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New Music Monday for July 21, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyPianist, vocalist and composer Dawn Clement has proven to be a joyful and formidable force in modern creative music through her work with Jane Ira Bloom, Matt Wilson, Ron Miles, Julian Priester and many others over the last two decades. As Mr. Priester describes her, “In all this world of …
New Music Monday for July 14, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyCelebrated pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and two-time Grammy Award winner Alan Broadbent unveils his fourth release for Savant Records, “Threads of Time.” Known for his many collaborations with luminaries such as Pat Metheny, Sheila Jordan and Michael Buble, Broadbent brings all that impressive experience to this deeply personal project. The …
New Music Monday for July 7, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyTrombonist Ryan Keberle and Collectiv do Brasil explore the music of one of the world’s greatest living musical masters with “Choro das Aguas.” The album—Keberle’s third with the Sao Paulo pianist/arranger Felipe Silveira, bassist Felipe Brisola, and drummer Paulinho Vicente—features the compositions by Brazilian jazz and popular tunesmith Ivan Lins, …
New Music Monday for June 30, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyDrummer Alyn Cosker has long been one of the most in-demand musicians on the Scottish jazz scene. A regular with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and top U.K. artists such as saxophonist Tommy Smith, he is also frequently called to back up international touring acts like Joe Lovano, John Scofield, …
New Music Monday for June 23, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyIn the late 1990s, the great Cuban-American woodwind master Paquito D’Rivera was enjoying a quiet evening at his New Jersey home when car pulled up nearby. A handful of young musicians called out to him, explaining they were Cuban musicians living in Spain who wanted see where he lived. That …
New Music Monday for June 16, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyNoah Haidu’s Standards Trio has played the top jazz venues from New York to Los Angeles, and will be out on the road from coast to coast and in key European cities throughout this year in support of their new album. “Standards III” continues Noah’s critically acclaimed collaboration with legends …
New Music Monday for June 9, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyA few years back, bassist John Clayton got in touch with his friend Mulgrew Miller and invited him into the studio to record. Not with the intentions of making an album, but simply for the joy of playing music with a good friend. That day, as did with every other …
New Music Monday for June 2, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyEd Palermo is not your typical big band leader. Renowned for his unconventional approach, Ed’s repertoire defies expectations –don’t be surprised if you hear the music of Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren, The Police, or Pat Metheny at one of his shows. As Gil Evans once said: “He was using …