Sunday Session: April 3, 2016

Muhal Richard Abrams

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

* Musicians are exploited on the London and Paris jazz scenes (London School of Economics Business Review)
* Report: Streaming overtakes downloads in music business sales (SiliconBeat.com)
* Markato: What Online Chord Charts Should Be (Medium.com)
* Music sales remain steady, but lucrative CD sales decline (Houston Chronicle)
* Revisiting Brian Eno’s ‘The Studio as a Compositional Tool’ (TechCrunch.com)
* Soul Survivor - The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin (The New Yorker)
* Farewell to Bohemian Caverns: Musicians remember the ‘sole home of soul jazz’ (CapitalBop.com)
* Before time runs out, how about a White House jazz summit? (Chicago Tribune)
* Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (NPR)
* A Conversation on Jazz & Hollywood (Jazz Times)
* Coming, the collapse of radio’s iHeartMedia (Media Life)
* The rise of Mo'Wax founder James Lavelle — and the record industry that fell with him (TheVerge.com)
* Matthew Herbert turned cheese, aubergine and ham into edible, playable vinyl records (The Vinyl Factory)
* Liz Phair, Steve Albini & Me: The True Story of 1993, the Greatest Goddamn Year in Chicago Rock History (New City Music)
* The Ballad of Fred and Yoko (Arkansas Times)
* Remembering a jazz music revolutionary, Indianapolis' own David Baker (Nuvo.net)
* National Jazz Museum in Harlem Unveils New Location (Jazz Times)
* ‘Heir to Hendrix’ Shuggie Otis: ‘I could have been a millionaire, but that wasn’t on my mind’ (The Guardian UK)
* Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (New Music Box)
* I ran the official record store of Soviet Azerbaijan (FactMag.com)
* Beyond Objects, Beyond Scores - Aditi Sriram interviews Vijay Iyer (GuernicaMag.com)
* Opera And Jazz Mingle In 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird' (NPR)
* Gato Barbieri, Latin Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at Age 83 (Billboard)

Sunday Session: March 6, 2016

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

* Ginger Baker Cancels Tour Due to 'Serious Heart Problems' (Rolling Stone)
* Mavis Staples’ HBO doc hits relevant Civil Rights notes (Arts Journal)
* Resonance Records Presents LARRY YOUNG - IN PARIS: THE ORTF RECORDINGS With Never-Before-Released Tracks by The Jazz Organist And Pianist (JazzCorner.com)
* Content ID and the Rise of the Machines (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
* Is Jazz The Brand (Offbeat)
* Kamasi Washington Presents Jazz-Rock Spectacle in New York (DownBeat)
* Today’s best country music songwriter is a Twitter bot (Dangerous Minds)
* Sun Ra's Voice On Earth (WELD)
* Is the Album Review Dead? (Vice.com)
* Swing Vote: What Would the Presidential Election Sound Like as Jazz? (The Atlantic)
* Jazz Legend Archie Shepp Reflects On John Coltrane’s Quest For Musical Freedom (Consequence of Sound)
* Ron Carter Named Artist-in-Residence at Detroit Jazz Fest (Jazz Times)
* Why is China’s music market still so small? (Quartz.com)
* Jean-Paul Sartre on How American Jazz Lets You Experience Existentialist Freedom & Transcendence (OpenCulture.com)
* Sarah Vaughan forever stamp to be unveiled in Newark (New York Amsterdam News)
* How One Museum Is Fighting To Preserve The History Of Recorded Sound (Fast Company)
* Music is getting worse, unless of course it isn’t (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* How Ahmad Jamal’s The Awakening became a hip hop sample goldmine (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Blanchard’s Incisive Jazz Opera Packs Powerful Punch (DownBeat)
* Nina Simone Estate Slams Biopic Star Zoe Saldana (Rolling Stone)
* How Steely Dan Returned to Form by Remaining 'Two Against Nature' (UltimateClassicRock.com)
* Shuggie Otis plays guitar (Financial Times)
* Gary Clark Jr: Blues Brother (Wax Poetics)