Branford Marsalis & the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Two weeks after his brother Wynton’s Charlotte concert, as well as days
before the release of his latest album, “In My Solitude: Live at Grace
Cathedral,” the elder Marsalis (he's 54) continues to explore classical music with
orchestral Baroque pieces by Bach, Telemann, and Albinoni in a show he’s dubbed
“Well Tempered.”
The Cowards Choir
Songwriter Andy Zipf - last here with this summer’s Parlor
Sessions collective - took a new name (the title of an old release actually)
and a fresh direction that he’s been honing in on for a few years. He
celebrates the “Cool Currency” EP (his second under the new name) with Tom
McBride and Thomas Pagan Motta (the also latter plays an in-store at Repo Record at
6:30 p.m.).
Junior Astronomers
Friday
9 p.m., Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th St., Free over 21,
$5 under 21, www.neighborhoodtheatre.com
For the past six years founding members Terrence Richard and Philip Wheeler have been celebrating their co-birthday
with a free live music blow-out starring - not only their own nationally-touring indie rock band - but a few
of their friends. This year they are joined by Girl
Pants, Wunderbeast, and Small Sanctions.
Hurray for the Riff Raff
While drawing mainstream attention with modern folk classics like
“I Know It’s Wrong (But That’s All Right),” this New Orleans combo led by
Puerto Rican banjo player/singer Alynda Lee Segarra and transgender fiddler Yosi
Perlstein is championing feminism, non-violence, and LGBT causes
with brazenly breathtaking and fun folk.
Joe Ely
This year the revered Flat-lander and Lubbock songwriter published
his first novel, “Reverb: An Odyssey,” and unearthed an unreleased album from
the `80s. “B4 84” was possibly the first record ever recorded on an Apple
computer and it surprisingly doesn’t sound dated.
Los Lobos
The globally acclaimed Mexican-American band, which formed while
in high school in East L.A. in the early `70s, celebrates its fortieth
anniversary by revisiting its post “La Bamba” 1989 album “La Pistola y El
Corazon” with an acoustic set of Tejano and Mariachi folk songs as well as its
best loved hits.
Ne-Yo
The Grammy winning R&B singer and hit songwriter (Beyonce’s
“Irreplaceable,” Rihanna’s “Take a Bow”) previews material from his upcoming
2015 album “Non-Fiction” (including current single “She Knows”) in an intimate
club setting, while revisiting past hits like “So Sick,” “Closer,” and “Miss
Independent.”
Yellowcard
Given the sudden injury and paralysis of singer Ryan Key’s
pro-snowboarder fiancé, fans might expect its new album
“Lift a Sail” to be a melancholy one. Instead it’s an anthemic, grand guitar
rock album reminiscent of Blink 182 and 311’s best, most expansive work with
the only cry from fans being “more violin!” (The couple is now married).
Sarah Jarosz & the Milk Carton Kids
Twenty-three-year-old roots wunderkind and recent New England
Conservatory of Music grad Jarosz teams with the California folk duo who are
also fellow Grammy nominees and her “Austin City Limits” episode partners. As a
gather-round-the-mic trio, they demonstrate just how exciting the
future of roots music is.
Filmstrip
The Cleveland trio capture `90s guitar fuzz and lo-fi indie rock,
but blend it with an almost classic folk-rock aesthetic while avoiding noise
for art’s sake (that can muddle the meaning) with traditional structure and
audible lyrics. It’s new album, “Moments of Matter,” which was recorded at
Asheville’s Echo Mountain studio, is out Nov. 4.
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