Sunday Session: September 27, 2020

John McLaughlin

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

* CTI Records: Ten Tasty Albums With No Added Sugar (Almost) (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Alexis Cole: Teaching & Learning (Jazz Times)
* Funk Legend Steve Arrington Celebrates a Long Career with “Down to The Lowest Terms” (Bandcamp.com)
* Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz (Hyperallergic.com)
* Third of British musicians may quit industry amid pandemic (The Guardian)
* Rediscovering The Enormous Social And Spiritual Legacy Of Black Jazz Records (NPR)
* When Front Page Challenge met Ella Fitzgerald (CBC)
* Regina Carter’s Extraordinary Career Continues to Evolve (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* 12 synths that could have been classics, but weren’t (MusicRadar.com)
* Punch the 'Clockface': Elvis Costello On Making Albums In a Streaming World (Billboard)
* Paul Desmond and the Canadians (JazzHistoryOnline.com)
* Asynchronous Ensembles Come Out Swinging (DownBeat)
* Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane (NPR)
* The Beat of Her Own Drum (TheLAndMag.com)
* John McLaughlin: Where The Muse Leads (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Band’s Robbie Robertson: “If there was anything wrong with ‘The Last Waltz’ it was that the cocaine wasn’t very good” (NME.com)
* We’ve Got A File On You: Thurston Moore (Stereogum.com)
* Sound Territory: The Genius of Ornette Coleman (Los Angeles Review of Books)
* Congress Is Killing Independent Music Venues (Vice.com)
* Spike Lee Brings David Byrne’s American Utopia to the Big Screen (American Songwriter)
* Rishi Sunak's winter economy plan will silence the UK music scene (The Guardian)
* Documentary Tracks Charters ‘Searching for Secret Heroes’ of Blues Music (UConn.edu)

Sunday Session: August 12, 2018

Jason Moran

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:

* Randy Weston: Music is Life Itself (New Music Box)
* Houston celebrates jazz legend Arnette Cobb’s 100th birthday with music (Houston Chronicle)
* The Weirdest Musical Instruments Ever (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Alice Coltrane Concluded Trilogy with ‘Lord Of Lords’ (DownBeat)
* John Cage's ten rules for students and teachers (BoingBoing.net)
* Wisdom from a Master (OpenSkyJazz.com)
* How music has responded to a decade of economic inequality (Vox.com)
* An Interview with Jason Moran (The Believer)
* Four Pro Tips For Touring With Paul Simon (Billboard)
* These tiny, stretchy speakers and microphones let your skin play music (Science)
* These LA Artists Are Keeping Jazz Raw as Hell (Vice.com)
* The Rise and Decline of Guitarist Emily Remler (Jazz Times)
* Musicians Only Get 12 Percent of the Money the Music Industry Makes (Rolling Stone)
* 2018 Newport Jazz Festival: Special Recap (Jazz Times)
* Warner Music Group Sells Its Entire Stake in Spotify (Variety)
* Henry Threadgill’s sonic worlds (Qwest.tv)
* 'Hipster kryptonite': will CDs ever have a resurgence? (The Guardian)
* The Band's Robbie Robertson Looks Back On 50 Years Of 'Music From Big Pink' (NPR)
* This Band Launched a Business Writing Theme Songs for Tech Companies (Time)
* The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies (Wired)
* Coming of Age in the Loft Jazz Scene (New York Times)
* In Various Constructs: Remembering Cecil Taylor (Viewpoint)
* The 50 most influential dance music albums of all time (MixMag.net)
* Ghost Man at the Player Piano (FYIMusicNews.ca)
* Delayed Trane: John Coltrane’s Lost Album (Jazz Times)
* Jazz em Agosto Spotlights Zorn’s Panoramic Work (DownBeat)
* Q&A with Chris Potter: Crossing Currents with Dave Holland and Zakir Hussain (Jazziz)