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New Music Monday for November 12, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Ruben Blades—the salsa giant and nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actor and activist—collaborated with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in 2014 for an extraordinary series of performances on the Jazz at Lincoln Center stage. On these very special style-straddling, Americas-spanning nights, the …
New Music Monday for November 5, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Richie Cole is an internationally recognized jazz legend who began his career as the lead altoist in the Buddy Rich Big Band. He later started his own quintet and toured worldwide popularizing bebop and his Alto Madness style. He has recorded over 50 albums as a leader. …
New Music Monday for October 29, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jazz sensibility comes naturally to pianist Benny Green, the New York City-born son of a jazz saxophonist. At a young age, Green’s ear became fine-tuned to the art form, and he soon found himself invited to perform alongside jazz icons like Betty Carter, Freddie Hubbard and Ray …
New Music Monday for October 22, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pianist Aaron Goldberg was introduced to drummer Leon Parker’s singular playing alongside keyboard icons including Kenny Barron, Brad Mehldau and Jacky Terrasson in the early 1990s. Parker was a trailblazer on the kit, intent on developing a distinct language and sound all his own. The pair had …
New Music Monday for October 15, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The music of Joel Harrison stubbornly defies categorization. From haunting psychedelia to rollicking Afro-Appalachian grooves, from the complex poly-everything of Charles Ives to the deceptively simple re-imagining of American folk ballads, Harrison is perhaps the most imaginative, inventive and inclusive artist in contemporary jazz music. The …
New Music Monday for October 8, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Guitarist John Scofield has been on serious roll since 2015, when his release, “Past Present,” earned a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album. He followed that release with the 2016 album, “Country for Old Men,” which earned him two more Grammys. Last year, he joined forces with …
New Music Monday for October 1, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “I learned a lot about phrasing from Frank,” Willie Nelson said in a recent interview. “He didn’t worry about behind the beat or in front of the beat, or whatever—he could sing it either way, and that’s the feel you have to have.” That’s the …
New Music Monday for September 24, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A gathering of legendary artists has come together to join the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Scotty Barnhart for “All About That Basie,” celebrating the iconic band from its earliest years, throughout the decades and through to today’s contemporary artists. An amazing array …