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New Music Monday for December 11, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Following up on their Juno-nominated debut, “Murphy” is the exciting new recording from the Toronto-based nonet, the Carn Davidson 9, an ensemble formed at the beginning of 2010. Trombonist William Carn has emerged as one of Canada’s leading jazz composers and performers. He’s performed and recorded …
New Music Monday for December 4, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. While the recording studio offers an ideal, controlled environment for audio fidelity and perfectionist tinkering, the bandstand is where any musician’s mettle is tested—live in the moment, under the scrutinizing gaze of a rapt audience. On the new CD, “Kalamazoo,” trombonist/composer Delfeayo Marsalis places his gift for entertaining …
New Music Monday for November 27, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Nothing gets music lovers in a celebrating mood like listening to their favorite Christmas carols, and a new CD, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” from trumpeter Chris Pasin delivers a whopping dose of holiday cheer. Pasin has proved himself among the most versatile of musicians. Besides fronting …
New Music Monday for November 20, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With his career spanning almost three decades, Willie Jones III has become one of the jazz world’s most respected and highly accomplished modern jazz drummers of our time. His associations with legendary artists such as Cedar Walton, Milt Jackson, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins and Roy Hargrove speak …
New Music Monday for November 13, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Richie Cole is an internationally recognized jazz legend who began his career as the lead altoist for the Buddy Rich Big Band. He later formed his own quintet and toured worldwide popularizing bebop and his own Alto Madness style. He has recorded over fifty albums, and spends much of …
New Music Monday for November 6, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Formidable” is the title of Pat Martino’s first studio recording as a bandleader in eleven years and it is an excellent metaphor for the guitarist’s fearless and virtuosic playing. Martino grew up in Philadelphia, a musical melting pot where many jazz greats began their journey, so perhaps it’s of …
New Music Monday for October 30, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Basin Street Records presents a collaborative disc between its two most recorded artists. “A Beautiful World” features trumpeter and singer Kermit Ruffins, co-founder of the Rebirth Brass Band, and two-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield. Combined, the two musicians share a staggering output …
New Music Monday for October 23, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. While every great jazz musician knows the value of spontaneity, few understand the true value of being in the moment quite like Johnny O’Neal. A rising star in the early 1980s, O’Neal left New York after a mugging in 1986. Performing and recording in Atlanta, St. Louis, Montreal and …