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New Music Monday for September 26, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyDrummer, activist and educator Terri Lyne Carrington has published a groundbreaking new lead sheet book of 101 jazz compositions written exclusively by women, from Mary Lou Williams and Alice Coltrane to Esperanza Spalding and Maria Schneider and beyond. A companion album, “New Standards Vol. 1,” is the …
New Music Monday for September 19, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifySince arriving in the U.S. from Cuba in 1999, Dafnis Prieto has honed his forward-looking musical vision across a range of styles and formats. In the process, he has become equally known for his composing and arranging brilliance and electrifying drumming, comfortably exploring a wide spectrum of …
New Music Monday for September 12, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Chris Cortez is a busy man. The number of jobs he performs suggests the presence of more people. Guitarist, composer, vocalist, bandleader, arranger, producer, engineer, label head, entrepreneur, and community leader, to name a few. In 2015 he paused his Houston-based Blue Bamboo record label to return …
New Music Monday for September 5, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify To observers of the jazz scene in the late 1940s, Dodo Marmarosa would have seemed a safe bet to join the pantheon of bebop pianists alongside the likes of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. He had worked in bands led by most of the major swing-era bandleaders, …
New Music Monday for August 29, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Approaching 80 years of age is occasion enough for anyone to take a moment and look back on a life well lived. For legendary drummer Al Foster, those eight decades have been more memorable than most, filled with exhilarating sounds and encounters with some of …
New Music Monday for August 22, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify As fans of Ranky Tanky well know, drummer-producer-composer Quentin Baxter thrives on having one foot in tradition and the other in the future. The Grammy-winning ensemble, which he co-founded in South Carolina in 2016, takes an exuberant approach to Gullah, the music created by descendants of the …
New Music Monday for August 15, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify“Between Dreaming and Joy” is the latest release from saxophonist and composer Jeff Coffin, a culmination of over two years in the studio. Calling upon its enigmatic, pandemic-induced origins, the collection gathers unusual new sounds for the reedman by a diverse, all-star group of musicians for his …
New Music Monday for August 8, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Mike Conrad, Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and Music Education at the University of Northern Iowa, believes that the bonds formed through musical experiences can be incredibly strong and enduring. For his debut jazz trio album, “Reconnect,” the pianist …