Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Internationally acclaimed composer, singer and pianist Patricia Barber is back with her first new recording in six years. Barber, who has won a Guggenheim fellowship in composition, once again brings thrilling original material into the jazz orbit on “Higher.” Featured is an art song cycle that can be …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Throughout his storied career, iconic keyboardist and composer Chick Corea has explored a wealth of music from across borders both geographical and stylistic. Time and again over the decades he’s returned to what he calls his “Spanish heart”—the Spanish, Latin and flamenco traditions that have indelibly shaped …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. On November 26, 1961, saxophonist Stan Getz and his relatively new quartet with Steve Kuhn, John Neves, and Roy Haynes performed at New York’s Village Gate. The show was professionally recorded, possibly for eventual release, but was soon forgotten and the tape languished in the vaults for …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With “Songs Were Made to Sing,” vocalist Mary Stallings has crafted an exquisite collection of classic songs that reflect a life well and passionately lived. Although she didn’t write any of the lyrics on the disc, each one represents a chapter in her life. The soulful chanteuse …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For his landmark 25th album as a leader, iconic pianist, composer and bandleader Michel Camilo wanted to do something truly special. So the Dominican-born Grammy and Emmy Award winner reconvened his all-star big band for the first time in a quarter-century to explore the full scope and breadth …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Celebrated within the jazz community as a multi-talented musician, Lisa Maxwell finally releases a long-awaited album of her own material, dedicated to a special cohort. “My dear friend Lew Soloff and I talked about recording my arrangements many times over the years,” she remembers. “Then he died suddenly …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. When it comes to Art Blakey, there is no living drummer more suited to honoring his legacy than the incomparable Ralph Peterson. As the last drummer chosen by Blakey to play by his side in the Jazz Messengers Two Drummer Big Band, Peterson is tasked with the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Trumpeter Al Naylor has been a fixture on the Eastern Iowa music scene for over five decades now, both as a player and as an educator. From leading the I-380 Express Big Band to his work in Orquesta Alto Maiz and the Blue Band, imparting his wisdom …
