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New Music Monday for February 22, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyDoug MacDonald and Harvey Newmark, two greatly in-demand players from Southern California, have worked together many times through the years, often in MacDonald’s groups which range from trios to his 13-piece ensemble the Jazz Coalition. Philly-native MacDonald has worked over the years with Trummy Young, Joe Williams, Carl …
New Music Monday for February 15, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFive brilliant and focused musicians, against odds imposed by history and impossibility, have risen to the occasion to create a recording that provides depth, joy and emotional outreach in times of isolation and hardship. Developing their musical voices on the Seattle jazz scene, bassist Ben Feldman and …
New Music Monday for February 8, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyCelebrating a half-century of life and a quarter century of trailblazing music, Venezuelan-born turned San Francisco Bay Area-based pianist, composer, educator and bandleader Edward Simon releases a two-disc career retrospective, “25 Years.” Brimming with arrestingly beautiful music drawn from 13 albums spanning 1995-2018, the disc features a brilliant …
New Music Monday for February 1, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAfter last year’s successful big band outing, guitarist Dave Stryker is back with his hard-driving, deep-grooving B3 organ group on his new recording, “Baker’s Circle.” With the addition of cutting-edge tenor player Walter Smith III, the disc features Stryker originals, a couple of covers and a tip of …
New Music Monday for January 25, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyQuincy Davis is a professor of jazz drums at the University of North Texas and continues to keep a busy performance profile. He lived in New York for 10 years where he performed with and recorded with many luminaries of jazz including Frank Wess, Hank Jones, Tom Harrell, …
New Music Monday for January 18, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAt only 30-years-old, pianist Emmet Cohen—the winner of the American Pianists Association’s 2019 Cole Porter Fellowship—has made a name for himself performing and recording with jazz masters Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Tootie Heath and George Coleman, among others. On his new album, “Future Stride,” Cohen revisits …
New Music Monday for January 11, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although his work has become a major touchstone for true devotees of the music and …
New Music Monday for January 4, 2021
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFour-time Juno Award winner Neil Swainson was born and raised in the province of British Columbia, moving to his home base of Toronto in the late ‘70s. Over his career he’s recorded on albums with George Shearing, Jay McShann and Woody Shaw and performed with Diana Krall, Nancy …