Music, and Breaking In Jazzfest Berlin (WBGO)
* Brian Blade: A 1970 Artist’s Choice (Jazz Times)
* Adam O’Farrill Is Only Scratching The Surface (DownBeat)
* Irvin Mayfield and Business Partner Ronald Markhamn set to be rearraigned next week (Offbeat)
* Marshall Allen Steers The Sun Ra Arkestra Into The Future (DownBeat)
* Singer, activist, sex machine, addict: the troubled brilliance of Billie Holiday (The Guardian)
* Studio whiz Don Hahn captured magic on the Band’s debut record (Toronto Globe and Mail)
* Elegy for A Side Man: Remembering Cornetist Peter Ecklund (Jazziz)
* Make ‘Y.M.C.A.’ Great Again (Rolling Stone)
* Cándido Camero, A Father Of Latin Jazz, Dies At 99 (NPR)

Sunday Session: May 31, 2020

Jimmy Cobb

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

* Jimmy Cobb, The Pulse Of 'Kind Of Blue,' Dies At 91 (NPR)
* Drummer Jimmy Cobb Dies at 91 (DownBeat)
* Anthony Davis’s Revolutionary Opera: “X” (The New Yorker)
* Superb-Lee: A JazzTimes Tribute to Lee Konitz (1927–2020) (Jazz Times)
* From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange (The Guardian)
* Little Richard statue to be built outside musician’s childhood home (NME.com)
* 'Like a tap being turned off': music magazines fight for survival in UK (The Guardian)
* The Many Faces Of Housekeeping: How Wealth & Privilege Are Distorting Underground Music (TheQuietus.com)
* 'Milli Violini': I was a fake violinist in a world-class miming orchestra (The Guardian)
* A Guide to the Mind-Bending Jazz of François Tusques (Bandcamp.com)
* Add some township jive! How London's jazz scene set itself apart (The Guardian)
* John Medeski Demonstrates Startling Adaptability (DownBeat)
* How Rahsaan Roland Kirk Modified Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Covid Confidential: Ben Goldberg’s Notes From a Pandemic (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram Are Each Launching Music-Tech Projects (Rolling Stone)
* Premiere: Watch A Video For ‘Desert Song,’ The Debut Single By Vocal Group säje (DownBeat)
* ‘Those Were Memorable Times. But I Don’t Want to Live There.’ Reggie Workman played with John Coltrane, won a Guggenheim at 82, and is tired of Zoom (Vulture.com)
* CM von Hausswolff curates seven sound installations for the web (The Wire)
* Why Public Musicology Matters (21cm.org)
* Michael McDonald: A Conversation in Lockdown Times (American Songwriter)
* Utility player (Rochester City Paper)
* The fast life of Buddy Featherstonhaugh (TheBlueMoment.com)
* Jimmy Cobb 1929–2020 (Jazz Times)

Sunday Session: September 11, 2016

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

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

* Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (Pitchfork)
* The Many Lives of "The House of the Rising Sun" (MusicAficionado.com)
* Does the Music Business Need Musicianship? (TheSmartSet.com)
* The streaming music war is getting ugly (Money/CNN)
* New Rahsaan Roland Kirk Documentary - “The Case of the Three Sided Dream” goes inside the multi-instrumentalist's artistic brilliance (Jazz Times)
* Saxophonist Benny Golson, an “elder statesman of jazz” (WHYY)
* Pat Martino honors Wes Montgomery - The Indy Jazz Fest artist tells the story of his friendship with the Indy great (NUVO.net)
* Pinball machine featuring the Stones, Elton John, The Who, AC/DC, KISS and many more (DangerousMinds.net)
* Tracing the Rock and Roll Race Problem (Pitchfork)
* Q&A with Steve Gadd: Leader Disc Documents Hometown Concert (DownBeat)
* How Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar Reflected Black Lives Matter (Vulture.com)
* An Interview with Trumpeter Randy Brecker (NotesOnJazz.blogspot.de)
* Before & After With Fred Hersch - The pianist-composer on Jarrett, singers, the “Vanguard sound” and more (Jazz Times)
* The Bad Plus Tests Jazz’s Boundaries by Exploding the Art of the Cover Song (Observer.com)
* Black Classical - History of Spiritual Jazz (NTS.live)
* Projecting Trends: Do Streaming Services Now Compete with Labels? (SynchTank.com)
* Willie Bobo: An Appreciation And A New Album (NPR)
* Careless whisker: Universal to release album for cats (The Guardian UK)
* Angela Davis: Nina Simone's music was so much more than the soundtrack to a movement (The Mail and Globe NZ)
* The Beat Don’t Stop - How “The Get Down” and “Atlanta” break down hip-hop’s past and future (The New Republic)
* 15 samplers that shaped modern music – and the musicians who use them (FactMag.com)
* A photographer’s incredible journey in 1960 to capture jazz in America (Washington Post)
* 5 audiophile myths, totally busted (CNET.com)

Sunday Session: June 5, 2016

Billy Hart

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

* Gary Numan Thinks The Music Industry's Collapse Is A Beautiful Thing (Fast Company)
* TV is the new radio: 'Empire,' 'Vinyl' and late night talk shows provide wall-to-wall music (Los Angeles Times)
* The British pop talent crash: where have all the new acts gone? (The Guardian UK)
* Lost in Time: The Forgotten Bill Evans Trio Album (Jazz Times)
* On Music and Torture (Van Magazine)
* Exclusive Interview: Cameron Graves talks new record ‘Planetary Prince’ (Revive-Music.com)
* Carla Bley: The Girl Who Cried Champagne (Keyboard)
* The Epic - Kamasi Washington’s brand of ecstatic jazz is bringing a whole new audience to the genre. How’d he do it? (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Interview with Houston Person (Do The Math)
* Kraftwerk Lose Copyright Case in German High Court (Rolling Stone)
* Prophets of Rage: Inside New RATM, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill Supergroup (Rolling Stone)
* Zorn Recruits Star Collaborators for Eclectic FIMAV Showcase (DownBeat)
* Controversy: A Recap of the copyright issues surrounding Prince’s estate (CreativeCommons.org)
* Rahsaan Roland Kirk Is the Blind Jazz Great You've Never Heard Of (Esquire)
* Billy Hart, Honored in Healdsburg, Picks His Five Most Important Recordings (KQED)
* The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, The Strangest Con In Rock History (Buzzfeed.com)
* Jeremy Steig, Jazz Flutist, Dies at 73 (New York Times)
* All Music Can Be Categorized by Just Three Attributes (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* It Sounds Like YouTube Is Changing the Way People Listen to Music (New York)
* Sell, Stream, Syndicate Or Sing: How The World’s Top Pop Stars Make Their Money (ValueWalk.com)
* Sara Gazarek and Josh Nelson open up for new duo album ‘Dream In The Blue’ (AXS.com)
* Stephon Alexander Explores Intersection of Jazz & Physics (DownBeat)
* Roger Daltrey: There's no music industry anymore, why would we make an album? (TeamRock.com)
* All You Need Is Love review: a glorious reminder of how pop docs used to be (The Guardian UK)
* Boomers, youngsters fuel surging vinyl record sales (USA Today)
* The Soulful Crossover of Kamasi Washington (Jazz Times)
* How Tyondai Braxton Subverts and Destroys His Own Music (The Atlantic)
* Women guitar makers scratched from Gibson history (MichiganRadio.org)
* The Ken Peplowski Interview (Jazz Times)
* Interview with Sonny Rollins, Musical and Spiritual Autodidact (Ethnomusicology Review)
* Whatever happened to Bobbie Gentry? In search of country music’s great vanished star (Washington Post)
* What is shop music doing to your brain? (BBC)
* Bergamo Jazz Fest Highlights Collective Artistry on a Global Scale (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: May 22, 2016

Dr. Lonnie Smith

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

* He's got four million doo-wop 45s for sale, but browsers beware (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* The Current's 893 Essential Albums (Minnesota Public Radio)
* Just How Good a Singer Was Dean Martin? (The Daily Beast)
* I’ve sold all my CDs. Can I live without those cracked plastic cases of magic and memories? (The Guardian UK)
* Our Hero and His Blues: Celebrating Albert Murray (Los Angeles Review of Books)
* The Taboo of Injury and Disability in Music (Van-Magazine.com)
* Tape recording was introduced 70 years ago today (Recode.net)
* Listen up: James West forever changed the way we hear the world (ArsTechnica.com)
* This Legendary Composer Writes Music for 100-Guitar Ensembles (Esquire)
* Library Of Congress Opens 'Jazz Singers' Exhibition (NPR)
* The Music Industry Buried More Than 150 Startups. Now They Are Left To Dance With The Giants (Medium.com)
* Overdue Ovation for George Lewis - An artistic academic, a soulful technologist (Jazz Times)
* Why a newspaper trashed its own opera review (Washington Post)
* Without Jazz and Blues, There's No Americana (The Atlantic)
* A Blues for Albert Murray (The Nation)
* Interview: Organist & Musician Dr. Lonnie Smith (PBS/The Tavis Smiley Show)
* Rahsaan Roland Kirk Documentary To Be Released May 31 (DownBeat)
* Exclusive Interview: Eddie Palmieri Discusses ‘Harlem River Drive’ + Forthcoming Record (Revive-Music.com)
* Moral Rights for Musicians: A Primer (FutureOfMusic.org)
* Glenn Branca's Really Experimental Music: Why the Composer Is Still Punk After All These Years (Vice.com)
* Theo Croker Brings the Funk to NYC’s Samsung 837 (DownBeat)
* House of Cards - Why Alaskan musicians are singing the blues (Anchorage Press)
* At 80, Carla Bley Keeps Looking Towards The Next Composition (NPR)
* Tony Bennett’s son is new US head of Universal classics and jazz (SlippedDisc.com)
* Miller, Bunnett, Carrington Bring Flair to Mary Lou Williams Festival (DownBeat)
* A Five-Time Grammy Winner Explains Why YouTube are Total Scumbags (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* The inside story of when Run‑DMC met Aerosmith and changed music forever (Washington Post)
* Thirteen Prayers: Kamasi Washington's Favourite Albums (The Quietus)
* Interview: Dr. Cornel West & Afro-Cuban Jazz Musician Arturo O’Farrill Explore Music & Activism (Vibe)
* A Hidden Times Square Sound Installation Returns to Full Hum (Hyperallergic.com)
* How Bugs Bunny and ‘Kill the Wabbit’ Inspired a Generation of Opera Stars (Wall Street Journal)

Sunday Session: September 13, 2015

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

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

* Key Igor Stravinsky work found after 100 years (The Guardian UK)
* Bassist Gary Peacock Is At The Soloist's Service (NPR)
* Concert review: Saxophonist Phil Woods ends playing career on a high note (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
* Why Niche Is The Next Streaming Frontier (Music Industry Blog)
* Crossing The Bridge: The Return Of Sonny Rollins (WFIU)
* How Signing A Major Record Deal Nearly Destroyed My Music Career (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Review: The 2015 Chicago Jazz Festival - AACM's 50th anniversary dominates the 37th edition (Jazz Times)
* How Steely Dan Created ‘Deacon Blues’ (Wall Street Journal)
* Sounds like a hit: the numbers game behind Spotify cover songs (TheVerge.com)
* Shack Up: A Loop History - Nate Patrin traces the path of this influential break (Red Bull Music Academy)
* In praise of cheap box sets (The Spectator UK)
* Celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk (NPR)
* Long-Delayed Nina Simone Biopic Sets December Release (Rolling Stone)
* The Hi-Fi DIY of Colombia's Bass Lords (Vice.com)
* Frank Zappa’s Long-Awaited ‘Roxy’ Movie Coming: Watch the Trailer — Video (Guitar World)
* New Book Illuminates Playboy Magazine’s Impact on Jazz History (DownBeat)