Cécile McLorin Salvant’s album With Every Breath I Take, her first with orchestra, features The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Salvant and the ensemble perform timeless songs—by Coleman, Coward, Ellington, Sondheim, Strayhorn, and Salvant—newly arranged by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue. “Salvant’s first orchestral album immediately announces itself as a Desert Island Disc,” exclaims Jazzwise. “It’s an album full of nuance and lyricism, and one of the most hauntingly beautiful things you’ll hear this year. Magnificent.”
The Wild Heart, the label debut from composer Dylan Mattingly, performed by Contemporaneous with conductor David Bloom and vocal soloist Iarla Ó Lionáird, comprises the five-movement work The Transmutation Notebooks, as well as Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things). (The vinyl edition features the latter piece and two movements from The Transmutation Notebooks.) Composer John Adams says: “Dylan Mattingly is a true original whose music fills the listener with a sense of overflowing abundance ... He’s a genuine American Maverick in the true sense of the term.”
Available September 18
Rhiannon Giddens’s album Hope Is the Thing with Feathers was inspired by the beauty of people coming together and drawing strength from each other. It was intentionally recorded live with no frills and few overdubs, just pure and essential music that captures the feeling of community, clarity, as well as the joy and power of creating together. From exploring the lineages that make American music to the community-oriented spirit in which it was conceived and recorded, in many ways the album tells the story of the past 20 years of Giddens’ life. The vinyl edition is made from 100% recycled vinyl and is carbon neutral.
Available August 21
Fifteen, the first album from the collective trio of saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill, pianist Vijay Iyer, and drummer Dafnis Prieto, is also the label debut for all three musicians. The record takes its name from the number of years the trio has been performing together—first at a series of benefits for New York City’s the Jazz Gallery, a club they have since played at periodically, and then around the US and internationally. It comprises three compositions by Threadgill and Iyer and two by Prieto.
Available August 28
Grammy Award–winning composer Donnacha Dennehy’s Limina features premiere recordings of two pieces: the piano concerto Limina and Violin Concerto, performed by National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, conductor Ryan McAdams, pianist Eliza McCarthy, and violinist Stephen Waarts; it was recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Punch Brothers have released “Found in a Frozen Fog,” a new track from their upcoming album, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, due July 24, and a performance video for it, directed by Josh Goleman.
Rhiannon Giddens has released “Carolina Rain,” a song from her upcoming album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and an animated video for it by Nespy5euro.
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto have released “I Wanted a Map,” a song from their upcoming album, Fifteen, along with a video made during the recording session.
Congratulations to Laurie Anderson, who has been named the 2026 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy. The Kyoto Prize is Japan’s highest private award for global achievement; her fellow 2026 laureates are chemist Tsutomu Miyasaka, in Advanced Technology, and marine microbiologist Farooq Azam, in Basic Sciences.
Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform “From the Air” live at Ravenna Festival in 2023 in a newly released video. Their new triple-LP / double-CD set, Let X=X, released last month, was recorded live on the 2023 tour and features 23 songs, including “From the Air” and many other favorites from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements.
Laurie Anderson and Sexmob play SummerStage in NYC’s Central Park. Rhiannon Giddens kicks off tour with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mavis Staples in Pacific Northwest. Mary Halvorson is at Ottawa Jazz Festival. Punch Brothers are in Ohio and North Carolina. Cécile McLorin Salvant is at Montreal and Saratoga jazz festivals. Tortoise tours mid-Atlantic. Molly Tuttle is in England. Yasmin Williams tours Utah and Colorado.
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