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New Music Monday for March 12, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Akira Tana has been an elite drummer since the mid-1970s, working with jazz masters like Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson and others. He’s also been immersed in Brazil’s surging rhythms and sensuous melodies his entire career. His new album, “JAZZaNOVA,” was designed to showcase a superlative cast of …
New Music Monday for March 5, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Originally from the Minneapolis area, flugelhornist John Raymond moved to New York City after spending some time studying music in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He was able to establish himself on the New York scene playing alongside well-known musicians like Billy Hart, Orrin Evans and Kurt Rosenwinkel. But …
New Music Monday for February 26, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Before embarking on a career in jazz, Leslie Pintchik was a teaching assistant in English literature at Columbia University, where she also received her Master of Philosophy degree in seventeenth-century English literature. She first surfaced on the Manhattan jazz scene in a trio with legendary bassist Red …
New Music Monday for February 19, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. America has always been fascinated by the popular music exported back to us by our neighbors from across the pond. The British Invasion of the 1960s profoundly influenced music in every decade to the present. For the trio of Hart, Scone and Albin, the invaders are the …
New Music Monday for February 12, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The inspiration for the DIVA Jazz Orchestra came from Stanley Kay, one-time manager and relief drummer for Buddy Rich. In 1990, he was conducting a band in which Sherrie Maricle was playing the drums. He immediately picked up on her extraordinary talent and began to wonder if there were …
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, …