Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker perform as part of NYC Winter JazzFest. Laurie Anderson is at SFJAZZ. Julia Bullock joins Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Jeremy Denk, Rhiannon Giddens are at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Gabriel Kahane performs from Magnificent Bird in NYC. Brad Mehldau, Cécile McLorin Salvant join Blue Note at Sea. Mandy Patinkin kicks off tour in Pennsylvania. Joshua Redman is at Tucson Jazz Festival. Chris Thile is solo in Paducah.
Makaya McCraven—whose 2022 album In Times Times landed on many year's best lists, including those of Pitchfork, New York Times, NPR, Uncut, and Mojo—performs at Superior Ingredients in Brooklyn on Saturday as part of NYC Winter JazzFest’s Brooklyn Marathon, taking place at venues across the borough that night. On Sunday, International Anthem / Nonesuch Records label mate Jeff Parker performs as part of Flock Up and Fly: A Night Honoring Jamie Branch, NYC Winter JazzFest’s celebration of the late trumpet player and composer at Nublu in Manhattan.
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Laurie Anderson performs at SFJAZZ Center’s Miner Auditorium in San Francisco on Saturday at part of the SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Directors Reunion Concert. Also on the program are Terri Lyne Carrington, Bill Frisell, and Marcus Shelby.
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Julia Bullock joins the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jacob Joyce to perform Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis tonight and Saturday. The piece is featured on Bullock’s debut solo album, Walking in the Dark, released in December on Nonesuch. BBC Radio 3’s Record Review presenter Andrew McGregor, naming it this week's Record of the Week, says: “Julia Bullock has the kind of effortless, immediacy of communication that emphasizes the radiant simplicity of Barber’s writing … Bullock is equal to everything here, the expressive power and range and truth of her singing leaving an indelible impression.”
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Jeremy Denk performs a sold-out recital in the Kimmel Cultural Campus’s Perelman Theater in Philadelphia tonight, a presentation of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. On the program are works by Bach, Schubert, Joplin, Rzewski, Beethoven, and more.
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Also at the Kimmel Cultural Campus’s Perelman Theater in Philadelphia this weekend is Rhiannon Giddens, who performs on Sunday afternoon as part of Singing Freedom, a multi-artist program that uses Freedom on the Move, Cornell University’s database devoted to the experiences of enslaved people seeking freedom in North America, to bring these individual stories to life through music.
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Gabriel Kahane performs songs from his latest album, Magnificent Bird, in a sold-out show at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City tonight.
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Brad Mehldau and Cécile McLorin Salvant head for a week of music on the open seas with Blue Note at Sea. The ship departs from Ft. Lauderdale today and stops in St. Maarten and St. Thomas.
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Mandy Patinkin kicks off his month-long Being Alive tour of the US East Coast with pianist Adam Ben-David at the State Theater in Easton, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The concert is a collection of many of Patinkin’s favorite Broadway and classic American tunes, from Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Stephen Sondheim and Harry Chapin.
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Joshua Redman is at Centennial Hall in Tucson, Arizona, tonight as part of the Tucson Jazz Festival.
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Chris Thile gives a sold-out solo concert at the Clemens Fine Arts Center in Paducah, Kentucky, on Saturday.
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