Sunday Session: October 11, 2020

Cécile McLorin Salvant

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

* Javon Jackson: Finding Uplift in the Guiding Tradition of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane (AllAboutJazz.com)
* The Etymology of "Jazz": A Cautionary Word About Digital Sources (HNN.us)
* Lost In The Vaults: The Joys Of Collecting Jazz Records (TheLondonEconomic.com)
* Jazz Musician Lettering (ReaganRay.com)
* Azar Lawrence Has Paid His Dues...Two Times (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Hank Mobley's 'Soul Station' At 60: How The Tenor Saxophonist's Mellow Masterpiece Inspires Jazz Musicians In 2020 (Grammy.com)
* 19 things I’d tell people contemplating starting a record label (after running one for 19 years) (TheCreativeIndependent.com)
* Ambrose Akinmusire: Blues for 2020 (Jazz Times)
* Pay-for-Play Was Banned From Radio - But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving (Rolling Stone)
* Cecile McLorin Salvant Earns a Prestigious New Accolade: the 2020 MacArthur "Genius Grant" (WBGO)
* ‘How Does It Feel To Be Free?’ (DownBeat)
* Chaos, cash and Caligulan excess: How Emerson, Lake & Palmer made Brain Salad Surgery (LouderSound.com)
* The Keystone Connections Of Fabian Almazan (DownBeat)
* Cindy Blackman Santana, a drum dynamo in jazz and rock, riffs on music, her all-star new album and famous husband (Columbus Dispatch)
* 'You're left to rot if you speak up': the abuse faced by female roadies (The Guardian)
* Melissa Aldana’s Expansive Playing Leads Trio Through Central Park Gig (DownBeat)
* A Guide to Sun Ra on Film (Pitchfork.com)
* Joe Satriani Talks How Guitar Teacher Treated Him When He Was a Kid: 'He Was Completely Blind & He Wore Only Leotards' (Ultimate Guitar)
* Lakecia Benjamin’s Boundless Sensibility On Display (DownBeat)
* Willie Nelson, Interpreter of the Great American Songbook (Texas Monthly)
* 100 Reasons We Love Yusef Lateef for His 100th Birthday (Discogs.com)
* From Bandstand to Social Justice: How Jazz Remains 'America's Classical Music' (KCET)
* A Multicultural Tribute to Yusef Lateef on His Centennial (VIDEO) (Jazz Times)
* Ella Fitzgerald, Come Harvest Time: Jazz United Fondly Reappraises the First Lady of Song (WBGO)
* Denver’s Ron Miles debuts on Blue Note label with “Rainbow Sign” (Denver Post)
* Sun Ra Arkestra's Knoel Scott On New Album 'Swirling,' Sun Ra's Legacy & Music As A Healing Force (Grammy.com)

Sunday Session: February 8, 2015

Henry Threadgill

For your Sunday reading enjoyment and edification, here are some noteworthy items encountered during the past week about jazz, creative music, and more:

* John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' Is Still a Masterpiece After 50 Years (Newsweek)
* Matt Wilson, on finding consolation in jazz (Ottawa Citizen)
* When Musicians Unintentionally Steal (Pacific Standard)
* Two-Letter Domain Change Lands Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Middle of Heated Debate, V.P. André Guess Weighs In (ClassicalLite.com)
* Concert: The Bad Plus at Berklee Performance Center - Trio performs Ornette Coleman’s “Science Fiction” with special guests (Jazz Times)
* Inside The Awesome Synth Lair Of Mark Mothersbaugh (Synthtopia.com)
* Racism and Jazz Mythology (Brilliant Corners, A Boston Jazz Blog)
* Legendary Bassist Carol Kaye on Joe Cocker and What's Wrong With Today's Singers (Examiner.com)
* Composing the Future: A Talk With Jazz Titan Henry Threadgill (KQED)
* The Netflix of Vinyl: How VNYL actually works (Consequence of Sound)
* New Frequencies Fest brings cutting-edge performers to Bay Area (Contra Costa Times)
* Why Americans Hate Instrumental Music (Ultimate-Guitar.com)
* The End of Guitar Center (Eric Garland)
* The Noise And How To Bring It: Hank Shocklee Interviewed (The Quietus)
* A Striking Exception - A record label proves successful by bucking commercial trends (Wall Street Journal)
* Jazz Searches For The New Land: Yusef Lateef's Jazz ’Round The World (The Wire)
* Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists (TechDirt)
* The Next Important Jazz Singer - A Brief Interview with Sara Gazarek (Medium)
* The Bill Evans Legacy (Wall Street Journal)
* The '90s Alliance Between Blue Note and Hip-Hop (Wondering Sound)
* Kind Of Weird: How The Köln Concert Made Keith Jarrett A Pop Star (The Concourse/Deadspin)
* Gentrification versus Jazzification: Birdland nightclub grows vision to spark jazz district (KALW)
* Bleckmann, Vandermark Generate Sparks at Winter Jazzfest (DownBeat)
* Labels, not Spotify, are screwing over artists and breaking the music industry. Here’s how to fix it. (Pando Daily)
* Big Shake-Up to Music Licensing Regime Embraced by U.S. Copyright Office (Hollywood Reporter)