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New Music Monday for October 27, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify There is no shortage of remarkable trios in the musical landscape, but few, besides the pathbreaking trumpet player, keyboardist and composer Nicholas Payton, could bring together three true visionaries and synergize them into one singular creative voice. “Triune” reconvenes a rhythm section that Payton originally assembled in 2010. Drummer …
New Music Monday for October 20, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Celebrating more than twenty-five years together as jazz’s preeminent organ group, Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet’s broad repertoire choice, swinging ethos, and dynamic performance style has helped establish them as peerless in their standard bearing of this classic jazz style. Featuring LeDonne on Hammond B3 organ, Eric Alexander on tenor …
New Music Monday for October 13, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist, composer and recording engineer Mike Pope taps into the music and musicians who represent several pivotal life phases over his striking 30-year career, as well as from broad positions in the great timeline of jazz, on his new disc, “The Parts You Keep.” From trumpeter Randy Brecker, a …
New Music Monday for October 6, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Renowned for her creative imagination and finesse, celebrated Montreal-based pianist and composer Kate Wyatt has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most compelling voices. For her second release as a leader, she’s joined by Montreal jazz heavyweights Adrian Vedady on bass and Louis-Vincent Hamel on drums. The concept …
New Music Monday for September 29, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify George Coleman’s resume is the stuff of legend. The reedman cut his jazz teeth alongside some giants of the art form, joining Max Roach’s ensemble in the 1950s, the Miles Davis Quintet, along with the bands of Herbie Hancock, Chet Baker and Elvin Jones. His work as a leader …
New Music Monday for September 22, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The Birdland Big Band is a dynamic sixteen-piece jazz orchestra rooted in the classic tradition of Count Basie and Thad Jones, yet boldly pushing the sound of the big band into modern territory. Under the direction of alto saxophonist and educator David DeJesus, the ensemble holds court every Friday …
New Music Monday for September 15, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist Neal Miner has always been drawn to writing contrafacts because, when musicians are deeply familiar with the harmony of a tune, creativity and connection become second nature. Most of the original compositions on his new CD, “Invisibility,” are based on American standards and inspired by jazz from the …
New Music Monday for September 8, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThose who have frequented New York’s City’s staple jazz venues in recent years will have noticed a bright new name increasingly appearing consistently. From Dizzy’s and Small’s to Jazz at Lincoln Center, the 2021 BMI Future Jazz Master Caelan Cardello is a pianist whose renown is dramatically and rightly spreading. …