Bob Stewart

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New Music Monday for April 6, 2020

    Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify   Snorre Kirk—the composer, bandleader and drummer—has long since made his mark on listeners in Scandinavia and further south. He was 16 when he went from Norway to Helsingor in Denmark. The relocated Norwegian, an exquisitely flexible musician with a keen eye for tradition, sits behind the kit with …

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New Music Monday for March 30, 2020

     Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The release of Harold Mabern’s new album, “Mabern Plays Mabern,” is the source of a mixture of pride and sorrow. Pride because Mabern’s 27th recording as leader, culled from the same three January 2018 nights at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City that generated his 26th, documents …

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New Music Monday for March 23, 2020

    Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify  The origin story of jazz has been debated and mythologized. The first jazz players interviewed often attributed their knowledge and sound to one man: Buddy Bolden. There have been many attempts in the past century to reenact concerts of Bolden’s heyday, yet most attempts to bring his sound …

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New Music Monday for March 16, 2020

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify      Marc Free of the celebrated Posi-Tone Records is proud to present “Solid Moments,” the latest in a series of projects he began a couple of years ago. The album features Idle Hands, a collaborative sextet of top-tier musicians who have done illustrious work as leaders or sidemen for …

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New Music Monday for March 9, 2020

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify        The third volume of a sequence of albums going back to 2013, “Life Goes On” features striking new music from pianist and composer Carla Bley, whose trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow has a long history, starting in 1994. Bley has composed for …

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New Music Monday for March 2, 2020

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify    The minivan: a timeless icon that evokes memories ranging from little-league baseball games to nationwide music tours. “Square Peg” is bassist and composer Mark Godfrey’s first full-length album, and it hits harder than the sliding door on your family caravan. Named the 2019 Emerging Jazz Artist by the …

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New Music Monday for February 24, 2020

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify      Already a bona fide star in her native Denmark, singer Sinne Eeg has, in recent years, been weaving her spell in performances throughout Europe and the United States. Audiences and critics alike have responded enthusiastically to her dark, alluring voice, rich timbre, impeccable intonation, inherent sense of …

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New Music Monday for February 17, 2020

     Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify  Baltimore pianist Lafayette Harris Jr. is known for an energetic sense of rhythmic vitality, a tasty, full bodied musical approach to the keyboard, and a sensibility drenched in the blues. A staple at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem for a number of years as well as a …

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