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Marimbist Gwendolyn Dease takes a bold step forward with her fourth recording, cultivating enchanting commissions from a topnotch assembly of contemporary jazz composers. Grammy-Nominated composer...

Rivers Music, the second album by the genre-crossing Douglas Detrick's Anywhen Ensemble, follows it's own course through the channels of jazz, free improvisation and contemporary chamber music,...

Through commissioned works ranging from Chris Stover's arrangement of Joni Mitchell's "Blue," to David Glenn's more traditional title track, and works by Bix Beiderbecke, Thelonius Monk and members...

Jim Gailloreto's Jazz String Quintet offers a perfect blend of Classical Music and Jazz: structure and spontaneity. Inspired by sources as diverse as the horn quintets of Mozart and Corky Siegel's...

Gailloreto,Jim Pythiad CD

Soprano Ch?rie Hughes and guitarist Roberto Lim?n present three works inspired by the music of Spain and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora. The opening title work, composed by Samuel Zyman and...

... heavenly voice... - CITY Magazine, Luxembourg. For French-Israeli Mezzo-Soprano Naama Liany, every song is an opportunity for connection. Liany's life story bridges continents, leading from her...

With it's expansive musical range, great expressive capability, and cello-like tessitura, it's surprising that there doesn't exist more classical solo repertoire for the baritone saxophone. With that...

(5% DISCOUNT THRU 7-20-12) "Concertino" introduces three works from Chicago composer Doug Lofstrom. His virtuosic Concertinos for oboe (2006), and for harp (2009), were part of a commission initiated...

After 15 years of performing together, the rapport between the legendary Portland guitarist John Stowell, and Seattlites, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop, has reached such a level of...

Since her impressive American debut recital at New York's Carnegie Recital Hall in May of 2000, shortly after completing her Masters degree at the Juilliard School, harpist Yumiko Endo Schlaffer has...

(Knapp's music is) among the best of orchestral jazz being written these days. - Maria Schneider. Scrape is a seventeen-member string orchestra, along with harp and guitar, that performs the...