Sunday Session: November 24, 2019

Hazel Scott

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

* Who’s Fighting for Racial Equity in Classical Music? (21cm.org)
* Asleep at the Wheel Plot 50th Anniversary Album, Reunion Shows (Rolling Stone)
* Pat Metheny back with epic new album From This Place - Track Preview (Jazzwise)
* Above the World: Manhattan in June with Lee (AzureMilesRecords.com)
* Flying teapots and electric Camembert: the story of Gong, prog's trippiest band (The Guardian)
* Why You’ve Never Heard of One Of the Jazz Industry’s Royalty — Hazel Scott (Medium.com)
* Roy DeCarava: The Sounds He Saw (Jazz Times)
* In Praise of the Greatest Trombone Part in Broadway History (Slate)
* Guimarães Jazz Fest Doesn’t Play It Safe (DownBeat)
* A Deluxe Reissue of the Band’s Cozy Self-Titled LP (Has Surely Come) (Rolling Stone)
* Bossa Nova for the World - Sergio Mendes interview (SFJazz.com)
* Is there a Blackout at WBGO? (NJ.com)
* Grammy Awards Nominations: The Complete List (Variety)
* Artist in Residence (GuernicaMag.com)
* Dave Douglas Refines His Political Message with ‘ENGAGE’ (DownBeat)
* Learning from greats, teaching others, Kenny Barron is a guardian of jazz (Charleston Post and Courier)
* What happens to the brain when jazz musicians improvise? (Futurity.org)
* Why I Didn’t Give My Music to the Oxford American (Oxford American)
* The Flute In Jazz: Window On World Music (Jazz Journal)
* Leonard Cohen And Harry Nilsson Are Releasing New Albums, Whether They Like It Or Not (NPR)
* A Toast To 'My Way,' America's Anthem Of Self-Determination (NPR)
* The True Story of Erroll Garner, the First Artist to Sue a Major Label and Win (Variety)
* Gregg Rolie Looks Back on His Days With Santana, Journey, and Ringo Starr (Rolling Stone)

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)