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Crucial Listening #117: Phillip Golub

Vocal imitation games, aural cocktails, jazz-adjacent ingenuity. The New York-based composer and pianist discusses three important albums.

Photo by Marena Lin

Vocal imitation games, aural cocktails, jazz-adjacent ingenuity. The New York-based composer and pianist discusses three important albums.

Phillip's picks:

Ensemble Organum & Marcel Peres – Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre-Dame
Ran Blake – Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake Volume 1
The Claudia Quintet – I, Claudia

Phillip's debut solo album, Filters, is out now via Greyfade. His website is here and he's on Instagram @phillipgolub.

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