Sunday Session: January 13, 2019

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:

* Vinyl and cassette sales saw double digit growth last year (TheVerge.com)
* How one designer created the “look” of jazz (Vox.com)
* A Guide To Blue Note: 10 Essential Albums You Must Hear (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Musician performs highest ever classical concert on a grand piano in the Himalayas (iNews.co.uk)
* On Roy: The Jazz Gallery Speaks (JazzSpeaks.org)
* Dom Flemons Presents A New Image Of The American Cowboy (NPR)
* Blue Note's High Notes: The Jazz Label Celebrates 80 Years (Billboard)
 * No Color Photos of Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey Existed… Until Now (Smithsonian)
* A Mosaic of Music: Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi (Nippon.com)
* Sun Ra: Never A Part Of This Planet (PleaseKillMe.com)
* ARP Founder Alan R. Pearlman Has Died (Synthtopia.com)
* SFJAZZ Celebrates Wayne Shorter (DownBeat)
* Universal Music Group Will Get New Owners This Year (Rolling Stone)
* Latin Music Is Now More Popular Than Country & EDM In America (Forbes.com)
* Woodstock Will Return This Summer, For Its 50th Anniversary (NPR)
* Roy Hargrove Tribute at Jazz at Lincoln Center: Common, Norah Jones, Wynton Marsalis & More Pay Homage to Late Trumpeter (Billboard)
* Drummer Alvin Fielder Dies at 83 (Jazz Times)
* Jazz at Lincoln Center Tribute Recalls Hargrove’s Big-Tent Approach (DownBeat)
* Best Kept Secret: Hear the First Song From a New Album by the Branford Marsalis Quartet (WBGO)
* How 1960s Pop Songs Helped Young Women Find Their Own Voices in a Time of Social Change (TIME)
* Bucket List Travels: 8 Music Museums Around The World (KEFWhat.com)
* Why Spotify Is Not A Music Company (Medium.com)
* Joey Calderazzo Bounces Back (DownBeat)
* Clarinetist Anat Cohen to Premiere New Concerto at Carnegie Hall (Jazz Times)
* Bill Evans “in” Paris “with” Gene Lees (Jazz Profiles)
* Joseph Jarman, 81, Dies; Mainstay of the Art Ensemble of Chicago (New York Times)
* Gary Clark Jr.’s New Song Is a Scathing Account of Trump-Era Racism (Rolling Stone)
* Motown: The Music that changed America (BBC)
* Remembering Urbie Green (1926-2018)(Jazz Times)
* Philip Glass Finishes His David Bowie Trilogy, Debuting His Lodger Symphony (OpenCulture.com)

Sunday Session: February 21, 2016

James P. Johnson

For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have turned up recently in StLJN's inbox:

* Music Can’t Last Forever, Not Even on the Internet (Wired)
* Genya Ravan, 'Rock And Roll Refugee,' Has Stories To Fill Two Lifetimes (NPR)
* Bob Dylan Recording New Album at Capitol Records Studios in Hollywood (Billboard)
* New Box Set Shows Off The Twisted Rhythms Of Jazz Pianist James P. Johnson (NPR)
* All Grammy Record of the Year Winners, Ranked: Critics' Picks (Billboard)
* Hammer in Her Hand (Oxford American)
* Grammy Jazz Winners Announced - McBride, Schneider, Scofield and more (Jazz Times)
* Jazz Record Mart closes (Chicago Tribune)
* YouTube content is powering an army of $38 Spotify clones (FactMag.com)
* The Reality of Touring Revenue From Someone Who Has Done It For 32 Years (TheTrichordist.com)
* This Composer Made Music Out of Gravitational Waves (Vice.com)
* Inside the world’s biggest record collection: An interview with Zero Freitas (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Little Hope for Saving Coltrane Church, Last Vestige of SF Jazz District (KQED)
* Famed jazz musician duped out of $500G tells contractor to 'die' (New York Daily News)
* Classic albums given new life at Abbey Road Studios with 'half-speed' vinyl treatment (The Independent UK)
* SoundCloud has lost over $70M in 2 years, board cites “material uncertainties” (ArsTechnica.com)
* How Mozart Unlocked a Galactic Secret (The Daily Beast)
* Detroit Photographer Leni Sinclair Honored - Work includes classic photos of Coltrane, Mingus, many others (Jazz Times)
* Artist's Choice: Fred Hersch on Great Piano Sounds - United by tone and touch (Jazz Times)
* Thundercat, one of Kendrick Lamar's secret weapons on 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' emerges in time for Grammys (Los Angeles Times)
* Drum great Leon Parker reverses vanishing act (San Diego Union-Tribune)
* Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra Brought The Club To Concert Halls (NPR)
* What The Music Industry Could Learn From 1920’s RCA (The Daily Beast)

There's still time to see the NEA Jazz Masters online

As Jazz Appreciation Month winds down, you still have a couple of days left to see the special online video program created by the producers of the PBS series Legends of Jazz to honor the National Endowment for the Arts' 2007 Jazz Masters.

The 45-minute program is hosted by Ramsey Lewis, and features profiles of and music from 2007 honorees Frank Wess, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Curtis Fuller (pictured), Phil Woods and Jimmy Scott, plus a special appearance from Nancy Wilson. You can see the entire special online for free here. (If you don't want to watch the entire program, you also can see the individual segments on each Jazz Master by following the links at the bottom of the linked page.)