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Tracks of the Week 08.01.23

Tracks of the Week
After lending his lusty baritone to the works of Lou Reed and Dylan Thomas on the jazzily contemplative Free and adopting the role of rapporteur alongside the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge, this week Iggy Pop plummily embraces his iconic role as the guy with no shirt who rocks as Every Loser features strung-out ballads and odes to his adopted...

Tracks of the Week 12.11.22

Tracks of the Week
The Chicago native and veteran bandleader Kahil El'Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Locating the middle ground between his British roots and the Occitan part of his family in the southern French department of Aveyron, the percussionist and sound artist Sébastien...

Tracks of the Week 24.07.21

Tracks of the Week
When the Metropolitan Opera reopens in September, the occasion will be doubly historic after eighteen months in the dark. Some semblance of light at the end of a long tunnel, opening night will bring the Met's first performance of an opera by a black composer, in the form of Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Terence Blanchard. An...