Sunday Session: April 25, 2021

Larry Carlton

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

* Catching Up With Laurie Anderson, An Artist Always Ahead Of Her Time (NPR)
* And all that jazz: innovative album covers from the 1950s on – in pictures (The Guardian)
* Jazz Artists Remember Chick Corea (Jazz Times)
* Apple Music Says It Pays One Penny Per Stream — 2-3 Times What Spotify Pays (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Does Spotify pay artists a fair rate? Here’s what musicians, managers and Apple Music have to say (Los Angeles Times)
* Ethan Iverson: From The Bad Plus to Bebop, Bud Powell and Bach (JazzWeekly.com)
* Tony Bennett: A Hero's Journey in Authenticity (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Sonny Simmons and the Backwoods (The Wire)
* Larry Carlton: My Career in Five Songs (Guitar Player)
* UnitedMasters’ Steve Stoute: ‘Record companies’ ownership in artists’ intellectual property will diminish.’ (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Chops: Branford Marsalis and Howard Alden on Ghost Performances in Movies (Jazz Times)
* Prince’s go-to synths and drum machine: a career in music tech gear (MusicRadar.com)
* 2021 NEA Jazz Masters: A Q&A with Phil Schaap (SFJAZZ.org)
* Why is classical music used in cartoons? (ABC.net.au)
* Tomorrow’s Warriors at 30 - the power behind London’s jazz revival (The Standard)
* 45 Lost Albums We Want To Hear (Stereogum.com)
* International Jazz Day's Global Celebrations Are On, And Again Online (NPR)
* Sounding Out Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers (Metrograph.com)
* Tom Holkenborg: “I think I paid about £15 for my Memorymoog synth - in 1983 you couldn’t give them away” (MusicRadar.com)
* SFJazz hosts inspiring virtual Jazz Masters Tribute Concert (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Recordable and portable: the cassette tape miracle (NewFrame.com)
* Steve Reich: Humans Love to See Other Humans Play Music (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Frank Zappa’s Final American Concert to Be Released as Live Album (Consequence of Sound)
* Sisters With Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers (The Guardian)

Sunday Session: May 15, 2016

Frank Zappa

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

* How a Chatbot Helped This Vinyl Records Startup Make $1 Million in 8 Months (Billboard)
* How One Man Made The Eiffel Tower Sing (NPR)
* From Steve Reich to rock: why 1976 was a big year for minimal music (The Guardian UK)
* Jazz Music and Physics Have a Lot More in Common Than You Think (Gizmodo)
* Zappa Documentary Reveals Many Faces of Frank (DownBeat)
* Listen to how pop hits have evolved over the years (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
* An Alternate History for Music, YouTube, & Everything Else (IllusionOfMore.com)
* The art of bad singing: A legacy lives on (Washington Post)
* The Jukebox At Your Local Bar Just Got More Dangerous (Fast Company)
* Detroit recording studio could be seized by feds (The Detroit News)
* How Music Piracy Is Completely Changing In 2016 (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Henry Kaiser - Clouds of colored light (Innerviews.org)
* Arhoolie Records Acquired by Smithsonian Folkways (Offbeat)
* Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: 50 Years Of Mondays (NPR)
* Classic DEVO guitars recreated (DangerousMinds.net)
* GZ Vinyl to open new pressing plants in North America and Asia (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Can the Church of John Coltrane Survive Gentrification? (Pitchfork.com)
* This app will change the way you hear the world (TheDailyDot.com)
* Prince’s Most Notorious Musical Instruments (Zzounds.com)
* Kamasi, Pharoah & the Arkestra in Brooklyn (Jazz Times)
* Amazon Launches a New Rival for YouTube (Billboard)
* Scientists create a new way to categorize music (Phys.org)
* 16 Pieces of Protest Jazz for 2016 (Revive-Music.com)
* Irvin Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Reportedly Agrees to Pay Back Library Foundation (Offbeat)
* Saxophonist Joe Temperley Dies - Baritone great was invaluable member of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (Jazz Times)
* Other Music and the End of an Era: A Look Back at New York's Legendary Record Store (Billboard)
* T Bone Burnett’s Remarks on Music and the American Story (with intro by Rosanne Cash) (Medium.com)

Sunday Session: February 22, 2015

Billy Strayhorn

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

* Duke Ellington’s Ode to the First Moon Landing (Air & Space)
* Steve Reich On Tape Loops, Repetition & Phasing (Synthtopia.com)
* Critic's Notebook - Jazz singers bring new life to old standards (Los Angeles Times)
* Narrowing the 90 Miles - How U.S.-Cuba relations may play out for musicians (Wall Street Journal)
* Apple Doesn't Want to Compete -- It Wants to Own the Record Business (Billboard)
* How the Music Industry Is Alienating Its Most Passionate Customers (Digital Music News)
* Captain Beefheart’s Failed Bid for Mainstream Success (Wondering Sound)
* Wizards of Sound - Retouching acoustics, from the restaurant to the concert hall (The New Yorker)
* As the Village Vanguard Turns 80, It Remains New York’s Most Cherished Jazz Club (New York Observer)
* Can New Orleans Save Its Brass Bands? (The Daily Beast)
* Don Was: Moving Blue Note Forward One Day at a Time (DownBeat)
* Jazz Saxophonist Branford Marsalis: Jay-Z Doesn't Know What He's Talking About (San Antonio Current)
* Too Late Blues: Nica Goes to Hollywood - The story of Cassavetes, Mingus and "the Baroness" of jazz (Jazz Times)
* The Doctor Is In: Eddie Henderson On Life As 'The Funk Surgeon' (NPR)
* Composer Billy Strayhorn in the limelight at last (The Scotsman)
* 7 Things You Didn't Realize Are Happening Every Time You Stream a Song on Spotify (Mic.com)
* Starbucks Will Stop Selling CDs In Their Stores Next Month (Forbes)
* A Half Century of Creative Musicianship with the AACM (WTTW)