Gabriel Kahane and Jeffrey Kahane celebrate their new album, Heirloom, in San Francisco. Jeremy Denk performs with Sacramento Philharmonic. Mary Halvorson joins Ches Smith in Vancouver and at Seattle's Ear Shot Jazz Fest, where Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride play after a show in Chicago. Hurray for the Riff Raff is with The Head and the Heart in Knoxville. Kronos Quartet is in Berkeley. Makaya McCraven plays in Ann Arbor. Mandy Patinkin is in Pennsylvania. Ringdown is at Oregon State. Chris Thile tours North Carolina and Virginia. Molly Tuttle tours Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.
Singer/composer Gabriel Kahane and his father, Jeffrey Kahane, celebrate today’s release of their new album, Heirloom, featuring The Knights, with a performance at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco tonight. The program includes the world premiere of a two-piano arrangement of the finale of Heirloom, which Gabriel Kahane wrote for his father. Gabriel Kahane also performs a solo set at the Healing Force of the Universe in Pasadena, California, on Sunday. You can get the new album and hear it here.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk performs with the Sacramento Philharmonic, conducted by Ari Pelto, at SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center in Sacramento on Saturday for the Philharmonic’s season opening night. The program includes works by Beethoven, Verdi, and Brahms.
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson joins drummer Ches Smith, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and bassist Nick Dunston at Revue Stage for Coastal Jazz in Vancouver tonight and Royal Room in Seattle on Saturday, the latter for Earshot Jazz Festival. Halvorson’s new album, About Ghosts, released earlier this year, "conjures such vibrant, picturesque riffs, capricious melodic excursions, and suspenseful rhythmic undertows," DownBeat says in its four-star review, "a marvelous document for Halvorson’s compositional acumen and conceptual ingenuity.”
Pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Christian McBride are also at Earshot Jazz Festival, continuing their US duo tour at Town Hall’s Great Hall in Seattle on Sunday for the festival, following their concert at Symphony Center in Chicago tonight. Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—was released earlier this year; you can get it on vinyl and CD and hear it here. Mehldau and McBride can be heard on three albums with saxophonist Joshua Redman and drummer Brian Blade: LongGone (2022), RoundAgain (2020), and MoodSwing (1994).
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) concludes their tour supporting The Head and the Heart, bringing music from their album The Past is Still Alive and more to Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville tonight.
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Kronos Quartet is at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, on Saturday for Beyond the Golden Gate. The two-part program features new and recent works by women composers, including world premieres by Victoria Shen and Dai Wei, alongside music by Angélica Negrón, Nicole Lizée, and others. Beyond the Golden Gate, a hybrid performance-discussion-screening with activist David Lei and pipa player Wu Man, explores the impact of Chinese Americans on American culture and features music by Philip Glass, Dai Wei, Lei Liang, Wu Man, and more.
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Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven continues his US Off the Record tour, performing at Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, tonight. The tour continues across the US through October. McCraven’s four new EPs—four more tracks from which were released today—are due on all music platforms on October 31; double LP and double CD compilations, Off the Record, are available for preorder now and are due October 17 via International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings.
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Mandy Patinkin continues his JukeBox tour with pianist Adam-Ben David at the State Theatre in Easton, Pennsylvania, tonight.
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Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan (who celebrates a birthday today) and Caroline Shaw—perform at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, was released earlier this year; you can hear it and get it here.
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Chris Thile kicked off his solo US tour in support of his upcoming album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, in Athens, Georgia, last night, and continues this weekend with shows at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, tonight; Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Saturday; and Forbes Center for the Performing Arts in Harrisburg, Virginia, on Sunday. The new album, due November 7, comprises Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. You can watch a performance video of Giga from Partita No. 2 in D minor directed by Matthew Edginton here.
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Molly Tuttle takes her The Highway Knows tour in support of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, to the Midwest, with shows at The Hawthorn in St. Louis tonight; Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday; and Slowdown in Omaha on Sunday. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson, including So Long Little Miss Sunshine on the All Songs Considered Best New Albums episode. “This thing is magical. It is so good.” Tuttle and her band perform the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow" and her song "Over the Line," the latter from her Grammy-winning Nonesuch debut album, Crooked Tree, live at the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival in Vermont in a new video; you can watch it here.
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