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New Music Monday for September 7, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. It is fitting that four-time Grammy Award winning bassist Christian McBride would eventually record at the Village Vanguard, the most hallowed and historical nightclub in jazz: an underground Mt. Olympus where the gods of the music—from John Coltrane to Bill Evans—have cast their syncopated spells. “You …
New Music Monday for August 31, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Having first made a name for himself in the 1980s as chief arranger for the legendary Woody Herman, John Fedchock has continued to develop his writing style over his 35-year career. His New York Big Band has been together now for over two decades and sets …
New Music Monday for August 24, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. When Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra traveled to Havana in December of last year to record his new CD, “Cuba: the Conversation Continues,” something nearly miraculous happened: President Obama unexpectedly announced the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba. O’Farrill had fought for …