Adams Boxed Set Listening Party
John Adams Collected Works Boxed Set 40XCDs Nonesuch What a seventy-fifth birthday present. Today, Nonesuch releases John Adams Collected Works, a 40-CD compendium of his recordings for the label…
Vadim Neselovskyi – Odesa (CD Review)
Vadim Neselovskyi Odesa Sunnyside Records Jazz pianist Vadim Neselovskyi was born in Ukraine. He moved to the US to study at Berklee and has since joined its faculty, splitting…
Žibuoklê Martinaitytê – Ex Tenebris Lux (CD Review)
Žibuoklê Martinaitytê Ex Tenebris Lux Pavel Gunter, percussion; Rokas Vaitkevičius, cello Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Karolis Variakojis, conductor Ondine Ex Tenebris Lux is the second portrait recording in as many…
Steve Reich – Reich/Richter CD Review
Steve Reich Reich/Richter Ensemble Intercontemporain, George Jackson, conductor Nonesuch Steve Reich has long admired the artwork of Gerhard Richter, whose abstraction and ties to minimalism seem tailor-made for a…
Steven Schick – A Hard Rain (CD Review)
Steven Schick A Hard Rain Islandia Music Records Steven Schick is an extraordinary musician, best known as a percussionist but also a formidable conductor. After decades of performing all…
Dream Syndicate, “Every Time You Come Around” (Bandcamp)
The Dream Syndicate release the album “Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions” on Fire (June 10th). The group has dropped a teaser track, “Every Time You Come Around:” see the…
Mark Turner – Return from the Stars (CD Review)
Mark Turner Return from the Stars Mark Turner, saxophone; Jason Palmer, trumpet; Joe Martin, double-bass, Jonathan Pinson, drums ECM Records In recent years, saxophonist Mark Turner has appeared as…
Rhiannon Giddens sings “Julie’s Aria “from her new opera (Video)
Rhiannon Giddens, along with guitarist Bill Frisell and percussionist Francesco Turrisi, perform “Julie’s Aria” from Giddens’ first opera, Omar. Premiering at Spoleto, the opera is receiving productions at a number of prominent houses. Here is an…
Bryan Senti and ACME – “Mantra” (Video)
Bryan Senti has shared a video of “Mantra,” the first single off of his forthcoming album Manu, out June 24th via naïve.
VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ – “NGALA KAOURENE” (VIDEO)
On June 10, World Circuit will release Les Racines, an album by Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré. The third single on the album, “Oglala Kaurene,” has been given video treatment. Check out…