Sunday Session: December 3, 2017

The Soul Rebels

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

* The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt�s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (Flashbak.com)
* Rudy Royston on Cymbal Creativity (Jazz Times)
* A War Is Brewing in the Steely Dan Universe (Vulture.com)
* Walter Becker Estate Responds to Donald Fagen's Steely Dan Lawsuit (Paste)
* 'We could build something revolutionary': how tech set underground music free (The Guardian)
* What Thelonious Monk's Most Famous Composition Owes to Dizzy Gillespie (WBGO)
* Tricky Repertoire: The Soul Rebels step out of the box (Offbeat)
* Within The Context Of All Contexts: The Rewiring Of Our Relationship To Music (NPR)
* Antoine �Fats� Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 � October 24, 2017) (Offbeat)
* Have Scientists Found a Secret Chord for Happy Songs? (Scientific American)
* Jon Hendricks obituary (The Guardian)
* Billy Childs, Fred Hersch and Chris Potter Lead the Jazz Nominees for the 60th Grammy Awards (WBGO)
* The Payola Blues: New Technology, Same Old Tune? (Hhhhappy.com)
* 17 of the Greatest Televised Moments in Music History (Soundfly.com)
* John McLaughlin on his final US tour and playing with Miles Davis (Chicago Tribune)
* Mel Martin, Stalwart of the Bay Area Jazz Scene, Dead at 75 (KQED)
* Kurt Elling Channels Divinity, Philosophy, and Poetry into Jazz (San Francisco Classical Voice)
* What the hell�s happening to music�s trade press? (And what does it mean for the rest of us?) (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* A Brief History of Funk (Afropop.org)
* What Music-Playing Plants Can Teach Us About Consciousness (Hyperallergic.com)
* Clarke Peters: from green hair to good times, Louis Jordan brought joy to my world (The Guardian)
* Antonio Sanchez: Immigrant Songs (Jazz Times)
* Deck the Halls with Vince Guaraldi (The New Yorker)
* Hermeto Pascoal's Music Reaches Far Into The Stratosphere (NPR)
* The Tree That Rocked The Music Industry (NPR)
* Mickey Hart On His Experimental New Solo Album And Why It�s Impossible For Him To Leave The Grateful Dead (Uproxx.com)
* Jimmy Iovine Breaks Down What's Wrong With the Music Business, Warns Against Overoptimism in Streaming: 'They're Not Making Money' (Billboard)
* For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition (New York Times)

Sunday Session: November 5, 2017

Muhal Richard Abrams

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

* John McLaughlin on His Final U.S. Tour, Revisiting Mahavishnu Orchestra (Rolling Stone)
* Jack DeJohnette is a Deluxe Drummer (Montreal Gazette)
* Donald Fagen: �With Steely Dan there was no career plan� (The Times)
* 'I never envisaged what lay ahead�: the first issue of Rolling Stone (The Guardian)
* Music and space (Varsity.co.uk)
* Steely Dan reviewed, London O2 Arena, October 29, 2017 (Uncut.co.uk)
* Playlist: The Roots, And The Reach, Of Fats Domino (NPR)
* Russian Espionage and Electromagnetic Fields: The Story of the Theremin (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Orrin Keepnews: Thelonious Monk�A Remembrance (Keyboard)
* Want to 'train your brain'? Forget apps, learn a musical instrument (The Guardian)
* When Bob Dylan Saw God (Esquire)
* Introducing: Quincy Jones� Qwest TV (Jazzwise)
* Breaking: Florida Supreme Court Rules That Oldies Recordings are Public Domain (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Thelonious Monk: Tributes from Colleagues (Keyboard)
* Jazz Community Unites To Support Puerto Rico Relief Efforts (NPR)
* I can go for that: how soft rock finally got cool (The Guardian)
* Muhal Richard Abrams Dies at 87 - Hugely influential pianist-composer co-founded the AACM (Jazz Times)
* Muhal Richard Abrams, A Sweepingly Influential Jazz Artist, Has Died At Age 87 (NPR)
* Muhal Richard Abrams, jazz champion and innovator, dies at 87 (Chicago Tribune)
* Muhal Richard Abrams, An Artist Always Looking Forward, Leaves Us Behind (WBGO)
* The Musical Revolution of Muhal Richard Abrams (The New Yorker)
* Billie Holiday to perform live in Los Angeles 58 years after her death (The Independent)
* Chuck D of Public Enemy and Prophets of Rage opens up about the history of rap and hip-hop (Orange County Register)
* This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? (Washington Post)
* Sonny Rollins Spent A Mythical 'Night at the Village Vanguard' 60 Years Ago Today (NPR)
* Bad Plus thrills fans at SFJazz Center on last tour of original lineup (SFGate.com)
* Will Spotify Kill the Local Music Scene? (ElectricLiterature.com)
* How Advertisers Get Away With Using Fake Versions of Your Favorite Songs (Pitchfork)

Sunday Session: October 29, 2017

Ambrose Akinmusire

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

* Jazz Night in America: At the Ojai Music Festival, Vijay Iyer Showcases Improvisation (WBGO)
* Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius (TheRinger.com)
* No alternative: how brands bought out underground music (The Guardian)
* Classical and Jazz musicians show different brain responses to unexpected events, study finds (PsyPost.org)
* Why anyone that says the recording industry is dead is wrong (AudioHertz.com)
* October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music 2017 (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Music Publishers Want to Create a Comprehensive Song Database � 15 Years Too Late (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* A bold venture to restore Gershwins' music (Chicago Tribune)
* Blue Note All-Stars' Debut Album Paints A Portrait Of Contemporary Jazz (NPR)
* Bernie Grundman�s Mastering Masterclass (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* The 50 Best Jazz Saxophonists Of All Time (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* The World�s Most Remote Record Store, And Other Cool Stats (Discogs.com)
* Entry Point: Sonny Rollins Bridge Project (Rutland Herald)
* Marsalis, Krall, Corea Among DownBeat Readers Poll Winners (DownBeat)
* Fats Domino, New Orleans' founding father of rock 'n' roll, has died at age 89 (New Orleans Advocate)
* Fats Domino, Architect Of Rock And Roll, Dead At 89 (NPR)
* Playing Boogie Woogie With Fats Domino (The Paris Review)
* Fats Domino: Remembering a Rock and Roll Pioneer (The Atlantic)
* Little Richard Remembers Fats Domino: 'He Could Make a Piano Talk' (Rolling Stone)
* Ambrose Akinmusire on Current Trumpet Greats (Jazz Times)
* AUM Fidelity�s World of Free Jazz and Elemental Light (Bandcamp.com)
* The life and death of the indie-rock heyday (Vox.com)
* The Beatles� Popularity Is Plunging on Google & YouTube (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Sonny Clark Steps Out of the Shadows, on a Revelatory New Reissue From 1960 (WBGO)
* The Greatest Week in the History of Avant-Garde Jazz (RedBullMusicAcademy.com)
* Talent And Tourism Keep Blues Alive In Clarksdale, Mississippi (NPR)
* Deep Dive with Lewis Porter: What John Coltrane Borrowed From Ravel (WBGO)
* How club culture and EDM inspired jazz musicians (Financial Times)
* Magnetic Tape and the Emergence of High-Fidelity Recording (TelosAlliance.com)