Seymour Reads the Constitution!
Release date: May 18
On Seymour Reads the Constitution!, Brad Mehldau Trio performs three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and one work from the American songbook (Frederick Loewe's "Almost Like Being in Love"). Pre-order to download the opening track, "Spiral."
Congratulations to David Byrne -- his album American Utopia debuted at No. 1 on the US Top Album Chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200, both career highs! More career chart highs: No. 1 on Canada's Album Chart, Top 20 in the UK & Ireland, and Top 40 in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Netherlands.
Congratulations to Brad Mehldau -- his new solo album, After Bach, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart, his highest career position on the chart, and No. 3 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart! Another career chart high: it debuted at No. 2 on the UK Jazz chart.
David Byrne has shared his Desert Island Discs with BBC Radio 4. "I picked things that are little stepping stones in my life in music, things that I heard as a child, things that influenced my musical decisions, my musical awareness," says Byrne. "These are things that are taking me back to my childhood and then almost up to present day."
Hear his Desert Island Discs ...
k.d. lang Talks Ingénue with New York Times
k.d. lang spoke with the New York Times about Ingénue, the acclaimed 1992 album the paper says "made Ms. lang a superstar." The two-disc Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition is out now on Nonesuch.
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Sam Amidon Announces UK Tour
Sam Amidon announced a UK The Following Mountain tour for October, with shows in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Newcastle, in addition to previously announced summer festival sets.
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Tigran Hamasyan's new EP, For Gyumri, was featured on BBC Radio 2's Jamie Cullum show. "Hamasyan is such a talent, and his new album is as good as anything he has ever done," says Cullum. "A beautiful piece of music. Incredible. Another amazing release on Nonesuch Records."
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Rhiannon Giddens, the Guest Curator of and a performer at the 2018 Cambridge Folk Festival, has selected the performers she has invited to Cherry Hinton Hall in August: Peggy Seeger, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago, Amythyst Kiah, and Yola Carter.
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Seymour Reads the Constitution
Violin Concerto
Free Yourself Up
Still Dreaming
American Utopia
