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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 …
New Music Monday for May 27, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAmong the vanguard of today’s contemporary composers and big band arrangers, trombonist Ben Patterson and his Washington, DC-based band deliver with a new hard-driving set of funky electrified jazz on “Groove Junkies.” His music is just as comfortable harnessing the power of the traditional big band horn section as …
New Music Monday for May 20, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyRachel Z is a renowned, virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, composer and electronic musician with a star-studded resume, as well as 13 records as a leader. As a performer, she’s had longstanding careers with Wayne Shorter, Mike Mainieri and Steps Ahead, and Stanley Clarke, all of whose influence she carries with …
New Music Monday for May 13, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyLegendary alto saxophonist Charles McPherson makes his Smoke Sessions Records debut with an inspired new album, “Reverence.” It’s dedicated to Mr. McPherson’s longtime mentor and teacher Barry Harris, captured in front of alive audience at Smoke Jazz Club, and featuring his quintet of Terell Stafford, Jeb Patton, David Wong, …