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New Music Monday for June 27, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. At a time when jazz bandleaders from across the musical and generational spectra regularly lament the difficulty of keeping a band together, it’s all the more remarkable that a supergroup like One For All has stuck it out for twenty years. But the impeccably swinging …
New Music Monday for June 20, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For the past five years, 29-year-old trumpeter Marquis Hill has been invigorating the Chicago jazz scene with his sleek approach to modern jazz, which often incorporates elements of spoken word and hip-hop. JazzTimes magazine praised his trumpet playing by stating, “His articulation, precise but unlabored, calls …
New Music Monday for June 13, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For 20 years, Guillermo Klein has been creating some of the most singular and exciting music for his highly adept 11-piece ensemble, Los Guachos. His compositional style has been evolving over the years, though always utilizing elements of jazz, folkloric music of his native Argentina, …
New Music Monday for June 6, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Trinidad-born trumpeter Etienne Charles’ sixth full-length release, “San Jose Suite,” is an ambitious ten-part work exploring the histories, cultures and musical traditions of three Western settlements that share a name: San Jose, Costa Rica; San Jose, California; and Charles’ native St. Joseph, Trinidad, known as …
New Music Monday for May 30, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Both a joyous act of communion and a solemn farewell, “Beginning of a Memory” is a celebration of life, community and family expressed with the virtuosic wit and embracing humor that has made drummer Matt Wilson so beloved in the jazz community. Returning to the studio as …
New Music Monday for May 23, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. An artist whose music is at once timeless and yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer with “Take Me to the Alley”, the much-anticipated follow-up to his sensational 2013 Blue Note debut. As he’s done with …
New Music Monday for May 16, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made in impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed discs and countless sideman credits. In 1983, he began a fourteen-year association with pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, making seven recordings and touring …
New Music Monday for May 9, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. From his roots in music-rich Memphis through his work with legends ranging from B.B. King to Max Roach to Slide Hampton and his renowned tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet, saxophonist George Coleman established himself as one of jazz’s most soulful and expressive voices. Last year he joined …