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New Music Monday for February 5, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Referred to by the media as one of the newest and most innovative voices in modern jazz guitar, Bulgarian-born, Bay Area-based Hristo Vitchev has been captivating audiences across the globe. At only 37, he has already released nine critically acclaimed albums as a leader plus four more as …
New Music Monday for January 29, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The youngest member of and NEA Jazz Master with his musical family, Jason Marsalis has proven his genius and dedication to the art form of jazz by first establishing himself as a world class drummer, and then completely reinventing himself as a master on the vibes and other …
New Music Monday for January 22, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “The subject tonight is love,” wrote the Persian poet and mystic Hafiz back in the 14th century. Countless poets, philosophers, musicians, writers and dreamers have taken up that same subject since Hafiz’s day. On “The Subject Tonight is Love,” their first album as a trio, vocalist Kate McGarry, …
New Music Monday for January 15, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Critically acclaimed vocalist Jeff Baker returns with his fifth release, “Phrases,” an alive and bristling set of originals and thoughtfully conceived pop and jazz standards. Collaborating with some of the most influential and compelling jazz musicians in the world today—Brian Blade, Steve Wilson, Marquis Hill, …
New Music Monday for January 8, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Wayne Escoffery reaching is 40th birthday marked a period of big change for the award-winning saxophonist both artistically and in his personal life. He had reached a crossroads. Escoffery had spent a happy and successful decade in the band of trumpeter Tom Harrell but felt that …
New Music Monday for January 1, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Clovis Nicolas has been an important voice on the New York music scene since his arrival from Paris in the early 2000s. Having already established himself as a first-call bassist in Europe, he quickly garnered attention with many of the music’s most noted players, including Peter …
New Music Monday for December 25, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Calgary’s Prime Time Big Band is one of Canada’s premiere large jazz ensembles. Conceived of and led by former Canadian Armed Forces Band director and trumpeter Dave Jones, they are one of the busiest working big bands in the county featuring some of Alberta’s top jazz musicians. …
New Music Monday for December 18, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s new EP, “Harmony of Difference,” premiered as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2017 Biennial alongside a film by A.G Rojas and also featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister, Amani Washington. It’s an original six-part suite that explores the philosophical possibilities of the musical technique …