"He was just as famous as Shostakovich, if not more so, when he was alive."
The Tyshawn Sorey Trio play this year's Newport Jazz Festival
Welcome to the last weekend in July and to New In Music This Week: July 25th. This week I have a diverse line-up of recordings to choose from. They all have something unique to offer.
My top pick for New In Music This...
"It's a new technique for me in composition, which is to take text and to use that text as if I were setting it to be sung, but it's never sung."
"It's a jukebox musical, for God's sake. Yet it goes to a very rich, fertile, dark, joyful place."
This week's Best Bets: July 21st - July 27th contain a few firsts: a first-time visit by a centuries old orchestra; a legendary soprano makes her directorial debut and a novel considered to be one of the best crime...
The LA Philharmonic's recording of "Yanga'" by Gabriela Ortiz tops this week's list
"This quartet is essentially a manual I've written for myself to survive this current moment in history."
6 Streaming Jazz Concerts from the 92nd Street Y is one of our Best Bets!
Jaleel Shaw's "Painter of the Invisible" tops this week's list