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New Music Monday for December 7, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Coinciding with celebrating its 80th anniversary, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra continues to make music history with the release of “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas.” The first full-length yuletide album in the expansive Basie discography, the disc boasts classic holiday songs, rendered in quintessential Basie style, …
New Music Monday for November 30, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Every December for more than a decade, the critically acclaimed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and an all-star roster of guest vocalists have explored the canon of holiday standards to perform new and traditional arrangements of Yuletide favorites. These concerts have become …
New Music Monday for November 23, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Bruce Forman entered the 21st century as one of the strongest swinging bebop and mainstream jazz guitarists around. Since then, he has taken a confident virtuoso walkabout through other genres and formats, both adjacent to and distant from his earlier career. Now Forman gives us a …
New Music Monday for November 16, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on Youtube and Soundcloud. It’s rare for one man to change the face of an instrument, and before he turned forty, but Joey DeFrancesco has been performing since he was a child, following a lineage of jazz musicians. A seasoned musician by his teen, having already shared the stage …
New Music Monday for November 9, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify When Patrick Williams assembles a band for a new album, it’s like old home days, as some of the musicians have been playing for him for decades. In late March, eighteen of Los Angeles’ finest players gathered to tackle eight new charts by the Grammy-winning musical …
KCCK’s Featured CD for November, 2015
Every month, KCCK calls your attention to a new release we think is especially noteworthy. The KCCK Featured CD for November is “Past Present” by John Scofield. The early ’90s saw the celebrated guitarist release three well-received discs as the John Scofield Quartet, featuring tenor titan Joe Lovano with Iowa native Bill Stewart on …
New Music Monday for November 2, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Paul McCartney had a great idea for an album. He just needed the world-renowned guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli to make it. Pizzarelli played on McCartney’s disc of a few years back, “Kisses on the Bottom,” and backed Sir Paul on a handful of prestigious live …
New Music Monday for October 26, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Wild Dance” is a trans-generational undertaking initiated by the grand master of Italian jazz, Enrico Rava. Energized by joyous experiences on the road, the ever youthful trumpeter took his new working quartet of the last two years into the studio, joined by trombonist Gianluca Petrella, an …