Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Jason Tiemann, a seasoned drummer and rising star on the New York jazz scene, was primarily a self-taught jazz musician. Although classically trained, Tiemann learned and developed his improvisational skills in a rather old school way—on the bandstand through collaborations and mentorship from artists such as Lew Tabackin, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify How do you make a comeback to a music scene that has gone through so many radical changes since your departure? The answer, as Christopher Hollyday has discovered, involves a combination of focus, perseverance, and the will to keep moving forward. In 1993, after releasing four well-regarded …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For the better part of a decade, acclaimed trombonist, producer and composer Delfeayo Marsalis has spent most Wednesday nights at the helm of his dynamic Uptown Jazz Orchestra’s residency at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. With “Jazz Party,” Marsalis’ seventh studio album as a leader, he delivers …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A staple of New York City’s jazz and Afro-Cuban scenes over the last five decades, acclaimed flutist Andrea Brachfeld celebrates the sounds of Brazil with a spirited tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Brazilian Whispers.” Along with arrangements of Jobim classics, Brachfeld offers a look into her writing partnership …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With inspiration provided by myriad jazz masters and the Los Angeles musicians she surrounds herself with, vibraphonist Lolly Allen creates a warm, swinging, and jubilant set of music on “Coming Home,” celebrating the L.A. jazz scene that developed out of the flourishing Central Avenue clubs of the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.Composer/saxophonist Michael Zilber’s music approach has always been a unique mix, bred from myriad activities over the years in New York and Boston in the east, and Vancouver and San Francisco in the west. On the new two-disc set, “East West,” that aspect of his being is front …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The great Jay Leonhart has always shown a deft touch on his instrument, the double bass. It would be fair to say he is equally skilled at turning a phrase. He began his musical explorations as a teenage trad jazz player in Baltimore, where he was immediately …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Bassist Richie Goods credits jazz luminary Mulgrew Miller for helping him hone his jazz skills early in his career. He toured and recorded with the pianist for nine years. That opportunity brought Richie to the attention of many in the jazz community and afforded him the opportunity …
