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New Music Monday for February 11, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Over the past ten years, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom has established itself as one of the most consistently inventive and hardest working bands in modern jazz. Fronted by the extraordinary drummer and composer Allison Miller and featuring violinist Jenny Scheinman, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, clarinetist Ben …
New Music Monday for February 4, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. If not for trumpeter John D’earth, Kait Dunton might never have become a professional musician. The two met in 2001 at the University of Virginia. She’d been playing piano for 15 years but had no sense of turning her love of music into a career. …
New Music Monday for January 28, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Though she originally studied and performed in the classical field, the past few years have found bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton in many more diverse situations, especially in the world of jazz. She is a regular in the Broadway pit orchestras of New York City and is also a …
New Music Monday for January 21, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.A protégé of Quincy Jones, who took him under his wing when he defected to the U.S. in 2009, pianist Alfredo Rodriguez was schooled in the rigorous classical conservatories of Havana. His riveting artistry is informed as much by Bach and Stravinsky as it is by his Afro …
New Music Monday for January 14, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Juno Award-winning saxophonist, composer and arranger Allison Au was born to a Chinese father and Jewish mother, and was raised in the multicultural metropolis of Toronto. Exposed to a wide array of musical styles growing up, Allison was captivated by the unhinged freedom of jazz, which became …
New Music Monday for January 7, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Bassist and composer Iris Ornig is one of the most original female voices on today’s New York jazz scene. Since her arrival in 2003 from Germany, she has played with an impressive roster of some of the most influential contemporary jazz musicians in New York, including Ambrose Akinmusire, …
New Music Monday for December 31, 2018
“The Lion, Camel & Child” is the second release from Toronto saxophonist Johnny Griffith’s all-star quintet—a band made up of four of Toronto’s leading jazz lights, along with legendary New York trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. Griffith drew inspiration from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche—specifically his book, “Three Metamorphoses.” As the reedman explains, “Metamorphoses is …
New Music Monday for December 24, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. German-born, Canada-raised Johannes Wallman spent his twenties and early thirties making his living on the New York jazz scene, teaching at NYU and the New School. He moved to Oakland in 2007 and, since 2012, Wallman’s been based in Madison, where he serves as Director …