Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. August 29, 2020 will mark the centennial of one of jazz’s most iconic figures, Charlie Parker. The celebration gets off to a jubilant swinging start with an alto saxophone summit bringing together three of modern jazz’s most acclaimed voices: Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson and Gary Bartz. The …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The Big Band Holidays concerts have been a New York City holiday tradition among jazz lovers and families for more than two decades. Every December, the critically acclaimed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and an all-star roster of guest vocalists explore the canon of …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Inspired by classic live albums such as Ahmad Jamal’s “At the Pershing,” jazz iconoclast Nicholas Payton’s new recording “Relaxin’ With Nick” brings the experience of witnessing Payton’s unparalleled live performances directly to the listener. Payton has evolved a singular approach to live performance, wedding his breathtaking voice …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Argentine pianist and composer Guillermo Klein’s brilliant work has long focused on the implementation of his experiments with rhythm on popular song forms. He has regularly utilized elements of pop, rock and folkloric music for the emotive elements in his music. His favored vehicle for presenting his …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch presents one of his most ambitious works to date, “The Omni-American Book Club.” The expansive album of music for large ensemble connects Lynch’s lifelong passion for reading and the books that have shaped his life with his original music. Alongside a …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “The Rhythms Continue,” saxophonist T.K. Blue’s new suite, is dedicated to the memory of T.K.’s longtime bandleader, NEA Jazz Master Dr. Randy Weston, who passed away in September of 2018. Blue performed in Weston’s African Rhythms band for thirty-eight years, for most of which he was musical …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Reedman Adrian Cunningham celebrates the music of iconic composer Frederick Loewe this fall with “Adrian Cunningham & his Friends Play Lerner & Lowe,” featuring pianist Fred Hersch, bassist John Hebert and drummer Eric McPherson along with special guests Randy Brecker on trumpet and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone. Cunningham …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In June of 1964, John Coltrane and his classic quartet went into Van Gelder Studios and, in an unprecedented move for the saxophonist, recorded new versions of some his most famous works. Earlier that year, a year in which he recorded “A Love Supreme” and “Crescent”, Coltrane …
