Sunday Session: December 2, 2018

Arturo O'Farrill

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:

* Grammy Winning Saxophonist Frank Catalano On Alternative Revenue Streams And Trio Of New Live Albums (Forbes)
* When you're smiling: Louis Armstrong museum shares digitized pictures of jazz legend (New York Daily News)
* How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself (NPR)
* One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve a Second Chance (MelMagazine.com)
* William Hooker Interview (InTheTrove.com)
* Green Book: The Real-Life Story of Dr. Don Shirley (Vanity Fair)
* Arturo O’Farrill’s ‘Fandango’ Spans Border to Unify Cultures, Musics (DownBeat)
* Tony Williams Gets the Deluxe Treatment in 'Blue Note Review: Volume Two – Spirit & Time' (WBGO)
* Singer-songwriter John Prine: Still alive and kickin' (CBS News)
* Beneath the Surface of Bruce Springsteen (Esquire)
* The rise of Africa’s most exciting new dance music scenes (DazedDigital.com)
* A Burst of Reissues from the Catalog of Frank Zappa (DownBeat)
* Art Ensemble Chronicled in Massive ECM Box Set (DownBeat)
* Local archaeologist shares discovery about early music (Left Hand Valley Courier)
* Everything on Social Media Is for Sale (The Atlantic)
* Mick Jagger Talks New Rolling Stones Tour, Aretha Franklin and Grammys (Billboard)
* Nina Is Everywhere I Go (Oxford American)
* A Moment in Time - An Interview with Terence Blanchard (ScoreIt.org)
* 'Conserve the Sound' hopes to save sounds of old tech before they're gone (CBC)
* Cyrille Aimée Pushes Herself into New Terrain with 'Move On: A Sondheim Adventure' (WBGO)
* Keith Richards on Rolling Stones’ Stadium Tour: ‘Maybe This Will Be the Last One’ (Rolling Stone)
* Iconic 1958 photo - which featured the biggest names in jazz - is brought to life by never-before-seen frames from legendary photographer Art Kane's shoot (Daily Mail)
* The Place of the Drum Solo in Jazz (Jazz Times)
* Farewell Mary Jane: Grieving for a lost jazz hideout (Japan Times)
* If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t (Washington Post)
* Meet Skull Snaps, a Forgotten Funk Band That Soundtracked Hip-Hop (Bandcamp.com)
* Library of Congress Acquires Billy Strayhorn Archive (Jazz Times)
* Jazz icon Wayne Shorter can play anything. He’s still trying to say everything (Washington Post)
* Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” (Salon.com)
* "For the sake of a couple of bucks, they deserted us": Vancouver's last classical record store to close (CBC)
* Expansive Martinelli Book Examines European Jazz History (DownBeat)

Sunday Session: March 1, 2015

William Hooker

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

* In Oscar Nominations For Best Score, Some Hear Sour Notes (NPR)
* “Birdman” Score Snubbed: Why Oscar Hates Drummers (Medium)
* Apple Hiring More Music Journalists and A Sea of Freelancers (HypeBot.com)
* Tears and fears as two stars are forced to give up their violins (Slipped Disc)
* From dirt to the divine: 50 years of 'A Love Supreme' (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
* Reminder: Fair Use Is A Right -- And Not 'An Exception' Or 'A Defense' (TechDirt)
* Friday is the New Official Release Day for Albums (Paste)
* International Jazz Day Names Paris as This Year’s Host City (Jazz Times)
* The dangers of digital: Brian Eno on technology and modern music (The Vinyl Factory)
* Ramsey Lewis: Perpetually Reaching Out Through Music (DownBeat)
* The Musical Brain: Novel Study of Jazz Players Shows Common Brain Circuitry Processes Both Music and Language (Johns Hopkins Medicine)
* William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms (Washington Post)
* Copyright Mixtape: How The "Blurred Lines" Lawsuit Could Change Music Forever (Ratter.com)
* Composing for Hollywood (The New Yorker)
* Ravi Coltrane takes his own giant steps in the jazz world (Sunday Herald)

William Hooker interviewed by Post-Dispatch

Drummer William Hooker, known for his participation in the NYC loft jazz scene of the 1970s as well as for working with members of the avant rock group Sonic Youth, will be in St. Louis on Saturday night to perform a live soundtrack for a screening of The Symbol of the Unconquered at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium.

The 1920 film was directed by pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and is being shown as part of the Webster University Film Series. The Post-Dispatch's Calvin Wilson did a brief interview with Hooker about the project, available online here.

UPDATE: You can see the first part of the 54-minute film and hear an excerpt of one of Hooker's previous soundtrack performances in the video window embedded below. Note that while the video features Hooker's quartet, he will be performing solo at Webster U - something he alludes to in his interview with Wilson. The six other parts of the film and soundtrack performance, which was segmented to meet YouTube's requirements, can be accessed from this page.