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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, …
New Music Monday for February 27, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In many ways, Charles Mingus and Gerry Mulligan couldn’t have been more different. One was notoriously fiery and confrontational; the other understated, the epitome of cool. But one thing the two jazz icons did share—beyond their influential shaping of the music’s low end—was their singularity …
New Music Monday for February 20, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. At age 14, pianist and composer Emily Bear enjoys arranging, orchestrating and performing in a diverse collection of styles. Having made her professional debut at the Ravinia Festival at 5-years-old, she has since performed at many of the world’s most well-known venues including Carnegie …
New Music Monday for February 13, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Since moving from Chesapeake, Virginia to New York City in 2001, Nate Smith has helped reinvigorate the international jazz scene with his visceral style of drumming by playing with such esteemed leading lights as bassist Dave Holland, saxophonists Chris Potter and Ravi Coltrane, and singers …