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New Music Monday for February 15, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “A true and modern arrangement!” is how composer Claude Bolling refers to American composer/arranger Steve Barta’s new “Symphonic Arrangement: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano.” Bolling’s 1975 recording enjoyed a lengthy stay on the Billboard charts to become a standard in the jazz and classical worlds. …
New Music Monday for February 8, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “When You Wish Upon a Star” is the latest project from legendary guitarist and composer Bill Frisell. Comprised of music from iconic film and television scores, the disc is conceived not only as an homage, but as a celebration of music-making with longtime collaborators and their collective …
New Music Monday for February 1, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Dr. Lonnie Smith not only stands as the preeminent Hammond B-3 organist in jazz today, but at the age of 73 he’s still progressing as an artist, as witnessed by his remarkable new CD, “Evolution.” Teeming with his trademark accent marks, finesse caresses, bright sparks and jagged …
New Music Monday for January 25, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jerry Weldon is one of today’s leading proponents of soul jazz who represents the bar walkin’, hard-blowing tenor legends of the American jazz scene. His tenure with the Lionel Hampton Band in the early ‘80s allowed him to develop his performance skills and create within him …
New Music Monday for January 18, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Always one to seek out new ways to express his musical vision, pianist Bill O’Connell has throughout his career embraced a broad stylistic swath of jazz, Latin and Brazilian idioms while experimenting with equally diverse orchestral formats, from a duo to unconventional trio settings and ensembles of …
New Music Monday for January 11, 2016
The members of the Mack Avenue Superband represent a diverse range of generations and styles. It offers a rare opportunity, for instance, to hear NEA Jazz Master Gary Burton engage with a group of younger players with more of a hard-bop focus than he usually encounters in his own more modern-leaning bands. “This is …
New Music Monday for January 4, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify In 2015, iconic saxophonist Charles Lloyd continued his innovative trajectory into the upper spheres of jazz and the spiritual realms of wonder and beauty. He basked in a banner year that included receiving the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters honor and marking a triumphant …
New Music Monday for December 28, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Eric Olsen has crafted an outstanding career in both classical and jazz music, as a pianist and organist, composer, and conductor. He’s recorded seventeen stylistically varied albums, for classical solo, as accompanist with opera singer Kevin Maynor, as well as jazz recordings as a leader …