Sunday Session: August 30, 2020

Gregory Porter

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

* The Day Louis Armstrong Lost His Color: A Short Story (Jazz Times)
* A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future (NPR)
* Give & Take with Musician Sonny Rollins (Tricycle.org)
* Charli Persip, Virtuoso Drummer Who Cut a Swath Through Modern Jazz, Is Dead at 91 (WBGO)
* Steely Dan Engineer Finds Lost ‘Second Arrangement’ Tapes (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* 100 Reasons We Love Charlie Parker For His 100th Birthday (Discogs.com)
* The Best Batch Yet? Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station Revisited (TheQuietus.com)
* Vinyl sales rock on in spite of Covid-19 (QZ.com)
* Ambrose Akinmusire’s Pure Pursuit Of Sound (DownBeat)
* Billy Childs Reveals the Influences on His Album Acceptance (Jazz Times)
* ‘64% musicians considering leaving the music profession’ – survey (London Jazz News)
* Charlie Parker, the Birth of Bebop, and America’s Greatest Recording Session (Jazz Times)
* The Very Serious Art of Writing Music for Very Funny Cartoons (InsideHook.com)
* Dan Penn talks back (Offbeat)
* 50 Years Later, Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios Is Still An Artistic Haven (NPR)
* Oneness of JuJu’s Afrocentric and Avant-Garde Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* Despite Streaming, US Recorded Music Revenues Still Down 50% From 1999 Peaks (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Terri Lyne Carrington Runs On Determination (DownBeat)
* Bird Lives! A Charlie Parker Centennial, With Strings Attached (NPR)
* Gregory Porter sings of love, but unspeakable grief and the scars of racism lie just beneath (Los Angeles Times)
* Roots in the Archive: Test Pressings Help Keep Robert Johnson’s Songs Alive (NoDepression.com)* The 25 greatest basslines of all time (MusicRadar.com)
* How Charlie Parker Defined the Sound and Substance of Bebop Jazz (The New Yorker)

Sunday Session: May 24, 2020

Gary Bartz

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

* Bluesman Lucky Peterson Dies at 55 (Billboard)
* Remembering Michael McClure: The Real Lizard King (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Jorge Santana, Guitarist Who Helped Shape the Sound of Latin Rock with Malo, Is Dead at 68 (WBGO)
* Remembering the passion of Alto Madness creator Richie Cole (Chicago Tribune)
* From Chuck Berry to John Lennon: 8 songs that Paul McCartney couldn’t live without (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Pondering The Future of The Arts – If They Have One (ArtAndSeek.org)
* Pandemic Spurs Marc Ribot, Music Workers Alliance To Demand Economic Fairness (DownBeat)
* Brown Sugar: The Story of Lucille Wilson Armstrong (LouisArmstrongHouse.org)
* Alvin Lucier (BurningAmbulance.com)
* Social distancing in UK clubs “financially unviable”, new survey states (DJMag.com)
* The Durability Of Drummer Rashied Ali’s Survival Records (DownBeat)
* Gene Perla’s Brighter Day (Local802AFM.org)
* For Jazz Legend Gary Bartz, “Hearing is Like A Fingerprint” (Bandcamp.com)
* The Dizzy Chronicles: Legendary jazz musician trapped in Spokane by Mount St. Helens eruption (Spokane Spokesman-Review)
* Archie Shepp: Memoirs of a Gunfighter (Jazz Times)
* What if Louis Armstrong had succumbed to the last pandemic? (Chicago Tribune)
* Exclusive First Look at New Photograph of Blues Legend Robert Johnson (Vanity Fair)
* Ivan Neville on battling back from coronavirus and pneumonia: 'Don't let this take me' (NOLA.com)
* Music Revenue to Drop 25% in 2020, but Long-Term Outlook Is Good: Goldman-Sachs (Variety)
* Jazz Coalition Announces the First Wave of Awardees From Its Commission Fund (WBGO)
* The records that changed my life, from A (Joan Armatrading) to Z (Frank Zappa), and 58 more (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Jazz history lost: How a string of deaths from Covid-19 has left the jazz community in a state of shock (The-TLS.co.uk)
* Grégoire Maret Under The Influence Of ‘Americana’ (DownBeat)
* A Conversation With ...Danny Weis (FYIMusicNews.ca)
* Eric Clapton, B.B. King’s ‘Riding with the King’ to Be Reissued With Two Unreleased Tracks (Rolling Stone)
* How the Coronavirus Is Affecting America’s Vinyl Record Industry (Pitchfork.com)
* An Overdue Ovation for Ernie Watts (Jazz Times)
* Covid Conversations, Volume 2: Deborah Gordon (LarryBlumenfeld.com)
* Stranded musicians surrounded by wolves outside ‘haunted’ castle after bus breaks down (New York Daily News)

Sunday Session: December 20, 2015

Brian Blade

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

* Why Sly Stone still can't collect royalties from his classic songs (Los Angeles Times)
* Frank Sinatra’s Drummer Tells the Story of His Final Concert (Vanity Fair)
* 'World-class' $7.5-million jazz hub set for Wayne State (Detroit Free Press)
* Prayers for Richard (Oxford American)
* Classic Rock Radio at 30: The Songs Change, So Does the Vibe Remain the Same? (Billboard)
* Jazz Musician Herbie Hancock Added to Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’ Cast; Nothing Impossible (ScreenCrush.com)
* My 13-Year Mission to Save Jazz Photography (Medium.com)
* The Inventor of Auto-Tune (Priceonomics.com)
* Green Rooms Is a Hotel Specifically Designed for Musicians (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Why I've Fallen Out of Love With Shopping for Vinyl (LA Weekly)
* Weezer's Bizarre Copyright Crackdown on 'Hash Pipe' (Vice.com)
* “Ornette at Prince Street”: A Glimpse from the Archives (Point of Departure)
* Grateful Dead Bio-Series in Development at Amazon (Rolling Stone)
* David Bowie Fulfills His Jazz Dream (NPR)
* ‘Baker Street’: The Mystery of Rock's Greatest Sax Riff (The Atlantic)
* Not in a Shy Way: Sizing up the Sinatra legacy, one hundred years on (BookForum)
* Film Review: ‘Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story’ (Variety)
* Spirit of jazz, soul of a man - Fellowship Band leader Brian Blade on playing with Joni Mitchell, Wayne Shorter and the Hallelujah Train (Colorado Springs Independent)
* Beijing bebop: Once scorned, jazz is suddenly thriving in the Chinese capital (CNN)
* Our culture loves music. Too bad our economy doesn’t value it. (Washington Post)
* A Jazz Raconteur’s Parting Words (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: May 24, 2015

George Lewis

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

* In defense of the lowly “Greatest Hits” album: They’re not just “for housewives and little girls” (Salon)
* Sun Ra's free space (Pitchfork)
* Lyric Intelligence In Popular Music: A Ten Year Analysis (SeatSmart.com)
* Bruce Lundvall, Blue Note Records Veteran, Beloved Executive, Dead at 79 (Billboard)
* Jazz Stars Celebrate “Go-Go” Heritage in Washington, D.C. (DownBeat)
* Bob Belden—Musician, Producer, Arranger, Writer, Historian—Dies at 58 (Jazz Times)
* 5 Questions to George Lewis (composer, improvisor, trombonist) (I Care If You Listen)
* Victoriaville Festival Unites Jazz, Rock, Avant-Garde in Quebec (DownBeat)
* "Mad Men" Theme Composer RJD2 Plans His Next TV Takeover (Fast Company)
* 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Composer: 'The First Time I Saw The Movie I Thought, This Is So Insane!' (Billboard)
* Louis Johnson, Legendary Bassist, Dead at 60 (The Boombox)
* New Sun Ra Recordings To Be Released This Fall: Exclusive (Billboard)
* 'Robert Johnson' photo does not show the blues legend, music experts say (The Guardian UK)
* Sony Music “holding artists hostage” in campaign against SoundCloud (Fact)

Sunday Session: April 12, 2015

Charles Lloyd

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

* Afrofuturism on film: five of the best (The Guardian UK)
* The best and oddest science-inspired music (BBC)
* Rare Footage of Duke Ellington Highlights When Jazz and Baseball Were in Perfect Harmony (Smithsonian)
* Philip Glass On Legacy: 'The Future ... It's All Around Us' (NPR)
* Carol Kaye at 80 (BBC)
* Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream parts with his 25,000-piece record collection (Minnesota Public Radio)
* THX Just Remade the Deep Note Sound to be More Awesome (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* The Science of a Piezoelectric Violin (PhysicsCentral.com)
* Frank Sinatra Is Chairman of the Board From Here to Eternity (The Daily Beast)
* VIDEO: Sinatra in the Studio (Pro Sound News)
* Have all the good songs been written? (NPR)
* Smithsonian receives $2.5M to expand jazz programs at museum (Washington Post)
* Billie Holiday's centenary: a life in pictures (The Guardian UK)
* Robert Johnson: rare new photograph of delta blues king authenticated after eight years (The Guardian UK)
* Farewell, Doug Sax (Bobby Owsinski's Big Picture Music Production Blog)
* Charles Lloyd, Jazz Master, Questing Still (New York Times)