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New Music Monday for February 5, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyBaritone saxophonist and Sioux City native Adam Schroeder teams up with arranger Mark Masters to deliver a tasty baker’s dozen tunes in the Basie/Ellington/Strayhorn style on “CT!,” with all the pieces composed by renowned trumpeter Clark Terry. Schroeder conceived of the recording as a celebration of the anniversary of Terry’s …
New Music Monday for January 29, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyRecorded at the famed jazz club at Lincoln Center, jazz veteran Gerald Cannon’s “Live at Dizzy’s Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy” honors two musical giants: McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, with whom the heralded bassist proudly played alongside for 14 years, and nine years respectively. Invoking the true …
New Music Monday for January 22, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify“LifeSongs” is the masterful new album by renowned trombonist-composer-arranger Marshall Gilkes and the heralded WDR Big Band. It represents something of a musical homecoming for Gilkes. He spent four memorable years in Cologne, making his mark within the ranks of the brass section of the band until his exit in …
New Music Monday for January 15, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyGeneration Y is a band concept that was conceived in 2019 with the goal of promoting the next generation of dynamic talent from the top conservatories in New York City and beyond. The group is led by Grammy-winning drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr., who has served in the role of Small …
New Music Monday for January 8, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyJohn Ellis, one of the most sought-after saxophonists and multi-reedists of his generation, has had ample opportunity to write for long-form compositional settings. His chamber-jazz ensemble works are quasi-operatic. But when it came time to deal with George Bizet’s opera “Carmen,” Ellis saw the task as one of scaling down. …
New Music Monday for January 1, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify On May 15, 1953, five of jazz’s most influential musicians—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Bud Powell—gathered at Toronto’s Massey Hall for what would result in their first and only known recording as a quintet. This historic evening was captured on tape and “The Quintet: Jazz …
New Music Monday for December 25, 2023
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyMiguel Zenon’s impressive career to date takes in 14 years as lead alto saxophonist for the SFJazz Collective, 15 recordings under his own name, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Grant, multiple Grammy nominations and a long list of sideman gigs. Pianist Dan Tepfer is less known, but has ten-plus …
New Music Monday for December 18, 2023
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyIndividually leading busy and varied artistic lives in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, trumpeter Eric Jacobson, pianist Pamela York and bassist Clay Schaub have gathered weekly for the Monday night residency at Milwaukee’s Mason Street Grill since 2021. There they allow their ideas and inspirations gleaned through the week to …