Sunday Session: November 22, 2020

George Lewis

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

* The Enduring Relevance of College Radio (Spin)
* Making a Masterpiece: An Interview with Legendary Composer Valerie Simpson (PopMatters.com)
* What Were the First Mass-Produced Electronic Instruments? (Reverb.com)
* Fantasia & The Birth of Stereo Recording (Reverb.com)
* Mark Ruffin: The Storied Intersection of Jazz, Baseball, and Race (Jazz Times)
* Pioneering Drummer Viola Smith Was ‘An Advocate For The Rights Of All Women Musicians’ (DownBeat)
* Joe Schaffner, Tour Manager For Aretha, Marvin Gaye & The Jacksons, Talks Back In The Day (Pollstar.com)
* Nels Cline Revives The Singers For A Stunning New Album, ‘Share The Wealth’ (American Songwriter)
* Thurston Moore on his new album, the old New York, and always resisting the mainstream (DocumentJournal.com)
* Discover "the power of sound" with music wizard, Kenichi Kanazawa (AV Club)
* New Series “Live From Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio” (first session 14 November) (London Jazz News)
* Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio (ChimurengaChronic.co.za)
* Andrew White 1942–2020 (Jazz Times)
* 'He'll make your head explode': sax stars on the genius and tragedy of Charlie Parker (The Guardian)
* The chaotic story of cult prog legends Van der Graaf Generator (LouderSound.com)
* A Dive Into George Lewis’s Pioneering Experiment With Artificial Intelligence (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* Camille Thurman Eager To Give Back To The Jazz Community (DownBeat)
* Ellis at the Crossroads (Oxford American)
* How Elektra Records ushered in the alternative music revolution—and then helped kill it (AV Club)
* A Guide to Rob Mazurek’s Imaginative, Experimental Sound (Bandcamp.com)
* Watch the Liberation Music Orchestra Perform a Timely New Medley, Arranged by Carla Bley (WBGO)
* Artemis: A Band For the Times (AllAboutJazz.com)
* 9 Engineers on the Hardest Song They Ever Mixed (Vulture.com)
* "They Did Not Die in Vain": On "Alabama," John Coltrane Carefully Wrought Anguish Into Grace (WBGO)
* Guitar Center Is Officially Filing for Bankruptcy (ConsequenceOfSound.net)
* Terence Blanchard on Netflix's 'Da 5 Bloods', Writing Process & Working with Spike Lee (SpitfireAudio.com)
* The story of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery (LouderSound.com)
* 'A gamechanger for musicians': app offers library of interactive sheet music (The Guardian)
* Gearhead: Harry Partch and the Quadrangularis Reversum (Jazz Times)
* Elvis Presley Meets the Nashville Cats on a New Box Set, With Glorious Results (Rolling Stone)
* Randy Brecker: Fusion Pioneer Still Blazing The Trails (AllAboutJazz.com)

Sunday Session: September 27, 2020

John McLaughlin

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

* CTI Records: Ten Tasty Albums With No Added Sugar (Almost) (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Alexis Cole: Teaching & Learning (Jazz Times)
* Funk Legend Steve Arrington Celebrates a Long Career with “Down to The Lowest Terms” (Bandcamp.com)
* Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz (Hyperallergic.com)
* Third of British musicians may quit industry amid pandemic (The Guardian)
* Rediscovering The Enormous Social And Spiritual Legacy Of Black Jazz Records (NPR)
* When Front Page Challenge met Ella Fitzgerald (CBC)
* Regina Carter’s Extraordinary Career Continues to Evolve (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* 12 synths that could have been classics, but weren’t (MusicRadar.com)
* Punch the 'Clockface': Elvis Costello On Making Albums In a Streaming World (Billboard)
* Paul Desmond and the Canadians (JazzHistoryOnline.com)
* Asynchronous Ensembles Come Out Swinging (DownBeat)
* Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane (NPR)
* The Beat of Her Own Drum (TheLAndMag.com)
* John McLaughlin: Where The Muse Leads (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Band’s Robbie Robertson: “If there was anything wrong with ‘The Last Waltz’ it was that the cocaine wasn’t very good” (NME.com)
* We’ve Got A File On You: Thurston Moore (Stereogum.com)
* Sound Territory: The Genius of Ornette Coleman (Los Angeles Review of Books)
* Congress Is Killing Independent Music Venues (Vice.com)
* Spike Lee Brings David Byrne’s American Utopia to the Big Screen (American Songwriter)
* Rishi Sunak's winter economy plan will silence the UK music scene (The Guardian)
* Documentary Tracks Charters ‘Searching for Secret Heroes’ of Blues Music (UConn.edu)

Sunday Session: July 5, 2020

Freddy Cole

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

* John Scofield Honors Steve Swallow on New Album (Jazz Times)
* Revisiting the lost recording of Pink Floyd jamming with jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli on ‘Wish You Were Here’ (FarOutMagazine.co.uk)
* Identifying a melody by studying a musician’s body language (News.MIT.edu)
* Freddy Cole, Singer Who Eluded the Shadow of His Brother Nat "King" Cole, Has Died at 88 (WBGO)
* How Jazz Is Coping with COVID-19 (Jazz Times)
* Pixar’s Upcoming “Soul” May Have a Problem: No Actual Soul Music, Most of the Artists Included So Far Are White (ShowBiz411.com)
* Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard Talk Scoring to Picture on ‘Da 5 Bloods’ (Watch) (Variety)
* In conversation with saxophonist Kamasi Washington (Bay State Banner)
* Making Music With Brain Waves And Heartbeats (AEON.co)
* Making A New Kind Of Scene: New York City's Five Spot (WFIU)
* Societal Reckoning Over Racism Encompasses The Jazz Community (DownBeat)
* Jacques Coursil 1938–2020 (The Wire)
* The car radio turns 90 this year. Here’s how it all came about (AJournalOfMusicalThings.com)
* 48 Hours With Backpack Jazz Producer Kassa Overall (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
* Who in their right mind would go to a "herd immunity" music festival? (Mic.com)
* Full Spectrum: Derrick Hodge Sees Endless Possibilities In Music (DownBeat)
* Reflections on unlocking live music by Tony Dudley-Evans (London Jazz News)
* Thurston Moore: Into the Out World (Jazz Times)
* The Kosmische Path Less Traveled: Nine Krautrock Rarities to Know (Bandcamp.com)
* Can the music take flight again? (Financial Times)
* Eddie Henderson On Maturity And Revisiting Bop Standards (DownBeat)
* The Short and Curious Life of Wade Legge (Buffalo Rising)
* Experiment Without Inhibition: A Celebration of Anthony Braxton (River Cities Reader)
* Impulse! Records: An Alternative Top 20 Zeitgeist Seizing Albums (AllAboutJazz.com)
* A Conversation with Zappa, Vol. 1 (American Songwriter)
* An encounter with Keith Tippett (The Wire)
* With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom (Ars Technica)
* Georgia Anne Muldrow Finds ‘The Sound Of Mixed Emotions’ (DownBeat)
* The Summer Of ’70: What Was It Good For? Absolutely…American Top 40 (RadioInsight.com)
* Musicians and Composers Respond to a Chaotic Moment (The New Yorker)
* Plunge into the world of Sun Ra and the Outer Space Visual Communicator (CDM.link)
* Five Black Jazzworld Figures Detail How Racism Impacts The Industry (DownBeat)