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New Music Monday for July 22, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify What happens when a composer with a keen sense of melody creates music with an unconventional tonal system? Keyboardist and composer Doug Wilde has a long history of creating memorable and unique music, often seamlessly incorporating complex harmonic and rhythmic material. Music created for his new recording, “The …
New Music Monday for July 15, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Nearly 50 years into his fruitful career, the renowned saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Peplowski has released over 70 recordings as a soloist and close to 400 releases as a sideman. He is celebrated for his work with a diverse array of artists including Charlie Byrd, Benny Goodman, Hank …
New Music Monday for July 8, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Trumpeter Rob Parton has been a staple of the Chicago music scene across genres and generations, equally at home with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and famous artists such as Tony Bennett and Natalie Cole, as well as leading his own JAZZTECH Big Band on 11 albums since 1984. …
New Music Monday for July 1, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Antonio Adolfo is recognized internationally as a Brazilian jazz master. With a discography that stretches back over 60 years, he has released 25 albums as a leader. The prolific recording artist, pianist and composer has been nominated for several Latin Grammy and Grammy awards. But Adolfo is not …
New Music Monday for June 24, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Guitar great Bobby Broom knows exactly when he first fell in love with the jazz organ. At age ten he put on one of his father’s albums, Charles Earland’s “Black Talk!” “I was just into music,” he says. But after playing Earland’s now-classic 1969 album, he was sold. …
New Music Monday for June 17, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Azerbaijani-born, New York-based pianist and composer Amina Figarova was inspired to write her new “Suite for Africa” by her experience traveling to meet students in South Africa. A travel mishap placed her on the same flight as the Matsiko World Orphan Choir, an ensemble of orphaned and at-risk …
New Music Monday for June 10, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Kamasi Washington calls his new disc, “Fearless Movement,” his dance album. “Dancing is movement and expression,” he explains, “and in its way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body.” Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a …
New Music Monday for June 3, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify When the 18-time Grammy Award-winning banjoist Bela Fleck speaks of his years-long collaboration with the late pianist Chick Corea, he can sound like a bashful student musician, still obviously in awe of the jazz titan whose impact transformed him as a teenager in the ‘70s. “Remembrance” is a new …