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New Music Monday for February 10, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Dan Moretti is an acclaimed saxophonist, composer and educator with a career spanning over four decades. The new album with his band Brazilia, “Celebrating Wayne Shorter: Live at the Pump House Music Works,” captures a vibrant performance dedicated to the legendary composer and saxophonist, blending the genius of …
New Music Monday for February 3, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Steve Smith, who originally became well-known as the drummer with the rock band Journey, grew up playing jazz. He has led one of the world’s top fusion-oriented groups, Vital Information, for over 40 years now; they recorded their first album in 1983. Today’s version is a trio with …
New Music Monday for January 27, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Michel Petrucciani was one of the most brilliant pianists to emerge from Europe’s jazz scene in the late ‘70s. Despite his short stature due to glass bone disease, he rose to international acclaim, performing with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Stephane Grappelli and many other greats. …
New Music Monday for January 20, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars celebrate the music of two iconic Viennese composers with the new release, “Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold and Max Steiner.” The composers who, after moving to Hollywood in 1920 and 1934, transformed the dynamic of film as they …
New Music Monday for January 13, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Tippin’” is drummer Carl Allen’s first album as a leader in more than 20 years. With over 200 recordings to his credit, the gifted Milwaukee-born, New York-based drummer, sideman, bandleader, entrepreneur, and educator’s profound and propulsive percolations have provided soulful support for nearly three decades, including work with …
New Music Monday for January 6, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Grammy nominated trombonist, composer and arranger Papo Vazquez has been a key player on New York City’s Latin jazz scene since the late 1970s, performing with top names such as Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Jerry Gonzalez, Hilton Ruiz and Dave Valentin. His appreciation and knowledge of the indigenous …
New Music Monday for December 30, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Ryan Middagh, the Nashville-based composer, arranger, and baritone saxophonist is beloved by his contemporaries as a writer whose work is influenced by and caters to the unique persona of each musician with whom he works. Now, after already leading his big band, the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra, successfully …
New Music Monday for December 23, 2024
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Zacc Harris has been one of Minnesota’s most celebrated guitarists since moving to Minneapolis in 2005, being named Twin Cities Best Jazz Artist in 2017. He is a founding member of the collective group Atlantis Quartet, and has toured throughout the U.S. and U.K. On his fourth album …