Report of the 1st Annual Symposium on Relaxed Improvisation

White Guy Won't Shut Up About "Inspiring" Trip to Watts
(L.A. Weekly)

T.S. MONK: "Jazz Was Not Meant for the Dinner Table"
(Huffington Post)

Have We Reached the End of Jazz?

(The Nation)

Jazz Has Become America's Least-Popular Genre

(The JazzLine)

Metallica Bassist Robert Trujillo Co-Produces New Jaco Pastorius Documentary
(Rolling Stone)

The L.A. Roots of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly

(KCET)

How Kendrick Lamar Became "The John Coltrane of Hip-Hop"

(Billboard)

7 Musicians Who Made To Pimp A Butterfly Possible

(Revive)

Jazz Pianist Robert Glasper Reflects on His Role in To Pimp A Butterfly

(Slate)

Meet Thundercat, the Jazz-Fusion Genius Behind Kendrick Lamar's Butterfly
(Rolling Stone)

TV ARCHIVE I: 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz
(YouTube)

A Map of Locations of Tom Waits Songs

(BoingBoing)

The Best L.A. Punk Band of the '70s (That You've Never Heard of)

(L.A. Weekly)

ARCHIVE: John Lee Hooker, Live from the Detroit Tube Works (1970)

(YouTube)

A Brush With Jazz Immortality

(DagBlog)

The Day the Music. . .Spied?
(Philly.com)

How Verve Records Got Gutted

(The Daily Beast)

The Globetrotters: Future Brown's Global Signifiers

(The New Yorker)

Beautiful Music, Designed Specifically For Cats

(Salon)

Q&A: Fernando Pullum Interviews Flea

(YouTube)

The AACM Turns 50

(The Pitch)

Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream Lady" Turns 76

(Seattle Times)

The AACM's Influence on Underground Rock

(Chicago Tribune)

WATCH: Engineering Students Put Out Fires with Sound Waves

(New York Magazine)

Deaf Artist Christine Sun Kim Is Reinventing Sound
(VICE)

The Unbearable Whiteness of Indie

(Pitchfork Media)

Atonal Composers Gather for the "Atony" Awards

(The Onion)

LISTEN: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Finally Goes Online

(NPR)

What Are The Best Novels About Music?

(The Daily Beast)

Hip-Hop Did Not Begin How You Think It Did

(West Coast Sound)

Booze, Blood & Noise: The Violent Roots of Manchester Punk

(Cuepoint)

TV ARCHIVE II: Miles Ahead - The Music of Miles Davis (PBS, 1986)

(YouTube)

Going To Live Shows When You Have A Disability

(Pitchfork Media)

Wizards of Sound: Retouching Acoustics from the Restaurant to the Concert Hall

(The New Yorker)

Ornette & Cecil Hang Out

(Detroit Metro Times)

WATCH: Ben Goldberg & The Making of Orphic Machine

(YouTube)

Songs That Almost Killed the American Songbook

(Slate)