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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 …
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 …