Sunday Session: August 8, 2021

Stevie Wonder

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

* Snug Harbor canceling performances due to rising Covid cases (Offbeat)
* Don Marquis, esteemed jazz author and New Orleans Jazz Museum founder, has died at 88 (NOLA.com)
* At Lollapalooza 2021, there's one question hanging over everything (AVClub.com)
* Musical artist Suzanne Ciani feeds deepfake program below Morrison Hall (DailyCal.org)
* Anatomy Of A Bad Gig: Recalling A Show 40 Years Ago Where Virtually Nothing Went Right (ProSoundWeb.com)
* Labels are going to become more like VCs than they probably want to be (Music Industry Blog)
* Study: Consumption of music streaming declined significantly during COVID-19 lockdowns worldwide (EurekAlert.org)
* Alan Rubin: Mr. Fabulous in Every Way (AllAboutJazz.com)
* End of an era: Trumpets owners reminisce after developers buy legendary jazz club (NorthJersey.com)
* NC jazz musician releases album via legendary record label (Durham Herald Sun)
* Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts Drops Out of U.S. Tour After Medical Procedure (Rolling Stone)
* Steve Vai reflects on working with Frank Zappa: "If you didn’t have the goods, you didn’t last. Frank expected everybody to rise to the occasion" (Guitar World)
* Interns Turned Engineers Take the Reins at SF’s Historic Different Fur Studios (KQED)
* Eddie Palmieri On Pioneering Latin Jazz & His Blue Note Residency: "We're Talking About The Greatest Jazz Room In The World" (Grammy.com)
* Blues Great Buddy Guy on His ‘American Masters’ Documentary, Hitting the Road Again at 85, and Why the Blues Is Like Golf (Variety)
* As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe (Yahoo News)
* When Stevie Wonder Blended Funk, Soul And Social Commentary On ‘Innervisions’ (Yahoo News)
* George Harrison’s Son Dhani on the “Pandora’s Box” Process of Remastering All Things Must Pass at 50 (Consequence.net)

Sunday Session: July 7, 2019

Duke Ellington

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

* Mo’ Fess: Professor Longhair’s band brings the magic back (Offbeat)
* Fight The Power: The Most Provocative Song Ever (BBC)
* The Lighthouse celebrates 70th year as bastion of jazz in Hermosa Beach (The Beach Reporter)
* Remembering American Roots Inspiration Delaney Bramlett (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Ivan Conti’s Been Combining Jazz, Rock, Samba for Decade (DownBeat)
* Suzanne Ciani Gets Loud at the Library (Pro Sound News)
* Epidemic Sound raises $20M at a $370M valuation for its soundtrack music discovery and licensing platform (TechCrunch.com)
* The story of Duke Ellington’s Anatomy of a Murder score (Little White Lies)
* Rick Lawn: The Evolution of Big Band Sounds in America (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Spotify ends direct music uploads for indie artists (Engadget.com)
* Jazz Community Takes Action for Kenny Burrell (Jazz Times)
* Jimmie Vaughan: Emperor of Tone (Premier Guitar)
* Gibson Guitar Declares Shift In IP Enforcement After Most Recent Public Backlash (TechDirt.com)
* Stevie Wonder has ongoing medical issue but remains in 'great spirits,' friends say (Detroit Free Press)
* Stevie Wonder Announces Plans for Kidney Transplant Surgery: 'I Have a Donor, It’s All Good' (People)
* How music about space became music about drugs (MIT Technology Review)
* Dr. John: A Pianist’s Remembrance (Jazz Times)
* JazzTimes 10: Very Late Duke Ellington Albums (Jazz Times)
* João Gilberto, a pioneer of bossa nova, has died at 88 (CNN)

Sunday Session: August 13, 2017

Rudresh Mahanthappa

Here's the roundup of various music-related items of interest that have appeared in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Kamasi Washington: An Opinion of Difference (Jazz Times)
* Neither bills nor advancing age can dim the glow of a drummer's dream (Los Angeles Times)
* Was Elvis a thief? Yes! No! Maybe? Music stars weigh in on Presley's legacy (San Diego Union Tribune)
* Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day One - Cécile McLorin Salvant and more at the fest's first McBride-led edition (Jazz Times)
* Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Two - A touching tribute to Geri Allen highlights Saturday at Fort Adams (Jazz Times)
* Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Three - The fest wraps with plenty of sun and groove (Jazz Times)
* The Power of Sound: Using the Shepard Tone In Filmmaking (PremiumBeat.com)
* Suzanne Ciani and the Subliminal Property of Being Human (The Paris Review)
* 'The Green Book' Guided Black Travelers to L.A.'s Central Avenue Jazz Scene (KCET)
* Interim Thoughts on the Life and Career of Chubby Checker (PopMatters.com)
* Grammys boss knuckles under China censors as show readies tour (Japan Times)
* Anything is possible when jazz master Henry Threadgill plays at Newport (Boston Globe)
* AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm? (The Guardian)
* Southern Exposure: Searching for clues to the death of a bandleader (Daily Astorian)
* Jimmy Webb, Writer of Glen Campbell Classics, Remembers ‘My Big Brother, My Co-Culprit’ (Variety)
* Creating the world’s largest cat sound effects library – with Yarron Katz (ASoundEffect.com)
* Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? (The Guardian)
* Forebears: The Mercurial And Majestic Dinah Washington (NPR)
* Q&A with Rudresh Mahanthappa: Connected Spaces (DownBeat)
* The Internet Doesn’t Matter, You’re Making Music in L.A. (Vulture.com)
* Know your customers: Costa Pilavachi on the classical recording industry (Rhinegold.co.uk)
* Steve Martin Explains His Love of Banjo Music: 'It Rivals Any Specialized Genre' (Billboard)
* The Rich History—and Present—of Latin American Prog (Bandcamp.com)
* SoundCloud Saved By The Bell Of A Big Chunk Of Financing (NPR)
* Eagle Saloon unveils historical plaques, window displays (Offbeat)
* Party Over Here: An Oral History of Kool Herc’s Historic Back-to-School Jam (MassAppeal.com)
* When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality: Pink Floyd, Metallica, The Breeders, Steely Dan & More (OpenCulture.com)

Sunday Session: May 21, 2017

Thelonious Monk

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

* The 20 hottest music startups of 2017 (according to Midemlab) (Musically.com)
* #AfroNation: The House That Africa Built (NationOfBillions.com)
* Cleveland's legendary Leo's Casino made music history, transcended race (photos, videos) (Cleveland.com)
* Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Timeless Jazz (The New Yorker)
* With a New Collaborations Album, Todd Rundgren Talks About Loving Reznor, Fagen and Robyn… and Loathing Trump (Variety)
* The failed experiment of the digital album booklet (TheOutline.com)
* Benmont Tench - The 40th Anniversary Interview (Keyboard)
* Google’s AI Invents Sounds Humans Have Never Heard Before (Wired)
* With Experience on their Side, The Cookers Heat Up Dizzy’s (DownBeat)
* 'Rolling Stone' Founder Jann Wenner On 50 Years Of Rock And Roll History (NPR)
* “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story (Marco.org)
* Hear 2,000 Recordings of the Most Essential Jazz Songs: A Huge Playlist for Your Jazz Education (OpenCulture.com)
* Nels Cline on Why Playing Jazz Has Never Been More Important (Observer.com)
* Hear Aerobic Exercise: When Soviet Musicians Recorded Electronic Music for a Subversive Home Fitness Record (1984)(OpenCulture.com)
* Maxwell, Cat Power, and 5 More on Their Favorite Nina Simone Songs (Pitchfork.com)
* Rebuilding—and Recording With—the 1920s Technology That Changed American Music Forever (Wired)
* How the Internet financially kills musicians and other artists (Washington Post)
* The Art of the Mistake - Why flubs and clinkers are part of the myth of authentic jazz. (CommonReader.wustl.edu)
* Magical Mystery Drum: The Quest for Ringo's Ed Sullivan Snare (Reverb.com)
* A Long-Lost Thelonious Monk Album Is Finally Released Nearly 60 Years Later (Newsweek)
* The science of songs: how does music affect your body chemistry? (The Guardian)
* Drumset = You (The Paris Review)
* An ode to the joy and madness of the B-side (TheVinylFactory.com)
* 17 charts that show the current state of the music industry (BusinessInsider.com)
* Making sounds with Suzanne Ciani, America's first female synth hero (The Guardian)
* Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson Shares the Cuban Inspiration Behind His "Folk Song" (WBGO)