Author's posts
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 …
New Music Monday for June 24, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With “Songs Were Made to Sing,” vocalist Mary Stallings has crafted an exquisite collection of classic songs that reflect a life well and passionately lived. Although she didn’t write any of the lyrics on the disc, each one represents a chapter in her life. The soulful chanteuse …
New Music Monday for June 17, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For his landmark 25th album as a leader, iconic pianist, composer and bandleader Michel Camilo wanted to do something truly special. So the Dominican-born Grammy and Emmy Award winner reconvened his all-star big band for the first time in a quarter-century to explore the full scope and breadth …
New Music Monday for June 10, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Celebrated within the jazz community as a multi-talented musician, Lisa Maxwell finally releases a long-awaited album of her own material, dedicated to a special cohort. “My dear friend Lew Soloff and I talked about recording my arrangements many times over the years,” she remembers. “Then he died suddenly …