Cécile McLorin Salvant shares a video for the title track to her 2023 album, Mélusine. The album features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, that tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother.

Brad Mehldau performs “Golden Slumbers” from his 2023 album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles. The live solo album, recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris, features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. The album ends with a David Bowie classic that draws a connection between The Beatles and pop songwriters who followed. An extended version of this live performance video, recorded at New York City’s legendary Village Vanguard, preceded by an introduction by the pianist, may be seen here. 

Rachael & Vilray—the duo of singer/songwriter Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) and guitarist/singer/songwriter Vilray—share a video for “Any Little Time,” from their 2023 album, I Love a Love Song!, that features Vilray on vocals. Filmed in Studio A at United Recording in Los Angeles, the video is directed and edited by Jacob Blumberg.

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs “D’un feu secret,” Michel Lambert’s 1660 air de cour, from her 2023 album, Mélusine. The album features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, that tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. Video animated by Amanda Bonaiuto in Brooklyn, NY, with assistance by Kohana Wilson. 

A visualizer for Sam Gendel’s version of 112’s “Anywhere,” featuring Meshell Ndegeocello on vocals, from Gendel's 2023 album, COOKUP. Comprising interpretations of R&B and soul hits originally released between 1992 and 2004, COOKUP “marks another chance to convene with my good friends Phil Melanson and Gabe Noel,” says Gendel. “For this occasion we hovered over a particular flavor: jams that we grew up with. We sculpted in sound our collective memories of this music. Meshell Ndegeocello took the 112 to another dimension (shoutout wayne12). Listen to Ginuwine, listen to 100 covers of Ginuwine on YouTube, listen to COOKUP.”

Vagabon, the moniker of Lætitia Tamko, shares a lyric video for “Carpenter.” The single, which was co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Clairo, Maggie Rogers), is her first newly created solo music since her 2019 critically acclaimed self-titled album. “‘Carpenter’ is about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward thinking, and evolved,” Tamko explains. “It’s about being confronted with your limitations. It’s about that a-ha moment, when a lesson from the past finally clicks and you want to run and tell someone who bore witness to the old you, ‘I finally get it now.’”

Brad Mehldau performs “I Am the Walrus” from his 2023 album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles. The live solo album, recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris, features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. The album ends with a David Bowie classic that draws a connection between The Beatles and pop songwriters who followed. An extended version of this live performance video, recorded at New York City’s legendary Village Vanguard, preceded by an introduction by the pianist, may be seen here. 

Rachael & Vilray—the duo of singer/songwriter Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) and guitarist/singer/songwriter Vilray—share a video for “Just Two,” from their 2023 album, I Love a Love Song!. Filmed in Studio A at United Recording in Los Angeles, the video is directed and edited by Jacob Blumberg.

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs “Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying,” the Grammy-nominated song from her from her Grammy-nominated Nonesuch Records debut, Ghost Song. Recorded during her two-night engagement at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center in May 2022, the video features Salvant along with pianist Sullivan Fortner, percussionist Keita Ogawa, guitarist Marvin Sewell, flutist Alexa Tarantino, and bassist Yasushi Nakamura, all of whom also are on the album. Salvant arranged the songs written by Harold Arlen/Herbert Stothart/Yip Harburg and Gregory Porter, respectively.

A short video about the making of Walking in the Dark, the solo recording debut of classical singer Julia Bullock. On the album, Bullock is by London’s Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif for Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and an aria from John Adams’s El Niño. With Reif on piano, she also performs a traditional spiritual and songs by Connie Converse, Oscar Brown Jr., Billy Taylor, and Sandy Denny. Of the album’s varied repertoire, Bullock says, “This music and poetry have contributed to my development as a classical singer. Over the years, I’ve returned to this material with reconsideration, revision, and review, and that makes me undoubtedly call these songs ‘classics’—classics, which are inclusive of traditions across cultures, and celebrate a diversity of thought, expression, and experience.”