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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 …
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 …