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New Music Monday for August 26, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Internationally renowned pianist and composer Michael Wolff is well known for playing with a who’s who of jazz legends, from Cal Tjader, Cannonball Adderly and Sonny Rollins to Nancy Wilson, Christian McBride and so many more. In pop culture, he’s best known for his five-year run as the …
New Music Monday for August 19, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Elias Haslanger Meets Mike Sailors” is the culmination of a musical friendship spanning nearly two decades. An Austin, Texas-native, Haslanger turned his obsession with Charlie Parker into a robust career divided between Texas and New York—performing and recording with Maynard Ferguson, Ellis Marsalis and others. Upon his return to …
New Music Monday for August 12, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify In 1989, George Benson collaborated with celebrated composer-arranger Robert Farnon and his orchestra to create “Dreams Do Come True,” with Farnon’s lush arrangements perfectly complementing Benson’s soulful vocals and fluid guitar work on a program of American standards and reimagined pop classics. The recording was made during a …
New Music Monday for August 5, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Jazz festivals worldwide have seen trumpeter Alex Sipiagin performing with the likes of Dave Holland, Michael Brecker, the Mingus groups, and many more. In 1990 he participated in the Thelonious Monk Institute’s International Louis Armstrong Competition, winning top honors. In his early career, Alex became a favored player …
New Music Monday for July 29, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes certainly personifies the term “living history.” He arrived in New York City in 1956 and joined the Horace Silver Quintet and, three years later, was working with Cannonball Adderly. He made several famous recordings with John Coltrane and, over the next 60 years, …
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. …