Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sullivan Fortner perform at Carnegie Hall and University of Iowa. Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara play free at The Whitney Museum in NYC. John Adams, Steve Reich are performed in Paris. Emmylou Harris is in Washington, DC. Yasmin Williams tours California.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, joined by pianist Sullivan Fortner, continues her four-part Carnegie Hall Perspectives concert series with a duo set in Zankel Hall in New York City tonight, before heading to Iowa for two sold-out performances at the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City on Sunday. As part of her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, Salvant returns to Carnegie Hall twice next spring: with a full orchestra concert and her multimedia theatrical piece Ogresse. Salvant was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll.
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson and drummer and vibraphone player Thomas Fujiwara, a member of her Amaryllis sextet, are at The Whitney Museum in New York City tonight, for a free performance as part of the Whitney’s Free Friday Nights with Music by Public Records. Halvorson, whose latest album with Amaryllis, Cloudward, was released in January, won the 2024 JJA Jazz Award, the DownBeat Critics Poll for Guitarist of the Year and has been recognized on many year-end lists including Slate, Jazzwise, The Quietus, and Treble Music.
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Composers John Adams and Steve Reich’s works are performed by Ensemble Links at La Gaîté Lyrique’s Grande Salle in Paris on Saturday as part of the tenth edition of the venue’s Marathon! event. The all-electronic music program features Adams’s 1977 piece Shaker Loops and Reich’s 1998 piece Different Trains, the Nonesuch recording of which, performed by Kronos Quartet, won the GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Composition. The newly announced box set Steve Reich Collected Works, which features music recorded during the composer’s forty years on the label, is due March 14. The box set John Adams Collected Works is available now.
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Emmylou Harris is at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC, on Sunday for a sold-out show to benefit Bonaparte's Retreat, the Nashville-based dog rescue organization Harris founded in 2004. Her second Nonesuch album, Stumble Into Grace, was released on vinyl for the first time last year in a limited cream-colored edition for its twentieth anniversary. Newsweek declared: “Her stellar voice takes on new depth when tied to songs this personal.”
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Guitarist Yasmin Williams is in California with Carolina Chocolate Drops alumna Leyla McCalla this week, performing music from her new album, Acadia, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz tonight and Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Saturday, for the DeFord Bailey Legacy Festival. Acadia made several year-end lists, including those of NPR Music, Paste, Uncut, Bandcamp, and the New Yorker, whose Amanda Petrusich writes: “A masterly collection ... Williams is sunny, benevolent, warm. Acadia is a welcome balm in even the grimmest moments.”
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