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New Music Monday for April 24, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The brilliant pianist Benny Green grew up in 1970s Berkeley, California, where he devoured all the jazz he could. He listened to 1950s and ‘60s Blue Note recordings relentlessly, imprinting the sound and feel of his heroes into his psyche. In the early ‘80s Green was …
New Music Monday for April 17, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify When Mark Murphy died in October of 2015, the obituaries claimed that he had been almost the last of his kind. Murphy, it was said, was a man who embodied the spirit of postwar bohemia, the ‘On the Road’ Kerouac generation who fought against the straight …
New Music Monday for April 10, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Motown has had a tremendous impact on popular music. Although it was founded over 55 years ago, Motown’s music and artists are still relevant and popular today, and many of the songs that came out of their Hitsville offices in Detroit have been covered by jazz …
New Music Monday for April 3, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In 2013, when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis set out to honor the legacy of the Modern Jazz Quartet’s maestro John Lewis, they teamed up with New Orleans’ own Jon Batiste. The bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and …
New Music Monday for March 27, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Since moving to New York from his native Cleveland twelve years ago, Jerome Jennings has become one of the most in-demand jazz drummers on the scene. With his debut album “The Beast,” Jennings—who is currently a member of the Christian McBride Trio—steps to the …
New Music Monday for March 20, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pop music has been a rich resource that jazz artists have mined for generations and the music of the 1960s is no exception, with many finding inspiration in the songs of the Beatles. Organissimo, the acclaimed Michigan-based trio centered around the powerful Hammond B3 organ, …
New Music Monday for March 13, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Heads of State made their debut recording in 2015, just months after they played together for the first time as a quartet at Smoke in New York. Now, with another year of playing together under their collective belts (on top of the nearly five decades …
New Music Monday for March 6, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A native of Geneseo, Illinois, Jim Buennig is a saxophonist now based in Iowa City. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Western Illinois University and is currently completing a Master of Arts degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Iowa, …