Sunday Session: July 8, 2018

David Murray

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:

* Julian Lage Takes a ‘Page from the Rock ’n’ Roll Book’ (DownBeat)
* 50 Years On, The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' Haunts Us Still (NPR)
* Rain Can’t Wash Out Saratoga Jazz Fest (DownBeat)
* Ry Cooder ‘Spellbound’ by Gospel Music (DownBeat)
* Trump Tariffs Could Kill U.S. Synth Manufacturing, Says Moog (Synthtopia.com)
* Moog Says Chinese Tariffs May Force A Move Overseas (NPR)
* The Counterfeit Queen of Soul (Smithsonian)
* The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' Turns 50: How Upstate New York Informed the Americana Classic (Billboard)
* The End of Owning Music: How CDs and Downloads Died (Rolling Stone)
* Shabaka Hutchings: Britain’s Best Export (DownBeat)
* How Alan Braufman’s “Valley of Search” Brought Shine to New York’s Loft Jazz Scene (Bandcamp.com)
* Pianist Henry Butler Has Passed Away After Cancer Battle (Offbeat)
* In Chicago, the sound of the blues is fading (The Economist)
* Finding The Light with Bass Icon Dave Holland, on The Checkout (WBGO)
* Radical Transparency: A Review of Jason Moran’s The Last Jazz Fest (WalkerArt.org)
* Public Enemy Talks 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' on Its 30th Anniversary (Billboard)
* Before & After With Nicole Mitchell (Jazz Times)
* Bright Moments with David Murray (Jazz Times)
* Montreal Jazz Festival Cancels Slave Songs Show After Backlash (Hollywood Reporter)
* Trombonist Bill Watrous Dies at 79 (Jazz Times)
* This Artist Reimagined Pop Songs as Beautiful Infographics (Vice.com)
* Pianist Erroll Garner Lights Up Late Night In Amsterdam (WBGO)
* Lalah Hathaway, Questlove, Robert Glasper & More On the Impact of PBS’s ‘Soul!’ (OkayPlayer.com)
* Mickey Hart talks music, Grateful Dead, rhythm 'trancing' and giving Tipper Gore drum lessons (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Buster Williams Still is on the Upswing (DownBeat)
* Protest Voices Enrich Montreal Festival (DownBeat)
* How Innovative Jazz Pianist Vince Guaraldi Became the Composer of Beloved Charlie Brown Music (OpenCulture.com)
* What Is the Most Nostalgic Song of All Time? (Village Voice)
* How a Young Lower East Side Jazz Group Became Cult Favorites (Vulture.com)
* Billboard’s charts used to be our barometer for music success. Are they meaningless in the streaming age? (Washington Post)
* How George Clinton Made Funk a World View (The New Yorker)

Sunday Session: June 3, 2018

Dorothy Ashby

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:

* Why African and Caribbean sounds are dominating British music right now (DazedDigital.com)
* Three Faces of New South African Jazz (Bandcamp.com)
* We are living in the golden age of the music explainer (QZ.com)
* Avant-Garde Flame Kept Alive at FIMAV (DownBeat)
* The Missing Music of the Left (New York Review of Books)
* Live Review: Dave Burrell Night in Brooklyn (Jazz Times)
* Unbundling The Song: Inside The Next Wave Of Recorded Music's Disruption (Forbes)
* Jazzmeia Horn's vocal jazz shines light on social injustice (Charleston Post and Courier)
* Eddie Palmieri, Age 81 and Going Strong (Miami New Times)
* Walk over, Beethoven (CNU.org)
* Cuba Comes to The Kennedy Center (DownBeat)
* Jazz Today: Young Women Are Sounding the Horns (PopMatters.com)
* The chords of the universe (Aeon.co)
* A Lunchtime Meeting Helped Spawn Nels Cline’s New Album (DownBeat)
* Lyrical Intensity Unabated as The Last Poets Return (DownBeat)
* Watch the full We Out Here documentary capturing London's dynamic jazz community (TheVinylFactory.com)
* The Real-Time Reverence of Ry Cooder (American Songwriter)
* "You go and you play": On Paul Motian's limitless jazz (Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches)
* Photos: Vision Fest 23 in Brooklyn (Jazz Times)
* From ‘25th Hour’ to ‘BlacKkKlansman’: The Man Behind Spike Lee's Music (Vice.com)
* Remembering Dorothy Ashby, the Detroit Pioneer Who Introduced the Harp to Jazz (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* The Transcendental Sound of Moroccan Gnawa Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Shabaka Hutchings Wants a Revolution (Jazz Times)
* DIVA Jazz Orchestra Celebrates 25 Years (DownBeat)