Sunday Session: May 17, 2020

Roy Ayers

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

* The Legend of the Moog, the Synth That Changed Music (TheManual.com)
* Initiative to ‘Reopen Every Venue Safely’ Launches in Eight Cities Including Los Angeles, Austin and Portland (Variety)
* The Day the Live Concert Returns (The Atlantic)
* Remembering the Original Knitting Factory (Jazz Times)
* Betty Wright Packed A Career's Worth Of Music Into Her Youthful First Act (NPR)
* "A wasteland": UK's festival scene on verge of permanent collapse (MusicRadar.com)
* We Asked 13 Artists How Spotify's 'Tip Jar' Is Working Out for Them (Vice.com)
* 'I found the roots of electronic music in a cupboard!': the tale of India's lost techno pioneers (The Guardian)
* Lost Roy Ayers Song "Reaching The Highest Pleasure" Surfaces 43 Years Later [Premiere] (OkayPlayer.com)
* How 5 Musicians Over 70 Are Dealing with Life, Loss, and Touring in the Age of Coronavirus (Pitchfork.com)
* Trickster Treat: Bob Dylan's New Song Sounds Awfully Old ... And Familiar (NPR)
* Listen: The Residents and Black Francis Drop Searing Indictment of Trump’s Handling of COVID-19 (Rolling Stone)
 * A History of Synth-Pop in 50 Essential Tracks (TrebleZine.com)
* Those Slick Quarantine Band Performances Are Harder to Pull Off Than You Think (Billboard)
* Antonio Sánchez, Thana Alexa Grow Their Partnership (DownBeat)
* Nourishing New Music with Liquid Music’s Kate Nordstrum (21cm.org)
* Jazz singer Melody Gardot seeks digital orchestra to beat coronavirus blues (Reuters)
* Charlie Parker Takes Flight In Upcoming Graphic Novel, ‘Chasin’ The Bird’ (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: November 4, 2018

Roy Hargrove

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:

* Sonny Fortune, Stalwart Saxophonist Of New York, Dies At 79 (NPR)
* Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie (ECM) - The late guitarist's gentle spirit is captured in a moving documentary (Jazz Times)
* Nate Wooley: Plays Whole With Others (NationalSawdust.org)
* Big in Japan: A History of Jazz in the Land of the Rising Sun, Part 1 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* This Danish Band Plays Music Underwater. The Results Are Eerily Spectacular (Time)
* REPORT: 35th Conference of the Radio Jazz Research Group, Salzburg. – " Improvisation: New Perspectives (London Jazz News)
* Guitarist Jimmy Page looks back at 50 years of Led Zeppelin (Associated Press)
* Even Classical Music Is Getting Faster These Days (Rolling Stone)
* Did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wait too long on Bob Marley? (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
* The Residents’ Co-Founder Hardy Fox Dead at 73 (Rolling Stone)
* Meet The Women Pushing UK Jazz Forward (ClashMusic.com)
* Festival Jazz International Rotterdam 2018 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Jason Moran: The Harlem Hellfighters review – the soldiers who brought jazz to Europe (The Guardian)
* Is Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram the Future of the Blues? (Rolling Stone)
* The Secret Jewish History Of Queen (The Forward)
* Bluesman Chris Thomas King says he’s been banned by the GRAMMYs (Offbeat)
* Adam O’Farrill Does Not Play Latin Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Resonance Records Marks 10-Year Anniversary at Birdland (DownBeat)
* Tuba in the House (Jazz Times)
* An Indie Music Expert Explains Why Artists Are Turning Away From Record Deals (Rolling Stone)
* Bob James Returns with Acoustic Trio Disc (DownBeat)
* Andrew Cyrille, Lifetime Achievement Honoree at the Vision Fest, Isn't Resting on His Laurels (WBGO)
* These Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Wore Their Instruments on Their Heads (LiveScience.com)
* What is All the Fuss About? Kenny Barron Takes Years of Experience and Plays in the Moment (VoiceOfOC.org)
* Life In Frank Zappa's Pad, 1968 (PleaseKillMe.com)
* Too much Christmas music can mentally harm you (BigThink.com)
* “The tyranny of collecting” – why I gave away my entire record collection (GetIntoThis.co.uk)
* Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49 (NPR)
* Inside the Secretly Lucrative World of Solo Piano Music (Rolling Stone)