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New Music Monday for November 21, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Two years after issuing his acclaimed trio album, “Valentine,” Grammy Award-winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell returns with “Four,” a stunning meditation on loss, renewal, and those mysterious inventions of friendships. Frisell’s third album for Blue Note Records since signing with the label 2019 proffers new interpretations of …
New Music Monday for November 14, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Over the course of three decades as a professional performer, Michael Kaeshammer has developed a style that weaves threads of classical, jazz, blues, boogie-woogie and stride into a signature sound. He’s been nominated for seven Canadian Juno Awards, has received the West Coast Music Award for Musician of …
New Music Monday for November 7, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Grammy-nominated multireedist and composer Anat Cohen shifts her focus to an intimate group sound on her newest release, the endlessly colorful “Quartetinho.” The ensemble of New York-based international instrumentalist virtuosos are all drawn from the ranks of her Grammy-nominated Tentet, featuring bassist Tal Mashiach, pianist/accordionist Vitor Gonsalves …
New Music Monday for October 31, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify After receiving four Grammy nominations for his highly successful series of recordings that “Latinized” the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver, trombonist Conrad Herwig turns his attention to the legendary Charles Mingus. As an homage to the influential …
New Music Monday for October 24th, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify While Kurt Vonnegut undoubtedly found his true calling as an author, he once speculated about another potential career. “What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist.” On the occasion of the great satirist’s 100th birthday, the pianist and composer …
New Music Monday for October 17, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Saxophonist/composer Bobby Watson draws inspiration from the rich jazz heritage of his Kansas City hometown on his spirited new album, “Back Home in Kansas City.” Watson grew up in K.C., leaving to study at the University of Miami and then spending a quarter century making his name …
New Music Monday for October 10, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The incredible journey of Alex Acuna has seen the renowned percussionist travel from his small rural hometown in Peru to being a first-call session drummer in the country’s capital of Lima, then touring the U.S. with mambo king Perez Prado, gigging in Las Vegas with Elvis Presley …
New Music Monday for October 3, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Steve Turre was passed the jazz torch early in his career by some of the music’s greatest masters—Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Woody Shaw and Ray Charles, among others. In recent years he’s kindled the same flame in a younger crop of musicians. On his new album, …