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New Music Monday for August 27, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.The Tokyo born, New York based Miho Hazama has made quite a name for herself as an arranger, composer and conductor. She has composed pieces for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Siena Wind Ochestra and has arranged for artists and ensembles as diverse as the Danish Radio Big …
New Music Monday for August 20, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Puerto Rican trumpeter Charlie Sepulveda has been a fixture of the Latin jazz world since the late 1980s when he played in the band of pianist and composer Eddie Palmieri. During the 1990s, a renaissance period for el jazz Latino, the brassman toured and recorded with an array …
New Music Monday for August 13, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The Los Angeles-based trio of guitarist Mike Clinco, Hammond organist John Van Tongeren and drummer Kendall Kay formed in 2013 as Trinom3 and began honing their unique approach to the organ trio sound. With a shared vision for improvisational music, and a list of collective credits that includes everybody …
New Music Monday for August 6, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Greg Fishman is a dynamic tenor saxophonist who has been on the Chicago jazz scene for the past twenty-five years. His bright and appealing tone and his steady stream of creative ideas have made him a major force in both the Chicago and international jazz world. He …
New Music Monday for July 30, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Two-time Grammy nominated Australian saxophonist and composer Troy Roberts, now based in New York City, maintains a busy performance and recording schedule around the globe with some of the great artists of today including Joey DeFrancesco and Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts. He’s also performed with Christian McBride, Dave Douglas, Sammy …
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 …