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Brad Mehldau performs the title track 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.
Watch This VideoDrummer, composer, and producer Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet) performs “Bishara,” from his 2022 album, Voices of Bishara, at St. Luke’s Church in West Holloway, London. Featuring himself on drums and percussion, Skinner is joined for the performance by Tom Herbert on acoustic bass, Kareem Dayes on cello, Chelsea Carmichael and Robert Stillman on tenor saxophone, and Paul Camo on samples.
Watch This VideoRachael & Vilray—the duo of singer/songwriter Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) and guitarist/singer/songwriter Vilray—share a video for “Is a Good Man Real?,” 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.
Watch This VideoMakaya McCraven performs “Dream Another,” from his 2022 album, In These Times, live at Public Records in Brooklyn, New York. He is joined by Junius Paul (bass), Brandee Younger (harp), De’Sean Jones (tenor saxophone, flute, EWI), Marta Sofia Honer (viola), Macie Stewart (violin), Zara Zaharieva (violin), and Lia Kohl (cello). “It was really fun doing pared down versions of these songs in such an intimate space,” McCraven says, “especially with so many close friends and family in the house.” Directed and edited by Matthew Edginton. Filmed and recorded on September 19th, 2022.
Watch This VideoHurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares a live video for “Rosemary Tears,” from their 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH. Segarra describes the track as: “A reflection on my experience with time and its passing. The realization that I cannot go back and fix what has been broken. Experiencing memory and time as something that loops on forever beside me, always feeling like the past is not far behind and that it is possible to jump back in. Mourning.” The video was filmed live in concert at Point Éphémère in Paris in September 2022.
Watch This VideoDrummer, composer, and producer Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet) performs “The Journey,” from his 2022 album, Voices of Bishara, at St. Luke’s Church in West Holloway, London. Featuring himself on drums and percussion, Skinner is joined for the performance by Tom Herbert on acoustic bass, Kareem Dayes on cello, Chelsea Carmichael and Robert Stillman on tenor saxophone, and Paul Camo on samples.
Watch This VideoMolly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform "Dooley's Farm" from Tuttle’s 2022 Nonesuch Records debut, Crooked Tree. The video, directed by David Robertson, was filmed during Tuttle’s sold-out release show at Nashville’s legendary Station Inn. Tuttle and the band were joined by Jerry Douglas, who co-produced the album with her.
Watch This VideoMolly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform "Dooley's Farm" from Tuttle’s 2022 Nonesuch Records debut, Crooked Tree. The video, directed by David Robertson, was filmed during Tuttle’s sold-out release show at Nashville’s legendary Station Inn. Tuttle and the band were joined by Jerry Douglas, who co-produced the album with her.
Watch This VideoA trailer for the first studio recording of Tyondai Braxton's Telekinesis—an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir and electronics. Featuring the Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker, and chamber choir The Crossing conducted by Donald Nally, Telekinesis is the first studio recording of the work. The Guardian calls it “a superpower-themed symphony … a titanic composition.”
Watch This VideoGuitarist/composer Mary Halvorson performs her song “Night Shift” live with a newly formed sextet of master improvisers—Patricia Brennan on vibraphone, Nick Dunston on bass, Tomas Fujiwara on drums, Jacob Garchik on trombone, and Adam O’Farrill on trumpet—at Roulette in Brooklyn on September 8, 2021. The performance took place just three days before the musicians went to Sear Sound in Manhattan to record the piece for Amaryllis, one of Halvorson’s two Nonesuch debut albums, along with Belladonna.
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