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New Music Monday for August 30, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyVeteran bassist Leon Lee Dorsey and drummer extraordinaire Mike Clark have forged a deep simpatico together over the course of four projects. And while each outing has featured a different third guest, the rhythmic hookup between Dorsey and Clark has underscored those recordings. The special guest on their …
New Music Monday for August 23, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Songs from My Father” is the much-anticipated new album from renowned musical polymath Gerry Gibbs. On his thirteenth release as a leader, the drummer and bandleader presents a double-disc masterwork featuring four iterations of his acclaimed Thrasher Dream Trio. Gibbs and his band of jazz titans pay homage to …
New Music Monday for August 16, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Antonio Carlos Jobim has been one of the brightest, most influential stars in the jazz firmament since winning multiple Grammy Awards for the 1965 release of “Getz/Gilberto.’ His music has been enjoyed by millions of people around the world and recorded countless times by musicians across many …
New Music Monday for August 9, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The new album, “Mike Drop,” demonstrates the mastery of two jazz veterans—iconic jazz drumming legend Mike Clark and renowned saxophonist Michael Zilber. Between Clark’s straight-ahead post-bop drumming and Zilber’s raw and refined sax mastery, the clarity and brilliance of this release is the rewarding product of a ten …
New Music Monday for August 2, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “The Magic of Now” is the 20th album of pianist and composer Orrin Evans’ luminous career. Recorded in the midst of the upheavals set in motion by the Covid-19 pandemic, this latest document of Evans’ kaleidoscopic artistic journey coincides with several self-generated sea changes in his life. Perhaps …
New Music Monday for July 26, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “My Grateful Dead experience began a few years ago when I was lucky enough to play a show with the Wolf Bros.,” says saxophonist Dave McMurray of the band led by Grateful Dead cofounder Bob Weir. “The long-form, odd measures and complex chords of the …
New Music Monday for July 19, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “In Harmony” is the first previously unissued recording of the late Roy Hargrove since his passing in 2018. Captured live at Merkin Hall in New York City in 2006 and Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2007 with the late piano great Mulgrew Miller, the set is an …
New Music Monday for July 12, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyLike many serious musicians, John Stein was trying to find a way to reach his audience during the Covid-19 shutdown. The guitarist had just released a career-defining recording to mark his planned retirement from Berklee College of Music where he was an acclaimed educator. When the tour in …