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New Music Monday for December 21, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon has spent the last three years touring the country with his quintet, as a soloist with college and university jazz ensembles, as well as with professional big band jazz orchestras all over the world. He wanted his next release to be with a …
New Music Monday for December 14, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Considering vibraphonist Tom Collier performed his first concert at age 5, it’s safe to say most memories of his youth contain powerful musical imagery. For his latest recording, “Across the Bridge,” Collier is paired with two of the most important guitarists in jazz, Bill Frisell …
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 …