Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Guitarist John Scofield has been on serious roll since 2015, when his release, “Past Present,” earned a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album. He followed that release with the 2016 album, “Country for Old Men,” which earned him two more Grammys. Last year, he joined forces with …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “I learned a lot about phrasing from Frank,” Willie Nelson said in a recent interview. “He didn’t worry about behind the beat or in front of the beat, or whatever—he could sing it either way, and that’s the feel you have to have.” That’s the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In 1994, Xavier Davis was playing with his college ensemble at the International Association of Jazz Educators in Boston when legendary vocalist Betty Carter spotted him. Carter was so impressed with the talented young artist that she hired him as the pianist for her working trio. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. As the title of his second collaboration with the WDR Big Band implies, forward-thinking trombonist/composer/arranger Marshall Gilkes is committed to pushing ahead with his music. Following the success of his Grammy nominated 2015 recording with the band, Gilkes has come up with another adventurous bit of modernism …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. One of the most energetic and visceral voices in jazz, trombone master Steve Turre delivers a surprising set of lush ballads accompanied by a superb all-star band and inspiring strings on “The Very Thought of You.” Backed by pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Willie …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.The Tokyo born, New York based Miho Hazama has made quite a name for herself as an arranger, composer and conductor. She has composed pieces for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Siena Wind Ochestra and has arranged for artists and ensembles as diverse as the Danish Radio Big …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Puerto Rican trumpeter Charlie Sepulveda has been a fixture of the Latin jazz world since the late 1980s when he played in the band of pianist and composer Eddie Palmieri. During the 1990s, a renaissance period for el jazz Latino, the brassman toured and recorded with an array …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The Los Angeles-based trio of guitarist Mike Clinco, Hammond organist John Van Tongeren and drummer Kendall Kay formed in 2013 as Trinom3 and began honing their unique approach to the organ trio sound. With a shared vision for improvisational music, and a list of collective credits that includes everybody …
