Laurie Anderson offers an early listen to her new album, Amelia, out next week, in a listening party and conversation at Guild Hall in Easthampton, New York, tonight. After sharing the album, Anderson will take part in an intimate conversation and Q&A. Amelia, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight, is “mesmerizing from the first line to the last," says V magazine in an interview with Anderson. “For the album's runtime, the listener's world is marvelously supplanted with Earhart's in a whirl of 3-dimensional sound. Telegraphed by Anderson's hypnotic vocals and the sweeping power of the orchestra, the fearless flier's journey becomes ours—and what an incredible journey it is.” You can read it here.

"There are no single words to sum up my next guest's life in music," BBC Radio 3 Saturday Morning's Tom Service says of Anderson. "She's a composer, sure. A performer, certainly. And she's a pioneering explorer of so many musical and creative cultures. She's someone whose imagination takes her all over the world. Not least in her latest album, Amelia." You can hear their conversation at two hours and thirty-two minutes into the episode here.

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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire is joined by a string quartet, DC-based rapper/producer/singer Kokayi, and longtime collaborators pianist Sam Harris and drummer Justin Brown for the West Coast premiere of his new project, Honey From A Winter’s Stone, in a free set at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

Earlier this year, Akinmusire won Trumpeter of the Year in the Jazz Journalists Association's JJA Jazz Awards, as well as in the DownBeat Critics Poll, which also includes his Nonesuch debut album, Owl Song, featuring Bill Frisell and Herlin Riley, among the Jazz Albums of the Year. “A quiet rush of gorgeous sound where space, tone and beauty come together in one of the most impactful albums of 2023,” says DownBeat. “This is one of the most interesting recordings to come along in a very long time by one of the most interesting artists of our time.”

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Soprano Julia Bullock is accompanied by pianist Bretton Brown at Bold Tendencies in London on Saturday for a recital of works by Connie Converse, Nina Simone, Kurt Weill, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Allan Berg, Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Cotten, Marian Anderson, Odetta, and John Cage. “I love this idea of ‘intersection’ for inspiration when it comes to describing American music or its characteristics,” Bullock says in a new video from Boosey & Hawkes for its America at 250 series; tou can watch that here. Her acclaimed 2022 solo debut album, Walking in the Dark, won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. You can hear the album—which takes its title from a lyric in “One By One,” the Connie Converse song she sings on it—here.

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The Magnetic Fields kicked off the European leg of their 69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary tour in Dublin earlier this week and have two shows at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh on Saturday and Sunday, part of the Edinburgh International Festival. The concerts, which continue in Europe through September before picking back up in the US in October, feature the full album, all 69 songs, over two nights at each tour stop. “The album expressed a position on heteronormativity,” frontman Stephin Merritt tells the Guardian’s Dave Simpson ahead of the shows. “I’d sing a male part or lesbian part. It’s normal now, but 25 years ago it felt electrifying.” You can read what else he and bandmate Claudia Gonson had to say here.

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Singer Davóne Tines joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for an open rehearsal of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed in Lennox, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning, followed by a complete performance of the piece at Tanglewood on Sunday afternoon. Also on the program is Anton Bruckner’s Ecce sacerdos magnus. Davóne Tines’s new album with his band The Truth, ROBESON, is due September 13 on Nonesuch. The track “THE HOUSE I LIVE IN” and a video for it directed by Tines were released last month; you can watch it here.

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Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) brings music from her latest album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, to Victoria Park in London tonight, for the All Points East festival. Released last year on Nonesuch, Sorry I Haven’t Called is an album “that chases joy at every turn,” says Dork in its four-star review, and “cycles through urgent dance, fiery indie, and feel good pop with a resilient sense of euphoria underpinning every joyous moment.” “To unspool Tamko’s music is a bountiful reward,” says Paste. “Especially on Sorry I Haven’t Called, the work is dazzling and stirring.”

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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams performs at the Southern Cafe & Music Hall in Charlottesville, Virginia, tonight, then heads to Asheville, North Carolina, to help celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Harvest Records with a free in-store performance there on Saturday. Williams' Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, due October 4, is “beautiful—a showcase for a one-of-a-kind artist,” says Aquarium Drunkard’s Jason P. Woodbury, who recently spoke with Williams for the site’s Transmissions podcast. You can hear their conversation here.

Williams recently stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. She chose recordings by Makaya McCraven, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tigran Hamasyan, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Sam Amidon. You can watch that here.