Sunday Session: December 25, 2016

Stevie Wonder

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

* The 84-Year-Old Grandmother Who Fronts D.C.'s Coolest House Band (NPR)
* Chops: Deft Poetry - Kurt Elling, Laurence Hobgood and Roy Nathanson on blending jazz with verse (Jazz Times)
* For Mavis Staples, The Music Of The Civil Rights Era Couldn't Be More Relevant Today (NPR)
* Discovering the Savory Collection (OpenSkyJazz.com)
* 'A True Legend': Bob Krasnow's Legacy Celebrated by Colleagues (Billboard)
* Nina Simone to Be Honored With the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award (Variety)
* Deep-Learning Machine Listens to Bach, Then Writes Its Own Music in the Same Style (Technology Review)
* 9 U.K. Artists Making Jazz Feel Brand New (TheFader.com)
* Motown’s True Visionaries (The New Yorker)
* Love’s in Need of Love Today - Introducing Wonder Week, a toast to Stevie’s greatness (Slate.com)
* Chuck Berry Invented the Idea of Rock and Roll (Vulture.com)
* Dispatches From The War On Marching Bands (Deadspin.com)
* 'Rogue One' Composer on Filling John Williams' Shoes, Pleasing Marvel Franchise Fans (Hollywood Reporter)
* How the Vince Guaraldi Trio's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Became the Soundtrack of the Holidays (Vice.com)
* Interview: Robert Glasper (Keyboard)
* Jazz Caliente: Teaching The Tradition (KNKX)
* The Mariachi Men of Yugoslavia (RoadsAndKingdoms.com)

Sunday Session: December 13, 2015

George Duke

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

* Oscar Peterson To Be Honored with New Box Set, Concert, Reproducing Piano (Down Beat)
* Need Music For A Video? Jukedeck’s AI Composer Makes Cheap, Custom Soundtracks (TechCrunch.com)
* Bagels And Bongos: The Jewish-Latin Music Connection (Houston Public Media)
* A Photojournalist’s Most Prolific Period, Set to Jazz (Newsweek)
* Four Women: The Enduring Influence of Nina Simone (Jazz Times)
* Ringo Starr's Personal 'White Album' Sells for World Record $790,000 (Rolling Stone)
* Ten things I learned as a tour manager (London Jazz News)
* What Data Tells us about the 2015-16 Orchestra Season (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
* Turmoil in the Weird Karaoke Market (Priceonomics.com)
* How Casio accidentally started reggae's digital revolution (Engadget.com)
* The Velvet Underground in California (The New Yorker)
* The man behind the “Hamilton” sound: Hidden Beatles references, the “hip-hop horse” sample and why if “it’s all computerized, there’s no heart to it” (Salon.com)
* Scofield, Schneider, Alexander Nominated for Grammy Awards (Down Beat)
* It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story (WFIU)
* 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' at 50: The Making of a Classic Soundtrack (Rolling Stone)
* Box Set Review: George Duke — The Era Will Prevail (Part One) (Musoscribe.com)
* The business of the blues isn't what it once was (Marketplace.org)
* Fourplay Celebrates Twenty-Five Years Together (DownBeat)
* 10 ways that Frank Sinatra changed the world (USA Today)
* Walk-Up Revolution: Royce Clayton's Pitch to Change MLB At-Bat Music (Rolling Stone)
* When Are People Going To Stop Proclaiming The Death of the CD? (FutureOfMusic.org)

Sunday Session: November 8, 2015

Ambrose Akinmusire

For your Sunday reading, here are some interesting music-related items that have hit StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* The secret math behind feel-good music (Washington Post)
* Arto Lindsay: Space, Parades, and Confrontational Aesthetics (New Music Box)
* Welcome home, Jaco (SouthFlorida.com)
* ‘Linus and Lucy’ Forever: 5 Behind-the-Scenes Stories of Vince Guaraldi’s ‘Peanuts’ Music (Wall Street Journal)
* The 'Complete Bee Hive Recordings' Buzz With The Energy Of '70s Mainstream Jazz (NPR)
* Esperanza Spalding review – thrilling, virtuosic, baffling and fitfully exasperating (The Guardian UK)
* 'Carol' Composer Carter Burwell Talks The Coen Brothers, 'Twilight' and His Unconventional Musical Roots (IndieWire)
* Frank Zappa's terrific 'mess': L.A. Phil's live recording of '200 Motels' out Nov. 20 (Los Angeles Times)
* A Degree in Record Collecting? Could you pass the qualifying paper? (Every Record Tells A Story)
* How Long Can the Beatles Remain Digital Holdouts? The Curious Case of the Fake Beatles Cover (Forbes)
* What It Takes to Build a Successful Music City (CityLab.com)
* Ambrose Akinmusire and Jazz in the Smoldering City: A Dispatch From Kyiv (TheMillions.com)
* Gender in the Music Industry (Music Business Journal)
* How Composing for TV Is Paying Rents and Hurting Bands (Pitchfork)
* Remembering Bob Dylan and Velvet Underground's Pioneering Producer (Rolling Stone)
* The Neuroscience of Bass: New Study Explains Why Bass Instruments Are Fundamental to Music (OpenCulture.com)
* New Blue Note release to honor Detroit's jazz legacy (Detroit Free Press)
* I Went Door to Door to Find Out If Music is Harder to Sell Than Religion (Vice.com)
* The Invention of the Wah-Wah Pedal (Priceonomics)