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New Music Monday for November 17, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Noam Lemish’s new album, “There’s Beauty Enough in Being Here,” offers a gently ravishing program inspired by a Fernando Pessoa poem about experiencing the numinous nature of even the most everyday occurrences. It’s the latest project from the Juno Award-nominated pianist/composer, who’s created an enthralling body of work exploring …
New Music Monday for November 10, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Best known for his work with the Jazz Passengers and Groove Collective, Bill Ware has been an asset in collaborations across multiple genres, featuring in the work of well-known musicians and bands like Steely Dan and Elvin Costello. Ware has maintained his own ensembles for just as long. The …
New Music Monday for November 3, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Joe Elefante is a pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, arranger and bandleader who has traveled over four continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. He founded a big band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil’s Jazz Club for three years. He was named a jazz ambassador …
New Music Monday for October 27, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify There is no shortage of remarkable trios in the musical landscape, but few, besides the pathbreaking trumpet player, keyboardist and composer Nicholas Payton, could bring together three true visionaries and synergize them into one singular creative voice. “Triune” reconvenes a rhythm section that Payton originally assembled in 2010. Drummer …
New Music Monday for October 20, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Celebrating more than twenty-five years together as jazz’s preeminent organ group, Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet’s broad repertoire choice, swinging ethos, and dynamic performance style has helped establish them as peerless in their standard bearing of this classic jazz style. Featuring LeDonne on Hammond B3 organ, Eric Alexander on tenor …
New Music Monday for October 13, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist, composer and recording engineer Mike Pope taps into the music and musicians who represent several pivotal life phases over his striking 30-year career, as well as from broad positions in the great timeline of jazz, on his new disc, “The Parts You Keep.” From trumpeter Randy Brecker, a …
New Music Monday for October 6, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Renowned for her creative imagination and finesse, celebrated Montreal-based pianist and composer Kate Wyatt has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most compelling voices. For her second release as a leader, she’s joined by Montreal jazz heavyweights Adrian Vedady on bass and Louis-Vincent Hamel on drums. The concept …
New Music Monday for September 29, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify George Coleman’s resume is the stuff of legend. The reedman cut his jazz teeth alongside some giants of the art form, joining Max Roach’s ensemble in the 1950s, the Miles Davis Quintet, along with the bands of Herbie Hancock, Chet Baker and Elvin Jones. His work as a leader …