While I'm on the subject of The Volume (which I'm not being paid extra to flog, I promise), I've just remembered that I uncorked a secret scoop over there last Thursday afternoon, regarding some very special unannounced guests who'll join the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Clogs and Bell Orchestre in "Shuffle Mode," a concert coming up on February 26 at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. (The photo above is a pretty obvious tip as to the identity of one prominent guest, and there are three more surprises.)

That I didn't bring the news over here immediately speaks to deadlines and distractions, but the good news is that tickets are still available.

Playlist:

Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos and Colin Walcott – The Codona Trilogy (ECM)

Benny Golson – New Time, New ’Tet (Concord)

Jon Hassell – Last night the moon came dropping its clothes (ECM)

The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East (Mercury Deluxe Edition)

Branford Marsalis Quartet – Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music; due March 17)

Hans Werner Henze – Elogium Musicum (publisher's demo of a stunning recent piece; details here)

Juan Diego Flórez – Bel Canto Spectacular – Orquestra de Comunitat Valenciana/Daniel Oren (Decca)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor; Violin Concertos in A minor and E; Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor – Julia Fischer, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Andrey Rubtsov, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (Decca)

Josef Suk – Asrael – Helsinki Philharmonic/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Ondine)

Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas – Sarah Connolly, Gerald Finley, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Elizabeth Kenny & Steven Devine (Chandos)

Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave (Century Media)

Denny Zeitlin – Mosaic Select: The Columbia Trio Sessions (Mosaic)

Alban Berg – Violin Concerto; Leoš Janáček – Violin Concerto; Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Concerto funebre* – Thomas Zehetmair, Philharmonia Orchestra/Heinz Holliger, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie* (Teldec)

Roscoe Mitchell – Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes (Nessa)

Steve Tibbetts – Safe Journey (ECM)

Joe Lovano Us Five – Folk Art (Blue Note; due May 5)

Jesse Stackin Trio – That That (Fresh Sound New Talent)

Charles Hamilton – Well Isn't This Awkward (mixtape download)

Japan – Tin Drum (Virgin)

David Sylvian – Gone to Earth (Virgin)

Gone – The Epic Trilogy (SST)