On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.
▰ The first track off the forthcoming duo album from pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells. Bluesy, funky, gently atonal, sweet, rough. This may be my single favorite thing Halvorson has recorded to date:
▰ I love how a “single” nowadays is so universal: any standalone track that’s put out in advance of a full album release. No matter the coinage, chill out to the Sixteen performing some seriously ethereal Hildegard of Bingen (I couldn’t get the embed code to work) from their forthcoming Angel of Peace:
▰ An incredible concert recording (audio only) of Power Tools (guitarist Bill Frisell, bass player Melvin Gibbs, and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson) at the Bottom Line in Manhattan on September 10, 1988, which is to say the first September of my life when I wasn’t in school since I’d entered preschool. This band meant so much at the time to me, just outta college, and it still does.
