January 13 – Rokia Traore: Tchamanchte is the follow--up to Traor's award winning and critically acclaimed 2003 breakthrough Bowmboi. Tchamanchte stems from a simple inspiration—the sound of an old Gretsch guitar—and employs a traditional pop rhythm section. Traor composed all the songs on Tchamantche, with the exception of the Billie Holiday classic “The Man I Love," a song she first sang in a duet with Dianne Reeves during the Billie and Me tour in 2005. Known for her outspoken lyrics, Traor covers a variety of topics on her new record. Mark Coles, of BBC World Service recently dubbed Tchamanchte “One of the albums of the year. An absolute stunner."
January 13 – Joshua Redman: Compass is a continuation of his 2007 release Back East, which The New York Times called “the most agile and personal record of his career." Going one step further on the concept of performing with an acoustic duo, Redman entered the studio with four friends and colleagues—Brian Blade (drums), Larry Grenadier (bass), Gregory Hutchinson (drums) and Reuben Rogers (bass)—who, with Redman, became a rotating, and intertwining, pair of trios.
February 24 - Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective is a three--disc set celebrating the composer's 100th birthday. The box includes 14 of the recordings Nonesuch made of Carter's music between 1968 and 1985, plus the first issue of Night Fantasies on CD. His centenary will be celebrated internationally with performances in New York, Madrid, Turin, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Vienna, and London. A complete list of works and performances, as well as downloadable photos, images, biographies, and a video interview, can be found at www.carter100.com.
February 10 – Dan Auerbach: Keep It Hid is the solo debut from the singer/songwriter/guitarist best known as one half of The Black Keys. Auerbach produced and engineered the record at his studio Akron Analog, which features him playing a variety of instruments, including strings, drums, guitar, percussion and keyboards. Of the recording process Auerbach states, “I wanted a live, organic sound. Nothing was plotted or planned, just a lot of spontaneity." In February Auerbach will begin a national tour with performances in New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC.
February 24 – The Best of Bill Frisell Volume 1: Folk Songs launches Nonesuch's ongoing series of guitarist/composer Bill Frisell retrospective albums. Each of the compilations is designed to focus on a specific aspect of his remarkably varied catalogue. For more than 20 years, and over the course of 22 discs on Nonesuch, Frisell has created work that touches on both familiar genres and on yet-to-be-named sounds. This inaugural collection, with liner notes by collaborator Elvis Costello, documents Frisell's excursions into what can broadly be called folk music—his highly personal take on country, bluegrass, blues, and Americana.
March 24 – Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali. The singer Mariam Doumbia and her husband, the guitarist/vocalist Amadou Bagayoko, have been making music together since they first met and fell in love at the Institute for Young Blind People in Bamako, Mali's capital, three decades ago. Over the last few years, they have achieved remarkable critical and popular acclaim in Europe and North America. They now perform to crowds of thousands (often tens of thousands) in cities worldwide. Three years in the making, Amadou & Mariam's new album, Welcome to Mali, has just been released in the U.K. and is being embraced as enthusiastically as its predecessor, the breakthrough Dimanche a Bamako. In a five--star review, London's Observer Music Monthly has said, “Welcome to Mali will be appreciated by millions; not as ‘world music' but as the product of an authentically global pop phenomenon." (Spring U.S. tour dates will be announced soon.)
March, exact date TBD – Richard Goode: Beethoven: The complete Piano Concertos marks the Grammy Award–winning pianist's first recording of all five Beethoven piano concertos. The five works—spanning three discs—feature the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by the group's founding conductor, Ivan Fischer. Goode is one of very few American pianists to have recorded the complete Beethoven concertos, and the first to do so in nearly 20 years. “...without equal when it comes to the music of Beethoven." --The Denver Post
April 7 – Sara Watkins is the self--titled debut solo album of singer/songwriter/fiddle player who is best known as a founding member of the Grammy Award–winning, critically acclaimed, and platinum-selling band Nickel Creek. The album is produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and features Gillian Welch and Dave Rawling, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas; colleagues from the bluegrass world like Tim O'Brien, Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge, Ronnie McCoury, and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek bandmates Chris Thile and Sean Watkins. She wrote or co--wrote eight of the 14 songs on the record, which also includes renditions of tracks by Jimmie Rodgers, Jon Brion, Norman Blake, and Tom Waits.
April 21 – Allen Toussaint: Bright Mississippi is Toussaint's first solo album in more than a decade. Produced by friend and frequent collaborator Joe Henry, the record includes songs by jazz greats such as Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn. Toussaint and Henry created a band of highly regarded musicians for the sessions: clarinetist Don Byron, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist David Piltch, and percussionist Jay Bellerose. Additionally, pianist Brad Mehldau and saxophonist Joshua Redman each join Toussaint for a track. Toussaint will perform around the U.S. this spring, including a week at New York's Village Vanguard (May 19–24) with most of the band from the album.
January 13 – Joshua Redman: Compass is a continuation of his 2007 release Back East, which The New York Times called “the most agile and personal record of his career." Going one step further on the concept of performing with an acoustic duo, Redman entered the studio with four friends and colleagues—Brian Blade (drums), Larry Grenadier (bass), Gregory Hutchinson (drums) and Reuben Rogers (bass)—who, with Redman, became a rotating, and intertwining, pair of trios.
February 24 - Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective is a three--disc set celebrating the composer's 100th birthday. The box includes 14 of the recordings Nonesuch made of Carter's music between 1968 and 1985, plus the first issue of Night Fantasies on CD. His centenary will be celebrated internationally with performances in New York, Madrid, Turin, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Vienna, and London. A complete list of works and performances, as well as downloadable photos, images, biographies, and a video interview, can be found at www.carter100.com.
February 10 – Dan Auerbach: Keep It Hid is the solo debut from the singer/songwriter/guitarist best known as one half of The Black Keys. Auerbach produced and engineered the record at his studio Akron Analog, which features him playing a variety of instruments, including strings, drums, guitar, percussion and keyboards. Of the recording process Auerbach states, “I wanted a live, organic sound. Nothing was plotted or planned, just a lot of spontaneity." In February Auerbach will begin a national tour with performances in New York City, Boston, and Washington, DC.
February 24 – The Best of Bill Frisell Volume 1: Folk Songs launches Nonesuch's ongoing series of guitarist/composer Bill Frisell retrospective albums. Each of the compilations is designed to focus on a specific aspect of his remarkably varied catalogue. For more than 20 years, and over the course of 22 discs on Nonesuch, Frisell has created work that touches on both familiar genres and on yet-to-be-named sounds. This inaugural collection, with liner notes by collaborator Elvis Costello, documents Frisell's excursions into what can broadly be called folk music—his highly personal take on country, bluegrass, blues, and Americana.
March 24 – Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali. The singer Mariam Doumbia and her husband, the guitarist/vocalist Amadou Bagayoko, have been making music together since they first met and fell in love at the Institute for Young Blind People in Bamako, Mali's capital, three decades ago. Over the last few years, they have achieved remarkable critical and popular acclaim in Europe and North America. They now perform to crowds of thousands (often tens of thousands) in cities worldwide. Three years in the making, Amadou & Mariam's new album, Welcome to Mali, has just been released in the U.K. and is being embraced as enthusiastically as its predecessor, the breakthrough Dimanche a Bamako. In a five--star review, London's Observer Music Monthly has said, “Welcome to Mali will be appreciated by millions; not as ‘world music' but as the product of an authentically global pop phenomenon." (Spring U.S. tour dates will be announced soon.)
March, exact date TBD – Richard Goode: Beethoven: The complete Piano Concertos marks the Grammy Award–winning pianist's first recording of all five Beethoven piano concertos. The five works—spanning three discs—feature the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by the group's founding conductor, Ivan Fischer. Goode is one of very few American pianists to have recorded the complete Beethoven concertos, and the first to do so in nearly 20 years. “...without equal when it comes to the music of Beethoven." --The Denver Post
April 7 – Sara Watkins is the self--titled debut solo album of singer/songwriter/fiddle player who is best known as a founding member of the Grammy Award–winning, critically acclaimed, and platinum-selling band Nickel Creek. The album is produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and features Gillian Welch and Dave Rawling, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas; colleagues from the bluegrass world like Tim O'Brien, Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge, Ronnie McCoury, and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek bandmates Chris Thile and Sean Watkins. She wrote or co--wrote eight of the 14 songs on the record, which also includes renditions of tracks by Jimmie Rodgers, Jon Brion, Norman Blake, and Tom Waits.
April 21 – Allen Toussaint: Bright Mississippi is Toussaint's first solo album in more than a decade. Produced by friend and frequent collaborator Joe Henry, the record includes songs by jazz greats such as Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn. Toussaint and Henry created a band of highly regarded musicians for the sessions: clarinetist Don Byron, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist David Piltch, and percussionist Jay Bellerose. Additionally, pianist Brad Mehldau and saxophonist Joshua Redman each join Toussaint for a track. Toussaint will perform around the U.S. this spring, including a week at New York's Village Vanguard (May 19–24) with most of the band from the album.
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