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)

Sunday Session: June 11, 2017

Roscoe Mitchell

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

* Jazz Pioneer Roscoe Mitchell Marked for Dismissal at Mills College (KQED)
* Aretha Franklin Says Detroit Music Weekend May Mark Last Concert (Patch.com)
* Rodney Bingenheimer says farewell to 'Rodney on the ROQ' after 40 years � but he certainly isn't retiring (Los Angeles Times)
* In $43 Million Settlement, Spotify Forced To Confront A Persistent Problem (NPR)
* The Beatles 'A Day In The Life' Is A Landmark In Sound Engineering 50 Years After It Was Recorded (Forbes)
* How Gregg Allman and Cher stunned Canisius High 'assembly' in 1976 (Buffalo News)
* Edison vs. Scott (LaphamsQuarterly.org)
* How to Destroy YouTube & Save the Music Industry (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Jimmy Webb on Auto-Tune, lying to keep John Lennon from being deported and how cocaine changed music (Los Angeles Times)
* The Bird in my hand: my journey to Charlie Parker (The Guardian)
* Sony Merges RED Into The Orchard: What the Music Giant's Latest Consolidation Means for Indie Labels (Billboard)
* Chops: The Art of the Slap - Poncho Sanchez and Adam Rudolph on transitioning from the drum kit to the conga (Jazz Times)
* Ambrose Akinmusire: Upholding Tradition & Breaking Decorum (Jazz Times)
* NYPL�s Schomburg Center Acquires Sonny Rollins Archive (Jazz Times)
* The Beatles� iconic Sgt Pepper album returns to the top on its 50th birthday (OfficialCharts.com)
* New Album Narrates Charlie Parker�s Life in Song - Peyroux, Porter, Elling and others create vocal versions of Bird classics to tell his story (Jazz Times)
* The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world's longest stringed instrument (Los Angeles Times)
* Hear Bob Dylan Recite His Nobel Prize in Literature Lecture (Rolling Stone)
* �The value of creative assets is systematically being taken away from artists and music companies� (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Ken Vandermark�s Indefatigable Drive and Avant-Garde Vision (Bandcamp.com)
* FMP Records� Free Jazz Legacy is Alive and Well at Destination: OUT (Bandcamp.com)
* Why Are Frenchmen Street Musicians Undervalued? (Offbeat)
* �In Search of the Lost Chord�: Danny Goldberg�s new book on 1967 and the �Hippie Idea� (NightFlight.com)
* Vision Festival Promotes Message of Freedom through Creative Music (DownBeat)
* Woodstock Festival Location Becomes Official Historic Site (Rolling Stone)
* Gary Burton: Retiring The Mallets (NPR)
* This Is What Extinction Sounds Like (Vice.com)
* Inside the Making of 'Sgt. Pepper' (Rolling Stone)

Sunday Session: June 4, 2017

Diana Krall

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

* Rod Argent: A 50 Year Odyssey - The Zombies Odessey and Oracle (Tape Op)
* Trouble No More: Allman Brothers Biographer Alan Paul Reflects on 25 Years of Interviewing Gregg Allman (Billboard)
* Don't Worry, Your MP3s Are Safe: A Frank Discussion On The Future Of A Format (NPR)
* In A Lost Concert, Jaco Pastorius Sounded The Rhythm Of The City (WBGO)
* Philadelphia's music legacy is vast but hard to find (Charlotte Observer)
* For Video Soundtracks, Computers Are The New Composers (NPR)
* Thundercat: Drinking Songs (Jazz Times)
* Saxophonist Sonny Rollins On His Colossal Archive (NPR)
* The Checkout: The Irrepressible Ingenuity of Cooper-Moore (WBGO)
* Allman Brothers Manager Bert Holman Talks Band Archives in Wake of Gregg Allman's Death: 'There's a Great Deal of Material' (Billboard)
* Sax Sonics, Guitar Phonics at FIMAV (DownBeat)
* Frustrated by Trump, D.D. Jackson rekindles his passion for jazz (Ottawa Citizen)
* Four innovations in classical music (MusicXTechXFuture.com)
* Keeping the Flame Alive: The World of Deep Funk Archival Compilations (Bandcamp.com)
* Have We Reached the End of the FM Dial? (Billboard)
* 21st Century Bebop? (Ronan Guilfoyle)
* First Listen: DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski & Scofield, 'Hudson' (NPR)
* Kamasi Washington Leads a New Guard in Jazz  (SevenDaysVT.com)
* La La Means � What Exactly? (Jazz Times)
* Why Catchy Songs Get Stuck in Our Brains: New Study Explains the Science of Earworms (OpenCulture.com)
* Luxembourg�s �Like a Jazz Machine� Fest Lives Up to Spirited Name (DownBeat)
* Bern Nix, Guitarist Steeped in Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Language, Dies at 69 (WBGO)
* Prince�s death has given rise to a ghoulish new tourism business in Minnesota (Chicago Reader)
* Hear Diana Krall Play an Exclusive Session, and Talk About Her Sleek New Album (WBGO)
* Vanishing: Where Is The Music Of The Impending Apocalypse? (TheQuietus.com)
* Inside the quietest place on earth (BBC)
* Jazz Icons Lend Music and Vocals to Wilson�s Poetic Sandburg Tribute (DownBeat)