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New Music Monday for February 10, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Pianist/composer Lynne Arriale’s career is graced by a love of melody and a joy of musical discovery. She was the first prize winner of the 1993 International Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and soon after launched her touring and recording career. Arriale has performed on international concert …
New Music Monday for February 3, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Jason Tiemann, a seasoned drummer and rising star on the New York jazz scene, was primarily a self-taught jazz musician. Although classically trained, Tiemann learned and developed his improvisational skills in a rather old school way—on the bandstand through collaborations and mentorship from artists such as Lew Tabackin, …
New Music Monday for January 27, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify How do you make a comeback to a music scene that has gone through so many radical changes since your departure? The answer, as Christopher Hollyday has discovered, involves a combination of focus, perseverance, and the will to keep moving forward. In 1993, after releasing four well-regarded …
New Music Monday for January 20, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For the better part of a decade, acclaimed trombonist, producer and composer Delfeayo Marsalis has spent most Wednesday nights at the helm of his dynamic Uptown Jazz Orchestra’s residency at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. With “Jazz Party,” Marsalis’ seventh studio album as a leader, he delivers …
New Music Monday for January 13, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A staple of New York City’s jazz and Afro-Cuban scenes over the last five decades, acclaimed flutist Andrea Brachfeld celebrates the sounds of Brazil with a spirited tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Brazilian Whispers.” Along with arrangements of Jobim classics, Brachfeld offers a look into her writing partnership …
New Music Monday for January 6, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With inspiration provided by myriad jazz masters and the Los Angeles musicians she surrounds herself with, vibraphonist Lolly Allen creates a warm, swinging, and jubilant set of music on “Coming Home,” celebrating the L.A. jazz scene that developed out of the flourishing Central Avenue clubs of the …
New Music Monday for December 30, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.Composer/saxophonist Michael Zilber’s music approach has always been a unique mix, bred from myriad activities over the years in New York and Boston in the east, and Vancouver and San Francisco in the west. On the new two-disc set, “East West,” that aspect of his being is front …
New Music Monday December 23, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The great Jay Leonhart has always shown a deft touch on his instrument, the double bass. It would be fair to say he is equally skilled at turning a phrase. He began his musical explorations as a teenage trad jazz player in Baltimore, where he was immediately …