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New Music Monday for August 26, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Ask Jimmy Cobb how it feels to have spent over seven decades as one of jazz’s pillars and he responds in typically effacing fashion, “I didn’t really expect to be alive all these years later—I’m thankful I’ve been able to be here this long.” Starting with his …
New Music Monday for August 19, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Several years in the making and infused with a lifetime of inspiration and appreciation, “Wareika Hill (Rastamonk Vibrations)” is Monty Alexander’s delightfully imaginative and compelling interpretation of the music of Thelonious Monk. Wareika Hill refers to a place in Jamaica where Rastafarian musicians used to gather, …
New Music Monday for August 12, 2019
Rio de Janeiro native Antonio Adolfo was just a teenager in the early 1960s when he became a part of the bossa nova revolution that was sweeping Brazil and the rest of the world. Not content to spend most of career backing vocalists, the pianist and many of his peers began crafting a …
New Music Monday for August 5, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. At just 25 years old, Veronica Swift has built a resume that even many late-career jazz singers would envy: tours as featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti; a guest collaboration with Michael Feinstein; engagements at A-list clubs like …
New Music Monday for July 29, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The reversal of the flow of the Chicago River is one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, and greatly improved the city of Chicago’s sanitation and public health while also having less positive consequences on the natural environment and cultural landscape for other parts of the …
New Music Monday for July 15, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Internationally acclaimed composer, singer and pianist Patricia Barber is back with her first new recording in six years. Barber, who has won a Guggenheim fellowship in composition, once again brings thrilling original material into the jazz orbit on “Higher.” Featured is an art song cycle that can be …
New Music Monday for July 8, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Throughout his storied career, iconic keyboardist and composer Chick Corea has explored a wealth of music from across borders both geographical and stylistic. Time and again over the decades he’s returned to what he calls his “Spanish heart”—the Spanish, Latin and flamenco traditions that have indelibly shaped …
New Music Monday for July 1, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. On November 26, 1961, saxophonist Stan Getz and his relatively new quartet with Steve Kuhn, John Neves, and Roy Haynes performed at New York’s Village Gate. The show was professionally recorded, possibly for eventual release, but was soon forgotten and the tape languished in the vaults for …