Showing posts with label Roberta Flack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roberta Flack. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Sunday Session: February 16, 2020

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

* Philadelphia jazz great John Coltrane’s house ‘at risk,’ preservationists say (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Johnny Cash’s Gospel (The New Yorker)
* Photos: Winter Jazzfest 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Jeff Parker’s Shifting Mentality (DownBeat)
* Revisiting the ‘Stank Groove’ of Jimi Hendrix (DownBeat)
* The Virtuoso: Roberta Flack's career demands a new way of thinking about the word 'genius.' (NPR)
* How Will the Fire At Apollo Masters Affect the Local Music Industry? (Portland Mercury)
* New music label says it can use AI to find the next big artist (Engadget.com)
* 1,000 True Fans? Try 100 (A16Z.com)
* Vinyl Record Industry Fears 'Vinylgeddon' After Fire Burns Down Apollo Masters Plant (Billboard)
* Eddie Kendricks’ ‘People’ Was No Accident (DownBeat)
* Joanne Brackeen: Still Proudly Unorthodox (Jazz Times)
* Lyle Mays 1953 – 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Keyboard Remembers Lyle Mays (Keyboard)
* What Makes A Hit Pop Song (NPR)
* Oscar Peterson's Africa Suite has never been performed in its entirety — until now (CBC)
* Are Musicians Better Than They Were 30 Years Ago? (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Steve Feigenbaum Talks About Cuneiform Records, His Four-Plus Decades Selling Fringe Music, 
And Why He Thinks The Vinyl Revival Is Mostly Hype (Substack.com)
* Brain Wave Binaural beats and the poetics of brainhacking (RealLifeMag.com)
* Meet the Baltimore Jazz Collective and more faces of Charm City’s swing renaissance (Baltimore Sun)
* The story of Moondog: blind poet, Viking vagabond, genius composer (HappyMag.TV)
* ‘The Whole System Collapsed’: Inside the Music Industry’s Ongoing Distribution Crisis (Rolling Stone)
* Time Is on Dave Grusin’s Side (Jazz Times)
* Dopolarians: Free-Jazz Collaborators With a Southern Sound (Memphis Flyer)
* Carol Kaye: The Boss of the Bass Guitar (PleaseKillMe.com)
* In Memoriam: Claudio Roditi (1946–2020) (DownBeat)
* The Continuing Impact of the Detroit Jazz Collective Tribe (Bandcamp.com)
* On 'Standards Vol. 1,' Rafiq Bhatia Questions The Act Of Reinterpretation (NPR)

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Sunday Session: January 26, 2020

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

* Commentary: George Walker is the black composer you should know but don’t. Why that may change (Los Angeles Times)
* Jimmy Heath, Legendary Saxophonist, Composer and Jazz Educator, Dies at 93 (WBGO)
* Jimmy Heath 1926 – 2020 (Jazz Times)
*Harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite sees the old year out (Sonoma Press Democrat)
* John McLaughlin: “Listening to any kind of real music is a meditative experience” (TheHinduBusinessLine.com)
* Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment' (The Guardian)
* The Neuroscience of Drumming: Researchers Discover the Secrets of Drumming & The Human Brain (OpenCulture.com)
* Winter JazzFest Broadens Scope, Encompassing Physical and Mental Well-Being (DownBeat)
* Grammy Awards Nominating Is Marred by Insider Deals, Ousted CEO’s Complaint Alleges (Variety)
* Listen Deeper: The Strange Case Of Iannis Xenakis & Pauline Oliveros (TheQuietus.com)
* Dave Brubeck Archives Headed to Connecticut (Jazz Times)
* Kendrick Scott: Making Walls into Bridges (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Major Undertakings of Meredith Monk (DownBeat)
* All Sound Is Music: Laurie Anderson Interview (SFJAZZ.org)
* Psst! A Peek at 'Secrets Are the Best Stories,' Kurt Elling's New Album with Danilo Perez (WBGO)
* Louis Armstrong Musical A Wonderful World to Have World Premiere in Miami (Playbill)
* Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World (Forbes.com)
* Vincent Herring on Charlie Parker’s Perennial Influence (DownBeat)
* Survival Records Returns with New Jazz Releases (Jazz Times)
* A Long Talk With James Newton Howard, One of Hollywood’s Most Accomplished Composers (Vulture.com)
* Chick Corea Is the Well-Tempered Clavierist (Jazz Times)
* Following Outrage, Discovery Networks Backs Down on Composer Ultimatum (Variety)
* Cecil Taylor: Looking (BurningAmbulance.com)
* Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 1 (AllAboutJazz.com)