Sunday Session: May 21, 2017

Thelonious Monk

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

* The 20 hottest music startups of 2017 (according to Midemlab) (Musically.com)
* #AfroNation: The House That Africa Built (NationOfBillions.com)
* Cleveland's legendary Leo's Casino made music history, transcended race (photos, videos) (Cleveland.com)
* Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Timeless Jazz (The New Yorker)
* With a New Collaborations Album, Todd Rundgren Talks About Loving Reznor, Fagen and Robyn… and Loathing Trump (Variety)
* The failed experiment of the digital album booklet (TheOutline.com)
* Benmont Tench - The 40th Anniversary Interview (Keyboard)
* Google’s AI Invents Sounds Humans Have Never Heard Before (Wired)
* With Experience on their Side, The Cookers Heat Up Dizzy’s (DownBeat)
* 'Rolling Stone' Founder Jann Wenner On 50 Years Of Rock And Roll History (NPR)
* “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story (Marco.org)
* Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge Playlist for Your Jazz Education (OpenCulture.com)
* Nels Cline on Why Playing Jazz Has Never Been More Important (Observer.com)
* Hear Aerobic Exercise: When Soviet Musicians Recorded Electronic Music for a Subversive Home Fitness Record (1984)(OpenCulture.com)
* Maxwell, Cat Power, and 5 More on Their Favorite Nina Simone Songs (Pitchfork.com)
* Rebuilding—and Recording With—the 1920s Technology That Changed American Music Forever (Wired)
* How the Internet financially kills musicians and other artists (Washington Post)
* The Art of the Mistake - Why flubs and clinkers are part of the myth of authentic jazz. (CommonReader.wustl.edu)
* Magical Mystery Drum: The Quest for Ringo's Ed Sullivan Snare (Reverb.com)
* A Long-Lost Thelonious Monk Album Is Finally Released Nearly 60 Years Later (Newsweek)
* The science of songs: how does music affect your body chemistry? (The Guardian)
* Drumset = You (The Paris Review)
* An ode to the joy and madness of the B-side (TheVinylFactory.com)
* 17 charts that show the current state of the music industry (BusinessInsider.com)
* Making sounds with Suzanne Ciani, America's first female synth hero (The Guardian)
* Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson Shares the Cuban Inspiration Behind His "Folk Song" (WBGO)

Sunday Session: February 26, 2017

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

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

* How Hans Zimmer Became a Rock Star (The Atlantic)
* Larry Coryell Dies at 73 (Jazz Times)
* Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Reunite in the Studio (Pitchfork.com)
* The American Beat of Bobby Lloyd Hicks (DaveHoekstra.com)
* Learn About Early Audiovisual Art With 10 Pioneering Works (ElectronicBeats.net)
* Tulane archive gets piece of jazz history (Tulane.edu)
* Going Deep (Oxford American)
* What Do Actual L.A. Jazz Musicians Think of La La Land's Portrayal of L.A. Jazz? (LA Weekly)
* Alt.Latino Explores Afro-Latin Music For Black History Month (NPR)
* John Coltrane's 'Interstellar Space' at 50: Legacy of a Free-Jazz Masterpiece (Rolling Stone)
* How the Doctor Who theme reveals our deepest fears about space (BBC)
* Q&A with Anoushka Shankar: Spirit of Collaboration (DownBeat)
* Jazz in the digital age: Tools for exploring the music (San Jose Mercury News)
* Listen: Preservation Hall Jazz Band Doubles Down On Afro-Cuban Connection (NPR)
* Portland Jazz Fest Grooves to Fascinating Rhythms (DownBeat)
* Joshua Bell: VR could popularize classical music (USA Today)
* Welcome to the Jazzless Age: Change in New York Times coverage spells trouble for a scene (Salon.com)
* The Rhythm Changes: Kamasi Washington Interviewed (ClashMusic.com)
* A Jazz Fact Check Of 'La La Land' (NPR)
* THEFT: A History of Music (Boing Boing)
* A New Documentary Explores The Troubled, Brilliant Life Of Pianist Bill Evans (NPR)

Sunday Session: December 13, 2015

George Duke

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

* Oscar Peterson To Be Honored with New Box Set, Concert, Reproducing Piano (Down Beat)
* Need Music For A Video? Jukedeck’s AI Composer Makes Cheap, Custom Soundtracks (TechCrunch.com)
* Bagels And Bongos: The Jewish-Latin Music Connection (Houston Public Media)
* A Photojournalist’s Most Prolific Period, Set to Jazz (Newsweek)
* Four Women: The Enduring Influence of Nina Simone (Jazz Times)
* Ringo Starr's Personal 'White Album' Sells for World Record $790,000 (Rolling Stone)
* Ten things I learned as a tour manager (London Jazz News)
* What Data Tells us about the 2015-16 Orchestra Season (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
* Turmoil in the Weird Karaoke Market (Priceonomics.com)
* How Casio accidentally started reggae's digital revolution (Engadget.com)
* The Velvet Underground in California (The New Yorker)
* The man behind the “Hamilton” sound: Hidden Beatles references, the “hip-hop horse” sample and why if “it’s all computerized, there’s no heart to it” (Salon.com)
* Scofield, Schneider, Alexander Nominated for Grammy Awards (Down Beat)
* It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story (WFIU)
* 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' at 50: The Making of a Classic Soundtrack (Rolling Stone)
* Box Set Review: George Duke — The Era Will Prevail (Part One) (Musoscribe.com)
* The business of the blues isn't what it once was (Marketplace.org)
* Fourplay Celebrates Twenty-Five Years Together (DownBeat)
* 10 ways that Frank Sinatra changed the world (USA Today)
* Walk-Up Revolution: Royce Clayton's Pitch to Change MLB At-Bat Music (Rolling Stone)
* When Are People Going To Stop Proclaiming The Death of the CD? (FutureOfMusic.org)