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New Music Monday for May 6, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe title “Moving On “perfectly sums up the new aspirations of Jacky Terrasson. After being the muse of major labels, it is a new adventure as an artist-producer and a new path that Jacky has decided to begin by creating his own record label, Earth-Sounds. It is also, after thirty …
New Music Monday for April 29, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyNicole Glover has been getting some well-deserved exposure recently in the context of groups like the Artemis sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But this tenor saxophonist is best appreciated on her own albums, where she fronts a saxophone-bass-drums trio. While not a common jazz format, …
New Music Monday for April 22, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAn incredible experience of freedom—June 6, 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings aka D-Day. It is also the day Monty Alexander turns 80. A highly symbolic historical concordance which the great musician naturally embraces, since the name he was given pays homage to General Bernard …
New Music Monday for April 15, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyWhile Tucson-born, Los Angeles-based Brian Bromberg has been equally conversant and downright virtuosic on both electric and upright basses, he sticks to the latter on his latest offering, “LaFaro.” A tribute to the legendary jazz bassist Scott LaFaro whose revolutionary contributions to the classic Bill Evans Trio still reverberate …
New Music Monday for April 8, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe chromatic harmonica may look like a simple toy or a novelty but it is actually one of the most difficult of all instruments to play. Stating a bebop melody with the ease of a saxophonist has only been achieved by a small handful of jazz harmonica players, most …
New Music Monday for April 1, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyUnsettled by the state of the world in 2020, Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary saxophonist joined by pianist Jason …
New Music Monday for March 25, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyCalled “New York’s premiere hard-bop supergroup” by Jazz Times, One for All has evolved over the course of its quarter century history from a sextet of young torchbearers to an assemblage of the music’s most revered traditionalists. For its first release in seven years and 17th overall, “Big George,” the …
New Music Monday for March 18, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFor their seventh outing together as a close-knit, collaborative rhythm tandem, bassist Leon Lee Dorsey and drummer Mike Clark tapped pianist Michael Wolff as third man on “A Letter to Bill Evans.” Wolff, who previously appeared with Dorsey and Clark on 2020’s “Play Sgt. Pepper,” was indeed the perfect choice …