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New Music Monday for October 16, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With his Caribbean heritage, classical training and a unique rhythmic and melodic approach to jazz improvisation, Nestor Torres’ talkative and mellifluous flute sound remains in a class all by itself. Now, with his 15th album release, “Jazz Flute Traditions,” the Latin Grammy Award-winner shows his deep respect and …
New Music Monday for October 9, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Drummer Mark Giuliana has been in the vanguard of drummers creating a new vernacular on the instrument, blending virtuosity on acoustic drums with artfully deployed electronic beats and processing. He was chosen as Best Jazz Drummer in Modern Drummer magazine’s Readers Poll this year, while DownBeat dubbed him a …
New Music Monday for October 2, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The Bill Charlap Trio is the pinnacle of jazz piano trio playing and has been a New York City staple since 1997. The Grammy Award-winning pianist and his longtime trio partners, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, celebrate their twentieth anniversary together with “Uptown Downtown,” a new collection …
New Music Monday for September 25, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season opened with a program entitled “Handful of Keys: A Century of Jazz Piano,” kicking off a year-long celebration of the many artists, styles, and movements encompassed in the century-long jazz continuum. The concert was an “encapsulated history” exploring the many rich traditions …
New Music Monday for September 18, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Wobbly Dance Flower” is the newest project by the versatile, multi-talented John Daversa, the internationally respected trumpeter, composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, and educator. Daversa is one of the leading forces of large ensemble jazz today but is adept at writing and arranging for bands of any size. For …
New Music Monday for September 11, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Critically acclaimed and one of the top flute players on the modern jazz scene, Gerald Beckett is a skilled and versatile improviser within the jazz tradition. He’s travelled the world, with a focus on the U.S. coasts, playing some of the hottest jazz clubs. It wasn’t until …
New Music Monday for September 4, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. On July 3, 2016, the world changed forever for Mike Stern. The guitarist was hailing a cab outside his apartment in Manhattan when he tripped over some hidden construction debris, breaking both of his arms in the fall. Not only did Stern fracture both humerus bones, he was …
New Music Monday for August 28, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. When Carl Sandburg died in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson hailed the famed poet as “more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” Fifty years after Sandburg’s passing, drummer/composer Matt Wilson pays tribute to the “poet of …