Guitarist/bandleader Jeff Parker has released the Happy Today album-length concert film. It was captured by director Charlie Weinmann at the 2025 performance at LA’s Lodge Room that became Happy Today, the acclaimed third album from Parker’s long-running ETA IVtet—drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, saxophonist Josh Johnson.
Cécile McLorin Salvant has released the video for the title track to her upcoming debut orchestral album, With Every Breath I Take. The video captures the recording of the song, written by Cy Coleman and David Zippel and arranged by Darcy James Argue, with Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley, filmed by Ward Brandsma, plus footage of Salvant by Ebru Yildiz.
“Laurie Anderson has a way of holding our lives up to a mirror, reintroducing us to ourselves, in all our ridiculousness and splendor,” NPR’s Tom Huizenga writes of Anderson’s new NPR Tiny Desk Concert. She was joined by violist Martha Mooke and multi-instrumentalist Doug Wieselman, of the band Sexmob, to perform songs from throughout her career, starting with “Let X=X,” from her debut album, Big Science, and the title track to her just-released live album with Sexmob, through music from her latest studio album, Amelia.
Chris Thile has been named the Music Director for the 81st Ojai Music Festival, to be held in Ojai, California, June 10–13, 2027. Thile will be making his first Ojai Festival appearance, as will Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner, who are working with him to develop a new version of Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, receiving its world premiere there. Caroline Shaw, whose work was featured during four prior Festivals, will be in residence as composer and performer.
Ambrose Akinmusire is in residence at NYC’s Village Vanguard. John Adams’s music is performed across Germany. Laurie Anderson is in Milan and Lisbon. Flea closes out European tour in Paris. Punch Brothers are in Tennessee and Georgia. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Oxford. Molly Tuttle joins Little Feat in New Haven and upstate NY. Yasmin Williams tours the Carolinas.
It was 35 years ago: Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s Nonesuch debut album was released. It pairs his first string quartet, Already It Is Dusk, written for and performed by Kronos Quartet, with his 1984 work for clarinet, cello, and piano, Lerchenmusik, performed by London Sinfonietta soloists. The former piece is “a 14-minute gem,” says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “While one can only imagine that Górecki’s music comes from the heart, there is no question that it goes to the heart—and to the gut—of those who hear it.” In both pieces, “it is the music’s directness, not its subtlety, that makes it so winning.”
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