Sunday Session: October 27, 2019

Billy Cobham

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

* The strange revival of vinyl records (The Economist)
* A stroke of genius: Guitarist and Brookline native wins MacArthur fellowship (WickedLocal.com)
* Q&A: Herb Alpert (TheaterJones.com)
* Mingus’s Lost String Quartet (London Review of Books)
* In Reversal, WNYC Says New Sounds Will Stay On The Airwaves (Gothamist.com)
* Kinks 1969 epic chimes with Britain’s mood today, says singer Ray Davies (The Guardian)
* The Renaissance of Marilyn Crispell (DownBeat)
* The 2010s: Classical Music's Decade Of Reckoning (NPR)
* Adam Rudolph: The Matrix Reloaded (Jazz Times)
* When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” (The New Yorker)
* 'Fresh Air' Marks The Centenary Of The Birth Of Jazz Singer Anita O'Day (NPR)
* Shorter, Salvant and Benson Among DownBeat Readers Poll Winners (DownBeat)
* Come blow your horn: the glory days of Ronnie Scott's jazz club – in pictures (The Guardian)
* How Untitled Goose Game adapted Debussy for its dynamic soundtrack (TheVerge.com)
* The dorky recorder you had in school just got a futuristic remake (CDM.link)
* Billy Cobham: Blowin’ in the Crosswinds (Jazz Times)
* How ‘Moonlight Serenade’ Defined a Generation (Smithsonian)
* Uri Caine Pays Tribute to Octavius Catto (DownBeat)
* Summoning the ghosts of Record Row (Chicago Reader)
* Joe Lovano’s New Septet Echoes the Past, Looks to the Future (DownBeat)
* Jazz Foundation of America Honors Roy Haynes, Raises $475K at Annual Loft Party (DownBeat)
* The Long Journey of Charlie Parker’s Saxophone (Smithsonian)
* The Hissing of Vintage Tapes (Tedium.co)
* What Makes Music Enjoyable? It’s Complex, But Measurable (Forbes.com)
* Nubya Garcia in Full ‘Blume’ (DownBeat)
* How the Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio (Archive.org)
* The “cost of living” in Spotify streams (Alex.Leonard.ie)
* The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations (Nautil.us)
* The Rise and Fall of Hip-Hop's First Godmother: Sugar Hill Records' Sylvia Robinson (Billboard)

Sunday Session: March 27, 2016

Arturo O'Farrill

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

* Malcolm McLaren's son to burn £5m of punk memorabilia (The Guardian UK)
* Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (The Quietus)
* What Happens When Pop/Alternative Radio Runs Out of Alternatives? (Billboard)
* Coltrane Church to vacate Western Addition at end of April (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Ray Davies: The Lonely Kink (Rolling Stone)
* Historic days for US and Cuba, accompanied by jazz (Jazz Beyond Jazz)
* How we made Motown (The Guardian UK)
* Paul McCartney strikes out to gain control of his share of the Beatles catalogue (The Guardian UK)
* Concord to Release Lee Ritenour Vinyl Box Set (Jazz Times)
* 10 Records You Might Have Owned That Are Now Worth a Fortune (MentalFloss.com)
* Vinyl sales in 2015 worth more than Spotify Free and YouTube combined (FactMag.com)
* Verve to Release “Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set” (Jazz Times)
* Cosmic Slop: Pedro Bell’s fantastic, far-out and funky Funkadelic album art (DangerousMinds.net)
* Jazz Record Mart collection is now in distinguished company (Medill Reports Chicago)
* For jazz pianist, Obama's trip to Cuba 'beyond what I'd ever thought I'd see' (PRI)
* Born To Be Blue: Chet Baker In 5 Songs (NPR)
* Uri Caine: In dialogue with music history (Stuff.co.nz)
* Blue Note Becomes Apple Music Curator, Reissues Gems on Vinyl (DownBeat)
* Award-winning Composer David Baker Dies At 84 (Indiana Public Media)