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New Music Monday for October 25, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe jazz world was stunned and saddened by the unexpected passing of legendary pianist Chick Corea in February. In a posthumous statement on his facebook page, Corea bid farewell to his compatriots and fans, thanking those who “helped keep the music fires burning bright.” Two of the gifted …
New Music Monday for October 18, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Drummer Joe Farnsworth celebrates the fortitude of New York City’s jazz community with “City of Sounds,” featuring legendary pianist Kenny Barron and stellar bassist Peter Washington. Still in masks at the time, separated by plastic barriers, playing in an empty club for an audience of virtual listeners streaming …
New Music Monday for October 11, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Pat Metheny has unveiled the latest chapter in his wildly prolific career, “Side-Eye NYC V1.IV,” a new setting featuring the 20-time Grammy winner accompanied by a handpicked and rotating cast of players featuring some of the most exciting and innovative new musicians on the New York scene. Recorded …
New Music Monday for October 4, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Sing a Song of Bird” is a collaboration of four New York jazz vocalists who are passionate about Charlie Parker’s music and have rendered new lyrics to six of his compositions. Roseanna Vitro conceived and guided this project but chose not to sing on every tune. …
New Music Monday for September 27, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyTime was when a jazz trio without a piano or guitar was a rare occurrence. But once Sonny Rollins went chordless at the Vanguard the die was cast and it became an important subset in the list of saxophone-fronted jazz groups. For the last three years, tenor saxophonist …
New Music Monday for September 20, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyPianist/composer and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung celebrates the work of influential women composers on her latest album, “Quartet+,” crafting new arrangements of tunes by Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland and Toshiko Akiyoshi while carrying the tradition forward with her own stunning new works. …
New Music Monday for September 13, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyPianist and composer Renee Roses emerged from a year of relative isolation, experienced by so many, with a reinvigorated appreciation for the many different shapes that love can take. Her impressive new album, “Kinds of Love,” honors and celebrates love through nine brilliant new compositions, performed with an …
New Music Monday for September 6, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyComposer/saxophonist Kenny Garrett emerged as a distinctive voice on the national scene in 1978 with an undisputed aptitude for emotive melodic phrasing that led him to collaborations with Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. With “Sounds from the Ancestors,” Garrett remembers the spirit of the …