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New Music Monday for June 19, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Resonance Records has dipped into the vaults again and come up with another previously unreleased gem, “Truth, Liberty & Soul—Live in NYC: the Complete 1982 NPR Jazz Alive! Recording.” The first official release authorized by the Jaco Pastorius estate captures the iconic bass innovator leading …
New Music Monday for June 12, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For an incredible eight decades now, feisty vibraphonist and jazz icon Terry Gibbs has demonstrated the sheer joy of performing. In performance, he behaves like an exuberant fan of his own band, cheering them on, punctuating arrangements and solos with non-verbal interjections. His spirit was cultivated …
New Music Monday for June 5, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pearl Django formed twenty three years ago and very quickly came to forefront of the Northwest Gypsy jazz scene, as well as America’s Gypsy jazz scene, where they have remained ever since. The band’s newest CD, “With Friends Like These,” their thirteenth in all, …
New Music Monday for May 29, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. New York’s idyllic Hudson River Valley has been a rich source of inspiration for many millennia, from its rich sacred and artistic Native American heritage, to the rise of the 19th century Hudson River school of art, to the folk and rock movement …
New Music Monday for May 22, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With an assured maturity and vocal confidence far beyond her years, the young singer Jazzmeia Horn arrives with her debut recording, “A Social Call.” The Texas-born singer, who won the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition and took top honors at the Thelonious Monk Institute …
New Music Monday for May 15, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. It’s been 30 years since bassist extraordinaire Charnett Moffett burst onto the scene with his recording debut. Barely 20 years old but already drawing attention for his virtuosic, soulful contributions to seminal recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Jordon, Moffett immediately staked out his position as …
New Music Monday for May 8, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A hundred years after her birth, the ever-eloquent Ella Fitzgerald continues to teach us lessons. Regina Carter has chosen this moment to celebrate the First Lady of Song’s infectious and inclusive artistry with unabashed joy. On “Ella: Accentuate the Positive,” the virtuoso violinist reveals the many …
New Music Monday for May 1, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Steve Nelson made a big splash as a newcomer in the jazz polls at the end of the ‘80s just as the vibraphone began to reemerge as one of jazz’s favorite instruments. The cool, drifty, slight detached sound of the vibes will forever be associated …