Sunday Session: May 30, 2021

Doug Carn

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

* Celebrating Gospel Music After the Civil Rights Era (AAIHS.org)
* My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more (The Guardian)
* Vanderbilt Heard Libraries are new home to Dizzy Gillespie Collection (Vanderbilt.edu)
* From the Deep South to Chicago, How Blues Music Shaped the Lives of 2 Japanese Men (NBCChicago.com)
* In his final months, Ralph Peterson pushed ‘onward and upward’ to complete ‘Raise Up Off Me’ (Boston Globe)
* You Just Can't Peg Pedrito Martinez And Rubén Blades (NPR)
* Live Music Is Back. America’s Indie Venues Are No Better Off (Rolling Stone)
* Strata-East Records: An Oral History (Jazz Times)
* The History of Reverb (Reverb.com)
* Unique Collection Of Classic 'Sweet Soul' Music From Chicago Finds New Home (WBUR)
* Branford Marsalis' 'Ma Rainey' Score Makes 100-Year-Old Blues Sound Relevant Today (NPR)
* In Conversation: Can’s Irmin Schmidt on the Band’s Legacy and Most Memorable Live Shows (FloodMagazine.com)
* Six Definitive Songs: The ultimate beginner’s guide to Sun Ra (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Best Archie Shepp Tracks: 20 Essentials From The Jazz Firebrand (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* ‘Black music is my superpower. It’s my way of showing love’: the art of Georgia Anne Muldrow (The Guardian)
* Let’s talk about sax, baby: How one of music’s most maligned instruments reconquered pop and indie (The Independent)
* John Coltrane House project in Strawberry Mansion gets state blight remediation funds (PhillyVoice.com)
* Doug Carn’s Big Moment (DownBeat)
* Lost in Space Music: Records That Explore the Outer Limits (Bandcamp.com)

Sunday Session: March 7, 2021

Eddie Henderson

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

* Two-Thirds of New York City’s Arts and Culture Jobs Are Gone (Bloomberg.com)
* Rock, Race, and History: A Conversation with Vernon Reid (Line6.com)
* 25 essential jazz songs that trace the quintessential American artform through history (USA Today)
* How We’ll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer (Curbed.com)
* 'Sisters With Transistors': Pioneers Of Electronic Music (NPR)
* Charlie Parker, KC Jazz legend, to receive star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (KSHB)
* The sound of music in veterinary medicine (DVM360.com)
* Escalator Over the Hill, by Carla Bley (MusicAficionado.blog)
* Eddie Henderson: Bright Moments (Jazz Times)
* 50 Years Later, Why Marvin Gaye's Seminal Album 'What's Going On' Endures (WBUR)
* Ralph Peterson Jr. 1962–2021 (Jazz Times)
* Recording Andra Day as Billie Holiday Was an Exercise in ‘Surround’ Sound (Variety)
* The Greatness of Nina Simone: Listen to Our Podcast on the Legendary Singer (Rolling Stone)
* Without support, freelance musicians will continue falling into hardship (BigIssue.com)
* Tulane University jazz archive gets new name and expanded mission (Tulane.edu)
* Music Streaming: Is It a Level Playing Field? (CompetitionPolicyInternational.com)
* Jazz legend, after house partially collapses, gets help from philanthropist, neighbors (WHYY)
* The Jazz Pianist Using a Computer Program to Play with Other Musicians in Quarantine (The New Yorker)
* On João Gilberto (AquariumDrunkard.com)
* Jimmy “Duck” Holmes: “People think of blues as hard times and sadness, they don’t look at the soul behind it” (Down At The Crossroads)
* The Checkout: Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins on the Quest for an Overwhelming Sound (WBGO)
* The patterns are already there: remembering Milford Graves (The Wire)
* To boo or not to boo: Catcalls are the musical audience’s tool of last resort (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Hasaan Ibn Ali: Lost Album Found, New Chapter Opened (Jazz Times)
* New Compilation Of Old Tunes Is 'An Alternate History Of The World's Music' (NPR)
* Saving Birdland—and Jazz History (The New Yorker)
* Backup Singer Dolette McDonald on Her Years With Talking Heads, the Police, and Don Henley (Rolling Stone)
* Soul Superhero - The massive life and tragic death of King Curtis (WaxPoetics.com)
* David Crosby on dinner with Joni, Phoebe Bridgers and the 50th anniversary of his haunted solo debut (Los Angeles Times)

Sunday Session: November 17, 2019

Artemis

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

* Christopher Hollyday’s Vanishing Act (Jazz Times)
* Artemis, the All-Female Jazz Supergroup, Joins the Roster of Blue Note Records (WBGO)
* Earshot Serves as Platform for Thriving Seattle Scene (DownBeat)
* Why Hundreds of Music Stars Are Giving Fans Their Phone Numbers (Billboard)
* The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now (OpenCulture.com)
* Jaimie Branch :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (AquariumDrunkard.com)
* 'When you're black, being alive is a success': Angel Bat Dawid, 2019's brightest new jazz star (The Guardian)
* Sun Ra: Our 1989 Interview (SPIN)
* A Jazz Musician’s guide to the EFG London Jazz Festival 2019 (Medium.com)
* Ralph Peterson takes all his musical lessons to heart (Philadelphia Tribune)
* Any tips? A body language expert puts the spotlight on orchestra conductors (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
* Sun Ra & the Classical Undertones of Afrofuturism (CastleSkins.org)
* Blue Note Documentary a Jazz Film with a Hip-Hop Heart (DownBeat)
* Check out the first playable record made from recycled ocean plastic (DJMag.com)
* Chops: Jamison Ross on Singing Behind the Kit (Jazz Times)
* Audio Files: Darn That Stream (Jazz Times)
* The Wild Story of How Mary Steenburgen Wrote the Best Original Movie Song of the Year (IndieWire.com)
* Mapping Music's Evolution: 23 Breakthroughs That Changed How We Listen (Billboard)
* How Musicians Are Evolving the Legacy of Resistance (DownBeat)
* Live Review: ECM 50 in New York (Jazz Times)
* Turning Over - Why Page Turners Matter (Atavist.com)
* London Calling at 40: How The Clash shattered punk orthodoxy and created a masterpiece (The Independent)
* Joe Henry's Next Second Chance (NPR)
* Mary Ann Topper, Manager of Noted Jazz Artists, Dies at 79 (Jazz Times)