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New Music Monday for September 28, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “A killer line-up of players, composers and performers who hail from all over the world…they all converge on this extremely cosmopolitan, sleek, rhythm-forward modern sound.” So says NPR Music about the debut of the all-female jazz super group Artemis, comprised of pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, clarinetist …
New Music Monday for September 21, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFor the past 17 years, the Grammy Award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra has earned their reputation as today’s premiere salsa ensemble. Considered “the leading light of the salsa reconstruction movement” by Newsday, they have performed on the world’s top stages and at nearly every major jazz festival, including those …
New Music Monday for September 14, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyWhile a few organists have recorded with a big band (including Jimmy Smith with Oliver Nelson), Radam Schwartz remembers the Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes collaboration with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra on his new CD, “Message from Groove and GW.” Born and raised in New York City, Radam has worked …
New Music Monday for September 7, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Christian McBride solidifies his role as the champion of the past, present and future of jazz with his Grammy Award-winning big band’s new album in tribute to Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and Oliver Nelson. In September of 1966, over the course of three days, organist Smith and …
New Music Monday for August 31, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” has been hailed as a milestone, considered one of the band’s best at the time of its release, and ranked “the greatest album of all time” in Rolling Stone’s list of the top 500 rock albums. When bassist Leon …
New Music Monday for August 24, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Over the course of two albums, bandleader/composer/arranger John Beasley has reimagined Thelonious Monk’s iconic compositions through his inventive, versatile MONK’estra—a big band able to deftly navigate the legend’s eccentricities from a variety of perspectives, from boisterous swing to raucous funk to Afro-Cuban explosiveness. The discs garnered Grammy …
New Music Monday for August 10, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify On the heels of his 2018 Grammy-nominated album, “Heart of Brazil: The Music of Egberto Gismonte,” comes jazz clarinet icon Eddie Daniels’ new project paying tribute to the world-renowned Brazilian musician and composer Ivan Lins entitled “Night Kisses.” After Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lins is arguably the most successful …
New Music Monday for August 3, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyRay Mantilla was one of the true conga giants from the 1950s through the ‘70s recording hundreds of album sessions and pioneering the use of unique combinations of Latin percussion instruments. In 1977, he was chosen by the great jazz ambassador Dizzy Gillespie to accompany him to Cuba …