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New Music Monday for April 11, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Grammy-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell’s deep connection to her chosen material is part of a calling. As the daughter of pioneering and legendary musicians, pianist/orchestra leader/composer/arranger Luis Russell, and bassist/guitarist/vocalist Carline Ray, Catherine was born into jazz royalty. When asked to characterize her new album, “Send for Me,” …
New Music Monday for April 4, 2022
Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart celebrate over three decades as a trio with “Perpetual Pendulum,” a program combing their clever originals with fresh takes on jazz classics. The disc is also their debut release on Smoke Sessions Records, which has some historical significance related to their origins as trio. Smoke Jazz …
New Music Monday for March 28, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Dave Brubeck Trio—Live from Vienna 1967” is a newly-discovered recording of the extraordinary evening when the iconic Dave Brubeck Quartet was forced to take the stage as a trio. On November 12th of that year, the Quartet was nearing the end of their last tour of Europe. …
New Music Monday for March 21, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify On his self-released ninth album, “Henri and Rachel,” titled for his parents, Tel Aviv-based saxophonist and composer Eli Degibri reveals his ability to convey profound emotions in the language of notes and tones. Recorded days before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is Eli’s first album …
New Music Monday for March 14, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Cecile McLorin Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is a singer and composer bringing historical perspective, a renewed sense of drama, and an enlightened musical understanding to both jazz standards and her own original compositions. Classically trained, steeped in jazz, blues and folk, and …
New Music Monday for March 7, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAlvin Queen arrived on the jazz scene in the late 1960s and quickly became known as the drummer for icons, including Horace Silver, the Brecker Brothers, George Benson and Tom Harrell. He’s perhaps best known as the longtime rhythmic anchor in Oscar Peterson’s final trio, remaining in the …
New Music Monday for February 28, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyWhy would one of poetry’s most revered voices want to curate a jazz saxophonist’s album of gospel hymns and spirituals? “These songs are so important,” says Nikki Giovanni, one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 Living Legends and a Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2017. “They comforted people …
New Music Monday for February 21, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyArtists around the world responded to the forced isolation brought about by the 2020 pandemic in various ways. In Brazil, superstars such as Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil shared concerts from their homes, performing their hit songs for their fans. Among those fans were Anat …