Looks like a pretty quiet release week but I'm probably missing stuff. What's everyone got?
Most excited about Ambrose Akinmusire's release today, "on the tender spot of every calloused moment" - waiting to check it out tonight on the deck since the weather's pretty decent
Also: Photay - Waking Hours (new-ish artist to me, just digging into his stuff but really enjoying it - been listening to a lot of four tet and floating points lately, quantic and bonobo too -- it's in some of that space -- but very much its own thing -- "Is It Right?" is blowing my mind)
No Time For Love Like Now - Michael Stipe and Big Red Machine (single, it's really really good)
GoGo Penguin - another act that's recent to me but I'm enjoying a lot
I've been copying and pasting the last few Friday post titles and then just changing the date to try and keep the titles consistent... and now it's past the editing period so I can't change it...
Didn't realize the new Norah Jones was out today - thanks for that. She was on Questlove Supreme a few weeks ago - pretty good interview and she was pretty excited about this record. If I remember right, she said this was inspired by some stripped down trio jazz-ish performances she did (including Brian Blade, I think). Not sure how direct the connection is to the record but that's a promising start...