Recent Links :: 21 January 2015

Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong looks at the January 1925 recording session with Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith.

Miles Davis: At The Free Jazz Collective, Ed Pettersen reviews the Miles Davis Quintet's album, All of You: The Last Tour 1960. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)

Duke Ellington: The Jazz Line reports that New York’s highest court, the State Court of Appeals, has denied Duke Ellington‘s heirs the right to retry a lawsuit against EMI Music Publishing.

Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter: JazzTimes shares the results of its 2014 Readers' Poll. Winners include:

• Best book: Herbie Hancock: Possibilities by Herbie Hancock with Lisa Dickey (Viking). (Purchase the book from Amazon.com.)
• Best composer: Wayne Shorter.

Billie Holiday: At In These Times, Johann Hari recounts Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and his "war" on Billie Holiday. The same story is told at Politico.

Charlie Parker: Open Culture discusses Ode to a Highflying Bird, Rolling Stone's drummer Charlie Watts's children’s book about Charlie Parker. (Purchase the book from AbeBooks.)

Sun Ra: At The Free Jazz Collective, Martin Schray discusses the Sun Ra album, Sign of the Myth. (Purchase the album in vinyl from Amazon.com.)

Bessie Smith: The Jazz Line reports that Queen Latifah "had no idea who Bessie Smith was" when she was approached about playing the singer in a biopic.

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