Ambrose Akinmusire is in residence at NYC's Village Vanguard. John Adams’s music is performed across Germany. Laurie Anderson is in Milan and Lisbon. Flea closes out European tour in Paris. Punch Brothers are in Tennessee and Georgia. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Oxford. Molly Tuttle joins Little Feat in New Haven and upstate NY. Yasmin Williams tours the Carolinas.
Ambrose Akinmusire continues his week-long residency at Village Vanguard in New York City with two sets each night tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Akinmsure has been nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Award for Record of the Year for 2025’s honey from a winter stone. His upcoming album, a collaboration with guitarist and fellow Nonesuch artist Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, is due June 12. You can listen to the album tracks “Blood & Sand” and “Soundcheck” here.
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Composer John Adams’s music is being performed throughout Germany this weekend, with his 1988 piece Fearful Symmetries set in two different ballets on Saturday: choreographer Christian Spuck’s work of the same name being given its premiere by Staatsballett Berlin and Staatskapelle Berlin at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin on Saturday, and French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot’s 1995 piece Vers un Pays Sage being performed by Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg at Thomas Herzog Theater in Duisburg. Meanwhile, in Koblenz, Adams’ 2022 opera Antony and Cleopatra is being staged in a new production at Theater Koblenz on Sunday.
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Laurie Anderson—who recently gave an NPR Tiny Desk Concert you can watch here—is on tour in Europe, taking the stage at Giardino Triennale in Milan for the Milan Triennale tonight. She performs a solo version of Republic of Love, an immersive program of voice and violin reflecting on love and art in America’s current time of turmoil and crisis. Brighton and Hove News, reviewing the tour’s recent stop at Brighton Dome, says, “watching her deliver a musical sermon of minimalism-infused portraits on the ugliness of new-age fascism and government, and the beauty and tenderness of humanity and love, was an experience unlike any other.” On Sunday, she is joined by the jazz group Sexmob at Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. Their new live album, Let X=X, an expansive triple-LP of songs recorded live on tour in 2023 that features reimagined versions of songs from Anderson’s career as well as a take on Lou Reed and Metallica’s “Junior Dad.”
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Flea the Honora Band—saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks—close out their European tour in support of his debut solo album, Honora, with a sold-out show a Alhambra in Paris tonight. They will return to Europe on July 11, performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands, before coming back to America for the Newport Jazz Festival on July 31.
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Punch Brothers stop by at The Caverns in Grundy County, Tennessee, tonight and The Eastern in Atlanta on Saturday as part of their 64-city North American tour. The Grammy-winning band is set to release their seventh album, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, their first entirely instrumental record, on July 24. The second single from the album, “Song of the Water Kelpie (unsung)” is available now, as is a performance video directed by Josh Goleman you can watch here.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, flutist Emi Ferguson, lute and theorbo player Dušan Balarin, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and percussionist Keita Ogawa—perform the second of two nights at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in Oxford, England, tonight. Fellow Nonesuch artist Rhiannon Giddens joined Salvant for a special pre-show conversation about the development of her new material last night. The program, Book of Ayres, blends early music, jazz, and electronic music artistically, drawing on folkloric material of Europe and the Americas, vaudeville, and entirely new compositions written by Salvant. Her forthcoming record, With Every Breath I Take is due on June 26, featuring new arrangement of timeless songs arranged by Darcy James Argue. You can watch the just-released video for the title track here.
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Molly Tuttle joins the band Little Feat as a special guest on their farewell tour at College Street Music Hall in New Haven, Connecticut, tonight, and Perinton Amphitheater in Fairport, New York, outside Rochester tomorrow.
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Composer and guitarist Yasmin Williams is in the Carolinas this weekend, performing in North Carolina, at Revival in Asheville, tonight and Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro tomorrow, before heading to South Carolinato perform at College of Charleston Cistern Yard in Charleston with fellow guitarist William Tyler, opening for the Mountain Goats at Spoleto Festival.
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