Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Five years after its first volume, Alternative Guitar Summit returns with “Honoring Pat Martino, Vol. 2,” a second tribute to one of jazz’s towering voices drawn largely from 2021 pandemic-era sessions. What began as a canceled live event evolved into a series of intimate studio recordings, bringing together …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Performing alongside a rhythm section cheekily dubbed the Italian Groovers, Lou Marini is as vibrant and swinging as ever at the age of 80, reminding us why he is one of the most revered figures on his instrument in the world. Across more than a half-century, Marini has …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify For more than three decades, trombonist Conrad Herwig has worked the sweet spot where modern jazz meets Afro-Caribbean fire, building his acclaimed “Latin Side of…” series into one of the most distinctive runs in contemporary jazz. Forged in the company of masters like Eddie Palmieri, Mario Bauza and …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Fueled by the musically eclectic, disciplined and packed days of being the music director for the Airmen of Note, trombonist/composer Ben Patterson and his tight circle of D.C.-area colleagues have carried that energy on ever since. Over the last decade, guitarist Shawn Purcell, pianist Harry Appelman and drummer Todd …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Detroit-bred pianist and composer David Janeway has spent more than five decades developing a voice shaped by one of jazz’s most influential musical communities. Raised in the city’s deeply rooted jazz tradition, Janeway came of age in an environment where mentorship, groove, and collective spirit defined the music. As …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Charlie Parker’s music has been recorded, studied, debated, and canonized for more than seventy years. Which is precisely why paying tribute to Bird still takes a lot of nerve. On “Another Kind of Bird,” drummer Richard Baratta does not tiptoe around this dilemma. Joined by arranger and pianist Bill …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “We Dream” is the new studio album by New York-based alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and 6-time Grammy nominee Lakecia Benjamin. Conceived as a deeply band-driven project, her sixth album centers on her frequent collaborators in pianists Oscar Perez and Miki Hayama and bassist Elias Baily—along with new associates in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist Carlos Hendriquez has built his artistic life through the decades with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, joining as a teenager performing with Wynton Marsalis and becoming a full-time member, with Jazz Times praising his playing as “jet fuel” for the Orchestra. “Monk Con Clave” presents Henriquez’s big …
