Cécile McLorin Salvant continues a weeklong residency at Village Vanguard in NYC through Sunday. Carminho kicks off North American tour in Boston and New Jersey. John Adams's Naive and Sentimental Music is performed by SF Symphony led by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Timo Andres joins Calder Quartet in California and New Mexico. David Byrne chats with Kalefa Sanneh at the New Yorker Festival. Tigran Hamasyan is in South Korea. Makaya McCraven is in Kentucky. Mandy Patinkin performs in Portsmouth, NH. NY Phil premieres Steve Reich's Jacob’s Ladder. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour California and Oregon.
Cécile McLorin Salvant and her quartet—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—continue their sold-out weeklong residency at Village Vanguard in New York City, featuring music from Salvant’s new album, Melusine, and more, through the weekend, with early and late sets tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday. Salvant, who has just won the Edison Jazz Award in the Netherlands for International Vocalist and was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, “has already far transcended her early status as her generation's most imaginative and thrilling jazz interpreter,” says SPIN, naming Mélusine, one of The Best Albums of 2023 (So Far).
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Portuguese fado singer Carminho kicks off a North American tour, in support of her new album, Portuguesa, in the Northeast this weekend, with concerts at Berklee Performance Center in Boston tonight and South Orange Performing Arts Center in New Jersey on Sunday. The tour continues with shows in Chicago, Stanford, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in the week ahead before heading to Canada.
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Composer John Adams's Naive and Sentimental Music is performed by the San Francisco Symphony, featuring violinist Pekka Kuusisto and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco tonight and Saturday. Salonen conducted the LA Phil in the premiere recording on the piece, which Nonesuch released in 2002. Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer, which Nonesuch released in 1991, gets its Swedish debut at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå on Sunday, conducted by Jessica Cottis.
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Timo Andres joins The Calder Quartet for the world premiere performances of his new piece for piano quintet, The Great Span, at Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, California, tonight, and Simms Auditorium at Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sunday. The program also includes Andres’ Machine, Learning, Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet in A minor, Ann Southam’s Remembering Schubert, and Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy.
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David Byrne joins the New Yorker’s Kalefa Sanneh in conversation at SVA Theater in New York City on Saturday, as part of The New Yorker Festival. Byrne and Fatboy Slim, whose musical Here Lies Love is now on Broadway, were recently on ABC’s Nightline to discuss the show, which host Juju Chang calls an “immersive and electrifying telling” of the rise and fall of the Philippines’ notorious Imelda Marcos and the People Power Revolution, and the importance of the historic all-Filipino cast; you can watch the piece here. And watch the cast perform music from the production on Good Morning America here.
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Tigran Hamasyan performs on the Jazz Island Stage on Jara Island in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Saturday, as part of Jarasum Jazz Festival. Hamasyan’s latest album, StandArt, released last year on Nonesuch, is his first album of American standards. “Hamasyan is one of today’s most revered and distinctive voices in jazz and creative music,” says Jazziz. “StandArt finds him applying different techniques and ideas that he has developed over the years to a revered repertoire, breathing new life into well-worn songs and lesser-known gems.”
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Makaya McCraven plays the Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky, tonight. McCraven, who recently won the Deutscher Jazzpreis for International Drums/Percussion, released his new album, In These Times, last year, making several year's best album lists, including those of Pitchfork (“a high-water mark”), NPR Music's Nate Chinen (“the culmination of a years-long experiment in groove ... just might be Makaya McCraven's manifesto”), and Treble (“McCraven's masterwork”).
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Mandy Patinkin brings his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—to The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday, accompanied by pianist Adam Ben David. Patinkin's latest album, Children and Art, was released on Nonesuch in 2019.
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Composer Steve Reich, whose birthday was this week, had the World Premiere of his new work, Jacob’s Ladder, in a performance by the New York Philharmonic, led by Music Director Jaap van Zweden, and Synergy Vocals, at David Geffen Hall’s Wu Tsai Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City last night. Performances of the program, which also includes Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, continue tonight and Saturday.
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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, who won three IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards last week, bring music from their critically acclaimed new album, City of Gold, to California and Oregon this weekend. Tuttle and the band play the Steelhead Stage at Monterey County Fair and Event Center in Monterey this afternoon, for Rebels and Renegades Music Festival, followed by a show at Van Duzer Theatre in Arcata on Saturday. From there, they head north to Oregon to play Domino Room in Bend on Sunday. You can watch their new video for “Alice in Bluegrass,” filmed in the Nashville studio where they recorded City of Gold and released just yesterday, here.
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