Cécile McLorin Salvant has released “Left Over,” a self-penned song from her upcoming debut orchestral album, With Every Breath I Take, on which she, Metropole Orkest, and conductor Jules Buckley perform timeless songs newly arranged by Darcy James Argue. Salvant plays piano on “Left Over,” which looks at two faces of unrequited love: hopeful fantasy and aching loss. A video for it from the recording session is also out now.
Congratulations to Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Mary Halvorson, all of whom have won JJA Jazz Awards. Salvant has won Female Vocalist of the Year and, with pianist Sullivan Fortner, Duo of the Year; Akinmusire Trumpeter of the Year; and Halvorson Guitarist of the Year. All three have new albums out this month: Salvant’s With Every Breath I Take on June 26 and Akinmusire and Halvorson’s Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings on June 12.
Congratulations to Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, and Sarah Kirkland Snider on being shortlisted for Germany’s Opus Klassik Awards: Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder / Traveler’s Prayer for World Premiere Recording of the Year; Greenwood’s score to the Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another for Film Music/Score of the Year; and Snider’s album Forward into Light for New Classic/Neoclassic.
Happy Pride Month! We’re celebrating with our newly updated playlist of recent and classic Nonesuch recordings by LGBTQ+ composers, performers, and allies, including k.d. lang, Magnetic Fields, Caroline Shaw, Ringdown, Tortoise, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jeremy Denk, Illinoise, and more.
It was 30 years ago this week: Kronos Quartet’s Howl, U.S.A. was released. Kronos incorporates the recorded voices of Allen Ginsberg and Ben Johnston and samples of J. Edgar Hoover and I.F. Stone on an album the Chicago Sun-Times says is “adventurous and provocative and dances on the edge of a whole new form.”
It was 15 years ago this week: John Adams’s album Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet was released on Nonesuch. The former piece, deemed “exhilarating” by the Financial Times, is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble conducted by the composer. The latter, which the Philadelphia Inquirer calls “a knockout,” is performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the ensemble for which the piece was written.
It was 10 years ago this week: Brad Mehldau Trio’s Blues and Ballads was released. On the album the trio—Larry Grenadier, bass; Jeff Ballard, drums—interprets songs by other composers with the focus on blues and ballads implied by the album’s title, including works by Cole Porter, Charlie Parker, Lennon & McCartney, and Jon Brion. “A spellbinding set ... sublime stuff,” exclaims Mojo. The Times of London concurs, calling it “sublimely satisfying.” “Beautiful,” says the New York Times.
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