Notable Music

09/14/2026

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 5:30PM - John Coltrane Centennial: Celebrating Jimmy Garrison at Shapeshifter Lab

837 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Coltrane Centennial · Celebrating Jimmy Garrison — September 16, 2026.

5:30–6:45 PM — Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra / Winnie Dahlgren / Ravi Coltrane, Marcus Gilmore & Matt Garrison

6:45–7:10 PM — Intermission

7:10–7:20 PM — Reggie Workman: Words on Jimmy / Solo Performance

7:25–7:35 PM — Stanley Clarke: Words on Jimmy / Solo Performance

7:40–7:50 PM — John Patitucci: Words on Jimmy / Solo Performance

7:50–8:00 PM — Brief Intermission

8:00–8:30 PM — Talks on John, Alice and Jimmy: Yasuhiro “Fuji” Fujioka + Special Guests

8:40–9:00 PM — Fat Cats

9:00–9:30 PM — SSL Ensemble + Guests

Tickets: General $45 · VIP $500 (15) · 2-day pass $85 (Sep 16–17). 15% processing fee on tickets. Tax-deductible gifts are separate and do not include entry.

Program · 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM ET · Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Ticket Info: https://www.shapeshifterplus.org/eventDetails.html?eventId=HyOcyhBspY

09/11/2026

09/10/2026

Nashville, I’m so excited to be back on stage at the Grand Ole Opry during Americana Music Association next Tuesday. Come by to hear us sing some Sugar into the world. xT

09/08/2026

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth with “Supreme Wednesdays,” a special weekly takeover of SiriusXM’s Real Jazz (Ch. 67) throughout September.

Pay tribute to the legendary saxophonist every Wednesday in September with his music, new Centennial releases, and more.

09/08/2026

Tune in for Tift Merritt today at 9a Live with Kelly and Mark: https://livewithkellyandmark.com

09/07/2026

For Labor Day, we’re listening back to our 2009 interview with Rosanne Cash. When she was 18, in 1973, her father Johnny Cash gave her a list of 100 essential country songs he thought she should know. She made an album out of some of those songs called The List. Hear it on NPR and our podcast today.

09/04/2026

Congrats Tift Merritt! On Tuesday September 29th at 7:30p, Merritt will become a Thomas Wolfe Prize Recipient. Tift will receive her award and give a performance in the Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall UNC campus.

The Department of English and Comparative Literature is excited to announce that on Tuesday, September 29th at 7:30 p.m., Thomas Wolfe Prize Recipient, Tift Merritt, will receive her award and give a performance in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. The performance will be free and open to the public, and CLE credit is available. Save the date for what is sure to be an incredible event!

A North Carolina native, Merritt (tiftmerritt) is a Grammy-nominated songwriter and one of Americana’s most quietly influential voices. Originally drawn to writing before learning guitar through her father’s Percy Sledge songs, she has spent over two decades crafting a body of work defined by southern roots, poetic lyricism, and emotional depth. From her landmark debut Bramble Rose to the Grammy-nominated Tambourine, her music has earned lasting praise for its intimacy, independence, and enduring influence.

Beyond the stage, Merritt’s work spans storytelling, archival research, and artist advocacy. A Practitioner-in-Residence at Duke University, she explores creative process and cultural memory through projects like The Spark and her ongoing archival work, while continuing to champion musicians’ rights. Her latest album, Sugar—her first in nearly a decade—finds her returning with a luminous, deeply personal collection recorded live in Nashville, capturing an intimate, unguarded energy and exploring love, resilience, and the quiet sweetness of everyday life.

Congratulations to Tift Merritt on the Thomas Wolfe Prize! We look forward to her performance on September 29 🎤

09/04/2026

"The musicians whose careers Coltrane helped chose different paths to glory, and the music of Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, and Alice Coltrane was some of the most beautiful, expansive, welcoming jazz of the 1970s."

In the last three years of John Coltrane’s life, he did a tremendous amount of work that testified to the importance of the avant-garde/“New Thing” movement in jazz.

09/03/2026