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Friday, March 6, 2020
In celebration of International Women's Day this Sunday and Women's History Month, we've got a newly updated playlist of music performed and written by some of the women who inspire us at Nonesuch every day, including Laurie Anderson, Olivia Chaney, Daughter of Swords, Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris, Lianne La Havas, Lake Street Dive, k.d. lang, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Gaby Moreno, Mountain Man, Rachael & Vilray, Caroline Shaw, The Staves, Rokia Traoré, Vagabon, Yola, and others. Listen here on Spotify and Apple Music.
Friday, March 6, 2020
Pat Metheny, Rhiannon Giddens tour Australia … John Adams leads Netherlands Radio Philharmonic … Laurie Anderson performs at New Zealand Festival of the Arts … Olivia Chaney is in London … Early James tours US West with The Lone Bellow … Gabriel Kahane performs in Virginia … Kronos Quartet is in San Francisco … Brad Mehldau Trio tours France … Jeff Parker plays Portland, Chicago … Daniel Wohl concludes tour with A Winged Victory for the Sullen …
Friday, March 6, 2020
Dan Auerbach and Yola are among the many artists who will perform at To Nashville, With Love, a benefit concert to support those affected by the tornado that hit Nashville and Middle Tennessee this week. The concert, presented by Lightning 100, will take place at Marathon Music Works in Nashville this Monday, March 9, and also include performances from Ashley McBryde, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Sheryl Crow, among others, and opening remarks from Mike "Grimey" Grimes of Grimey's Records.
Artist Spotlight
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Sam Gendel's Nonesuch debut album, Satin Doll, is a futuristic homage to historical jazz. Three musicians—Gendel on saxophone and other things, Gabe Noel on electric bass, and Philippe Melanson on electronic percussion—engage in simultaneous synchronized sonic constructiondeconstruction of well-known jazz standards, including Miles Davis's "Freddie Freeloader," Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," and Duke Ellington's "Satin Doll."
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Composer/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker's album Suite for Max Brown—named for and dedicated to his mother—features nine original songs plus "Gnarciss," an interpretation of Joe Henderson's "Black Narcissus," and John Coltrane's "After the Rain." Parker plays the majority of the instruments on the album. "I like to pursue situations that take me outside myself, where the things I come up with are things I didn't really know I could do," Parker says.
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Pat Metheny's From This Place features ten compositions by Metheny, who is joined on the album by drummer Antonio Sanchez, bassist Linda May Han Oh, pianist Gwilym Simcock, the Hollywood Studio Symphony led by Joel McNeely, and special guests Meshell Ndegeocello, Gregoire Maret,, and Luis Conte. “His most audacious album yet … a breathtakingly immersive experience that affirms Metheny as a consummate musical storyteller,” exclaims Mojo. “A transcendent album, From This...
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The Magnetic Fields’ Quickies five 7" vinyl box set is twenty-eight new short songs by Stephin Merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirty-five seconds, performed by Merritt and band members Sam Davol, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, and John Woo, along with longtime friends and collaborators Chris Ewen, Daniel Handler, and Pinky Weitzman. Also available on a single CD. Pre-order in the Nonesuch Store to download "The Day the Politicians Died" now and...
Tour
Sun, Mar 8
(All day)
Port Fairy, Australia
Port Fairy Folk Festival w/Francesco Turrisi
Mon, Mar 9
7:30 PM
Marathon Music Works
Nashville, TNUnited States
benefit concert to support those in Nashville affected by the 2020 tornado; w/Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show, Margo Price, Sheryl Crow, others
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