Then I should have cho­sen a career for myself, I should have been a slug­gard and a glut­ton, not a sim­ple one, but, for instance, one with sym­pa­thies for every­thing sub­lime and beau­ti­ful.

The new disc from Henry Thread­g­ill and Zooid is out this week, give it a first lis­ten at NPR. Call it jazz, blues, rock, R&B, it’s great, mod­ern music.

Des­ti­na­tion: OUT, one of the most impor­tant jazz sites on the inter-tubes, is six years old, and they’ve refreshed their rai­son d’être, their “Beginner’s Guide to Free Jazz.” Words and music and ideas, check them out.

The big show this week is the New York Phil­har­monic in a 360 degree set­ting at the Park Avenue Armory, where they will be play­ing music that makes use of space: Mozart, Ives, Boulez and Stockhausen’s fear­some Grüp­pen. If you want to expe­ri­ence it but can’t attend, Q2 Music will stream the audio on selected dates in July, and my friends at medici.tv will offer a free web­cast of the event, start­ing July 6.

The great con­tem­po­rary com­poser, Henri Dutil­leaux, won the inau­gural Kravis Prize from the NY Phil, and has done a great thing by shar­ing the pro­ceeds with Franck Kraw­cyz, Peter Eötös and the Talea Ensemble’s Anthony Che­ung, ask­ing each to write a new work. And Sean Shep­herd, with whom I share an enthu­si­asm for Lutoslawski, is the deserv­ing Emerg­ing Com­poser for the new sea­son. The Phil­har­monic cur­rently has an emo­tion­ally com­mit­ted but intel­lec­tu­ally ambiva­lent rela­tion­ship with new music, and this moves the head closer to the heart.

And speak­ing of the Talea Ensem­ble, their record­ing of music by Fausto Romitelli is out next month, and I’m antic­i­pat­ing this as one of the best releases this year. Save your pen­nies for it, espe­cially by skip­ping the Fiona Apple’s over-hyped and dis­ap­point­ing new record.

John Zorn fre­quently frus­trates me, but I do dig his Moon­child band, and Phil Freeman’s review has me want­ing the new one, and may have you want­ing it too.

Bill Britelle’s Lov­ing the Cham­bered Nau­tilus is out on disc copy, dig the title track here (free down­load), and dig him, Tune-Yards and The Yehudim this Sat­ur­day, for free, at the World Finan­cial Cen­ter.

Last year, the Dal­las Sym­phony pre­miered Steven Stucky’s Aufust 4, 1964, and their record­ing is out now.

As an adden­dum to my post­ing on Debussy, Onyx is releas­ing Pas­cal Rogé’s col­lected record­ings on July 10.