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New Music Monday for July 23, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Throughout the past 40 years, Antonio Adolfo has had a very busy career as a pianist, composer and arranger. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, his teachers included Eumir Deodato and Nadia Boulanger. Adolfo has worked with such major singers as Elis Regina, Flora Purim and Milton Nascimento …
New Music Monday for July 16, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Bassist/composer and New Zealand native Matt Penman has spent much of the past decade developing and presenting music for the illustrious SFJazz Collective and the fantastic James Farm collective. That had left a gap between solo recordings that he felt it was time to abate. The ensemble that Penman …
New Music Monday for July 9, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The merging of Brazilian music and American jazz changed the trajectory of modern music. The inceptions of bossa nova, samba jazz and other fusions enabled Brazil to make its mark on jazz and beyond, via some incredible musicians and composers, including the legendary Dom Salvador. The remarkable pianist and …
New Music Monday for July 2, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The first week of March in 1963 was a busy one for John Coltrane. He was in the middle of a two-week run at Birdland and was gearing up for the famed “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman” album, which he recorded on March 7. The day before, he and …
New Music Monday for June 25, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Whether supplying eminently tasteful but strong-as-steel backing for singers like Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan, or venturing into uncharted new territory as a member of Herbie Hancock’s groundbreaking Mwandishi band, Buster Williams’ playing has always evidenced that fearless willingness to leap unhesitatingly into the unknown. With his …
New Music Monday for June 18, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For nearly fifty years, Eddie Daniels has continued to be one of the leading voices of modern jazz clarinet. Just as Buddy DeFranco made the transition from Benny Goodman to Charlie Parker, Daniels helped bring the clarinet from the post-bop era into the modern age. For his exciting …
New Music Monday for June 11, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For three decades Mike LeDonne has been an exceptional avatar of the Hammond B3 organ. Forged by his impressive jazz apprenticeship, with the likes of Benny Golson, Milt Jackson and George Coleman, LeDonne comes from a long and distinguished line of masters of that instrument. And for eighteen years, …
New Music Monday for June 4, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist Dave McMurray has cemented his reputation for versatility by playing with a vast array of musicians including B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock, Nancy Wilson, Geri Allen and Bob James. His Blue Note Records debut, “Music is Life,” is a reunion of sorts, given the …