“Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor.”

“Within ourselves, we get to have renewals whenever we want, and this just felt like the best time to be allowing for this change.”

JP Jofre shares a playlist of composers from Argentina and Uruguay he has been listening to lately.

Violinist Lauren Cauley shares a group of fifteen songs that helped her escape to possible futures, a glimpse into her exploration of comfort and the comfort she found in exploration.

Composer Vivian Fung created this Spotify playlist, including Violin Concerto from our studio album, Dreamscapes, performed by violinist Kristin Lee.

Jenny Beck shares a collection of tracks that invoke entire worlds where the senses intermingle and the very air is sonified.

Tyondai Braxton shares selections he sat with in 2020, a year that forced a reexamination on how we go about our daily lives as well as our relationship with time.

In the debut episode of Migration Music, Han Chen talks with composer Reinaldo Moya about his opera Tienda and his immigrant story.

Arone Dyer shares a smattering of what she listens to for emotional inspiration.

Rajna Swaminathan shares a playlist questioning -- what intensities and multitudes are contained within this unprecedented stillness?

Brittelle formulates a playlist around the artists and inspiration behind the release of his recent digital single "Dido's Lament (Revisited)."

Pianist Erika Dohi curates a playlist that tries to find stillness amidst the chaos, with music reminding us that we will be okay.

Composer and performer Amino Belyamani highlights tracks with deep artistry coupled with tasteful and creative risk-taking.

Matthew Evan Taylor’s The Unheard Mixtapes has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.

Composer and performer Mattew Evan Taylor curates a playlist as an audio love letter to all the people that dared to hear differently and taught him to do the same.

December 4-23, 2020 / The Wethersfield Estate

A brand-new, live, immersive, reimagining of the Holiday Classic for safe family viewing

In selecting week’s tracks, composer and performer Darian Donovan Thomas curated tracks related to the cartoon character Garnet, one of the crystal gems from the cartoon Steven Universe.