Sunday Session: October 1, 2017

Bud Powell

Here's the roundup of various music-related items of interest that have appeared in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Why Do Orchestras Seem to Play Behind the Beat? (WQXR)
* How jazz is becoming the sound of resistance once again (Salon.com)
* Patti LaBelle: New Jazz Attitude (Jazz Times)
* An introduction to Jon Hassell in 10 records (TheVinylFactory.com)
* Giving peace a chance? Music can drive us apart as much as it unites (TheConversation.com)
* Reminiscing with Latin-jazz legend Eddie Palmieri (Jazz Times)
* From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L.: Ungrateful as the New Uppity (The New Yorker)
* Labels And Artists Lending A Hand To Those Affected By Natural Disasters (NPR)
* Meet Jason DeMarco, The Reason Adult Swim’s Music Is So Good (Pitchfork.com)
* A Century Of Song: Monk At 100 (SFJAZZ.org)
* Playlist of the Lambs: psychopaths may have distinct musical preferences (The Guardian)
* Frank Zappa’s 1977 Halloween residency to be released as 158-track costume box set (ConsequenceOfSound.com)
* 70s boombox makes comeback, attracts new generation (KyodoNews.com)
* Was the Blues Born on a Vaudeville Stage? (PopMatters.com)
* Spotify Is Paying $2.77 Million a Month In Rent for Its World Trade Center Offices (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* How Facebook Is Trying to Avoid a Public Relations Disaster with Songwriters (TheStreet.com)
* Bizarre footage shows trumpet-playing bear travelling in motorcyclist's sidecar while sitting at traffic lights (The Mirror)
* America's Small Cities Are Betting Their Second Act on Festivals (Jezebel.com)
* New York Hot Jazz Festival Electrifies McKittrick Hotel (DownBeat)
* The Summer of Yoko Ono Ends with Shrieks and Screams (Smithsonian)
* Bud Powell Revisited (NEPR.net)
* Coltrane’s Hidden Gems: A Seeker’s Guide (EstheticLens.com)
* A Walk Through The Avant-Garde World of ‘Art Rap’ Music (Bandcamp.com)
* Hugh Hefner's Big Contributions to Jazz (WBGO)
* Technician of the Sacred - Three recent books demonstrate that John Cage is overdue for a populist revival (Utne.com)
* Ostrava Days, Brooklyn Nights - On Hypocrisy and Insularity in New Music (Atavist.com)
* Linda Ronstadt: 'I don’t like any of my albums' (The Guardian)
* Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans and Chicago (AllAboutJazz.com)
* How Instagram Became The Music Industry’s Secret Weapon (Fast Company)
* A Guide to U.K. Jazz in 2017 (Bandcamp.com)
* Q&A: John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring (Jazz Times)
* Which Two Songs Are the First to Be Encoded Into the Fabric of Life? (AtlasObscura.com)

Sunday Session: April 3, 2016

Muhal Richard Abrams

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

* Musicians are exploited on the London and Paris jazz scenes (London School of Economics Business Review)
* Report: Streaming overtakes downloads in music business sales (SiliconBeat.com)
* Markato: What Online Chord Charts Should Be (Medium.com)
* Music sales remain steady, but lucrative CD sales decline (Houston Chronicle)
* Revisiting Brian Eno’s ‘The Studio as a Compositional Tool’ (TechCrunch.com)
* Soul Survivor - The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin (The New Yorker)
* Farewell to Bohemian Caverns: Musicians remember the ‘sole home of soul jazz’ (CapitalBop.com)
* Before time runs out, how about a White House jazz summit? (Chicago Tribune)
* Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (NPR)
* A Conversation on Jazz & Hollywood (Jazz Times)
* Coming, the collapse of radio’s iHeartMedia (Media Life)
* The rise of Mo'Wax founder James Lavelle — and the record industry that fell with him (TheVerge.com)
* Matthew Herbert turned cheese, aubergine and ham into edible, playable vinyl records (The Vinyl Factory)
* Liz Phair, Steve Albini & Me: The True Story of 1993, the Greatest Goddamn Year in Chicago Rock History (New City Music)
* The Ballad of Fred and Yoko (Arkansas Times)
* Remembering a jazz music revolutionary, Indianapolis' own David Baker (Nuvo.net)
* National Jazz Museum in Harlem Unveils New Location (Jazz Times)
* ‘Heir to Hendrix’ Shuggie Otis: ‘I could have been a millionaire, but that wasn’t on my mind’ (The Guardian UK)
* Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (New Music Box)
* I ran the official record store of Soviet Azerbaijan (FactMag.com)
* Beyond Objects, Beyond Scores - Aditi Sriram interviews Vijay Iyer (GuernicaMag.com)
* Opera And Jazz Mingle In 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird' (NPR)
* Gato Barbieri, Latin Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at Age 83 (Billboard)