Sunday Session: October 30, 2016

Willie Bobo

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

* A Robot Is Collecting Sound Samples and Turning Them into Collages (Vice.com)
* Questlove Recounts The Blackest White House Party Ever With President Obama (OkayPlayer.com)
* Villafranca Elegantly Links Cultures & Grooves in Mother Africa Suite (DownBeat)
* Lyrical send-off for jazz master Bobby Hutcherson (SFGate)
* Schneider & Washington Among DownBeat Readers Poll Winners (DownBeat)
* A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form (The New Yorker)
* Celebrating Bill Graham’s legacy on death’s anniversary (San Francisco Chronicle)
* How Cypress Hill's Eric Bobo Discovered Lost Tapes by His Legendary Dad, Percussionist Willie Bobo (KCET)
* Jimmy Heath Celebrates 90 Years with ‘Legendary’ Concert in NYC (DownBeat)
* Five of the best young female jazz musicians (The Guardian UK)
* Why Streaming Is Taking Over the Music Industry In One Handy Chart (Fortune)
* Earliest The Doors Live Recording To Be Officially Released (JamBase.com)
* The lost albums loved by the stars – from ecstatic gospel to Italian prog (The Guardian UK)
* Hutcherson Tribute Celebrates Vibraphonist’s Brilliance, Warmth (DownBeat)
* Pick N’ Pull: 18 Best Record Stores In America (HiConsumption.com)
* The 20 CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and Placed on Prototype iPods (2001) (OpenCulture.com)
* World exclusive: Bob Dylan - I'll be at the Nobel Prize ceremony... if I can (The Telegraph UK)
* Another View: Monterey ’16 (OpenSkyJazz.com)

Sunday Session: September 11, 2016

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

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

* Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (Pitchfork)
* The Many Lives of "The House of the Rising Sun" (MusicAficionado.com)
* Does the Music Business Need Musicianship? (TheSmartSet.com)
* The streaming music war is getting ugly (Money/CNN)
* New Rahsaan Roland Kirk Documentary - “The Case of the Three Sided Dream” goes inside the multi-instrumentalist's artistic brilliance (Jazz Times)
* Saxophonist Benny Golson, an “elder statesman of jazz” (WHYY)
* Pat Martino honors Wes Montgomery - The Indy Jazz Fest artist tells the story of his friendship with the Indy great (NUVO.net)
* Pinball machine featuring the Stones, Elton John, The Who, AC/DC, KISS and many more (DangerousMinds.net)
* Tracing the Rock and Roll Race Problem (Pitchfork)
* Q&A with Steve Gadd: Leader Disc Documents Hometown Concert (DownBeat)
* How Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar Reflected Black Lives Matter (Vulture.com)
* An Interview with Trumpeter Randy Brecker (NotesOnJazz.blogspot.de)
* Before & After With Fred Hersch - The pianist-composer on Jarrett, singers, the “Vanguard sound” and more (Jazz Times)
* The Bad Plus Tests Jazz’s Boundaries by Exploding the Art of the Cover Song (Observer.com)
* Black Classical - History of Spiritual Jazz (NTS.live)
* Projecting Trends: Do Streaming Services Now Compete with Labels? (SynchTank.com)
* Willie Bobo: An Appreciation And A New Album (NPR)
* Careless whisker: Universal to release album for cats (The Guardian UK)
* Angela Davis: Nina Simone's music was so much more than the soundtrack to a movement (The Mail and Globe NZ)
* The Beat Don’t Stop - How “The Get Down” and “Atlanta” break down hip-hop’s past and future (The New Republic)
* 15 samplers that shaped modern music – and the musicians who use them (FactMag.com)
* A photographer’s incredible journey in 1960 to capture jazz in America (Washington Post)
* 5 audiophile myths, totally busted (CNET.com)