Seven years have passed since Emmet Cohen released his celebrated debut trio record. Since then, the Harlem-based rising star pianist has established himself as artfully prolific with the release of two volumes of his acclaimed Masters Legacy Series, albums featuring jazz giants Jimmy Cobb and Ron Carter, with another featuring the great Benny …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Caesar Frazier is a true keeper of the B-3 grail, assuming the mantle of the great organists such as Jimmy Smith and Brother Jack McDuff and building upon their legacy to become one of today’s finest exponents of the instrument. From his years with Lou Donaldson through …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Composing music inspired by painting dates back as far as the 12th century and, in jazz, Duke Ellington’s “Degas Suite” comes to mind along with Branford Marsalis’s “Romare Bearden Revealed.” But with his new album, “Jeremy Pelt the Artist,” trumpeter Jeremy Pelt may be the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pianist and composer Ellen Rowe is professor of jazz and contemporary improvisation at the University of Michigan. Her new CD, “Momentum—Portraits of Women in Motion,” brings together an ensemble of nationally-lauded female jazz artists, including saxophonists Tia Fuller, Lisa Parrott and Virginia Mayhew, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Over the past ten years, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom has established itself as one of the most consistently inventive and hardest working bands in modern jazz. Fronted by the extraordinary drummer and composer Allison Miller and featuring violinist Jenny Scheinman, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, clarinetist Ben …
The Corridor’s newest jazz band, the Liberty High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ryan Arp, makes its Corridor Jazz Project debut with Chick Corea’s “Early Afternoon Blues,” with guest artist Steve Shanley, professor of music at Coe College and director of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band. Liberty students with solos include Spencer Knight, Brennan …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. If not for trumpeter John D’earth, Kait Dunton might never have become a professional musician. The two met in 2001 at the University of Virginia. She’d been playing piano for 15 years but had no sense of turning her love of music into a career. …
Today’s featured session from the 2019 Corridor Jazz recordings is the Marion High School Jazz Band One, performing “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise.” Directed by Logan Vander Wiel with guest artist Nolan Schroeder, saxophone. Nolan, a Linn-Mar graduate, is one of only two musicians who participated in the Corridor Jazz Project as students and …
