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New Music Monday for June 29, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Detroit-bred pianist and composer David Janeway has spent more than five decades developing a voice shaped by one of jazz’s most influential musical communities. Raised in the city’s deeply rooted jazz tradition, Janeway came of age in an environment where mentorship, groove, and collective spirit defined the music. As …
New Music Monday for June 22, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Charlie Parker’s music has been recorded, studied, debated, and canonized for more than seventy years. Which is precisely why paying tribute to Bird still takes a lot of nerve. On “Another Kind of Bird,” drummer Richard Baratta does not tiptoe around this dilemma. Joined by arranger and pianist Bill …
New Music Monday for June 15, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “We Dream” is the new studio album by New York-based alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and 6-time Grammy nominee Lakecia Benjamin. Conceived as a deeply band-driven project, her sixth album centers on her frequent collaborators in pianists Oscar Perez and Miki Hayama and bassist Elias Baily—along with new associates in …
New Music Monday for June 8, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist Carlos Hendriquez has built his artistic life through the decades with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, joining as a teenager performing with Wynton Marsalis and becoming a full-time member, with Jazz Times praising his playing as “jet fuel” for the Orchestra. “Monk Con Clave” presents Henriquez’s big …
New Music Monday for June 1, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Three-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell presents her first live album, “Catherine Russll—Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center,” captured during a special weekend at the Appel Room with New York’s Central Park as scenic backdrop. Invited to perform for JALC’s 2023-2024 season theme “Community and Consciousness,” Russell crafted a program …
New Music Monday for May 25, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist and composer Gabriel Espinosa’s “The Brazilian Project” is the realization of a lifelong devotion to the music that first stirred his imagination in the 1960s when the sounds of Jobim, Joao Donato and Sergio Mendes reshaped the global jazz landscape. Raised in Mexico on boleros and the Beatles, …
New Music Monday for May 18, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Certain songs have a way of lingering in the imagination—resonating long after we’ve last heard them. On his new album, “Enduring Sonance,” veteran saxophonist and flutist Steve Wilson celebrates the music that has left the deepest imprint on his musical life. Originally conceived as a ballads project, the disc …
New Music Monday for May 11, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Sonny Rollins is never far from Bobby Broom’s mind. He spent more time in the tenor sax titan’s band than any other guitarist, and his new trio album, “Notes of Thanks,” is a deep dive into Sonny’s songbook. Featuring veteran bassist Dennis Carroll, a Broom collaborator since the early …