Makaya McCraven kicked off his Off the Record tour last night and heads to Milwaukee. Joachim Cooder is in Brooklyn. Mary Halvorson tours with Tomeka Reid Quartet in Austria, Czechia, and Belgium. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Sag Harbor. Molly Tuttle tours North Carolina and Tennessee.
Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven, who kicked off his US Off the Record tour in Minnesota last night, heads to Wisconsin for a show at Vivarium in Milwaukee, tonight. The tour continues across the US through October. McCraven’s four upcoming EPs—Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop—will be released 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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Joachim Cooder performs at Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn on Saturday, joined by Adriano Viterbini, performing. Cooder’s Nonesuch Records debut album, Over That Road I'm Bound, was released in 2020.
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson continues her European tour with the Tomeka Reid Quartet—cellist Tomeka Reid, bassist Jason Roebke, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara—performing at Kulturzentrum Leibnitz in Austria tonight for Jazz Festival Leibnitz, Klub Kaštan in Prague on Saturday, and Kunstcentrum Nona in Mechelen, Belgium, on Sunday. 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.”
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—are at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, New York, for the Sag Harbor American Music Festival. Her new album, Oh Snap, was released last week. “From breezy swing to scampering synths, folksy harmonies to stark wails of the soul, Salvant’s crystalline vocals shine across her ingenious experiments,” says The Guardian in its four-star review. “A jazz artist of rare gifts and fearless variety.”
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Molly Tuttle, whose new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, was released last month, continues her The Highway Knows tour with two shows in North Carolina—at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro tonight and Orange Peel in Ashevilleon Saturday—and a concert at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville 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.”
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