Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pop music has been a rich resource that jazz artists have mined for generations and the music of the 1960s is no exception, with many finding inspiration in the songs of the Beatles. Organissimo, the acclaimed Michigan-based trio centered around the powerful Hammond B3 organ, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Heads of State made their debut recording in 2015, just months after they played together for the first time as a quartet at Smoke in New York. Now, with another year of playing together under their collective belts (on top of the nearly five decades …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In many ways, Charles Mingus and Gerry Mulligan couldn’t have been more different. One was notoriously fiery and confrontational; the other understated, the epitome of cool. But one thing the two jazz icons did share—beyond their influential shaping of the music’s low end—was their singularity …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. At age 14, pianist and composer Emily Bear enjoys arranging, orchestrating and performing in a diverse collection of styles. Having made her professional debut at the Ravinia Festival at 5-years-old, she has since performed at many of the world’s most well-known venues including Carnegie …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Since moving from Chesapeake, Virginia to New York City in 2001, Nate Smith has helped reinvigorate the international jazz scene with his visceral style of drumming by playing with such esteemed leading lights as bassist Dave Holland, saxophonists Chris Potter and Ravi Coltrane, and singers …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Mads Tolling is a two-time Grammy Award winner, and was named last year’s winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Award for Violin. He’s a former longtime member of Stanley Clarke’s band and the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has also played with Kenny Barron, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. On November 24th, 1980, Dizzy Gillespie invited five jazz legends—Milt Jackson, James Moody, Hank Jones, Ray Brown & Philly Joe Jones—to join him onstage in Montreal to pay tribute to the legendary Charlie Parker. A limited quantity bootleg LP of the concert soon appeared and then …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Duchess—the trio of rising-star New York singers Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner & Melissa Stylianou—has won hearts far and wide with its insouciant swing, sweet-tone harmonies and charming stage presence. Dubbed by DownBeat as “a beacon of jovial esprit,” the group channels the inspiration of vintage …
