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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 …
New Music Monday for June 1, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Grammy-winning New York drummer Robby Ameen has had an established recording and touring career stretching from Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon over the last four decades, highlighted by a 20-year run in the band Latin icon Ruben Blades. Although he is of Lebanese origin, Ameen is best known …
New Music Monday for May 25, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifySix years after Pat Metheny’s last studio recording, and fifteen years after the final Pat Metheny Group album, comes a set of brand new pieces recorded with a new band. “From This Place” features drummer Antonio Sanchez, bassist Linda May Han Oh and pianist Gwilym Simcock along …
New Music Monday for May 18, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifySome people are obsessed with Wayne Shorter’s music. Many of his compositions, which are known for their complex harmonies and memorable melodies, have become jazz standards. When two musicians of the caliber of guitarist Dave Askren and sax player Jeff Benedict team up to record an album of …