Night After Night

Playlist (Searching in the darkness).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

The Muffins - Manna/Mirage (Random Radar/Cuneiform; 1978/1993)

Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre - "Saint-Médard" from Sèances (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 28, 2022)

García/Navas/Reviriego/Trilla - Les Capelles (Tripticks Tapes; due Sept. 23, 2022)

Tomas Fujiwara & Taylor Ho Bynum - Notice (self-released; 2022)

Various artists - Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 1 (Tompkins Square; 2005)

The Sonora Pine - II (Quarterstick/Husky Pants; 1997/due Nov. 11, 2022)

Gordon Grdina's Square Peg - Klotski (Attaboygirl; 2022)

Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell - One More, Please (Intakt; due fall 2022)

Various artists - Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 2 (Tompkins Square; 2006)

Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding (Continuum Montage/Projekt; 1981/2022)

Wadada Leo Smith/Andrew Cyrille/Qasim Naqvi - Two Centuries (Red Hook; due Oct. 7, 2022)

Andrew Cyrille/Elliott Sharp/Richard Teitelbaum - Evocation (Infrequent Seams; due Sept. 30, 2022)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 in D-minor (completed Samale-Phillips-Cohr-Mazzuca) - Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle (Berlin Philharmonic Media; 2022)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8;  "Tarry Trowsers"; "The Carter"; "Ward the Pirate"; "England, my England" - Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion; due Sept. 2, 2022)

Julián Carrillo - Mass for Pope John XXIII - Chorale des Professeurs de Musique de la Ville de Paris/Robert Blot (Sonido 13/CRI; 1965/1969)

Leila Bordreuil - not an elegy (Boomkat Editions; 2021)

Brad Mehldau - Suite: April 2020 (Nonesuch; 2020)

Brad Mehldau - 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch; 2015)

Titan to Tachyons - Vonal (Tzadik; due Sept. 16, 2022)

Editrix - Editrix II: Editrix Goes to Hell (Exploding in Sound; 2022)

Various artists - Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 3 (Tompkins Square; 2009)

St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (Loma Vista; 2021)

Kim Kashkashian, Sarah Rothenberg, Steven Schick, Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson - Rothko Chapel (ECM New Series; 2015)

Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel; Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 4; John Cage - Four2; Erik Satie - Ogive No. 1; John Cage - ear for EAR (Antiphonies); Erik Satie - Ogive No. 2; Gnossienne No. 1; John Cage - Five; Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 3; John Cage - In a Landscape

Pauline Oliveros - The Roots of the Moment (hat ART/hatOLOGY; 1988/2006)

Kiss - Creatures of the Night (Casablanca; 1982)

Metallica - PNC Park, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 14, 2022 (Nugs.net; 2022)

Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade; 2022)

Leila Bordreuil - Snow Day (self-released; 2022)

Various artists - Imaginational Anthem IV: New Possibilities (Tompkins Square; 2010)

Archie Shepp & Jason Moran – Let My People Go (Archie Ball; 2021)

Dumb Waiter - Gauche Gists (Ossein; 2022)

Various artists/DJ Screw - Bigtyme Records, Vol. II: All Screwed Up (Bigtyme; 1995)

Sélébéyone - Xaybu: The Unseen (Pi Recordings; 2022)

Various artists - Imaginational Anthem, Vol 5 (Tompkins Square; 2012)

Playlist (Pilgrims at the double march).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Mali Obomsawin - Sweet Tooth (Our of Your Head; due Oct. 28, 2022)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Suite; Missy Mazzoli - Violin Concerto ("Procession"); Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor (BWV1003) - iii. Andante; Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite - Jennifer Koh, Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali (BBC Sounds; 2022)

Marina Hasselberg - Red (Redshift Music; due Oct. 21, 2022)

Andrew McIntosh - Little Jimmy - Yarn/Wire (Kairos; due Sept. 9, 2022)

Gabriela Ortiz - TZAM; Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Louis Langrée (CSO Replay/YouTube; 2022, stream expired)

Andrew Greenwald - A Thing Made Whole - Austin Wulliman, Wild Up, Ensemble Pamplemousse, Contemporary Insights Ensemble (Kairos; 2022)

Stefan Węgłowski - Phase_1_4 - Adam Kośmieja (Kairos; 2022)

John Ondolo - Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo (Mississippi; due Sept 2, 2022)

Metallica - Boston Calling, Harvard Athletic Complex, Boston, MA, May 29, 2022 (Nugs.net; 2022)

Benny Carter - Princeton Concerts (And Beyond) Vol. 1: April 19, 1973, Live at Princeton (National Jazz Museum in Harlem; 2022)

Polyorchard - scree/n (Tripticks Tapes; due Feb. 2023)

Claire Bryant - Whole Heart - compositions by Caroline Shaw, Jessie Montgomery, Andrea Casarrubios, Adam Schoenberg, Jessica Meyer, Reena Esmail, and Tanner Porter (Bright Shiny Things; due Sept. 9, 2022)

Tashi Dorji/Susie Ibarra - Master of Time (Astral Spirits; 2022)

Various artists - Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI : Chrome Universal – A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel (Tompkins Square; 2022)

National Health - Playtime (Cuneiform; 2001, recorded 1979)

Qwanqwa - Volume 3 (Wuzzawazzee Industries; 2020)

Henry Cow - The Henry Cow Box Redux (Morphius; 2019)

Lou Harrison - Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin - Kate Stenberg (Other Minds; due Sept. 23, 2022)

Kane Ikin - Boundary Curve (Longform Editions; 2022)

Fia Fiell - Endless Filament (Longform Editions; 2022)

Natalie Rose LeBrecht - Star Water ShapeShift (Longform Editions; 2022)

Ross Gentry - Absence Recorded (Longform Editions; 2022)

Clocks in Motion - Oneira: music by Jennifer Bellor (Aerocade Music; 2022)

Robin Holcomb - One Way or Another, Vol. 1 (Westerlies; due Oct. 14, 2022)

Wayne Horvitz/Sara Schoenbeck - Cell Walk (Songlines; 2020)

Harry Partch - The Bewitched - University of Illinois Musical Ensemble (recorded 1957); Taylor Brook - Block (Gate 5/CRI; 1958/2022)

Sophia Subbayya Vastek - In Our Softening (self-released; due Oct. 21, 2022)

Aonghus McEvoy - Under & Cracked (Astral Spirits; 2022)

Greg Davis - new primes (greyfade; due Sept. 23, 2022)

Phillip Golub - filters (greyfade; due Oct. 28, 2022)

Nick Storring - Music from Wéi 成为 (Orange Milk; 2022)

Elton Dean Quartet - On Italian Roads: Live in Milan 1979 (British Progressive Jazz; 2022)

Horace Tapscott Quintet - "Your Child" from The Quintet (Mr. Bongo; due Sept. 9, 2022, recorded 1969)

Program note: Missy Mazzoli at the BBC Proms, August 14, 2022.

Missy Mazzoli and Jennifer Koh (center) with Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Philharmonia Orchestra. (Photograph: Missy Mazzoli's Instagram)

On Sunday, August 14, the brilliant violinist Jennifer Koh joined the Philharmonia Orchestra and its principal conductor, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, in the European premiere of a new composition by Missy Mazzoli, Violin Concerto ("Procession"), during the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

Audio for the entire program – which also included ballet music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev – is streaming on-demand now on the BBC website.

The concerto was jointly commissioned by the BBC along with the National Symphony Orchestra, which presented the work's world premiere in February with Koh as soloist and Gemma New conducting, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which performed, livestreamed, and broadcast a performance of the concerto in March.

One movement from the streamed performance is still available online, as is a brief interview with Mazzoli.

Anyone who's followed me for any time at all knows that I'm a longtime follower of Koh and Mazzoli, individually and together, so it was a real joy to be asked by the BBC to provide a brief essay for the program book. You bet I pulled out The Great Twitter Prophecy of 2009 for the occasion.

This was my second time to write about Mazzoli for the Proms; the first was in 2017, when Karina Canellakis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra presented Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). I'm deeply grateful to the BBC for both opportunities.

The new essay is not available online, so these screenshots will have to suffice.

Playlist (Open mind for a different view).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Shinobu Nemoto & Dave Seidel - Traveling in Stillness (self-released; 2022)

Sepultura - Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation (Cogumelo Produções/Roadrunner; 1985-86/2004)

Various artists - The Trailhead 69 (8/7/22) (Mixcloud; 2022)

Ahem - Ahem (Housecraft; 2022)

Eric Huebner - Earth: Music for Solo Piano by Stephen Barber (New Focus; 2022)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 - National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (NSO; due Sept. 16, 2022)

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Abdul Wadud - By Myself (Bisharra; 1977)

Anthony Davis/James Newton/Abdul Wadud - I've Known Rivers (Gramavision; 1982)

James Newton/Abdul Wadud - Duo performance, date and location unknown (YouTube; 1980s)

Arthur Blythe Quartet - Jazzfestival Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 1, 1980 (YouTube; 1980)

George Lewis - Shadowgraph, 5 (Black Saint; 1978)

Eddi Reader - Light Is in the Horizon (Reveal; 2022)

James Romig - The Complexity of Distance - Mike Scheidt (New World; 2022)

Garcia Peoples - 100 Years of Solid Dudes (self-released; 2022)

Nick Hallett - Whispering Pines 10 (self-released; 2022)

Metallica - Global Citizen, Central Park, New York, NY, Sept. 24, 2016 (Nugs.net; 2016)

Arc of Life - Arc of Life (Frontiers; 2022)

Metallica - Boston Calling, Harvard Athletic Complex, Boston, MA, May 29, 2022 (Nugs.net; 2022)

Goose - Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, June 24, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Patrick Shiroishi/Marta Tiesenga - Empty Vessels (Full Spectrum; 2022)

Anthony Cheung - All Roads (New Focus; 2022)

All Roads - Gilles Vonsattel, Escher Quartet; Elective Memory - Miranda Cuckson, Anthony Cheung; Character Studies - Miranda Cuckson; All thorn, but cousin to your rose - Paulina Swierczek, Jacob Greenberg

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Archora - BBC Philharmonic/Eva Ollikainen (BBC Sounds; 2022)

Konjur Collective - Blood in My Eye (A Soul Insurgent Guide) (cow: Music/Astral Spirits; due Oct. 7, 2022)

Paul Motian with Tony Malaby, Mark Turner, and Bill Frisell - Village Vanguard, New York, NY, Aug. 25, 2010 (roio; 2010)

Paul Motian with Chris Potter and Jason Moran - Lost in a Dream (ECM; 2010)

Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band - Flight of the Blue Jay (Winter & Winter; 1997)

Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, and Bill Frisell - Time and Time Again (ECM; 2007)

Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian - Nothing Ever Was, Anyway. Music of Annette Peacock (ECM; 1997)

Playlist (Digging my way to something).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Steve Roach - One Day (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022)

Bobby Previte - Nine Tributes (self-released; 2022)

Webb Crawford - Joiners (Tripticks Tapes; due Sept. 2, 2022)

Derek Bailey - Solo Guitar, Vol. 1 (Incus/Honest Jon's; 1971/2017)

William Parker - Universal Tonality (Centering/AUM Fidelity; due Sept. 30, 2022, recorded 2002)

Metallica - Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL, July 28, 2022 (Nugs.net; 2022)

Various artists - Deep in the Valley (Pome Pome Tones; due Aug. 20, 2022)

Charles Lloyd - Trios: Ocean (Blue Note; due Sept. 23, 2022)

Matthew J. Rolin - Passing (American Dreams; due Oct. 14, 2022)

Bill Orcutt - Music for Four Guitars (Palilalia; due Sept. 2, 2022)

Anthony Braxton/James Fei - Duet (Other Minds) 2021 (Other Minds; due Sept. 2, 2022)

Angel Deradoorian, Dylan Fujioka, Patrick Shiroishi - Basic Flowers (Shinkoyo; due Aug. 19, 2022)

Peter Brötzmann/William Parker/Milford Graves - Historic Music Past Tense Future (Black Editions Archive; 2022, recorded 2002)

Cheryl E. Leonard - Antarctica: Music from the Ice (Open Minds; 2022)

Giacomo Fiore/Danny Clay - turntable drawing no. 16 (self-released; due Aug. 26, 2022)

Danny Clay - from place to place (self-released; 2021)

Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade; 2022)

John Zorn - Suite for Piano (Tzadik; 2022)

Zoe Amba - O, Sun (Tzadik; 2022)

Charming Hostess - The Ginzburg Geography (Tzadik; 2022)

Tangerine Dream - The Sessions VI (Eastgate; 2020)

Steve Roach - What Remains (Soundquest; 2022)

Forbes Graham - Another Day, Another Vector (Relative Pitch; 2022)

Metallica - NEC Arena, Birmingham, England, Oct. 6, 1996 (Nugs.net; 1996)

Ikue Mori - Tracing the Magic (Tzadik; 2022)

Derek Bailey - Domestic Jungle DAT (Scatter Archive; 2022, recorded 1990s)

Artur Schnabel - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 - BBC Symphony Orchestra; Prague Symphony Orchestra/Paul Zukofsky (CP² Recordings/Musical Observations; 1996)

Artur Schnabel - Dance and Secret; Joy and Peace; Sonata for Solo Violin - Gregg Smith Singers, A New York City Freelance Orchestra/Paul Zukofsky (CP² Recordings/Musical Observations; 1996)

Shinobu Nemoto & Dave Seidel - Traveling in Stillness (self-released; 2022)

Playlist (More is all you need).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Metallica - MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, May 14, 2017 (Nugs.net; 2017)

DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT (Apeshit/Blue Note; 2022)

Amon Amarth “Get in the Ring” from The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade; due Aug. 5, 2022)

Victoria Cheah - A Butterfly on Your Shoulder Into Years and Years to Come - andPlay (Dinzu Artefacts; 2022)

Various artists/The Trailhead - The Trailhead 68 (7/24/22) (Mixcloud; 2022)

Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings (International Anthem; 2018)

Kali Malone - Living Torch (Portraits GRM; 2022)

Peter Evans Ensemble - Horizon (More Is More; 2020)

Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS (Subtext; 2019)

Metallica - Twickenham Stadium, London, England, June 20, 2019 (Nugs.net; 2019)

claire rousay - demos, experiments, extras (self-released subscriber exclusive; 2022)

Brian Eno - Discreet Music (Island/Virgin; 1975/2004)

Duke Ellington - The Best of Early Ellington (Decca/GRP; 1926-31/1996)

Lake Mary - Slow Grass (Whited Sepulchre; due Sept. 23, 2022)

Metallica - Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, Oct. 22, 2004 (Nugs.net; 2004)

Triumvir Foul - Onslaught to Seraphim (Vrasubatlat; 2022)

Beyoncé - Renaissance (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia; 2022)

Django Bates - Like Life (Storyville; 1998)

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdottír - strengur (Carrier; due Aug. 26, 2022)

Compositions by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Davíð Brynjar Franzson, Lương Huệ Trinh, Kent Olofsson, and Mirjam Tally

Goose - Dripfield (No Coincidence; 2022)

Tuluum Shimmering - Planet Caravan (self-released; 2022)

Clara de Asís/Ryoko Akama - sisbiosis (Erstwhile; due Sept. 15, 2022)

Goose - Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY, June 25, 2022 (Nugs.net; 2022)

Phish - LivePhish 12/30/97 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (LivePhish.com; 2008)