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New Music Monday for July 27, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyWhen Benny Golson left Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1958, the drummer turned to a Messenger alumnus, Hank Mobley, to take over the sax chair. Known for his writing as well as his playing, Mobley had worked with both trumpeter Lee Morgan and pianist Bobby Timmons …
New Music Monday for July 20, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyQuiet as it’s kept, too many of today’s finest jazz artists are given short shrift by an industry that seems to value product of a fleeting nature over true craft and a reverence for the jazz legacy. This makes it particularly challenging for a talent like Adam Shulman to break …
New Music Monday for July 13, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe John Fedchock NY Sextet recording, “Into the Shadows,” is the trombonist’s tenth album as a leader, this time with an all-star group showcasing Fedchock’s notable solo skills and bringing his special composing/arranging to the forefront. The recording features new treatments of familiar standards coupled with five Fechock …
New Music Monday for July 6, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Antonio Adolfo is one of the premier pianists, composers and arrangers to emerge from Brazil. A multi-Latin Grammy and Grammy nominee, Adolfo is an internationally recognized Latin Jazz star. Now, after more than 50 years of friendship and admiration, he has set his sights on an album dedicated …
New Music Monday for June 29, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify If it takes a village to raise a child, as the proverb says, then it certainly takes at least that much to nurture a big band. Pianist and bandleader Orrin Evans has long used “the Village” to refer not only to his family-like cohort of fellow musicians in …
New Music Monday for June 22, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify After several appearances as a guest with guitarist Dave Stryker’s Organ Trio, saxophonist Bob Mintzer, who serves as the principal conductor for the WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany, had the idea to arrange some of Dave’s music to feature him with the ensemble. Bob thought Stryker’s …
New Music Monday for June 15, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify It may be somewhat ironic, yet ultimately fitting, that the final recording by Larry Willis brought the veteran pianist and composer back to the place where he first began his impressive career as a recording artist, a career that spanned six decades. He first entered the hallowed …
New Music Monday for June 8, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow on “Swallow Tales,” made in an afternoon in New York City last year “old school,” as Scofield says, acknowledging that more than forty years of preparation led up to it. John was a 20-years-old student …