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Jay Geils/Gerry Beaudoin page 3 Herbie Hancock page 7 John Adorney page 19 Amanda Ford page 53 The Sixteen Sings Bach’s Mass in B Minor page 27 Juilliard String Quartet– Live at the Library of Congress, Vol. 4 page 40 Artists On Tour page 63 NEW LABELS: Lineage Records page 17 Toccata Classics page 29 Music Avenue pages 54–55

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JAZZ “Maurice Hines … has a light voice, somewhere in between Nat King Cole and Jimmy Scott with a nod toward Leon Thomas thrown in from time to time. Recommended.” — ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Featured Artists Maurice Hines, vocals/Jami Dauber, trumpet/Tanya Darby, trumpet/Wycliffe Gordon, trombone/Lisa Parrott, baritone sax/Ralph Lalama, tenor sax, flute/ Karolina Strassmayer, tenor sax, flute/Howard Alden, guitar/James Chirillo, guitar/Bob Cranshaw, bass/Frank Owens, piano/Sherrie Maricle, drums

Track Listing Unforgettable · It’s Only a Paper Moon · The Very Thought of You · Walkin’ My Baby Back Home · Smile · Little Girl · When I Fall In Love · Get Your Kicks on Route 66 · Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You) · Almost Like Being in Love · I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face · This Can’t Be Love · Love is Here to Stay · Dream · L-O-V-E

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Maurice Hines To Nat “King” Cole With Love

CD: ARB 19323 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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· World-renowned dancer, choreographer and Tony Award nominee Maurice Hines pays special tribute to the great Nat “King” Cole! · Star of stage, screen, and television, Hines commenced his acclaimed career at the age of five along with his younger brother Gregory Hines · Surrounded by some of his favorite musicians, Hines showcases his singing talents with rich, emotional directness. Includes six glowing arrangements by Tommy Newsom, formerly of The Tonight Show · Hines has received attention from NPR, Playbill, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Times, TheatreMania and many more! · Promotion to Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, jazz critics, and jazz radio programs

Also Available · ARB 19240 (Q) I’ve Never Been In Love Before (780941124026)

“ Warren Vaché has coalesced his influences into a unique, imitable style; his solos unravel in long skeins of cascading ideas, owing as much to the legacy of Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown as to the trumpet heroes of the Swing Era.” — JAZZREVIEW

Featured Artists Warren Vaché, cornet/Scottish Ensemble, strings/James Chirillo, guitar/ Brian Kellock, drums/John Rae, piano/Ronnie Rae, bass

Track Listing It Was Written in The Stars · My Mistress’ Eyes · Spring · My Love and I · April in My Heart · Valse Prismatique · I Fall in Love Too Easily · Love Is for the Very Young · On the Street Where You Live · Don’t Look Back

Selling Points · Warren Vaché performs with twelve-piece virtuoso string group The Scottish Ensemble, with arrangements by Bill Finegan, James Chirillo, and Alan Barnes · Features a lost arrangement by Johnny Carisi, originally written for Charlie Parker · Warren Vaché is an accomplished, versatile performer who has been astounding audiences for decades with his superb cornet, trumpet, and flugelhorn stylings · Through live performances and recordings, Vaché conveys incredible warmth through his burnished tone and intelligent improvisations · He has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Benny Goodman, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, and more · Promotion to Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, jazz critics, and jazz radio

Warren Vaché and The Scottish Ensemble Don’t Look Back CD: ARB 19318 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

Also Available · ARB 19289 (Q) Dream Dancing (780941128925)

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ Jay Geils & Gerry Beaudoin

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Jay Geils – Gerry Beaudoin and The Kings of Strings featuring Aaron Weinstein CD: ARB 19332 (Q ) File Under: Jazz/Blues

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Jay Geils and Gerry Beaudoin place themselves in a tradition of great guitarist meetings … a marvelous job. — POPMATTERS

Press Quotes “ Brings together three buddies from different areas of music who decided they wanted to record a jazz album. The result: a pleasant, imminently listenable mixture of swing, mainstream and blues.” — JAZZREVIEW “A cool, hip CD to put on in nearly any setting. Light and bouncy, this is an uplifting, feel-good album with hours of listening enjoyment contained therein … a great meeting of friends and comrades who include in their number a veteran blues-rock guitarist (Geils) … and a trained jazz guitarist (Beaudoin).” — RAMBLES

Featured Artists Gerry Beaudoin, guitar/Jay Geils, guitar/Aaron Weinstein, violin/Bob Nieske, bass/Less Harris, Jr., drums

Track Listing Desert Sands · In a Mellow Tone · Out of Nowhere · Blue Benedetto · Here’s That Rainy Day · Minor Swing · I Thought About You · Take the A Train · Sweet One · Flat Foot Floogie · Jackie’s Serenade · Sweet Georgia Brown · All Blues

Selling Points · Veteran guitarists Jay Geils and Gerry Beaudoin welcome young violin phenom Aaron Weinstein to a swinging recording session – an eclectic, easygoing set of Tin Pan Alley and swing-era classics, with a few original blues and a timeless bop blues update · Gerry Beaudoin is a Grammy-nominated guitarist who has carved a career out as leader & arranger for the Boston Jazz Ensemble. Winner of the 1992 Naird Award and 1994 Cadence Editors Choice Award, Beaudoin has played with Howard Alden, Frank Vignola, Jack Wilkens, and Andy Summers (of The Police) · Jay Geils is the iconic founder of the famous J. Geils Band, one of the most popular touring rock ‘n’ roll bands in America during the seventies. Where their contemporaries were influenced by the heavy boogie of British blues-rock and the ear-splitting sonic adventures of psychedelia, the J. Geils Band was a bar band pure and simple, churning out greasy covers of obscure R&B, doo wop, and soul tunes, cutting them with a healthy dose of Stones swagger · Jay Geils and Gerry Beaudoin met at a guitar show in 1994. Geils became a frequent guest artist with the Gerry Beaudoin Trio in clubs and concerts across the country, and his affinity and skill in performing jazz standards left audiences amazed that a superstar blues rocker had such depth to his playing! · Gerry Beaudoin will be interviewed in Modern Guitar’s June 2006 issue · After excellent reviews in the Wall Street Journal & by the AP, Aaron Weinstein’s profile has jumped significantly · Promotion to Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, jazz critics and jazz radio

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Aaron Weinstein A Handful of Stars CD: ARB 19316 (Q)

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ “ From Walkin’ with the Wazmo’s jivey title track and his inventive second-line version of Sonny Rollins’ ‘Pent Up House’ to the slamming B-3 funk of ‘Fried Piper,’ Jerry entertains in upbeat fashion as he swings.” — BILL MILKOWSKI

Featured Artists Jerry Vivino, tenor & alto sax, flute, alto flute, vocals/Brian Charette, piano, Hammond B-3/Ken Levinsky, piano/Lew Soloff, trumpet/Michael Morreale, trumpet, flugelhorn/Mike Fahn, trombone/Shawn Pelton, drums/ James Wormworth, drums/Ray Marchica, drums/Fred Walcott, percussion/ Kermitt Driscoll, bass/Mike Merritt, bass/Jimmy Vivino, guitar/Greg Skaff, guitar/Peter McCann, guitar/Tony Ferrari, backing vocals

Track Listing Pent Up House · Walkin’ with the Wazmo · Cats ‘R’ Us · Dorado Beach · Montelena Circle · The Fried Piper · Knock Me a Kiss · Red Moon · Bellissima · Dolphin Dance · I’m Mad About You

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Jerry Vivino Walkin’ with the Wazmo

CD: ZMR 200607 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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· Jerry Vivino is a busy New York tenor sax player known for his big, robust tone in the tradition of King Curtis and Sam Butera. Vivino enjoys a daily television audience as a member of the Max Weinberg 7 on Conan O’Brien’s late-night NBC show · Combining jazz, R&B, rock, and Latin styles, Vivino has performed/ recorded with Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Bette Midler, Wynton Marsalis, and more · Aggressive marketing by Jazz Promo Services; radio by Jazzzdog Promotions · Ads will run in Down Beat · Key Markets: New York (Hometown). Also: Newark, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC

“As for Swartz, he goes for unorthodox sequences of notes without sacrificing a sense of melodic line that is reminiscent of Art Farmer’s or Tom Harrell’s. His vehicles for these adventures are standards, giving his audience something familiar to hold on to … a fine gift it is.” — JAZZTIMES

Featured Artists Brian Swartz, trumpet/Larry Koonse, guitar/Darek Oles, bass

Track Listing Samba de Outono · I’ve Never Been in Love Before · My Shining Hour · Mì Soñita · I Thought About You · Emily · A Ghost of a Chance · Out of View · Poor Butterfly · The Best Thing for You Is Me · How Deep Is the Ocean? · Father to Many

Selling Points · Three is an homage to great trumpeter Chet Baker’s trio from the late seventies. By channeling the power of simplicity from those landmark recordings, Brian Swartz’s trio infuses life into the concept of interpreting standards · For his trio, the trumpeter chose two world-class sidemen: Larry Koonse and Darek Oles. Displaying mastery of their respective instruments, the musicians explore fresh, fluid ideas while maintaining a strong foundation. To put it succinctly, they swing! · Promotion to JazzWeek-reporting stations and press/internet/digital radio outlets · Ads will run in JazzTimes and Down Beat · Key Markets: Los Angeles/Boston (Hometowns). Also: New York, Washington DC

Brian Swartz Trio Three

CD: SMT 455 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

Also Available · SMT 421 (Q) Live at the Jazz Bakery (099402421926)

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ Adi Braun

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The Rules of the Game

CD: LML BRR 2 (Q ) File Under: Jazz/Vocals

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The world is blessed … a major jazz singer. — SCOTT YANOW, LA JAZZ SCENE

Press Quotes “ With a sense of timing Swiss watchmakers would envy, Adi Braun remains solid as ever with her latest set … people sometimes compare female jazz singers to Ella Fitzgerald, but Braun really is that good. Her sultry delivery’ll get you a little hot.” — NOW TORONTO

“ Thirteen tunes that show off the singer’s big range and playfulness as well as her knack of getting to the heart of the song while making it all sound deceptively easy. Braun’s technique is terrific, the phrasing’s sophisticated, and she’s at her best.” — TORONTO STAR “ These ears had never heard her alluring voice before, but you can be sure that they’ll never forget it ... she’s a gifted artist delivering a knock-out set.” — CABARET SCENES

Featured Artists Adi Braun, vocals/Doug Riley, piano/Steve Wallace, bass/Terry Clarke, drums/Perry White, tenor sax

Track Listing The Rules of the Game · Love Me or Leave Me · About Last Night · Beautiful · Honeysuckle Rose · Guanabara Bay · Show Me Yours · I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good · Lonely House · You Do Something To Me · If We Had Never Met · You Can’t Rush Spring · Hymne a L’amour

Selling Points · Combining the nostalgia of yesteryear with the clarity of today, Adi Braun’s sophisticated style and subtle delivery evokes such dramatic greats as Sarah Vaughan, Lotte Lenya, Judy Garland, and Rosemary Clooney · The Rules of the Game, Braun’s latest recording, is a beautiful and playful exploration of the journey of love · Features songs by Canada’s premier singer/songwriters, including Shirley Eikhard and Gordon Lightfoot, as well as new original songs · Brilliant musicianship on all levels, with an internationally renowned band that smokes on every track! · Braun has a long list of cabaret, concert, and theater successes to her credit. With her critically acclaimed debut Delishious (Top Ten on jazz radio charts across Canada & short-listed for a 2004 Juno Nomination), Braun firmly established herself as one of Canada’s brightest musical lights · Adi Braun has been featured into major newspapers and magazines across Canada · Heather Kelly & Associates will promote the release in Toronto and Vancouver · Receiving airplay across Canada and the U.S.; radio interviews will be arranged • At the start of this decade, Adi Braun co-founded Blue Rider Records with pianist Linda Ippolito and composer Brian McDonagh. Now, LML Music brings the magic of Blue Rider to you!

Key Markets New York, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Miami, Chicago, major jazz markets

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ “ This is heady stuff … interesting, organic and listenable. ★★★★” —DOWN BEAT

Featured Artists Wayne Horvitz, piano, synth/Ron Miles, trumpet/Peggy Lee, cello/Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon

Track Listing LB · Way Out East · A Remembrance…An Afterthought…What Could Have Been a Waltz · Between Here and Heaven · Berlin 1914 · Ladies and Gentleman · Reveille · You Were Just Here · Our Brief Duet · One Morten · World Peace and Quiet

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Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet Way Out East CD: SGL SACD 1558 (R) File Under: Jazz

*SACD Hybrids playable on all CD players and SACD - compatible players!

· Horvitz’s brand-new chamber jazz ensemble works the territory between improvised and contemporary chamber music, notable for memorable melodies, precise group interplay, and strong solo contributions · The group members are well-known, classically-schooled players with technique to burn and their own distinctive styles · Sophisticated, striking music will appeal to jazz/classical/audiophile/new age fans · Press/web promotion by Braithwaite & Katz; radio mailing to college/NPR stations · Ads will run in Signal to Noise · Key Markets: New York/Seattle (Hometowns). Also: Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland

Also Available · SGL SACD 1536 (R) Sweeter Than the Day (774355153659) · SGL 1537 (Q) Forever (774355153727)

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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band The Return Track Listing I’m Sittin’ High on a Hill · You Stayed Away Too Long · I Live For Love · Slipping Through · Bluin’ the Blues · Tiger Rag · Ostrich Walk · Clarinet Marmalade · Toddlin Blues · Did You Mean it · Old Joe Blade · Fidgety Feet · Clarinet Marmalade · Bluin’ the Blues · Tiger Rag · Barnyard Blues · Original Dixie One-Step

Selling Points In 1936, the original members of the classic Original Dixieland Band were reassembled by Victor Records to recreate some of their hits – cornetist & leader Nick LaRocca, clarinetist Larry Shields, trombonist Eddie Edwards, drummer Tony Sbarbaro, and pianist J. Russel Robinson. They recorded twenty-two titles between September 1936 and February 1938, all of which are now collected on one CD!

CD: HEP 1084 (M) File Under: Jazz

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Rick Culver Trio I’m Old Fashioned Track Listing I’m Old Fashioned · How About That Kiss · Darn That Dream · Shuffle Bored · Glide Path · Lullaby · Sailing · If I Had You · Samba Ta Me · That Moonlight · Emily · Late Life Rag · Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Selling Points The second Rick Culver CD features an elegant jazz trio (Jeff Kressler and Nick Calandro), and includes six standards and eight originals performed by veteran jazz musicians. Mailing to NPR, college, and community radio as well as press/internet.

Also Available · SBJ 3043 (Q) Painted Scarves (017231304326)

CD: SBJ 3081 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus, bass, piano/Thad Jones, trumpet/Hampton Hawes, piano/JohnSUPER-BUDGET LaPorta, PRICE! alto sax/Danny Richmond, drums/Teo Macero, tenor & baritone sax

Track Listing DISC ONE: What Is This Thing Called Love · Minor Intrusions · Spur of the Moment · Thrice Upon a Theme · Four Hands · Stormy Weather · DISC TWO: Laura · Hamp’s Blues · Summertime · Dizzy Moods · Yesterdays · Back Home Blues · I Can’t Get Started

Selling Points · Features tracks taken from 1954’s Jazzical Moods and The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus, and 1957’s The Mingus Three, originally released on the obscure but legendary labels Period and Jubilee · One of jazz music’s greatest musicians & composers, Charles Mingus was an innovator and architect of both the be-bop and avant-garde/free jazz movements · In addition to his own recordings, he worked with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Joni Mitchell

2XCD: AIM 1602 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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Stanley Turrentine Flipped Out On Love Featured Artists Stanley Turrentine, tenor sax/Gloria Lynne, vocalsPaul Humphrey, drums/Freddy Robinson, guitar/King Errison, conga drums/Al Vescovo, guitar/Victor Feldman, percussion/ Joanne Grauer, piano/Wilton Felder, bass

Track Listing I Only Get This Feeling · Flipped Out Pt 1 and Pt 2 · Toe Hold · Let It Be · I’m the One · Flipped · My Cherie Amour · Love’s Finally Found Me · Yesterday Yester Me Yester You · Wedding Bells Blues · Brown Eyed Woman · Can You Take What I’m Gonna Do · I’ve Just Gotta Tell Somebody · Love’s Finally Found Me

Selling Points · Features rare tracks from the legendary Canyon label, also home to Doris Duke, Rudy Love, WORLD and Jerry “ Swamp Dog” Williams PREMIERE RECORDING! · Stanley Turrentine is the quintessential “soul jazz” tenor sax player. His Blue Note records, under his name and with Jimmy Smith, are the best the genre has to offer I NCLU DE S

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CD: AIM 1603 (P) File Under: Jazz

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Herbie Hancock

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Jazz to Funk [2 CDs] Featured Artists

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Herbie Hancock, piano/Albert “Tootie” Heath, drums/Don Cherry, trumpet/James Mtume, SUPER-BUDGET PRICE! conga drums/Buster Williams, bass/Ed Blackwell, percussion/Billy Bonner, flute/Jimmy Heath, tenor & alto sax/Jim Hall, guitar/Joe Newman, trumpet/Jack DeJohnette, drums/ Joe Henderson, tenor sax/Phil Woods, alto sax/Ron Carter, bass/Freddie Hubbard, trumpet

Track Listing DISC ONE: Maulana · Baraka/Kamli · Kawanda · Dunia · DISC TWO: Witch Fire · Jammin’ with Herbie · Herbie’s Blues · Rock Your Soul · Hot Piano · Smoochie · Live and Awake · Night Walker · Afro Boogie · Far Out · Hot and Heavy

Selling Points · Features rare sixties recordings, including outtakes from the soundtrack to the classic 1966 film Blow Up · This living legend, who began his recording career at the height of the Blue Note heyday, was a pivotal member of Miles Davis’ second quintet and his early fusion efforts

2XCD: AIM 1604 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ Dirindi Cantar Do Jobim “Dirindi is a sparkling new group … intimate and subtle.” — THE STENTOR

Featured Artists Marzieh Reyhani, vocals/Friederike Darrius, flutes/Maarten Van Der Grinten, guitars/ Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, tenor sax/Jurandir Gomez, bass/Enrique Firpi, percussion

Track Listing A Violeira · Este Seu Olhar · Chora Coração · Brigas Nunca Mais · Canção em Modo Menor · Vivo Sonhando · Por Toda Minha Vida · Derradeira Primavera · Modinha · Sucedeu Assim · Luiza · Sabiá · Chovendo na Roseira · Dindi

Selling Points CD: JNP 453 (R) File Under: Jazz

· Long ago, female vocalist Marzieh Reyhani lost her heart to Antonio Carlos Jobim, whom all of the compositions here were written by – a brilliant mix of jazz and Brazilian music! · Ads will run in Down Beat and JazzTimes; extensive radio and press promotion

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Francien van Tuinen & Richard Galliano Muzyka Featured Artists Francien van Tuinen, vocals/Richard Galliano, accordion/Jesse van Ruller, guitar/Maarten van der Grinten, guitar/Jeroen Vierdag, double bass/Bart Fermie, percussion/Martin Gort, percussion

Track Listing Solitude · Falling · We Lose · Requiem Part 1: Spring · Part 2: Lament · Part 3: Into the Light · Passing Like Water · Conclusions · Prelude in Your Hands · In Your Hands · Waiting for Sophie

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CD: JNP 468 (R) File Under: Jazz

· Inspired by the poem Muzyka by Boris Pasternak, a member of a nineteenth-century Russian artists’ collective intent on bringing camaraderie to artistic creation · Features a series of striking arrangements with exciting grooves and unusual rhythms, written for a remarkable combination of string and percussion instruments · Ads will run in Down Beat and JazzTimes; extensive radio and press promotion

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Ivan Paduart Selections Featured Artists Ivan Paduart, piano/Toots Thielemans, harmonica/Philip Catherine, guitar/Gwenael Micault, bandoneon/Philippe Aertz, double bass/Hein Van de Geyn, double bass/Hans Van Oosterhout, drums/Dré Pallemaerts, drums

Track Listing Shivers · Ecoline · Igor · Can’t Wait· Reaching for the Stars · Between Us · I Had a Ball · Closed Eyes · Bouncing Ball · Fairy Tales · Madeira · Billet Doux

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CD: JNP 469 (R) File Under: Jazz

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

· Ivan Paduart is a great composer and piano player; this album may remind listeners of the music of Philippe Catherine or Bob Malach · Paduart has worked with Rick Margitza, Fay Claassen, Nigel Hitchcock, Toots Thielemans, Tierney Sutton, and many more · Ads will run in Down Beat and JazzTimes; extensive radio and press promotion

JAZZ Fay Claassen

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Two Portraits of Chet Baker

2XCD: JNP 497 (2 J) File Under: Jazz

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“ ” A talented young singer who is definitely on an upward curve … one of the better big-band-with-vocalist albums of the year. — ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Press Quotes “Singer Fay Claassen pays respect to the American popular song in a jazz context that is entirely her own. Fay is worth hearing because of the sincerity with which she handles lyrics. She can scat in a solid, rhythmic way and also has an attractive, breezy voice.” — DOWN BEAT “Although Claassen swings, she isn’t an aggressive or forceful sort of vocalist – her post-bop outlook is urbane, sophisticated, elegant, and refined.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE “Fay Claassen has got a strong mezzo voice that can handle some of the most sinuous, difficult melodic lines I’ve ever heard. She improvises with élan and her interpretive ability is formidable. She is to singing what Audrey Hepburn was to the movies – elegant, effervescent, and always on a dangerously seductive yet graceful edge.” — CADENCE

Featured Artists Fay Claassen, vocals/Jan Menu, baritone sax/Jan Wessels, trumpet/Karel Boehlee, piano/Hein Van de Geyn, double bass/ John Engels, drums

Track Listing DISC ONE: Line for Lions · Swinghouse · First Song · Turnstile · Walking Shoes · Ponciana · Jeru · Love Me or Leave Me · GodChild · Nights at the Turntable · Frenesi · Soft Shoe · Line for Lions (Duo) DISC TWO: I Fall in Love Too Easily · I Remember April · My Funny Valentine · Let’s Get Lost · He Was Too Good to Me · The Touch of Your Lips · The Thrill is Gone · Look for the Silver Lining · Retrato/Portrait in Black & White · Almost Blue · Conception/Deception · Blame It On My Youth

Selling Points · This double album, developed with the help of musicians who have worked directly with Chet Baker, highlights two periods: Chet Baker’s instrumental work with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, and his vocal pieces · Fay Claassen’s performances are graceful, elegant, smooth, and sophisticated – like Soesja Citroen, she is a Dutch jazz vocalist who has no problem with the English language! · Considered by many to be the world’s fastest-rising vocal jazz star, Claassen has recorded with well known jazz musicians including Mike Stern, Kenny Werner, Toots Thielemans, Joe Locke, and Steve Davis · Extensive radio and press promotion by Allegro Media · Ads will run in Down Beat

Also Available Specially Arranged for Fay

Rhythms & Rhymes

CD: JNP 381 (R)

CD: JNP 380 (R)

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ “Playing like this – and, in truth, this entire album – is a reminder of the beautiful potential of human communication.” — BOSTON PHOENIX

Featured Artists Bob Kaufman, drums/Bruce Gertz, bass/Jerry Bergonzi, tenor sax

Track Listing Fool Hardy · Dream Life · You Mention It Too · Dreaming Out Loud · Rivim With Ding · In It · Off the Trail · Stumbling · Consequences · Left of Memory

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Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi Dreaming Out Loud

· Drummer Bob Kaufman, bassist Bruce Gertz, and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi follow up their amazing debut, The Line Between, with the equally amazing Dreaming Out Loud, a collection of ten originals crafted by three master musicians with an uncanny ability for seamless musical communication · Kaufman has drummed with Steve Lacy and more; Gertz has been a bass master for Bill Frisell, Mick Goodrick, and more; and Bergonzi has serious chops of his own, developed from years of experience on the scene · National press, internet, and radio promotion by Mixed Media and Matrix Promotions · Key Markets: Boston (Hometown). Also: Providence, New York, Syracuse, Amherst

Also Available CD: WCS 20 (Q )

· WCS 9 (Q) The Line Between (687606000926)

File Under: Jazz Previously Available

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“A cohesive, inviting sound ... features Beck’s strongest, most assertive, and striking solo.” — JAZZTIMES

Featured Artists Joe Beck, guitar/Mark Egan, bass/Danny Gottlieb, drums

Track Listing I Love You · Just Friends · Prelude to a Kiss · Get Ready · The Girl Next Door · Zanzibar · Softly as in a Morning Sunrise · Gentle Rain · There Will Never Be Another You · Blues For Joe Farrell

Selling Points · The Joe Beck Trio features master guitarist Joe Beck along with bassist Mark Egan and incredible drummer Danny Gottlieb · Here, the fleet-fingered guitarist and his friends work their magic on ten masterfully performed tunes, including three Beck originals · Features liner notes authored by each of the band members · Joe Beck shone as a masterful guitar player in front of Pat Matheny’s rhythm section for a number of years · National press, internet, and radio promotion by Mixed Media · Key Markets: Boston (Hometown). Also: Providence, New York, Westport, Syracuse, Bridgeport, Hartford, Amherst, New Orleans

Joe Beck Trio Just Friends

Also Available · WCS 10 (Q) Live in Biel, Switzerland (687606001022) CD: WCS 18 (Q ) File Under: Jazz Previously Available

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

JAZZ “ One hears straight up all the wonderful artistic shoulders jazz drummer Brooks Tegler has stood on over the years. As listeners, the total spectrum of our musical tastes are heightened and we emerge the better for the experience.” — JAZZREVIEW

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Featured Artists Brooks Tegler/Al Seibert/Harry Allen/Ron Hackett/Bruce Swain/Jack Moser/Clyde Hunt/Chris Battistone/Zach Smith/John Jensen/Larry Eanet/Jim Lester/Sid Keithly/Allen Harry/Steve Jordan/Danny Gatton/Tom Sullivan/Steve Abshire/Alan Wonnenberger/Chuck Redd/John Previti/Terry Benton/Sal De Raffele

Track Listing Apple Core · Sweet Lorraine · Charlie the Chulo · I Want a Roof Over My Head · Lullably of Birdland · Topsy · Lulubelle · NY City Blues · Subtle Slough · The Sky Fell Down · I’ve Got a Way With Women · Early in the Morning · Through the Night · And Not Only That

Selling Points · Brooks Tegler’s brand of thirties swing jazz reminded guitarist Steve Jordan (to whom this album is dedicated) of Gene Krupa and Artie Shaw. To understand the power of this album, just look at who played on it! · A recent release by Brooks Tegler’s Capital Combinations (featuring many of the same artists as this disc) won the 2004 Wammie for Best Big Band/Swing Recording

Brooks Tegler’s Hot Jazz And Not Only That

CD: SWC 1087 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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“The tension he is capable of building brings to mind a tradition that began some 50 years ago when Norman Granz’s jazz at the Philharmonic began stirring up audiences around the country.” — LEONARD FEATHER

Featured Artists Joey DeFrancesco, Hammomd B-3, Wurlitzer electric piano/Paul Bollenback, guitar/Byron Landham, drums

Track Listing All or Nothing at All · I Concentrate On You · Just Squeeze Me · Yes Or No · Young Love · On the Street Where You Live · I’m Confessin · Cobalt Blue

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Joey DeFrancesco All or Nothing at All

· Joey DeFrancesco, the “baddest B-3 burner in the business,” was a DownBeat Critics Poll award winner 2002-2005 and a 2005 JazzTimes Readers’ Poll winner · Nominated for a 2004 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo · Joey DeFrancesco is considered by most to be the finest jazz organist today. He has amazing chops and can play bebop, hard-bop, free, soul-jazz, and post-bop with precision, depth, and swing · As “the jazzman who almost single-handedly revived the jazz organ in the 1980s” (Toronto Star), DeFrancesco brings a unique, blistering style to the Hammond B-3 · Received great press in Billboard, Down Beat, and many more

Also Available CD: SWC 1067 (Q )

· SWC 1052 (O) The Street of Dreams (767771202520)

File Under: Jazz

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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CDL OTI 12001 (Q )

CD: OTI 12003 (Q)

File Under: Jazz Previously Available

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Equal Interest

Marty Ehrlich’s Traveler’s Tales

Equal Interest

Malinke’s Dance

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Joseph Jarman, flute, alto sax, Turkish hand drum, Vietnamese oboe, wind chimes/Leroy Jenkins, violin, viola/Myra Melford, piano, harmonium, foot

Marty Ehrlich, alto & soprano sax, flute/Tony Malaby, tenor & soprano sax/Jerome Harris, acoustic bass/Bobby Previte, drums

Track Listing

Rhymes · The Cry Of · Malinke’s Dance · Line on Love · Pigskin · Tears of Rage · North Star · Bright Remembered · Willy Whippoorwill Steals a Bow

B’Pale Night · Rondo for Jenny · Over This/Living Music · Poem Song · In the Moment · The Beauty We Love · Everything Today · Apricots from Eden (Sourmaloui Jerk)

Selling Points An OmniTone classic! AACM vets Jarman and Jenkins (plus new music’s Melford) fuse jazz, blues, classical, and folk into sensual, exotic, mystical sounds. This “never less than extraordinary” album received four & a half stars from Down Beat and was heralded in JazzTimes as “stunning ... equally beautiful, hearty, and fragile all at once.”

Selling Points One of Ehrlich’s best! Recorded live, Traveler’s Tales hook up horns, drums, and bass in ear-tingling layers of sound. One of the Village Voice’s Ten Best New Jazz CDs of 2000, highly recommended by NPR’s Fresh Air, and acclaimed as “full of wistful emotion and winding counterpoint” by the New York Times.

CD: OTI 12005 (Q )

CD: OTI 12205 (Q )

File Under: Jazz Previously Available

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Steve Slagle

Russ Johnson

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Save Big

Featured Artists

Steve Slagle, alto & soprano sax, alto flute/Dave Stryker, guitar/ Cameron Brown, bass/Gene Jackson, drums/Joe Lovano, tenor sax/Joe Locke, bass

Russ Johnson, trumpet/John O’Gallagher, alto sax/Kermit Driscoll, bass/Mark Ferber, drums, percussion

Track Listing

Saguache · Figuratively Speaking · Reveille · Duo · Indonesian Folk Song · Rapid Comfort · Constantinople · The Loper · Sympathetic Mildew

New New York · Loftology · Bowery Blues · Thelonious · What Goes Around Comes Around · Blackwell’s Manhattan · Mañha de Hudson · Complicity · St Mark’s Shuffle · New New York · Nostalgia in Times Square

Selling Points Adventurous, sparkling, Gotham-related originals and appropriate standards make up Slagle’s tribute to the ebullient city he loves. Praised as “seasoned and soulful” by JazzTimes and “unpretentiously exhilarating” by The Guardian.

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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Selling Points Wonderfully fresh, inventive, vibrant, accessible improvised music builds on and extends American jazz in the way Jack Kerouac and Ansel Adams advanced art in their own fields. Applauded as “contemporary in sound with [a] smart attitude” by Down Beat, “challenging and instantly likable” by JazzTimes, and “truly wonderful and important” by All About Jazz.

JAZZ “ The whole point of AlasNoAxis is less about broader technical displays and more about direct service to the song. On these relatively short compositions these players manage to navigate odd time signatures and a diversity of feels and textures that lean heavily towards the kinetic. This is music that demands attention and is best played loud.” — ALL ABOUT JAZZ

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Featured Artists Jim Black, drums/Chris Speed, tenor sax/Hilmar Jensson, guitar/ Skúli Sverrisson, bass

Track Listing Oddfelt · Dogs of Great Indifference · Tars and Vanish· Spins So Free · Star Rubbed · Harmstrong · Everybody Says the Same · You Know Just Because · Desemrascar · Harmsoft · I Am SEVEN

Selling Points · In 2000, Jim Black recorded his debut AlasNoAxis. Since that time, he has consistently developed new grooves with the band AlasNoAxis, and toured the world extensively · At the end of last year, Jim Black and AlasNoAxis entered the wonderful Brooklyn Recording studio to record their new aural journey, Dogs of Great Indifference

Jim Black/AlasNoAxis Dogs of Great Indifference

Also Available · WTR 61 (R) AlasNoAxis (025091006120) · WTR 73 (R) Habyor (025091007325)

CD: WTR 120 (R) File Under: Jazz

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“Bates serves up melodic modernism and contrapuntal elegance.” — TIME OUT NEW YORK

Featured Artists Michael Bates, double bass/Quinsin Nachoff, sax, clarinet, bass clarinet/ Kevin Turcotte, trumpet/Mark Timmermans, drums

Track Listing Small Obstacles · On Equilibrium · Entrance · Charcoal · Prodigal · Prokofiev · Partly Innocent · St. Helen · Coppertone · Simple Interlude

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Michael Bates’ Outside Sources A Fine Balance

CD: BTL 71211 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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· Influences on the music of Outside Sources range from Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter and Joni Mitchell to Shostakovich and Ligeti · The adventuresome music is the result of a band that worked together for years and has honed a particular interplay · Michael Bates is a very creative bass player, a gifted composer, and program coordinator of the International Jazz Workshop at Banff Centre of the Arts · Regular performances on the East Coast and Canada; Canadian pre-release shows throughout June 2006 · According to Dave Douglas, “Michael Bates is a fantastic bassist and an engaging composer … definitely worth checking out!” · National U.S. and Canadian media campaign with service to over 300 jazz writers and periodicals · Service to 300 U.S. college radio contacts and 100 Canadian college radio outlets · Canadian tour press Spring 2006; U.S. tour press Summer 2006 · Key Markets: Toronto (native), New York (Hometown). Also: Boston, Washington DC

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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JAZZ Preston Glass Street Corner Prophecy

CD: BCR 70005 (Q) File Under: Jazz/AC

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Preston Glass has written over thirty Top Ten R&B hits & five Top Ten pop hits!

Featured Artists Preston Glass, piano, drum programming, bass/Al Jarreau, vocals/Maurice White, vocals/Wilton Felder, sax/The Spinners, vocals/ Johnny Mathis, vocals/Skyler Jett, vocals/Evelyn Champagne King, vocals

Track Listing But You Don’t Hear Me Though · Think Twice · Breaking in a Brand New Heart · Ghetto Legacy · Hook Up at the Heart · Street Corner Prophecy · Rekindle the Flame · Music is My Heart & Soul · Snowball Effect · Hit Em High · Unwind · The Deeper You Go · Welcome Home · The Weight of the World · One Wonderful Day

Selling Points · Features a veritable cornucopia of huge stars – Al Jarreau as featured lead vocalist on “Think Twice,” Johnny Mathis as featured vocalist on “One Wonderful Day,” Evelyn Champagne King as featured vocalist on “Hit Em High,” Maurice White (Earth, Wind and Fire) with backing vocals on “Breaking in a Brand New Heart,” Wilton Felder with tenor sax on “Hit Em High,” The Spinners, and more! · Producer/songwriter Preston Glass’s success at creating hit songs has set him at the top of the class in the music industry. He has worked with a literal “who’s who” of the industry, including Whitney Houston, Earth Wind & Fire, Mase, Lionel Richie, Michael Bolton, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Ben E. King, Cyndi Lauper, and many, many more · Glass has written over thirty Top Ten R&B hits and five Top Ten pop hits. He is a five-time BMI Award winner, and a professor of music at UCLA · Forging hit after illustrious hit, Glass often gleans the best from himself in collaborations. His inspired Number One smash, Natalie Cole’s “Miss You Like Crazy,” garnered the coveted BMI Million-Aire Award · He penned “Don’t Make Me Wait For Love” for Kenny G; Earth, Wind & Fire strode to Number One on his “System of Survival” production; another Million-Aire Award was bestowed on Aretha Franklin’s “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” – truly, the list goes on and on! · Radio promotion by Jerome Radio Promotions and All That Jazz · Press promotion by Kari On Promotions · Airplay on AC and smooth jazz radio

Key Markets Los Angeles (Hometown). Also: New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Washington DC, Phoenix, all smooth jazz radio markets

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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Crystal Blue

CD: BCR 70003 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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Shields and company have created a stellar release perfect for any smooth jazz collection. This is a must-have CD! — EJAZZNEWS.COM

Featured Artists Billy Shields, keyboards/Gerald Albright, sax/Ronnie Laws, sax/Dwight Sills, guitar/Brandon Fields, sax/Rafford Griffen, drums/ Ali Woodson, vocals/Craig Tomas, alto sax/Phil Gates, guitar/Larry Antonio, percussion/Shannon Battle, vocals

Track Listing Crystal Blue Persuasion · Stand Up in Love · Sheera’s Funk · Fill in the Blanks · Seabonay Breeze · Boulder City Bop · Have I Told You Lately · Cherry Pie · Janitor & Drum · Dakota Winds · You are the One

Selling Points · Billy Shields returns to music stores with his highly anticipated smooth-jazz production, Crystal Blue · Shields is no stranger to acclaim – his debut, Shieldstone, reached #8 on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year chart, and #17 on the Contemporary Jazz Album chart. Shieldstone featured Stanley Clarke, Jack DeJohnette, John Abercrombie, Airto Moreira, and Freddie Hubbard · Next, he released Shieldstone II, which again received critical acclaim. Featuring special guest Freddie Hubbard, this collaboration culminated in a video that was aired to avid audience response on VH-1 · Crystal Blue displays depth, beauty of composition and stellar production. Iconic producer Preston Glass has worked with a plethora of artists including Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie, Aretha Franklin, Earth Wind & Fire, Kenny G, George Benson, and more · Includes two timeless cuts from the catalogs of Van Morrison and Sade. On “Have I Told You Lately,” Shields delivers the right chops to bring out the beauty of the highly recognizable tune. “Cherry Pie,” made famous by Sade, takes the listener on a sweet, sexy excursion of R&B grooves with spicy flavoring that adds up just right! · Crystal Blue includes five songs approved for smooth jazz radio · Upcoming tour dates throughout 2006 · Radio promotion by All That Jazz · Press promotion by Kari On Promotions · Ads will run in Down Beat, JazzTimes and Jazziz

Key Markets Indianapolis (Hometown). Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Phoenix, all smooth jazz radio markets

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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CD: BCR 70004 (Q ) File Under: Jazz

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A swinging post-bop workout that features Farrell’s Coltranish soprano work … one of Joe Farrell’s best recordings. — JAZZITUDE

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“ The Clark Woodard & Joe Farrell disc weaves its way through raw energy, tackling four well-placed standards within the scope of the release. Five originals adorn the disc with intricacies of composition and, at times, neck-breaking speed. This is not a CD for the faint at heart or the occasional jazz listener. This is a CD that exhibits burning endurance and harmonic complexities.”— EJAZZNEWS.COM

Featured Artists Clark Woodard, drums/Joe Farrell, sax/John Larkin, piano/Bob Harrison, bass/Shelby Flint, vocals

Track Listing 500 Miles High · Softly as in a Morning Sunrise · The Misfit · Charley’s Place · My Funny Valentine · Frantasy · Naima · Angel’s Flight · Last Night I Dreamed

Selling Points · Joe Farrell’s final recording features great radio songs and smoking solos! · Every take here is a first take, with all members sight-reading their parts – true improvisation in its purest form! · Drummer Clark Woodard began his relationship with saxophonist Joe Farrell in late 1983, when the two played together in the Joe Farrell Quartet · Farrell has played with Chick Corea’s original Return to Forever group, contributing to the first two albums by what became one of fusion’s seminal groups. He has also worked with Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Jack DeJohnette, and more · Farrell’s CTI albums of 1970-1976, which combined his hard bop style with some pop and fusion elements, made him popular among listeners not familiar with his earlier work · Radio promotion by Lisa Reedy Promotions · Ads will run in JazzTimes and Down Beat

Also Available from BCS Records

Wilton Felder Let’s Spend Some Time “Felder’s smooth, soulful sound will surely delight the smooth jazz listener and provide the perfect ambiance for romance. Let’s Spend Some Time is definitely welcome in the smooth jazz catalogue.” — JAZZREVIEW.COM

CD: BCR 70001 (Q ) File Under: Jazz Previously Available

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George Johnson, Jr. All Star Tribute CD: BCR 70002 (Q ) File Under: Jazz Previously Available

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

“George Johnson Jr. brings a stellar offering of jazz to the table with his all-star release, perfect for the jazz collector, listener and connoisseur. This all-star lineup is just that: an all-star lineup of players, compositions and performances from over the years…a wonderful addition to any true jazz collection.” — JAZZ NEWS

JAZZ ALLEGRO WELCOMES LINEAGE RECORDS TO ITS ROSTER!

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Russian-born guitarist Ilya Lushtak has dedicated his life to the understanding and propagation of jazz, a quest that has resulted in years of study, the establishment of working relationships with a number of living jazz masters, and the creation of Lineage Records. With the release of five recordings (and more in the can) as well as a one-of-a-kind DVD with Hank Jones in preparation, Lushtak’s mission is right on target! “ Though he hasn’t achieved great fame, Hank Jones continues to leave his mark on jazz … demonstrates his remarkable ability to adapt to any musical setting and shine.” — NPR.ORG

Featured Artists Hank Jones, piano/Frank Wess, tenor sax, flute/Mickey Roker, drums/ Ilya Lushtak, guitar/John Webber, bass

Track Listing You Made a Good Move · The Very Thought of You · Just One of Those Things · Autumn Serenade · Sara’s Song · Something Went Wrong · A Hankerin’ · Barbados · All or Nothing at All

Selling Points · Hank and Frank, co-led by two of our most esteemed and treasured tribal elders, is a jewel guaranteed to appeal to all listeners as octogenarians Jones and Wess demonstrate that smooth, subtle, and swinging are still the main ingredients of classic jazz · Born in 1918, Hank Jones grew up in a household with some serious musical talent. Jones’ earliest influence was pianist Fats Waller. He also idolized Earl “Fatha” Hines and the great Teddy Wilson, but his greatest influence was the legendary Art Tatum · A consummate freelancer, Jones has worked with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Milt Jackson, and Julian Cannonball Adderly. His dynamic and diverse recordings reinterpret jazz in all of its varieties · The genetic makeup of sax and flute legend Frank Wess is pure jazz. Though best known for his years with Count Basie, he has also had stints with the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, Eddie Heywood, Lucky Millinder, and R&B star Bull Moose Jackson

Hank Jones & Frank Wess Hank and Frank CD: LRM 103 (Q ) File Under: Jazz Digipak

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“A legendary jazz drummer from Indianapolis, ‘Killer’ Ray Appleton … is on a mission to maintain the integrity of jazz, especially that which came from Indy.” — NUVO

Featured Artists “Killer” Ray Appleton, drums/Melvin Rhyne, Hammond B-3/Milton Cardona, congas/Ilya Lushtak, guitar

Track Listing Night Vigil · I’ll Take Romance · Cariba · The Very Thought of You · Melvin’s Masquerade · Lolita · Blue ‘n’ Boogie · Tequila · Full House

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“Killer” Ray Appleton/Melvin Rhyne Quartet Latin Dreams CD: LRM 104 (Q ) File Under: Jazz Digipak

· From the first notes of “Night Vigil,” a charismatic original by Hammond B-3 legend Melvin Rhyne, it’s obvious that Latin Dreams (which Rhyne co-leads with drummer “Killer” Ray Appleton) has a remarkably robust groove · Along with Lineage Records founder/guitarist Ilya Lushtak and Latin percussion whiz Milton Cardona, this is music that keeps toes tappin’ and heads poppin’ · “Killer” Ray Appleton started working with Wes Montgomery at the tender age of fifteen. After developing his percussion chops in the busy Naptown scene, Appleton spent time working with John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, and more · A huge wave of interest and gratitude from today’s younger players currently surrounds Melvin Rhyne, leading to frequent recordings as a leader and a featured artist

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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NEW AGE Jonathan Goldman Ultimate OM

CD: JSG 1155 (Q ) File Under: New Age

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Ultimate OM is awesome … it makes me feel like I’m wrapped in the wings of angels. Beauteous. — JILL LAWRENCE, WISDOM RADIO

Press Quotes “ The healing power of Ultimate OM is amazing.” — JOHN FRENCH, SOUND THERAPIST “Ultimate OM is fantastic. It is immediately visceral.” — MARISA D’VARI, AUTHOR “A synergistic sonic experience encoded with the intention to help reduce stress, induce relaxation, ‘balance the chakras and the auric field’ and more. Liner notes provide more information on the history and power of this ‘ultimate’ chant and detail different ways of using this recording, encouraging one to listen, meditate, or participate.” — NAPRA REVIEW

Featured Artists Jonathan Goldman/Andrea Hilgert/Alec Sims/Jim Albani/Sarah Benson/Dr. John Galm

Track Listing Ultimate OM

Selling Points · Jonathan Goldman is a world-renowned authority in the field of sound healing who presents lectures, workshops, and weeklong intensive training sessions around the world · Goldman is a pioneer in the field of harmonics and a Gold-selling artist who has produced and engineered Grammy-nominated albums and appeared on Grammy-winning recordings · New Age Retailer recently named Jonathan Goldman one of the Top Five Most Popular New Age Musicians, and he has been cited in national and international publications including USA Today and New York Times · Ultimate OM is a sonic experience in which the listener is surrounded by hundreds of people chanting the sacred mantra “OM” in a continuous, fluid wave of sonic vibration · Both powerful and eminently listenable, it is a therapeutic musical masterpiece for healing and vibratory acceleration that continues the concept of the award-winning, best-selling Chakra Chants but also integrates a totally new synthesis of ideas and sonics designed to explore sound as a transformational modality · Note: this is not a single “OM” repeated over and over; rather, it is the pulsating, choral peace and harmony of hundreds of voices sounding the ultimate “OM” at different times · Listening to Ultimate OM will help create balance and alignment in everyday life, assisting in calming and centering your mind and body · The ancient sacred and healing sounds of “OM,” when coupled with the new science of psychoacoustics, will help induce a deep peace · Great for meditation, relaxation, massage, or any form of bodywork · Includes twelve pages of liner notes on the creation and use of this recording

Key Markets Boulder (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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Trees of Gold

CD: EVM 3522 (Q) File Under: New Age

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John Adorney’s sound is at once joyous, uplifting, and vibrantly rhythmic. — NAPRA REVIEW

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“ On the stunning follow-up to his debut, multi-instrumentalist Adorney has created a delightful collage of songs … Daya’s multi-dubbed vocals on the infectious title track … are reminiscent of Enya’s breakthrough ‘Orinoco Flow’ … a superb sophomore outing.” — NEW AGE RETAILER “ John is a very gifted artist; I love his sense of timing, melody and instrumentation. He is a genius at bringing notes to life and his new album, Trees of Gold, shines brightly with the spirit of adventure, beauty, and majesty.” — DIANE ARKENSTONE “ Entrancing lyrics and lush vocals by Daya add a new dimension to the enduring instrumental compositions John is loved for.” — THE MORNING BREEZE, KSBR 88.5

Featured Artists John Adorney, vocals, cello, acoustic & electric guitar, keyboards, percussion/Daya Rawat, vocals/Marcel Adjibi, vocals/Diane Arkenstone, vocals/Sarah Brennan, vocals/Lucia Iman, vocals/Helen Waters, vocals/Lauren Evers, vocals/Sandy Fiore, vocals/ Elena Moric, vocals/Gail Soffer, vocals/Nigel Holton, vocals/Manuel Iman, vocals/Steve Henricks, vocals/Chris Bleth, oboe, duduk/Richard Hardy, flute/Fuzzbee Morse, flute/Luke Tunney, flugelhorn, trumpet

Track Listing Swept Away · Trees of Gold · Whisper · Arrival of the Guest · Yilowe · The Swing · Shades of Amber · A Wind in the Forest · The Waterwheel · Man of the Red Earth

Selling Points · EverSound proudly presents John Adorney’s fourth album, a highly anticipated benchmark to an extraordinary career with worldwide CD sales of over 200,000 · Trees of Gold seamlessly follows 2004’s elegant and enchanting Waiting for the Moon and 2002’s The Other Shore, honored by the Coalition of New Age Retailers as the Best New Age CD of 2002 · As on all of his releases, Adorney’s compositions are complemented by the luscious, layered textures of female vocalist Daya · The title track, as well as the beautiful “Yilowe,” also feature African vocals by Marcel Adjibi · Media campaign to new age, holistic, and lifestyle press · Nationwide radio campaign to NAR, NPR, and nationally syndicated radio stations · Ads will run in top new age trade publications

Key Markets Los Angeles (Hometown). Also: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Miami

Also Available Waiting for the Moon

The Other Shore

Beckoning

CD: EVM 3518 (Q )

CD: EVM 3513 (Q )

CD: EVM 3503 (Q)

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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NEW AGE Track Listing F-A-B/Hae – Sunset Island · Jalan Jalan – KAJA Come From · Kiyoshi Yoshida – Sea Breeze · Jalan Jalan – Barong Forrest · Masaji Watanabe – In the Garden After the Rain · F-A-B/Hae – By the Sea · Kiyoshi Yoshida – Nagi · Jalan Jalan – Ocean Blue · Naoyuki Onda – Daydream · Jalan Jalan – Sun-set

Selling Points · Mystical voices and the sounds of Gamelan recorded in Bali create ambient sounds that invite you deep into the world where the gods reside · This music has the power to add color to empty space; it is pure relaxation music with an Asian theme · Soft Asian music has a warm resonance that recalls gentleness. Immerse yourself in this heartfelt music, quietly let go of the self, and refresh your soul · When you listen to this music, you will feel palm trees nodding in the wind, white sands, blue skies & seas, and time quietly passing · Featuring distinctive Pacific Moon packaging with incense included

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Pacific Moon Artists Yoga: Asian Healing Music

· PMR 16 (R) Hae Island (678477001624) · PMR 23 (R) Jalan Jalan Bali Dua (678477002324) · PMR 52 (R) Ubud Ubud Dua (678477005226) · PMR 7 (R) Pacific Moon Artists Ancient City (678477000726) · PMR 8 (R) Jalan Jalan Bali (678477000825)

CD: PMR 61 (R) File Under: New Age

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Featured Artists Avalone, all instruments/Rob Winter, guitar

Track Listing Children of the World · Kobidie (Children’s Hiding Place) · Ijo-Koloh (Roof of the World) · Dumbaje (The Wedding) · Learn to Live is to Play – Interlude · O-he-doje (Echo Voices) · Okale (Sun) · Naghma (Ashes of Memories) · Jimbaje (Colour of Nature) · Petit Moulin – Interlude • Winter in Bucharest · YjoLoloh (Vyanah 3D Ambient Remix) · Kobidie (Hasyia Remix) · O-he-doje (DJ Parsdise Remix)

Selling Points · Using children’s vocals from around the world, Avalone composes an eclectic mix of tribal music, Goa trance groove, ambient, and European new age, taking you on a journey across the world to celebrate life and youth · Avalone has released his music worldwide through various compilation albums with Enigma, Vangelis, Enya, Adiemus, and many more. He has built a reputation with his popular, atmospheric new age sound, which has been included on such high-profile TV compilations as Spirits of Nature, Highlands, and Celtic Myst · Features guitar arrangements by Rob Winter, one of Holland’s top guitar players known for playing with Marco Borsato · Unusual and compelling, this disc is wonderful for creating a musical atmosphere of joy, lightness, and curiosity, bringing a fresh and mysterious sound to any gathering · Review copies to major press and trade; radio promotion · Ads will run in New Age Retailer

Avalone Children of the World

CD: ORM 62682 (Q ) File Under: New Age

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

NEW AGE O’Neill Brothers

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Celebrate America 2XCD: BKR 1406 (2E) File Under: New Age Previously Available

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“The O’Neill Brothers are the next generation of Ferrante and Teicher.” — MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

Featured Artists The O’Neill Brothers, piano/Peter McGuire, violin/Katja Linfield, cello/Laura Mackenzie, whistles, flutes/Dean Magraw, guitar/ John Snow, oboe

Track Listing DISC ONE: God Bless the USA · My Country ‘Tis of Thee (America) · Wrap the Flag Around Me, Boys · Taps · Amazing Grace · Hark to the Echoes · Simple Gifts · Rally Round the Flag, Boys · A Peace Memorial · The Last Rose of Summer · Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen · The Star Spangled Banner · She’s the Sweetest of Them All · My Old Kentucky Home · Let Freedom Ring · Now the Day is Over · Ashokan Farewell · Wrap the Flag (Reprise) DISC TWO: Battle Hymn · Morning Has Broken · America the Beautiful · Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree · Over the Stars There is Rest · My Old Kentucky Home (Reprise) · Sweet Betsy · I Took Her to the Ball · We Shall Overcome · Abide With Me · Beautiful Dreamer · Take Me Home, Country Roads · Over the Stars (Reprise) · The Bell Doth Toll · Home, Sweet Home · A Grand March · God Bless America

Selling Points · The O’Neill Brothers’ peaceful, relaxing piano music pays an incredible tribute to the greatest melodies of our nation’s history! · This collection includes beautiful patriotic standards and classic Americana favorites. You’ll find yourself singing along with “America the Beautiful,” “God Bless America,” “Take Me Home Country Roads,” “Amazing Grace,” and more · The set does not include the loud marches one might usually associate with patriotic music. Instead, it is music that captures the peaceful and nostalgic American spirit · This reverent collection is a one-of-a-kind. Perfect for background music on July 4th, national holidays, and all throughout the year · Includes over two hours of music – thirty-five beautiful, inspiring songs · Dedicated to the men and women who serve our country each day, Celebrate America is a tribute to the strength of the American spirit · The O’Neill Brothers have sold over one million CDs, and have participated in high-profile interviews about wedding music with WHO 1040, The Breeze, Patriot-News, Newsday.com and many more

Key Markets Minneapolis (Hometown).

Also Available Someone You Love

A Day To Remember

CD: BKR 1214 (O)

CD: BKR 1208 (O)

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ALULA PRESENTS … Origins, a new series of exciting, bargain-priced releases from around the world! Origins features colorful, authentic traditional music performances from Asia, Africa, South America and Europe, from the griots of West Africa and the gamelan of Indonesia to the flamenco of Spain, the choro of Brazil, Gypsy violin, Bulgarian polyphony, Buddhist chant, and the music of the Pygmies of the rainforest. Track Listing Pule Wa’a · Oli’oli · Oli Kahea-Pule Ho’olaha O Ke Ali’i · Oli Ho’okupu Awa · Hula Pua’a · Pule O Ka La¯maika’i · Ho’o’u¯ we¯ ’u¯ we¯ · Oli Ke Pule Nei Mai Ke Ali’i · Kane Hono A Pa’a · Oli Kepakepa · Noho Ana Laka · Pule Ho¯ ’uluulu’ai · Kanikau · Mele Inoa · Pule Ho’ola · Oli Makahiki · Pule Hainaki · Oli Ho’ona’auao · Pule Ho’ola’a Hale · Pule Kini Akua · Pule Mauliola · Ke Kumakena Ia Keoua Ku’ahu’ula · Pule Laka · He Oli Pale · Pule Huikala · Oli Kinohi Hou · Two Visiting Gods · Oli Pu¯niu, Mele Huaka’i · He Ma’i Kunuiakea

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John Keola Lake & Na Wa’a Lalani Kahuna

· Though musically best known for its popular slack-key guitar style, the Hawaiian culture contains some far more hidden and ancient traditions · On this rare recording, modern practitioners of the age old Hawaiian chant practice take us back to a time centuries ago, when chants were the basic musical expression of everyday life for the islanders · John Keola Lake established Honolulu’s Academy of Hawaiian Arts, Music & Dance, and was declared a “national treasure” in 1987 · Na Wa’a Lalani Kahuna is a group of accomplished individual chanters (including Lake) who first collaborated in 1990 while preparing for the 200-year anniversary observance of the last Hawaiian temple built in Hawaii

Hawaiian Chant: The Lyrical Poetry of Hawaii CD: ALU 5041 ( J) File Under: Hawaii

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Track Listing Flor Amorosa (Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado) · O Pescador (Xisto Bahia) · La Coquete (Reichert) · Saudade Eterna (Santos Coelho) · Cubanita (Chiquinha Gonzaga) – La Paloma (Sebastián Yradier) · Corta Jaca (Chiquinha Gonzaga) · Não Me Olhes Assim (Anacleto de Medeiros) · Ligia (Anacleto de Medeiros) · Rato Rato (Cazemiro Rocha) · Carnavalesca (Carramona) · Helena (Mario Alvares) · Morcego (Irinew de Almeida) · Sofres Porque Queres (Pixinguinha)

Selling Points · Choro music was born in Brazil in the late nineteenth century as various European dance music traditions gained rich new flavors once they were allowed contact with the heat of Brazil · Choro soon spread throughout the country to become its true popular music, with the traditional choro group consisting of a flute, a guitar, and a cavaquinho (a small guitar resembling a traditional Portuguese ukelele). · On this recording, Brazil’s greatest living cavaquinho player, Henrique Cazes, has gathered a group of Brazil’s most accomplished young musicians to undertake a fresh exploration of the development and history of the choro through its golden age

Henrique Cazes & Choro 1900 Choro 1900 CD: ALU 5038 ( J) File Under: Brazil

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Each release contains a full-color booklet with photographs and background information on music and culture. Transport yourself with Origins, a thrilling exploration of the riches of traditional music from across the globe! Track Listing Njup: Young Boy’s Dance · Wrestling Dance · Dance Of Elderly Women To The Accompaniment Of Calabashes · Dance Of Elderly Women To Tambour Accompaniment · Dance Of Elderly Women Depicting Scenes From Everyday Life · Epilogue: Children’s Dance And Homegoing

Selling Points · Brilliant Senegalese tom tom drumming from the island of Fadiouth, a stunning jewel in the Atlantic known for its beautiful shells · The drum ensemble is made of five young master drummers of the Serer tribe. Six tom toms are used in the performance, including the bass tom tom, which beats out the basic rhythm, and high-pitched tom toms, which beat out finely delineated rhythms · This rapid and crisp cross-beat drumming is an almost entirely secreted music tradition; performing arts on the island are virtually never performed for tourists · This recording captures this hidden tradition live at a secret festival, so it can now be enjoyed off island in all of its fiery glory!

Villagers of Fadiouth Island Tom Tom Arabesques: Drums of Shell Island CD: ALU 5012 ( J) File Under: Senegal

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Track Listing Lelambatan Tabuh Telu “Lokaria” · Ajnyaswari · Liar Samas · Angklung · Sumambang Jawa

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Manikasanti Bronze Blossoms

· The incredibly rich gamelan tradition of Bali continues into the twenty-first century with Manikasanti! · The name of the group derives from the name of the gamelan that they use: Manik means “jewel” and Santi means “peace.” Manikasanti’s leader, I Wayan Sinti, was born in 1943 in Dauh Kutuh and is a music teacher at a specialty school. His career has spanned nearly forty years, and he is well known as a vocal music specialist with a strong background in old gamelan music. He received an M.A. from the University of California – San Diego in 1981. He is very energetic in his activities as a composer, and has provided a great number of pieces for the annual gamelan music contest · Most Balinese gamelan groups are traditional village groups with amateur musicians from each village forming around that village’s traditional instrument, but I Wayan Sinti, the leader of Manikasanti, has instead scouted the most talented players from across the island and formed a new diverse group of members who simply love to perform the music ... this is the new face of Balinese gamelan!

CD: ALU 5022 ( J) File Under: Bali

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WORLD Michael Beach Hands of a Thousand Dances CD: BLD 9 (Q ) File Under: Middle East Previously Available

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Press Quotes “ Very hip…very unique.” — LEON REDBONE “ The real deal … a fresh take on an ancient idea.” — THE BEAT

Featured Artists Michael Beach, vocals, doumbek, Arabic tabla, riq, def, davul, argool, zils, drum kit, keyboard, percussion

Track Listing Welcome · Ana Wa Tablatee · La Casa de Malfouf · Chez Samaii · Raqs Delilah · When I See the Dancers Dancing · Bir Dakika · The Riq Stands Alone · In a Masmoudi Mood · The Green Onion · Saidi Street · Menage a Tar · Baladi Backbeat · Leylet Arghool · Oud Out of Time · Hands and Sticks · Til Next Time

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· Represents another example of Michael Beach’s love affair with Middle Eastern music! · Hands of a Thousand Dances is a collection of many different types of traditional and nontraditional drum pieces performed on various Middle Eastern drums and percussion instruments · Features the hands, voice and heart of Michael Beach, leader of Brothers of the Baladi · Brothers of the Baladi are five Americans who successfully “bridge the gap,” bringing Middle Eastern music to the world. Both Westerners and native Middle Easterners will enjoy, dance to and understand this CD · For 30 years, Brothers of the Baladi have been one of the largest sellers of belly dance music both nationally and internationally · Frequent in-store performances, especially when touring · Press releases, CDs, photos, reviews and publicity to all press and media (includes radio/TV interviews, live performances, CD/ticket giveaway and feature stories) · Advertisements, interviews and reviews in all top belly dance publications

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Eugene, Medford, Seattle, Bellingham. Olympia, New York, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Boise, Bozeman, Missoula, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Maui, Honolulu

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto CD: ANO 769940 (C) File Under: Classical

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Christian Tetzlaff, violin/Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich/David Zinman, conductor BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 • Romance for Violin & Orchestra in G, Op. 40 • Romance for Violin & Orchestra in F, Op. 50

• As is generally known, Beethoven later transcribed his violin concerto as a piano concerto, for which he wrote some additional solo cadenzas. Christian Tetzlaff has in turn transcribed these original piano cadenzas for the violin • According to Tetzlaff, the cadenzas by Fritz Kreisler that are usually heard are “alien – in purely harmonic terms, but also in terms of the concept and the idea behind them. Beethoven pursues an entirely different approach in his original piano cadenzas” • Just as at home with the classical and romantic repertoire as with the music of the twentieth century, Tetzlaff ’s interpretations of the great violin concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Berg, Schoenberg, Shostakovich and Ligeti set new standards, as do his performances of the Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas • Voted the 2005 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America • Tetzlaff regularly gives guest performances as a soloist and chamber musician in all the international musical centers, such as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Vienna’s Musikverein as well as in London, Paris, Berlin, and Munich. He also regularly gives duo recitals with Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt, and has his own string quartet • In the summer of 2005, Christian Tetzlaff performed four concert programs as “artiste étoile” at the Lucerne Festival and was invited to play at the London “Proms” as well as festivals in Edinburgh and Helsinki • He has been awarded several prizes for his numerous CD recordings, including two Diapason d’Ors, the Edison Prize, the Echo Prize, and nominations for the Grammy Awards • Born in New York in 1936, conductor David Zinman initially trained at the Oberlin Conservatory and then at the University of Minnesota. While studying conducting at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center, he attracted the attention of Pierre Monteux, who arranged for his first important performances with the London Symphony Orchestra and at the Holland Festival, to name but a few • David Zinman has risen to the pinnacle of his career in the last decade. After bringing the Baltimore Symphony to major status, he became musical director of the Aspen Music Festival and then took the helm of Zurich’s beloved Tonhalle Orchestra, with which he has undertaken highly successful tours of Europe, the U.S. and Asia • Zinman’s discography, which includes over 100 recordings, has won five Grammys and two Grands Prix du Disque • Zinman’s complete Beethoven symphony set with this same orchestra received the Award of the German Record Critics in 1999 and has since gone from one rave review to another

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Piano Concertos 3 & 4

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Tomás Luis de VICTORIA

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Devotion to Our Lady

Renaissance Portugal: Sacred Music of Cardoso & Lôbo

“A wonderful opportunity to hear previously unrecorded repertoire and to gain a much fuller understanding of a single Renaissance master.” — GRAMOPHONE

“A performance of deeply searching spirituality, paced intelligently, as is everything by this choir’s director.” — THE TIMES

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, conductor

VICTORIA: Salve Regina • Missa Salve • Ave maris stella • Alma Redemptoris Mater • Regina caeli laetare • Ave Maria • Magnificat

CARDOSO: Sitivit anima mea • Tulerunt lapides • Non mortui • Missa Regina caeli • LÔBO: Audivi vocem de caelo • Pater peccavi • Missa pro defunctis

The long-established tradition of devotion to the Virgin Mary resulted in some superb settings from Spanish composers. Supreme amongst them, Victoria set some of his finest music to Marian texts. This recording showcases works for eight parts, some of them for two antiphonal choirs discreetly accompanied by organ and bajón, all displaying the magnificent fervent sonorities for which he is famous. “You could say it was music that Harry Christophers was born to conduct.” — BBC RADIO 3

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Frank MARTIN

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Mass for Double Choir

Eton Choirbook I: The Rose and the Ostrich Feather

“A marvellous demonstration of Martin’s gifts as a composer of vocal music.” — BBC MUSIC The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, conductor MARTIN: Mass for Double Choir • Cantate pour le 1er Août • Chansons • Songs of Ariel • Ode to Music

Frank Martin was arguably Switzerland’s greatest composer. His shimmering Mass for Double Choir, completed in 1926 as “an affair between God and himself,” is one of the finest settings of the twentieth century, yet it had to wait forty-one years to be shared with others in its first performance. This collection of his choral music also includes his cantata for Switzerland’s national day (August 1), and the Ode to Music, along with some charming part-songs. Eclectic and technically superb, these pieces display a style that is serenely individual.

Manuel Cardoso (1566 –1650) and Duarte Lôbo (c. 1565 –1646) were the two leading composers of the “golden age” of Portuguese polyphony. Portuguese sacred music of this period inhabits a distinctive sound world that can be seen as a continuation and development of the Spanish style of composers such as Morales and Guerrero, but it is often allied to a tantalizing harmonic richness and color that is found nowhere else.

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“ Wonderful music, wonderfully performed … sit back and let these glorious sounds fill your ears and lift your spirits.” — GRAMOPHONE AWARD (EARLY MUSIC) The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, conductor FAYRFAX: Magnificat • TURGES: From stormy windes • HYGONS: Salve Regina • CORNYSH: Salve Regina • BROWNE: Stabat iuxta Christi crucem • ANON.: This day day dawes

Scholarship, musicianship and superb singing have made this disc a Gramophone Award winner! The Rose and the Ostrich Feather is the first release in the award-winning Eton Choirbook series on Coro, encapsulating some of the finest sacred music of the English fifteenth century having survived Henry VIII’s ransacking of the monasteries. Rarely has such a series been as highly praised for its musicological research, performance and recorded sound.

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Ian Partridge, tenor/The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, conductor BRITTEN: Gloriana–Choral Dances • Sacred and Profane • Five Flower Songs

• Most critics consider Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) the most eminent English composer of the twentieth century. His works include masterpieces of choral, operatic, orchestral and chamber music • The works on this album show some of the breadth and range of Britten’s choral writing, embracing the masque from his opera Gloriana, his own take on the English part song tradition in Five Flower Songs, and his last work for unaccompanied voices, Sacred and Profane. The latter sets medieval texts described herein as “a mixture of the devotional and the rumbustiously secular” • The Sixteen is one of the jewels in the musical crown of Britain, and enjoys a worldwide reputation for clarity and beauty with precision and dramatic intensity • Founded in 1977 by its director, Harry Christophers, its albums have received nearly every major prize of the recording industry including the prestigious Gramophone Award for Early Music • The Sixteen’s own record label, CORO, offers new recordings each year and is re-issuing the former Collins Classics catalogue

Benjamin BRITTEN Fen and Meadow: Britten Choral Works III CD: CRO 16038 (Q ) File Under: Classical

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Catherine Dubosc, Catherine Denley, James Bowman, John Mark Ainsley, Michael George, vocal soloists/The Sixteen/The Symphony of Harmony and Invention/Harry Christophers, conductor J.S. BACH: Mass in B minor

J.S. BACH Mass in B minor (2 CDs)

• Bach’s Mass in B minor displays all the ingredients that contribute to his supreme ranking amongst his peers of any age, and also demonstrates the breadth of compositional skills amassed during his lifetime • It demands choral singing of blistering athleticism but also sensitive, responsive and, at times, majestic orchestral playing coupled with virtuosic obligatos, along with a team of soloists who can breathe an immediacy of expression into the words of the Mass • All these elements are well to the fore in this magnificent recording • The Sixteen’s special reputation for early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance and a diversity of twentieth century music is founded on a naturalness of performance, a revealing clarity and beauty of sound, precision, and a dramatic intensity of delivery • To date, The Sixteen and The Symphony of Harmony and Invention have made over 90 recordings, many award-winning, in a range of work spanning the music of 600 years, rediscovering and performing lost and little-known repertoire • The Sixteen’s own record label, CORO, offers new recordings each year and is re-issuing the former Collins Classics catalogue

CD: CRO 16044 (2N) File Under: Classical

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CLASSICAL Joel Fan World Keys

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“A superb pianist.” — BOSTON GLOBE “A versatile and sensitive pianist – an impressive talent.” — WASHINGTON POST Joel Fan, piano LISZT: Rigoletto Paraphrase • PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No. 3 • SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No. 2 • and world premiere recordings of pieces by Dia SUCCARI (Syria), Halim EL-DABH (Egypt), A. Adnan SAYGUN (Turkey), Qigang CHEN (China), Peter SCULTHORPE (Australia), Peteris VASKS (Latvia), & William BOLCOM (USA)

• Debut album of outstanding young talent Joel Fan, known for his recordings and performances with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project • World Keys features rip-roaring performances of crowd-pleasing Schumann, Liszt, and Prokofiev works along with world-premiere recordings of important works by international composers • Joel Fan’s international performing career began with the New York Philharmonic at the age of eleven, and has included engagements around the world including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the New Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria, the Pueblo Symphony, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the London Sinfonietta, and the Singapore Symphony • Fan was a prizewinner of several international competitions, such as the D’Angelo Young Artists International Competition in the U.S. and Italy’s Busoni International Competition. The National Foundation for the Arts even named him a Presidential Scholar • In recent seasons, Fan has been performing as a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, and is featured on their recent award-winning Sony Classical release • In addition, he has appeared in numerous duo and chamber music performances with Yo-Yo Ma at venues including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as on the television shows Good Morning America and David Letterman • Chinese composer Qigang Chen was born in 1951 and started learning music from childhood. When the “Cultural Revolution” broke out in China, he was studying at the Music Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. His father, administrator of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, famous calligrapher and painter, was immediately judged “bourgeois” and “antirevolutionary” and sent to a labor camp • Young Qigang Chen was kept in confinement for three years and underwent “ideological re-education.” Yet, his passion for music remained unwavering: he went on learning composition and scoring in spite of social and political anti-cultural pressure • In the mid-eighties, he was given a state grant to study with Olivier Messiaen in France. He became Messiaen’s only pupil after the famous composer left the Paris Conservatory. In 2003, Virgin Classics issued the first recording of his orchestral music • Born in Tasmania in 1929, Peter Sculthorpe has become Australia’s most eminent classical composer, and his works are regularly performed and recorded throughout the world • Likewise, Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) is the most eminent serious composer in his native land, Latvia, and his works have been widely performed and recorded • William Bolcom (b. 1938) is one of America’s most popular and honored composers, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988 • Thrilling audiophile sonics, recorded in HDCD by legendary “Prof.” Keith O. Johnson • Service to national & international music and audiophile press and to online ‘zines: Gramophone, Musical America, New York Times, Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, Soundstage, Ultra High Fidelity, ClassicsToday, International Record Review, and more • Radio service to classical stations

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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“Forgotten music by great composers, great music by forgotten composers.” – ROBERT REILLY, CRISIS This is the mission of Toccata Classics – a label created expressly to explore unjustly neglected repertoire. Toccata Classics is the first label to tackle forgotten repertoire head on, recording only the music that has not yet gained the audience it deserves. Incredibly, only one of Reicha’s 40+ string quartets is on CD; there are hundreds of Lassus motets that have yet to be recorded, and around 40 of Palestrina’s masses. The music of Nordic and Baltic composers is inadequately represented, as is the work of non-operatic Italian composers such as Pizzetti and Ghedini. The collapse of Communism has opened up dozens of countries whose rich musical traditions are as good as unknown. South American composers have yet to make the impact of their North American colleagues. These are only some of the treasure troves that Toccata Classics will be exploring!

Donald Francis TOVEY Orchestral Works Malmö Opera Orchestra/George Vass, conductor TOVEY: Symphony in D • The Bride of Dionysus – Prelude (premiere)

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RECORDINGS! Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940) has long been known as one of the finest writers on music in English – but he saw himself primarily as a composer. His powerful and ambitious Symphony, written in 1913, has its stylistic roots in Brahms and Bruckner, but Tovey was also open to contemporary developments: the harmonic procedures occasionally invoke Reger, the adventurous use of orchestral color suggests Mahler and Nielsen, and S P E CI A L the scale – it is almost an hour in length – casts the work as a mighty cousin toSUPER-BUDGET Elgar’s PRICE! two symphonies, finished not long before. This is its first recording since Tovey himself conducted a BBC broadcast performance in 1937. British conductor George Vass is artistic director of the Regent Sinfonia of London. His album of Stephen Dodgson works was WORLD named a Gramophone Editor’s Choice in March 2003 and hailed as “a landmark PREMIERE recording.”

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Charles-Valentin ALKAN Organ Music, Vol. 1

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“Works of stature and originality … Kevin Bowyer is a fine advocate for this music … There is a very detailed and interesting essay on the music by Malcolm MacDonald and a likeable note about the artist … a strong recommendation for this disc.” — PATRICK C. WALLER, MUSIC ON THE WEB Kevin Bowyer, organ

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In the last three decades, the staggeringly original piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–88) has emerged from the darkness that had surrounded it over the past century and now features regularly in the repertoire of some of today’s best young pianists. However, Alkan’s organ music – no less powerful and imaginative – has yet to become known, even to a specialist public. This is the first of three CDs presenting all of Alkan’s unrecorded WORLD music for organ. Kevin Bowyer plays the organ of Blackburn Cathedral. Bowyer is one PREMIERE RECORDING! of the best-known and best-selling organists on disc.

Phillip RAMEY Piano Music

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RAMEY: Color Etudes • Memorial (In Memoriam Alexander Tcherepnin) • Chromatic Waltz • Piano Sonata No. 1 • Piano Sonata No. 2 • Piano Sonata No. 5 • Piano Fantasy • Four Tangier Portraits • Toccata No. 2

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The piano music of American composer Phillip Ramey (b. 1939) has its roots in the motoric SUPER-BUDGET athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartók, refracted through the wiry and elegant polyphony of his teacher, PRICE! Alexander Tcherepnin. To these early influences Ramey has brought the tangy dissonance of mainstream modernism and a Lisztian enjoyment of the grand Romantic gesture. The works on this CD range in mood from tranquil introspection by way of sober lyricism to thunderous explosions of demonic energy expressed in high-octane piano writing that pushes virtuosity to the limit.

CD: TOC 29 (R) File Under: Classical

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CLASSICAL “Consummate practitioners of pianism.” — WASHINGTON POST Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, pianists MOZART: Andante & Variations in G, K.501 • RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole • LISZT: Schlummerlied from Weihnachtsbaum Suite • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 • RESPIGHI: The Fountains of Rome • Patrick BYERS: Great Movements Sonata for Four Hands (premiere)

Aebersold & Neiweem Four Hand Reflections CD: SMT 456 (R) File Under: Classical

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• Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the American piano duo Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem, this disc represents a selection of some of their personal favorite original and transcribed works for piano four hands • Features the world-premiere recording of the Great Movements Sonata for Four Hands; a welcome virtuoso addition to the neglected contemporary repertoire for piano duet by New York composer Patrick Byers, along with original composer transcriptions of works by Mozart, Ravel, Liszt and Respighi • Currently celebrating twenty-five years as a performing ensemble, Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem are marking the occasion with an international tour which will include New York, Chicago, Rome and Vienna • Claire Aebersold is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, and Ralph Neiweem of the Juilliard School. Husband and wife, they are currently duo-inresidence at the Music Institute of Chicago, where they founded the NEA award-winning Chicago Duo-Piano Festival, now in its eighteenth season • Other discs by Aebersold and Neiweem for Summit records include the world premiere recording of Brahms’s own four-hand arrangement of his Piano Concerto No.1, recently praised by Fanfare magazine as “spectacularly listenable,” and a multi-CD traversal of Schubert’s complete four-hand music (in progress), praised by Gramophone as “utterly charming … highly recommended” • One of the most active composers of his generation, Patrick Byers studied with Prize winners Robert Ward and Karen Husa and is currently on the faculty INCL Pulitzer UD E S FIRST of the LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and Performing Arts WORLD RECORDING PREMIERE • Aggressive media mailing to classical press including Gramophone and American EVER! RECORDING! Record Guide. Mailing to 100+ classical music stations across the country. Focused I NCLU NCLUD DEES mailings to appropriate internet sites and journals

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Edward Sandor, trumpet/University of Georgia Wind Symphony/John N. Culvahouse & F. David Romines, conductors Percy GRAINGER: Marching Song of Democracy • David MASLANKA: Symphony No. 2 • Roger VOGEL: Concerto for Trumpet & Wind Ensemble • Michael DAUGHERTY: Bells for Stokowski

• The University of Georgia Wind Symphony serves the most accomplished wind and percussion musicians in the University. In commissioning new works for band, the Wind Ensemble often produces new recordings featuring new works as well as other significant works of the band repertoire • Edward Sandor is Professor of Trumpet at the School of Music of the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1979. In addition, he performs with the Georgia Brass Quintet, which has toured nationally, in Canada, Europe, and Southeast Asia • John N. Culvahouse is an Associate Professor of Music and Interim Director of Bands at the University of Georgia. The National Band Association has presented him with the Citation of Excellence on six occasions • F. David Romines is the Associate Director of Bands and an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Georgia. He has guest conducted throughout the Southeastern United States, Canada, Italy, and China • Aggressive media mailing to classical press including Gramophone and American Record Guide. Mailing to 100+ classical music stations across the country. Focused mailings to appropriate internet sites and journals

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Raphael Wallfisch, cello/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Richard Dickins, conductor BRIDGE: Oration Concerto elegiaco (1930) • ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 • HOLST: Invocation (1911)

• These three notable British works for cello and orchestra from the early twentieth century – two of them, the Elgar and the Bridge, ranking among the finest for the medium ever written by British composers – are linked by various strands, both circumstantial and expressive • This is, surprisingly, the first time Raphael Wallfisch has ever recorded the Elgar Cello Concerto, here performed from a brand new edition that has corrected some significant note errors in previous editions • Born in London in 1953 to a musical family, Raphael Wallfisch studied cello with Gregor Piatigorsky and, at a young age, performed chamber music with Jascha Heifetz. • Since winning the prestigious Gaspar Cassadó competition at age twenty-four, he has enjoyed a worldwide career with all the greatest orchestras, and has made numerous recordings. Britain’s leading composers have written works especially for him

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Mirijam Contzen, violin/Valery Rogatchev, piano SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75 • DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor • FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A

Mirijam CONTZEN Sonatas for Violin & Piano

CD: ANO 592330 (C)

• German-Japanese violinist Mirijam Contzen, student of the great Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga, is one of the top-flight younger generation musicians. She was given her first violin at the age of two, her first lessons from the age of three, and at five she gave her first public performance • Contzen is one of the members of Arte Nova’s young newcomer artist roster. Her recital album entitled Favorite Violin Pieces earned her the Echo Klassik award from the German music industry as Newcomer Artist of 2001 • During the 2003/2004 season, Mirijam Contzen made her debuts at the Salzburg Festival and the Wigmore Hall, London • Romanian pianist Valery Rogatchev was born in 1970 and began to learn the piano at age four. At the age of eleven he played the Grieg concerto with the Romanian Radio Orchestra. In 1990, under Alfred Brendel, he won the first prize at the Mozart Competition. He has toured widely, playing with the Chicago Symphony and other major orchestras • Camille Saint-Saëns wrote his first Violin Sonata in 1885 • Claude Debussy’s only Violin Sonata was his last composition, and he played the piano part himself in his last concert on May 5, 1917 • Although César Franck wrote his sole Violin Sonata just four years before his death in 1890, it was his first work to achieve international fame

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CLASSICAL Leonard BERNSTEIN Music From Candide, West Side Story and On the Waterfront Jena Philharmonic Orchestra/David Montgomery, conductor & pianist/Camelia Sima, pianist/ Dennis Heath, vocalist BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story • Fancy Free Ballet • Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront • Candide Overture

CD: ANO 433210 (C) File Under: Classical

In 1944 the dancer-choreographer Jerome Robbins discovered in the young, still-unknown Leonard Bernstein (1918–90) a partner whose gifts and artistic inclinations made a fortunate match with his own. The success of their ballet Fancy Free was not only the first step on the road that was to lead to a brilliant culmination in West Side Story (1957), but also inspired the composer to write other works that breathed the atmosphere of the big cities of the twentieth century, notably On the Town (1944), the symphonic work The Age of Anxiety (1949), Wonderful Town (1952), and the film score to On the Waterfront (1954). In this recording, singer Dennis Heath (who has performed with The Carpenters and The Young Americans, but also sings classical music from Carissimi to Wagner) adheres to Bernstein’s IN CL UStuff.” DES wishes that concert performances of Fancy Free begin with the cabaret song “Big FIRST WORLD

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Ingrid Hasse, flute/Andrea Schumacher, violin/Astrid Sulz, cello/Darius Burnecki Antonella IN& C L UDE S FIRST TIME WORLD Pagano, pianists

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CD: ANO 342520 (C) File Under: Classical

SUPER-BUDGET Wilhelm Kempff (1895–1991) was most famous during his lifetime as one of Germany’s finest PRICE! classical pianists, heard on numerous recordings from the mid-twentieth century, but he was also a considerable composer, primarily of chamber music, and these works are being more closely investigated a few years after his death. The Trio in G minor, written when Kempff was only sixteen, exists solely in manuscript, having never been published; yet it is a remarkably mature work, if obviously modeled on Brahms. The later Trio for Piano, Flute, Violin and Cello bears the opus number 15 and was dedicated to Her Majesty Queen Viktoria of Sweden, originally a Prussian princess, on Kempff ’s tour of Scandinavia in 1919–20. The performers here are all seasoned chamber players from across Europe.

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Erwin SCHULHOFF Orchestral Music Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra/Oliver von Dohnanyi, Marcello Viotti, conductors SCHULHOFF: Ogelala “Ballettmysterium” • Symphony No. 2 • Suite, Op. 37

CD: ANO 278020 (C) File Under: Classical

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Born in 1894, Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff was a prodigy whose life was cut tragically short. He died in 1942 in the Nazi concentration camp at Wülzburg (Bavaria). The importance of his often grotesque and dance-oriented music in our time is being more and more recognized. The “ballet mystery” Ogelala, premiered in 1925, is based on the legend of a Mexican Indian chief. The sober Symphony No. 2 was written for Czech radio in 1932. The Suite is an earlier work. These three works were performed in May 1993 at the SR-Festival “Music of the Twentieth Century” in Saarbrücken. On this occasion, the Symphony No. 2 received its German premiere. The Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1937. Myung-Whun Chung, the principal conductor from 1984–90, was followed by Marcello Viotti, who is also well known particularly as an opera conductor and works with many of the major orchestras. Oliver von Dohnanyi was for seven years Director of the Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since the opening up of the East, Dohnanyi has appeared more frequently in the West.

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Orchestral Works “George Enescu” Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra/Cristian Mandeal, conductor ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A, Op. 11 • Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 20 • Suite No. 3 in D, Op. 27 “Villageoise”

George Enescu (1881–1955) is still remembered today, fifty years after his death, as Romania’s greatest classical composer. He was also a virtuoso violinist. His many works in numerous genres remain largely unknown outside his native land except for the immensely popular Romanian Rhapsodies, but they deserve wider circulation in view of the beauty of their melodies, their brilliant orchestrations, and their strong characterization and originality. This recording offers two of Enescu’s orchestral suites in addition to the beloved Rhapsody No. 1. Dancing vivacity and colorful instrumentation are characteristics of these effervescent orchestra pieces. The Romanian Philharmonic Society was founded in 1868. Its conductors have included significant figures in Romanian music not to mention Enescu himself, whose name the orchestra incorporated into its title in 1955 as the George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic. The current conductor is Cristian Mandeal, who studied with both Karajan and Celibidache. He has conducted numerous major orchestras and more than forty world premieres.

CD: ANO 378550 (C) File Under: Classical

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Joseph RHEINBERGER Music for Violin & Organ Elena Denisova, violin/Szygmunt Strzep, organ RHEINBERGER: Six Pieces for Violin & Organ, Op. 150 • Suite for Violin & Organ, Op. 166

The name of Joseph Rheinberger (1839–1901) is well known to all classical organists, but outside of that his fame drops off sharply. Music trivia addicts love to point him out as “the greatest composer of Liechtenstein” – which he was. More importantly, he was one of the most revered music pedagogues of his time (Furtwängler and Humperdinck were among his pupils). His own music was highly acknowledged by his contemporaries, and this disc represents a real rediscovery of some rarely performed works. Elena Denisova counts among the most prominent personalities of the Russian violin elite today. The press and public confirm her high musical maturity, absolutely individual interpretation, and a superior virtuosity. Szygmunt W. Strzep, who was born in 1962, is representative of the young Polish generation of organists.

CD: ANO 589650 (C) File Under: Classical

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Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos 1 & 2 Kyrill Rodin, cello/Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Konstantin Krimets, conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 107 • Cello Concerto No. 2 in G, Op. 126

These central works of cello literature are interpreted here by a master – Kyrill Rodin was awarded not only First Prize, but also Gold Medal, at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Since then, Rodin has been one of the most sought-after soloists in Russia, the former Soviet states, and many other European countries. The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra was founded by Igor Oistrakh, Yuri Temirkanov and a union of concert workers. Many famous conductors have worked with the orchestra, including Svetlanov, Rozhdestvensky, Kondrashin, Kitaenko and Fedoseyev. They have made over 100 CDs. In 1959, soon after the completion of the Symphony No. 11, Shostakovich wrote his Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major Op. 107; he dedicated it to Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the work. The Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major Op. 126 is also dedicated to Rostropovich. The composer created it in 1966 between two vocal soloist/choral symphonies while seeking rejuvenation in a sanatorium in Yalta.

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CLASSICAL Charles KOECHLIN Les Heures persanes SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Heinz Holliger, conductor KOECHLIN: Les Heures persanes, Op. 65 (orchestral version)

CD: HNS 93125 (S) File Under: Classical

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This continuation of the critically acclaimed Hänssler Classic Koechlin cycle features shimmering nocturnal interpretations of rare and rarely heard impressionist masterpieces! Koechlin’s singular orchestration acquires an inexhaustible variety of shades and colorings through the blending of instrumental timbres. The unmistakable idiom of Les Heures persanes established Koechlin among the avant-garde French composers of his time.

Hector BERLIOZ Requiem (2 CDs) Toby Spence, tenor/Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra & Vocal Ensemble/ Leipzig MDR Radio Chorus/Roger Norrington, conductor BERLIOZ: Requiem, Op. 5 CD: HNS 93131 (2S) File Under: Classical

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Berlioz’s Requiem or Grande messe des morts is perhaps one of the least religious Masses for the dead ever written. The work was written for a massive orchestra and chorus. In its original performance, there were 400 singers and players total assembled.

Carl CZERNY Symphonies 2 & 6 SWR Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslauten/Grzegorz Nowak, conductor CZERNY: Grande Symphony No. 2, Op. 781 • Symphony No. 6 in G minor (premiere)

Despite his amazingly prolific output, Czerny evidently did not aim to be original at all. He produced music going back and forth stylistically between Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other contemporaries with amazing flexibility. It is this very flexibility that gives these two symphonies their unique charm and justifies rescuing Czerny’s concert music for the long neglect it has suffered for so many years.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 Gerhard Oppitz, piano BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata Nos. 1, 2 & 3, Op. 2

CD: HNS 98202 (R) File Under: Classical

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The latest volume in a major new Beethoven Sonata cycle performed by Gerhard Oppitz. The current disc features the three piano sonatas Op. 2, published in 1794. Oppitz’s first volume of Beethoven Sonatas has already received critical praise, and as the series continues, more and more attention will be given to this important cycle.

Felix MENDELSSOHN Heimkehr aus der Fremde Juliane Banse, soprano/Iris Vermillion, contralto/Carsten Süß, tenor/Christian Gerhaher & Stefan Müller-Ruppert, basses/SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart/Helmut Rilling, conductor MENDELSSOHN: Heimkehr aus der Fremde CD: HNS 98487 (R) File Under: Opera

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Although Mendelssohn had a high opinion of his early operetta, or liederspiel, Heimkehr aus der Fremde (generally known in English as Son and Stranger), is seldom heard today. Helmut Rilling and his expert singers and orchestra here follow up their successful revival of another neglected Mendelssohn stage work, The Uncle from Boston, on HNS 98221.

CLASSICAL “Robert Parris held the audience spellbound. His playing is such that it focuses on the poetic nature of the music, unlike what we usually hear in Europe these days.” — OSTFRIESISCHE ZEITUNG

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Robert Parris, organ SOWERBY: Prelude on “Land of Rest” • BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in C, BuxWV 136 • “Gott der Vater, wohn uns bei,” BuxWV 190 • “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland,” BuxWV 198 • J.S. BACH: Sonata VI in G, S.530 • “Wir glauben all an einen Gott, Vater,” S.740 • Toccata & Fugue in D minor, S.539 • FRANCK: Fantaisie in A • DUPRÉ: Variations on a Noël, Op. 20

• A program of classic organ works on the new Fisk organ, a large two manual organ by C. B. Fisk in Macon, Georgia. This is its first appearance on CD • At the center of the program is the American composer Leo Sowerby’s seldom-recorded Prelude on “Land of Rest” • Leo Sowerby (1895–1968), who won the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1946, was probably America’s greatest composer for the organ. His genius lay in his ability to fuse American individuality and expression with traditional European forms. With clear forms and experimental harmonies, Sowerby composed for both concert hall and cathedral, taking full advantage of the American Classic organ • Organist Robert Parris was a featured recitalist at Disney Hall during the 2004 American Guild of Organists convention in Los Angeles, and he will once again be a soloist at the AGO conference in Chicago in July 2006 • The recital reveals the wide range of music possible on this organ, from Baroque to American classical • Promotion to a broad email list in March 2006. Press releases and review copies will be sent to radio stations and print media

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Lynn Edwards Butler, organ J.S. BACH: Prelude: Fantasia in c, BWV 562/1 • Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625 • Christ lag in Todes Banden à 2 claviers et pédale, BWV 718 • Fantasia super Christ lag in Todes Banden choralis in alto, manualiter, BWV 695 • Komm, Heiliger Geist, alio modo, à 2 claviers et pédale, BWV 652 • Fantasia super Komm, Heiliger Geist, in organo pleno, il canto fermo nel tenore, BWV 651 • Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr, à 2 claviers et pédale il canto fermo nel tenore, BWV 663 • Vater unser im Himmelreich,à 2 claviers et pédale e canto fermo in canone, BWV 682 • Passacaglia, BWV 582

J.S. BACH Festival Chorales

• The first recording on the new Richards, Fowkes and Co. organ in Deerfield, Massachusetts, modeled on and inspired by instruments that Bach would have used, this is also the first recording by Lynn Edwards Butler, noted organologist and music historian • Butler, a native of Vancouver, BC, is an organist and harpsichordist with a special interest in the music of the Baroque • She is the co-founder of the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, and an authority on eighteenth-century organ building in Germany. She writes for scholarly publications, and concertizes widely • This program of Bach’s music is organized around the festival chorales of the liturgical year • The sixteen-page booklet is in full color and includes liner notes by noted musicologist Gregory Butler • Promotion to a broad email list in March 2006. Press releases and review copies will be sent to radio stations and print media

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CLASSICAL Carey BLYTON Sweeney Todd & Dracula!

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BLYTON: Sweeney Todd the Barber, Op. 79 • Dracula! or, The Vampire Vanquished, Op. 87 I N C L UDE S

CD: MER 84533 (R) File Under: Classical

FIRST TIME WORLD These two “Victorian melodramas” by Carey Blyton (1932–2002), nephew of the children’s PREMIERE ON CD! writer Enid Blyton, were commissioned for children by the BBC. Both RECORDING!are written for narrator, unison voices, piano, and optional additional instruments, and are suitable for either school or SP E C I A L SUPER-BUDGET professional performance. Carey Blyton earned three degrees in music from Trinity College, PRICE! where he later taught composition. He also pioneered the first academic courses in composing for film, radio and television at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1972–1983). For several years he served as Benjamin Britten’s personal editor, and also edited many works by Gustav Holst. He has written several books for children, of which Bananas in Pyjamas is an English classic. For more about this remarkable man, visit www.careyblyton.co.uk.

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Luis Samuel Saloma Alcalá The Portrait of Lupe: Mexican Violin Anthology, Vol. 2 Luis Samuel Saloma Alcalá, violin/Duane Cochran, piano ELÍAS: Romanza • Melodía • Elegía • Pastoral • CORONA: Idilio • RUVALCABA: Serenata • GAMBOA: Mientras Llueve • SABRE MARROQUÍN: De siempre * Nostalgia • De mi patria • JIMÉNEZ MABARAK: El retrato de Lupe • BERNAL JIMÉNEZ: Tres danzas tarascas

CD: URT 110 (R) File Under: Classical

A second volume in the series Music for Violin and Piano by Mexican Composers. The album title is after the 1953 piece El retrato de Lupe by Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (1916–1994). The other composers and their works are thoroughly discussed in the accompanying twenty-eightpage booklet of this classic Urtext presentation in deluxe slipcase. Luis Samuel Saloma Alcalá, violinist, conductor, and concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra, belongs to a family of musicians with a long tradition in Mexico. His grandfather was founder of the Saloma Quartet, the first chamber music ensemble in the country. The pianist on this album is Detroit native Duane Cochran, a child prodigy who studied with György Sandor and who performs frequently in Latin America. He is also a noted choreographer, and director of the Aksenti Contemporary Dance Ensemble.

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Marcela RODRÍGUEZ The Last Night of Seneca

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FIRST TIME WORLD Armando Gama, baritone/Irasemas Terrazas, soprano/Oscar de la Torre, tenor/Signos Ensemble/ PREMIERE ON CD! José Areán, conductor RECORDING! M. RODRÍGUEZ: Séneca, o todo nos es ajeno [The SP ELast C I A L Night of Seneca] (complete chamber SUPER-BUDGET opera) PRICE!

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Born in 1951, Mexican composer Marcela Rodríguez blends the resources of the European tradition with those of Latin America. In London, where she completed a course of guitar study, she devoted her time mostly to the tradition of European music. Back in Mexico City, she continued her studies under music pedagogue Jesús Estrada and Mario Lavista, the most eminent living Mexican composer. With the exception of one cast member, this is a re-creation of the premiere of her newest opera, which took place in Fall 2004 at the sixth annual International Music and Scenic Festival in Mexico City. Composed on a libretto by Carlos Thiebaut, it reflects on the suicide of the Roman philosopher Seneca, which was ordered by the Emperor Nero.

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Voyages Pascal Gallois, bassoon/Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra/ Daniel Kawka, conductor/Mikrokosmos Choir/Loïc Pierre, directdor BERIO: Sequenza XII for solo bassoon • HOSOKAWA: Voyage II—Concerto for Bassoon & Ensemble • SCHOELLER: Cantate Isis for bassoon & mixed choir CD: STV 33736 (R)

A second CD showcasing the fabulous bassoonist Pascal Gallois, with all the works having been written for him. Gallois says: “The bassoon is such a strange and complex instrument that it has always seemed to me like the perfect choice to travel across cultures and periods, and tie them together.”

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From the New World: A Review of New Music, Vol. 1 Terry Riley & Fausto Bongelli, pianos/Francesco Dillon & Lucas Fels, cellos/ Stefano Scodanibbio, double bass/Peter Söderberg, lute/Mike Svoboda, trombone/ Banda Comunale Giuseppe Verdi di Pollenza/Fernando Sileoni, director IVES: At the River • Illmenau • Charlie Rutlange (vers. for solo trombone & band) • COWELL: Dynamic Motioin • The Banshee • CAGE: Dream (vers. for lute & cello) • DRUCKMAN: Valentine, for double bass • FELDMAN: A Very Short Trumpet Piece (vers. for alto trombone) • RILEY: Beat Sutra #7 • SESSIONS: 6 Pieces for Cello

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G.F. HANDEL Recorder Sonatas Lorenzo Cavasanti, recorder/Tripla Concordia (Lorenzo Cavasanti, recorders/Caroline Boersma, cello/Sergio Ciomei, harpsichord) HANDEL: Recorder Sonatas, HWV 362, 367, 365, 375, 377, 360 & 369

A brand-new recording by these popular artists of Handel recorder sonatas, from the times when the Baroque recorder was at the height of its development. They are considered cornerstones of today’s recorder repertoire. The members of Tripla Concordia play historic instruments of the period, or modern copies of them.

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Francesco da MILANO Lute Music Paul Beier, Renaissance lute MILANO: Intabolatura da Leuto (27 selections)

This book (entablature) of lute pieces was published about 1530 by Francesco da Milano (1497–1543), known in his day along with Michelangelo as “Il Divino.” The foremost lutenist of the Italian Renaissance, he served three popes and two cardinals. His works were published throughout Europe. “Clear phrasing captured by Beier with exquisite taste and without ostentation.” — GOLDBERG

CD: STV 11010 (L) File Under: Classical

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Christopher GRAUPNER Color Portraits (Wind Concertos) Antichi Strumenti GRAUPNER: Concerto for 2 Horns & Timpani • Flute Concerto • Trumpet Concerto • Concerto for 2 Trumpets & Timpani • Bassoon Concerto

Period instrument ensemble Antichi Strumenti offers a program of brilliant Baroque concerto music by Christopher Graupner (1683–1760), a contemporary of his close friends Handel and Telemann. Graupner turned down the position at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, which then went to J.S. Bach. He was a prolific composer who wrote 113 symphonies and 44 concertos.

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CLASSICAL Andrea GABRIELI Missa brevis for Four Voices Coro da Camera del Concentus Musicus Patavinus/Fabio Framba, director & organist/Schola Gregoriana Scriptoria/Nicola M. Bellinazzo, director A. GABRIELI: Missa Brevis 4 vocum in re

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Andrea Gabrieli (1510–1586) was the uncle of the more famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli. A pupil of Adrian Willaert, lifelong friend of Orlando de Lassus, and teacher of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Andrea Gabrieli became organist at the Cathedral of St. Mark’s in Venice in 1566, and remained there until his death. This being the most prestigious organ post in Italy, he wielded great influence on later Italian (but also German) composers. His works were among the first in Italy to pass beyond the dominant influence of the Flemish composers. His sonorous works, designed to resound through the mighty arches of the cathedral, display IN CLUD E S FIRST many innovative techniques. His numerous compositions comprise every genre of his era, WORLD RECORDING PREMIERE and include several Masses of which this one has only recently been published. The Chamber EVER! RECORDING! Choir of the Patavinus Concentus Music was founded at the University of Padua in 1979. IN CLU DE S Fabio Framba has made several previous recordings, one of which won a major Italian award WORLD in 2003. PREMIERE RECORDING! I N C L UDE S

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Cristina Curti, soprano/Aldo Vianello, guitar GIULIANI: 6 Cavatinas for soprano & guitar, Op. 39 • Waltzes for guitar, Op. 57 • 6 Songs for soprano & guitar, Op. 89 • Ariettas for soprano & guitar, Op. 95

Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828) was the great guitar virtuoso of his age. Friend of both Beethoven and Rossini, he wrote hundreds of pieces for the guitar, plus concertos, chamber music, and songs. His complete works have been published in 39 volumes by Tecla Editions of London. The present interpretations are based on the original texts as preserved in these scholarly editions, and Aldo Vianello plays an instrument of Giuliani’s time which is lighter and more flexible than the modern guitar. Soprano Cristina Curti, a graduate of the conservatories of Bologna and Parma, is a specialist in vocal music of the Renaissance and Baroque, and vocal chamber music of all periods. She has made several previous recordings. Guitarist Aldo Vianello studied at the Milan and Bologna conservatories and is a scholar in historic guitar performance. He also plays several other instruments, including the mandolin. He has made a project of performing the complete guitar works of Giuliani.

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Domenico LIVERANI Music for Clarinet & Piano Corrado Giuffredi, clarinet/Giuseppe Fausto Modugno, piano LIVERANI: Cujus animam (from Rossini’s Stabat Mater) • Cavatina (from Verdi’s La traviata) • Duettino (on a song by Monteviti) • Serenade (by Schubert) • La Promessa (from Rossini’s Soirée musicale) • La Gaité • Fragments from a youthful albums, Nos. 1 & 2 • GOLINELLI: Morceau de Salon, Op. 124, Nos. 1 & 2 • GOLINELLI-LIVERANI: Mazurka “Non v’ha rosa senza spine,” Op. 125

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Domenico Liverani (1805–1877) was a famous clarinet player all over Europe. He was a close IN CLUD friend ofE SRossini, and created many arrangements for clarinet and piano of melodies from FIRST WORLD his operas as well as those of Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and others. The clarinet was considered RECORDING PREMIERE RECORDING! at EVER! that time the instrument most capable of simulating the human voice, and it was used throughout the nineteenth century to help bring the great opera melodies into every home. IN I NCLU CLU DE S WORLD Several of Liverani’s pieces are recorded here for the first time. Also included are two pieces PREMIERE by Stefano Golinelli (1818–1891), an important pianist of the era, and a friend and colleague RECORDING! ofI NLiverani. Together they wrote the Mazurka “There is no rose without a thorn,” dedicated C L UDE S FIRST TIME to Rossini. WORLD

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OPERA “ Here, in addition to the staggering virtuosity and the pointed characterization we’re used to [from Marilyn Horne], we get wonderful humor and the impression that she is having a simply terrific time … Abbado’s leadership is a sheer delight, and the La Scala forces are in grand shape. The sound is very good. At this price—or possibly any price—this can’t be beat.” — CLASSICSTODAY

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Marilyn Horne, Luigi Alva, Paolo Montarsolo, Enzo Dara, et al., vocal soloists/La Scala Orchestra & Chorus/Claudio Abbado, conductor ROSSINI: L’italiana in Algeri (complete opera)

• The Italian Girl in Algiers, premiered in 1813, was the first of Rossini’s comedies to exhibit his fully mature style, and one of the first to establish his unquestioned dominance in the opera world of his day. It literally overflows with delightful melody, rhythmic verve, and sparkling humor • The most famous numbers in the score are Isabella’s spectacular coloratura aria “Cruda sorte,” and the thunderingly farcical final ensemble of the first act, which never fails to bring down the house • This live 1975 performance from Italy’s greatest opera house stars American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, whom Opera News called “probably the greatest singer in the world” in 1981. Across her forty-year career she was recognized as the greatest Rossini interpreter in modern times • Luigi Alva (b. 1927) was the leading lyric tenor of the fifties and sixties, admired for the purity of his tone, elegance of phrasing, and clarity of diction. His specialties were Mozart and Rossini • Claudio Abbado has also had a long career on the podium, and has long been recognized as one of the world’s foremost conductors • Grand Tier presents the most popular titles from the budget Opera d’Oro catalogue at mid-price with complete librettos newly translated, stimulating essays by eminent music writers, and deluxe packaging with striking artwork commissioned from Rafal Olbinski

Gioacchino ROSSINI L’italiana in Algeri (2 CDs)

CD: OPD 7023 (2L) File Under: Opera

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“If you haven’t heard Vickers in the role of Samson, you haven’t heard Samson … [he is] caught here in his absolute prime … Oralia Dominguez sings Dalila … it’s a superb performance. The give-and-take between conductor and singers is absolutely organic … and the sheer tactile quality of Saint-Saëns’ score [is] beautifully served here.” — ROBERT LEVINE Jon Vickers, Oralia Dominguez, Ernest Blanc, et al., vocal soloists/Netherlands Radio Orchestra & Chorus/Jean Fournet, conductor SAINT-SAËNS • Samson et Dalila (complete opera)

Camille SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Dalila (2 CDs)

CD: OPD 7028 (2L) File Under: Opera

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• Samson et Dalila, based on the colorful Bible story, has remained a reliable crowd pleaser since its premiere in 1877, and admiration for its considerable qualities has grown steadily over the years. For one thing, Dalila has no fewer than three major arias, each more enchanting than the one before – a circumstance virtually unique in Romantic opera • This live 1964 broadcast from Amsterdam presents an exciting performance with two outstanding leads, one who was universally famous, and one who should have been • Born in Canada in 1926 as the sixth of eight children, Jon Vickers was intent on a business career until, at age twenty-two, the exceptional qualities of his voice were so evident that he enrolled in the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto • He was invited to join the Covent Garden Opera in London in 1957 and soon embarked upon a major international career. Beginning in 1960, he sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for more than twenty-five years • The role of Dalila is sung here by the Mexican mezzo-soprano Oralia Dominguez, a passionate singer who was the equal of Maria Callas in fiery temperament and sang opposite her in a famous Aida recording • Nearly everyone today agrees that Dominguez should have become a major international star. Her relatively few recordings are correspondingly all the more desirable

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CLASSICAL Members of the Juilliard String Quartet (Robert Mann & Isidore Cohen, violins/Raphael Hillyer, viola/Claus Adam & Arthur Winograd, cellos)/Lukas Foss, piano/Julius Baker, flute MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K.478 • Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, K.493 • Flute Quartet No. 1 in D, K.285

The Juilliard String Quartet Live at the Library of Congress, Vol. 4

• These historic performances featuring the legendary Juilliard String Quartet were recorded live at the Library of Congress on April 16, 1965. The flute quartet was recorded live on October 29, 1950 • These historic recordings continue a series of releases of memorable performances given by the Juilliard Quartet at the Library of Congress which began in 1948 • The makeup of the quartet is slightly different on each occasion. The genesis of these concerts is found in the generous philanthropy of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and Mrs. Gertrude Clarke Whittall • The Juilliard String Quartet began in 1946 and were appointed Quartet in Residence by the Juilliard School’s president, William Schuman • Well known American composer, conductor and pianist Lukas Foss was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic (1963–71), Principal Conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic (1971–90), a regular guest conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (1972–75) and Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (1981–86) • One of the most admired flutists of all time, Julius Baker (1915–2003) was the principal flute of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and of the New York Philharmonic (1965–83) and taught at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute

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Also Available Brahms: Live at the Library of Congress, Vol. 3

Mozart: Live at the Library of Congress, Vol. 2

CD: DHR 5705 (R)

CD: DHR 5703 (2R)

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Gioacchino ROSSINI Zelmira (2 CDs) Virginia Zeani, Nicola Tagger, Gastone Limarilli, Paolo Washington, Anna Maria Rota, et al., vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro San Carlo, Naples/Carlo Franci, conductor ROSSINI: Zelmira (complete opera)

One of Rossini’s least-known operas, Zelmira nevertheless contains much excellent music, sometimes rising to the very best Rossini has to offer. Despite a weak libretto, Zelmira was well received at its premiere in 1822 and continued to be performed for about ten years. Then it was forgotten until the historic revival of 1965, preserved on this live recording that presents all the music including additions Rossini created for the Vienna premiere. The heroine is sung by Romanian–Italian soprano Virginia Zeani (b. 1925), a singer of superb technique who participated in the revivals of many bel canto operas. She was highly praised by critics for the radiant beauty and deep expressivity of her voice. Her husband was the well-known operatic bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni.

CD: OPD 1455 (2K) File Under: opera

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Alfredo CATALANI La Wally (2 CDs) Magda Olivero, Nicola Zaccaria, Laura Zanini, et al., vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo/Ferruccio Scaglia, conductor CATALANI: La Wally (complete opera)

Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893) was a talented composer who perhaps lived at the wrong time. He came along at the end of Verdi’s career and the beginning of Puccini’s, dying of tuberculosis at the early age of thirty-nine. La Wally, his most successful opera, had its first performance in 1892 at La Scala, Milan, under the direction of Arturo Toscanini, who championed the opera throughout his career. This performance features the legendary dramatic soprano Magda Olivero, who caused a sensation by singing beautifully even at an advanced age (she made her Met Opera debut at age 65, and her last opera recording at age 83). She was a “mere” 62 when this remarkable live recording was made in 1972.

Order Date: May 25, 2006

CD: OPD 1456 (2K) File Under: Opera

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WORLD “Les Italiens is an audacious mixture of styles that reflects the innate, ironic and cheeky sense of humour of the Tuscan region, from which the band members originate.” — fROOTS

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Featured Artists Antonello Salis, accordion/Luca Marianini, trumpet/Sebastiano Bon, flute/ Simone Santini, alto sax/Marco Bini, tenor sax/Emanuele Parrini, violin/ Ian Dapreda, xylophone/Gianni Zei, acoustic guitar/Alessandro Fabbri, drums/Alessandro di Puccio, vibraphone, percussion/Francesca Taranto, bass, vocals/Tolmino Marianini, trumpet/Nico Gori, clarinet/Luca Gelli, acoustic guitar/Marco Lamioni, guitar, keyboards/Filippo Pedol, double bass/Carlo Monni, vocals/Elisabetta Piscaglia, viola/ Stefano Bollani, piano/Stephan Casalta, vocals

Track Listing Twist Manouche · Ottomania · Ultimo Amore · Chico · Carta Intestata · La Mazurca di Totò · Coltello d’Argento · Arabica · Lulù · Bella Ciao · Aufwiedersehen, Good Bye

Selling Points · An extraordinary musical adventure that overrides the boundaries of set musical and stylistic standards · Les Italiens is a big band capable of alternating from ethnic jazz and pop songs to passionate tangos and swing with a particular Italian flavor · The ensemble alternates between instrumental and vocal repertoire. This disc features the participation of special guest and renowned accordionist Antonello Salis · Service to radio, television, and lifestyle magazines · Key Markets: Seattle, San Francisco, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Boston, Philadelphia New York, Providence, Newport, Burlington

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Track Listing Ouaga Saga: Ouaga Saga · La Nuit De La Vérité: Afriqui Bii ? · Bako, L’Autre Rive: Bako · Le Déchaussé: Jazz Mandingue Au Vieux Casino · Tourbillons: Documentaire Tourbillons · Dôlè: Oghendo · Le Grand Blanc De Lambaréné: Le Grand Blanc De Lambaréné · Xalima La Plume: Mamadou · Le Métis: Inanga · Donka: Donka · Delwende: Maaya · Sababu: Sababu · Article 15bis: Brakka, I’m Calling from Africa · Heremakono: Yallali · Si Gueriki, La Reine Mère: Arrivée A Cotonou · Circus Baobab: Le Blues Du Chef · Derrière Le Silence: Moutolleyne Sida · Le Ballon D’Or: Voyages · Barbecue Pejo: Petit A Petit

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AfricaVision AfricaVision Vol. 1: 1975–2005 Francophone African Cinema

· Africavision, launched by Buda Records in collaboration with Radio France International, is a ten-CD collection devoted to the music of African films made since the sixties. Spanning half a century of African film scores, these tributes bear witness to a great variety of films, filmmakers, regions, peoples, and musical styles · The first volume, devoted to the cinema of Western Africa, presents music from French-speaking African films and films about French-speaking Africa · Features nineteen titles composed by famous musicians such as pianist Ray Lema, kora player Lamine Konté, Mokhtar Samba, So Kalmery, and more · Upcoming volumes will include music from Senegalese guitarist Wasis Diop, Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, and the late cultural giant & multi-instrumentalist Francis Bebey

CD: BUD 3017264 (Q ) File Under: Africa

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WORLD NEW FROM PLAYASOUND – EDITION PIERRE VERGER!

In 1988 the Pierre Verger Foundation was created to preserve Parisian photographer Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger’s legacy.

Edition Pierre Verger Brazil: From Bahia to Rio CD: PLS 66521 (L) File Under: Brazil

Brazil is one of the richest countries in the world, musically speaking: samba, bossanova, capoeira, maracatu, and more! This selection presents some of the finest pieces in various Brazilian genres from such renowned talents as Renato Velasco and Nazaré Pereira.

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Edition Pierre Verger China: From Peking to Shanghai CD: PLS 66522 (L) File Under: China

This recording, made in the 1970s by musicologist Hubert de Fraysseix and highly acclaimed by the critics, pays a remarkable tribute to Chinese classical music, featuring Lu Pei-Yuen and cheng virtuoso Liang Tsai-Ping.

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Edition Pierre Verger Louisiana: From Lafayette to New Orleans CD: PLS 66531 (L) File Under: Cajun

Louisiana is the birthplace of two very different styles of music, both of which symbolize this exceptional part of the United States: the folk music of the French-speaking Acadians, and New Orleans jazz, which has Afro-European origins.

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Edition Pierre Verger Mexico: From Vera Cruz to Acapulco Mexican music is extremely rich and varied, including indigenous forms as well as French and Spanish influences. Here, marimbas, mariachi music and love serenades are illustrated by some of their very finest exponents.

CD: PLS 66530 (L) File Under: Mexico

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Edition Pierre Verger Oriental Moods: From Marrakech to Cairo Includes folk dances from the high plateaus of Yemen and Morocco, pieces from Palestine and Iran performed on the ‘ûd or the bewitching ney, compositions for the Kurdish tembûr, songs from Moorish Spain, and even the famous Egyptian belly dance!

CD: PLS 66529 (L) File Under: Middle East

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Edition Pierre Verger Cuba: From Havana to Santiago Cuban music has managed to wend its way through the obstacles of history, surviving Batista, the Revolution and the embargo. This album features talented groups Yakare, Union Sanluisera and the famous exponents of son, El Son Entero.

CD: PLS 66528 (L) File Under: Cuba

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The collection is composed of books, articles, sound recordings, films, publications of all stripes, letters, manuscripts, ritual objects and over 62,000 negatives!

Edition Pierre Verger Polynesia: From Bora Bora to Tahiti A broad spectrum of the best-loved songs and rhythms that traditionally accompany dances in Polynesia featuring more than twenty Tahitian artists including Coco’s Temaeva, Poline, Eddie Lund, Fetia, Marie Mariteragi, and Loma.

CD: PLS 66527 (L) File Under: Polynesia

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Edition Pierre Verger Andes: From Lima to La Paz Recorded in Peru and Bolivia, this disc reflects all the magic of Andean music played on kenas, guitars, zamponas, and more. A wonderful expression of the greatness of the Inca civilization, and essential listening!

CD: PLS 66526 (L) File Under: Andes

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Edition Pierre Verger Spain: From Granada to Sevilla Made by Hubert de Fraysseix in the seventies, this recording bears witness to a time when authentic flamenco could be heard and appreciated in all its purity and integrity in the streets of Cordoba and Granada. A gem for true aficionados.

CD: PLS 66525 (L) File Under: Spain

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Edition Pierre Verger Japan: From Kyoto to Tokyo CD: PLS 66524 (L) File Under: Japan

The three most typical Japanese traditional instruments are the shakuhachi (flute), koto (zither) and shamisen (lute). Here, they are played by their finest exponents in a celebration of ten centuries of Japanese musical history.

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Edition Pierre Verger Africa: From Dakar to Johannesburg CD: PLS 66523 (L) File Under: Africa

The beauty and variety of vocal music is represented by the Zulu choirs of Soweto (South Africa), the unique voice of Mamany Kouyaté (Mali), the songs of Boni Gnahoré (Ivory Coast), and the murmured voices of singers from Burundi.

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Edition Pierre Verger Islands of the Sun: From Haiti to Trinidad CD: PLS 66532 (L) File Under: Caribbean

The music of the Caribbean Islands shows many influences: a mixture of indigenous culture, the traditions of African slaves, and European aspects. This recording brings together different musical genres of various origins.

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WORLD Elisha Avshalom Magic Whistle in World Music Track Listing Washington County · Tamburin · The Indian Rider · Angels of Peace · Down the Road · Tarantella · The Mexican Whistler · Tikiminiky · Song of the Seashore · Venezuelan Waltz · Danny Boy · Dance of the Birds · Tishrei Saba · Mazurka · Polka · Waltz · El condor pasa · Gregoras Dinicu’s Hora

Selling Points · Magic Whistle is precisely what its name implies – an enchanting musical experience featuring whistling tunes as well as celebrated pieces for pan flute and piccolo recorder

CD: HKT 9414 (P) File Under: World/Instrumental

· Elisha Avshalom, a member of the popular band The Taverners, has been playing Irish music for more than thirty years. Avshalom is a virtuoso player of numerous wind instruments and performs in other ensembles, including Emerald, as a soloist and an accomplished whistler · Features music from Romania, Poland, Ireland, Peru, Russia, Italy, and South America as well as some classical pieces, polkas, and waltzes

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Hataklit Music Authentic Israeli-Oriental Folk Songs Track Listing Ez Vakeves · Debka Hillel · Yemenite Songs Medley · Rumia ve’Yoel · Hava Nagila Medley · Bat Ha’Carmel · Debka Druz · Yemenite Step Medley · Se’I Yona · El Ginat Egoz · Debka Ha’abir · Eretz Savat Halav · Shepherd’s Song Medley · Ve’David Yefe Eynaim · Nigun Atik · U’she’avtem Mayim · He’venu Shalom Aleichem

Selling Points · During the twentieth century, the first Jewish pioneers arrived in Israel. Among them was the first immigration of Yemenite Jews during the twenties, and the second upon the establishment of the State of Israel in 1949

CD: HKT 9425 (P) File Under: Jewish

· These songs had a big influence in the formation of Israeli folklore music, as well as in the music of the local Arab residents (Debka-Druz) · This original ethnic album contains seventeen songs, most sung in Hebrew and the rest in Yemenite

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Hataklit Music The Real and Very Best of Jewish-Israeli Party Track Listing Eitan Masuri – Wedding Horah Medley · Shuly and the Synthesizer – Glass Breaking Medley · Eitan Masuri – Chassidic Horah Medley · Eitan Masuri – Mashiach · Carnival Group – Disco Horah Medley · Shuly and the Synthesizer – LeChaim Medley · Eitan Masuri – Wine Songs Medley · Carnival Group – Oriental Medley · Gevatron – Horah Medley · Line Dances Medley · Circle Dances Medley · Couple Dances Medley · Suliman the Great & Friends – Yemenite Songs Medley · Ofra Haza – Arbaim · HaTikvah-Israeli National Anthem

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CD: HKT 190 (P) File Under: Jewish

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

· Come dance, rejoice, and sing with these well-known songs used at every Jewish wedding or bar mitzvah! · This is a genuinely fun recording featuring famous Israeli artists – the perfect CD for parties and dances, sung in Hebrew & English

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Selling Points Chinguetti is a historic city in the Mauritanian Sahara. Accompanied by a group of young women on vocals, drums and handclapping, electric guitarist Moudou ould Mattala takes us on a tour of Moorish music between guitar arabesques, rhythmic improvisations and palm grove women’s songs.

CD: BUD 3017296 (Q ) File Under: Mauritania

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Music from the World Echoes of Chile Rebelling against any form of colonization, the Mapuche Indians resisted the Incas and then the Spanish, who had to acknowledge them as a nation. This disc presents healing songs, recitative prayers to the gods, bird imitations, ritual greetings and a collective game that is an integral part of the social and ritual protocol of the Mapuche.

CD: BUD 3017295 (Q ) File Under: Chile

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Shivu Taralagatti India: The Voice of the Sitar Shivu Taralagatti is a great classical Hindustani musician whose soft, delicate music is developed in a continuous flow of melodious arabesques that display a deep sense of rhythm. The three ragas featured here are variations on serenity (Râga Shuddha Nat), mystical love (Misra Gara-Dhun) and erotic aesthetic mood (Râga Marubehag).

CD: BUD 3017297 (Q ) File Under: India

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Nepal Shaw Folk Songs: The Instrumental Version Track Listing Station-er rail gari-ta · Boli-o-nanadini · Suhag chand badani · Allah megh de · Guru-na-bhoji mui · Bhalo karia balao-re · Dada paye pari-re · Sobloke koye Lalon · Medley Mix DVD: BSS DTS 51005 (Q )

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File Under: India

A collection of popular & highly nostalgic folk songs re-recorded as an instrumental album with synthesizers, various string instruments, and rhythm patterns that are similar to any dance mix! Playable only in DVD and Surround Sound systems – not for standard CD players.

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Sipra Bose Digital Viz-a-Viz Classical: Feel the Thrill Track Listing Jugalbandi · Indian Drums · Indian Thumri Fusion · Taal & Bolbani · Flute Theme · The Basss Music Jingle · Ulti ho gayi sab tadbiren

Selling Point An all-new collection of Indian fusion featuring various Indian percussion instruments! From the heartfelt compositions of Begum Akhtar, these rare ghazals come to Western connoisseurs. Playable only in DVD and Surround Sound systems – not for standard CD players.

DVD: BSS DTS 51006 (Q ) File Under: India

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WORLD Gilbert Bécaud Gilbert Bécaud

CD: EPM 615562 ( J) File Under: France/Pop

Includes twenty-six Bécaud classics! Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer, and actor known as “Monsieur 100,000 Volts” due to his energetic performances. His best-known hit is “Et maintenant,” a 1961 release that became an English language hit after being translated into “What Now My Love.” Liner notes in French & English.

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Juliette Gréco Juliette Gréco

CD: EPM 615561 ( J) File Under: France/Pop

Collects twenty of Gréco’s popular tunes! Juliette Gréco’s career was played out against a backdrop of existentialism in the glittering café society of the post-war years. In the heyday of Paris’s buzzing Left Bank, Gréco rose to fame as the face of France’s New Bohemianism. Liner notes in French & English.

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Patachou Patachou

CD: EPM 615563 ( J ) File Under: France/Pop

Features 25 of Patachou’s well-known tunes! This protégé of Edith Piaf is the quintessential French chanteuse. As Paris witnessed a veritable explosion of chanson clubs, they launched the careers of a post-war generation of glittering stars, among which Patachou was one of the most popular! Liner notes in French & English.

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Vanina Michel Poètes & Chansons: Prévert CD: EPM 985652 (Q ) File Under: France/Poetry

“Vanina Michel offers one of the most beautiful homages to Prévert that one can imagine … ballads of jazz, tango and rap echo spoken choruses, keyboards, and violin by Didier Lockwood, giving these poems all their emotion [and] sharp force. ★★★★” — TELERAMA

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Bernard Ascal Poètes & Chansons: Senghor, Césaire, Damas

CD: EPM 985642 (Q ) File Under: France/Poetry

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

This celebration of poet-politicians features the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor, a Senegalese poet and politician who served as the first president of Senegal; Aimé Césaire, a Martinican author and politician; and Léon-Gontran Damas, a French poet and one of the founders of the Négritude movement (in which all three were involved).

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CD: EPM 985592 (Q )

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Georges Chelon

Anna Prucnal

Les Fleurs du Mal: Charles Baudelaire

Monsieur Brecht

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Le Chat · A une Madone · Les Aveugles · Parfum exotique · Obsession · Les Phares · Correspondances · La Musique · Hymne · Causerie · Le Beau Navire · Les Hiboux · Le Jet d’eau · Brums et pluies · Spleen LXXVI · Don Juan de Berthe · Le Mauvais Moine · Le Guignon · Remords posthume · and more (57 total)

Du pauvre · Die Moritat von Mackie Messer · Der Matrosen Song · Bilbao-Song · Benares-Song · Der Barbara Song · Alabama-Song · and more (19 total)

Selling Points Singer and French guitarist George Chelon quickly made a name for himself with his poetic style often compared to Brassens. A truly sentimental singer, Chelon managed to evolve over the years, maintaining his popularity through this millennium.

Selling Points Actress and Polish singer Anna Prucnal began working in the cinema at age twenty-two and immediately became incredibly popular. After her arrival in France, she began a theatrical career largely centered on the works of Bertolt Brecht and worked with various “in vogue” directors including Jorge Lavelli, George Wilson, Roger Planchon, Jean-Louis Barrault and more. Here, she rediscovers some of Brecht’s popular works!

CD: EPM 985602 (Q )

CD: EPM 3017363 (Q )

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Michèle Bernard

Bertolt Brecht: Hommage

Le nez en l’air

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Complainte de Mackie · La Chanson de Mandalay · Le Chant de Barbara · Bilbao Song · Alabama Song · Abschied · Liebeslied · Das Puntilalied · Surabaya-Johnny · La fiancée di Pirate · Mere Courage · Kanonensong · and more (28 total)

Frangin, frangine · Hotel des enfants de Boheme · Cerise et Potiron · Jours de fievre · Canal de Joange · Berk-Plage · La Vierge Noire · Sur la grosse pierre · Je vous appelle · Nomade · Le nez en l’air · Donne-moi des claques · and more (18 total)

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Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director and poet in the twentieth century. Here, some of his more popular works are paid homage by greats of the pop tradition: Catherine Sauvage, Marianne Oswald, Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill, Florelle and more.

Accompanied by accordion, Michèle Bernard moves easily between the traditional and the modern. One of the most popular singers of her time, and a rare and impetuous artist, Bernard has composed music for the cinema, television, and theatre.

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I N S T R U M E N TA L / W O R L D Track Listing DISC ONE: What a Wonderful World · Your Song · Bridge Over Troubled Water · Just the Way You Are · Sailing · Love is in the Air · Dream a Little Dream of Me · My Girl · Mull of Kintyre · Yesterday DISC TWO: Imagine · Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word · (Sittin’ On The) Dock of the Bay · If You Leave me Now · Killing Me Softly with His Song · Somebody to Love · Isn’t She Lovely · One of these Nights · Is This Love · Candle in the Wind

Selling Points · The saxophone, an instrument of passion, has long been used to express love and emotion in a way that cannot be described with words · Relax to these smooth saxophone rhythms with unforgettable melodies that add a special touch to any occasion · Perfect for dinner parties, intimate gatherings, or just chilling out · An eclectic mix of infectious rhythm tracks perfectly blend with the sultry sounds of the saxophone · A perfect mix of jazz, fusion, R&B and that cocktail lounge ambience!

Nathan Reed ChillOut Saxophone 2XCD: NOQ 218028 (2K) File Under: Instrumental

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Featured Artists Carlos Munhoz, guitar/Magrus Borges, drums, percussion/Ramatis Moraes, bass/Claudio Spiewak, guitar

Track Listing Wave · Jazz Samba · Girl From Ipanema · Blue Bossa · Meditation · Black Orpheus · Autumn Leaves · Corcovado · Summer Samba · High Expectation

Selling Points · Carlos Munhoz, guitarist, arranger, and songwriter, was born in Rio de Janeiro and has been living in the U.S. for the last fifteen years. During that time, he has performed all over the country, playing different styles of music: Brazilian jazz, classical guitar, and Andean tunes · Munhoz was part of the Music Under New York program for eight years. Due to his immense popularity, his photo was chosen to represent the program in New York’s tourist brochures! · Munhoz worked on the soundtrack for the award-winning short film Veias Abertas da America Latina by Luiz Dias Campos · At Radio MEC (Rio de Janeiro), Munhoz was musical director and arranger for the international award-winning children’s show Toques e Dicas and wrote signature themes for the radio’s national and international news broadcasts · He has recorded with Brazilian artists Helvius Vilela, Toninho Horta, Elza Soares, and Nivaldo Ornelas; has performed at the Palladium, Universal Studios, and DisneyWorld; and was featured several times on the television show Reading Rainbow

Carlos Munhoz Bossa Nova

CD: MBO 5149 (Q ) File Under: Latin

Key Markets New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Puerto Rico, Vancouver, Toronto

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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A montage of sexy Latino women dancing to exotic reggaeton rhythms performed by today’s hottest artists – Spagga, La Rubia, DJ Maxximus, and more!

Features a remix of “Everybody Salsa,” originally by Modern Romance, and a special guest appearance by bachatero Danny “Mano de Ceda” Garcia.

Introduces a new method of mixing merengue with street hip-hop, marrying traditional merengue tunes with Kenny “La Roca” Reyes’s crazy house beats.

A CD so hot that it’s still a hit in the NYC underground music scene! Features Spagga, Bory, Trigueno, Diamante, Laroca, Sombra, Sosa, and more.

DJ Gee

Vizcaino – Pipe Garcia

Zafiro

Marina Ventura

Leyenda Urbana Vol. 1

4x4

La Calidad del Merengue

Paz En Este Amor

CD: PRD 4003 ( J)

CD: PRD 4000 ( J)

CD: PRD 4001 ( J)

CD: PRD 4006 ( J)

File Under: Reggaeton

File Under: Latin

File Under: latin

File Under: Latin

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A pioneer of Latin reggae/hip-hop collects a tremendous force of talents on this wonderful comp – Willy Loomy, Mrk, Effecto, G-Termis, Canda, and more!

From one of the Dominican Republic’s most beloved comedians, 4x4 (featuring the smash hit “Dos Pinas”) will make any party jam!

Zafiro has sold 50,000+ in the Dominican Republic and U.S., and anyone familiar with merengue will instantly recognize his contribution to the genre.

Marina Ventura’s style of bachata, mixed with the traditional “tipico” style of merengue, gives this recording a classic, romantic appeal.

Chelo & La Explocion Tipico

Various Artists

Roig Taverez

Manny Jhovanny

Ramon Orlando Presents Chelo

Super Calle Mix

El Sonodor del Amargue

Me Enganaste

CD: PRD 4004 ( J)

CD: PRD 2000 ( J)

CD: PRD 3000 ( J)

CD: PRD 4005 ( J)

File Under: Latin

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A beautiful folkloric bachata/tipico CD full of great melodies from the producer of such top acts as Juan Luis Guerra and Wilfredo Vargas!

Jam-packed with the hottest merengue, bachata & reggaeton hits from Joe King, Los Sabrosos Del Merengue, Tres Equis, and more – over one hour of nonstop fun!

A captivating twist on bachata that will soothe the soul and ease the mind contains a beautiful rendition of Alejandro Sanz’s hit “Me Va a Extranar.”

A seasoned guitarist and a great talent, Manny Jhovanny regularly plays for thousands of tourists at various Dominican Republic resorts.

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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BLUES/RHYTHM & BLUES Lowell Fulson Back Home Blues “This is high-energy, enjoyable blues. It’s an essential purchase for Fulson fans that want to dig deep into his roots.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Track Listing Cold Hearted Mama · I Love My Baby · Let’s Live Right · Fulson Boogie (Instrumental) · Mama Bring Your Clothes Back Home · Don’t Be So Evil · My Baby Can’t Be Found · Sinner’s Prayer · Upstairs · Want To See My Baby · The Day Is Passing On (Instrumental) · Back Home Blues · Trying To Find · Rock This House

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CD: NTI 7001 (M)

· Rare and previously unreleased direct-to-disc recordings from 1947 through 1951 · Lowell Fulson recorded every shade of blues imaginable – urban blues, rustic duets, funk grooves, and more. His work is vital and satisfying

File Under: Blues

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Various Artists A Taste of Swing Time Track Listing Johnny Otis – Be Bop Baby Blues · Joe Swift w/ Johnny Otis Orchetra – That’s Your Last Boogie · Lowell Fulson – Every Day I Have the Blues · Street Walking Woman · Jimmy Witherspoon – Times Gettin’ Tougher · Ain’t Nobodys Business · Lloyd Glenn – Chica Boo · Jessie Thomas – I Can’t Stay Here · Edgar Hayes & His Star Dusters – Fat Meat & Greens · Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – WineO-Baby Boogie · Earl Brown w/ Red Callender – Lovin’ a Married Woman · Lowell Fulson – Sinner’s Prayer · Blue Shadows · Frantic Faye Thomas – Faye’s Boogie · Paula Watson – Pretty Papa Blues · Dell Graham w/ Lowell Fulson – Raggedy Daddy Blues · Joe Swift – Alligator Meat · Dusty Brooks – You Can Stay But That Jives Got To Go · Felix Gross – Going to Get Straight · Jimmy McCracklin – House Rockin’ Blues · Nightingale Jubilaires – Rough and Rocky Road · Five Soul Stirrers – He’s My Rock · Charles Brown – B & O Blues · Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers – Snuff Dippin’ Mama CD: NTI 1001 (M)

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File Under: Blues

· This full-length sampler brings together some of the best from the Los Angeles-based jazz, blues, and swing label!

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Various Artists Night Train to New Orleans Track Listing Alonzo Stewart – I’m Still In Love With You · The Gaturs – Cold Bear · Joe & Ann – Runnin’ and Foolin’ · Professor Longhair – Whole Lotta Twisting · Kings of Swing – Crazy Crazy Feeling · Jeff Daniels – Daddy O Rock · The Gaturs – One Thrill Fool · Eskew Reeder’s Eskerettes – Southern Style · Eddie Bo – I Got the Blues · Ed’Der Rocks – Hound Dog Rock · Willie West – Don’t You Want a Man Like Me · Huey Smith – Bury Me Dead · The Barons – Love Power · Johnny Rebb – My Body Can’t Take It · Bobby Mitchell – Well, I Done Got Over It · Edmond Souchon – Give Us a Drink Bartender

Selling Points · A lengthy tour through Night Train’s New Orleans catalogue, this sampler contains R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, and traditional jazz CD: NTI 1007 (Q ) File Under: Rhythm & Blues

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

HIP-HOP/ROCK/FOLK Boodah an da Bandit

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Brain on Drugz EP Track Listing Brain On Drugz · No Haps · Swallow Your Pride · Leave Me Alone · Mary Jane · Brain On Drugz (Remix) · Funkmaster Flex Promo

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CD: TUF 3009 (Q )

More “new” old material from Tuff City described by Union Square Music as, “something of a revelation [with] a rapping style [reminiscent] of the rather excellent Das EFX.” Contains the “Funkmaster Flex Promo” mixed by the 45 King!

File Under: Hip-Hop

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Jerry Raines Dangerous Redhead Track Listing Dangerous Redhead · Our Teenage Love · No More · Has Been · I Hear You Knockin’ · Tell Me · Dixieland Rock · Darkest Night · Wild Congo · Dearest Darling Josephine · Barefoot Rock · Do We Have the Right · Hello Sweetie Pie · and more (28 total)

CD: NTI 7089 (Q ) File Under: Rock

Selling Points This twenty-eight-track anthology captures the career of an excellent Louisiana rock ‘n’ roller. Featuring a combination of Raines’ band, The Vikings, as well as the cream of fifties New Orleans musicians (from Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack to Lee Allen and Earl Palmer), Dangerous Redhead is a cornucopia of grade-A, R&B-driven New Orleans rock that traces Raines’ career from its beginnings in the late fifties through the seventies. All recordings are from master tapes and include many unreleased tracks.

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“ This trio has the same drive and tight vocal harmonies for which the group is famous ... the result is still one fine folk group.” — KNOXVILLE NEWS

Featured Artists Bob Shane/Nick Reynolds/George Grove/Dave Guard

Track Listing DISC ONE: Hard Ain’t It Hard · Three Jolly Coachmen · Chilly Winds · Sinking of Reuben James · Gypsy Rose & I Don’t Give a Curse · The Work Song · Rolling River · The M.T.A. · Jocko and the Trapeze Lady · They Call the Wind Maria · Ann · HighHeeled Shoes · Hawaiian Nights · Worried Man · The Way Old Fiends Do · Reverend Mr. Black · DISC TWO: They Love the Night · Emily Remembers · Sunshine Boys · I’m Livin On Easy · Scotch and Soda · South Coast · Sing at the Wheel · The Mary Ellen Carter · The Saucy Sailor Lad · For My Fantastic Friend · Zombie Jamboree · Nucalypso

Selling Points

The Kingston Trio with Dave Guard The Kingston Trio with Dave Guard CD: SWC 1055 (2F) File Under: Folk

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· A new set from the world’s biggest-selling folk group of fifties & sixties, Rare Masters Series features two discs: Kingston Trio Live at The Crazy Horse and Dave Guard – Up & In featuring original (now departed) founder Dave Guard · Through changing times, The Kingston Trio has remained popular for a simple reason – great songs that sound as good today as the first time you heard them! · Over forty years after “Tom Dooley” shot to the top of the charts, the trio is still on the road thirty weeks out of the year, bringing back all the great memories and making new ones · Key Markets: New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco

Also Available · SWC 1029 (Q) Extreme Kingston Trio (787991102929) · SWC 1047 (2F) All Sides of the Kingston Trio (787991104725)

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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SING ALONG AND LEARN WITH THESE FUN-FILLED COLLECTIONS SUNG IN SPANISH!

Monita, Family & Friends

Mis Amigos Los Animales

Venga y Aprenda Conmigo

Allá en el Rancho Grande

CD: BBD 100045 (C)

CD: BBD 100046 (C)

CD: BBD 100047 (C)

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Track Listing

Los Animales · Arre Mi Burrita · Patito Patito · Mi Gallo · La Ballena y el Burro · El Perro Dice · Los Elefantes · Quiquiriquí · La Víbora de la Mar · Elena la Ballena · LA Arañanita

Las Gaviotas ·!Echale! · A-B-C-CH · A-A-A Mi Gatito Mal Está · Uno a Cien · RR con RR · Pepe Pecas · A la Derecha · El Carro Ford · El Barquito · Ahí en la Bahía

De Colores · Don Juan · El Puente de Avignon · Allá en el Rancho Grande · El Mes de Abril · Gran Zapatero/El Zapatero · La Mar Estaba Serena · Vengan a Ver Mi Rancho · Mi Caballo Blanco · En Mi Corazón

Selling Points · These discs feature classic Spanish and American children’s songs alongside original songs by Monita, whose animated yet intimate voice will win you over instantly · Warner writes beautiful songs that reflect her Latin experiences and love of the earth, children, and friendship. Her first publication was a book of children’s songs in Spanish called Salta a Cantar, which included thirty-two popular and original children’s songs perfect the home or classroom · Children quickly pick up these catchy tunes and learn to sing along. You can listen to these uplifting compilations over and over again, as Monita sings sweet melodies that speak to your heart · Monita has been singing, writing songs, and playing guitar since the late sixties. With a heavy influence from friends and relatives south of the border, she writes in both English and Spanish, using music to teach young children the joy of learning · Numerous teachers throughout the northwest, where Monita leads educational workshops, have been successfully using her delightful collections for years. These compilations are a must for Spanish teachers and parents who want their children to have exposure to Spanish! · Each disc focuses on a different theme – alphabet & numbers, animals, and the big ranch – and parents & children will both find themselves singing these tunes throughout the day, from the irresistibly funny “El Carro Ford” to the more somber “Mi Caballo Blanco” · Sung entirely in Spanish, these collections are educational for both Spanish-speaking individuals and those learning Spanish · Contains printable lyrics in both Spanish and English! · Target audience: up to nine years

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

POP/ROCK Amanda Ford

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On Fire

CD: ALA 6002 (Q) File Under: Pop/Rock

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Amanda Ford … anything but ordinary. — PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE

Press Quotes “A remarkable, creative composer and musician.” — WQED “[Full of] energy and feeling.” — TRIBUNE REVIEW “The passion in the voice and music is recognizable to anyone who has ever allowed themselves to fall deeply in love and give their trust. Amanda Ford is a major talent with much to offer … her songs are haunting and stunningly tender … Amanda will be a new star in the universe and she is yours to enjoy.” — WILLIAM LAWRENCE, FORMER DIRECTOR OF ARTIST RELATIONS, EPIC RECORDS

Featured Artists Billy Kuhn, drums/Bill Purse, bass, guitar/Mark Koch, electric & acoustic guitar/Sean Jones, trumpet/Mike Tomaro, sax/Edward Kocher, trombone/Thomas Kikta, guitar, vocals/Andy Reamer, percussion/George Jones, percussion/Jeff Mangone, upright bass

Track Listing Baby Take Me Home · Contagious · Isn’t It a Shame · Quicksand · Saturday Morning · How Does It Feel · Facing West · Jessie · Ghost · Nothing Personal · When I See Your Face · I Remember · On Fire

Selling Points · Multiple Golden Quill & Emmy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Amanda Ford is a leading composer of the true American pop song · Her debut solo album, On Fire, represents a unique blend of traditional American influences, combining blues, rock, jazz, country, and pop music · Ford’s songs reveal a deceptive simplicity, underscored by legitimate musicianship. She has the exceptional ability to write and perform within multiple genres, all connected by her smooth and melodic stylistic thread · Her lyrics expose an uncommon depth without pretense, and an intimate honesty; listeners can’t help but relate to her stories · Ford possesses a haunting, lyrical voice reminiscent of the best of Joni Mitchell, Norah Jones, Sara McLachlan, Annie Lennox, or Diana Krall · Winner of the Harry G. Archer Award for Composition · Marvin Hamlisch has premiered Ford’s works · Due to the artist’s genre versatility, there will be a multi-format promotional push · Service to various radio formats · Review copies will be sent to all major music publications by Allegro Media · Seeking retail promotions · Tour schedule to support On Fire is being organized. Details announced soon!

Key Markets Pittsburgh (Hometown). Also: Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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PUNK/SOUL/ROCK ALLEGRO WELCOMES MUSIC AVENUE TO ITS ROSTER! Music Avenue, founded in 1996, joins young creative types with experienced industry veterans. The label handles a wide variety of musical styles performed by a number of eclectic artists such as Grammy-nominated reggae superstars Pato Banton and Third World; blues/rock pioneers Canned Heat; soul icons James Brown, Solomon Burke and Aaron Neville; blues legends B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters; electrifying avant-garde funkster George Clinton; and, last but not least, the Cypress Hill clan.

CD: MAY ROK 250038 (Q)

2XCD: MAY 250070 (2J)

File Under: Punk

File Under: Soul/Funk

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U.K. Subs

James Brown

Live at the Roxy

Live at Chastain Park

Track Listing

B.I.C. · I Couldn’t Be You · I Live in a Car · Tomorrow’s Girls · Stranglehold · Illegal 15 · C.I.D. · No Rules (Victim) · Lady Esquire · Telephone Numbers · World War · Disease

Georgia on My Mind · It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World · Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag · Get Up, I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine · Hot Pants · Please, Please, Please · Cold Sweat · Super Bad · Get Up Offa That Thang · Prisoner of Love · Give It Up, Turn It Loose · It’s Too Funky in Here · Try Me · Get On the Good Foot · I Fot the Feeling · I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) · and more (26 total)

Selling Points Formed in London in 1976, the U.K. Subs have had a productive (if alcohol-driven) career, releasing twenty albums since 1979. These recordings, originally released on the legendary Stiff Records label as Live Kicks, are re-issued here. Located in London, The Roxy is considered by most to be the birthplace of British punk.

Selling Points In 1985, James Brown recorded this live double album at Atlanta’s Chastain Park. A must-have for fans, this 2XCD set includes exclusive remixes as bonus tracks.

CD: MAY 250090 (Q )

CD: MAY 250132 (Q )

File Under: Rock/Blues

File Under: Rhythm & Blues

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Chris Spedding

Aaron Neville

One Step Ahead of the Blues

Mojo Soul

Track Listing

Cajun Moon · I Wouldn’t Treat a Dog · No Expectations · Remember · Riverboat · Go to the Mardi Gras · Albatross · One Step Ahead of the Blues · Mother Earth · Dollar of My Pain · Young Man Blues · Lonely Avenue

Tell It Like It Is · Strutting On Sunday · Hercules · Make Me Strong · You Can Give But You Can’t Take · Waiting For a Bus · Mojo Hannah · Love Letters · Cry Me a River · The Greatest Love · Where Is My Baby · My Greatest Gift · Baby I’m a Want You · Performance · She’s On My Mind · Been So Wrong · Wildflower · One Fine Day

Selling Points Chris Spedding is undoubtedly one of the most versatile and talented guitarists to ever pick up a guitar. One Step Ahead of the Blues, produced by Philippe Rault (Memphis Slim, Professor Longhair), is an overall return to his R&B roots. In the new millennium, Spedding joined Roxy Music on several world tours.

Order Date: May 25, 2006

Selling Points Mojo Soul collects some of the finest of the excellent solo tracks Aaron Neville cut in the late sixties and early seventies – a dazzling showcase for the singer’s talents, and those of producer Allen Toussaint. This is classic post-fifties New Orleans music at its best – a blend of gospel, roots-rock, wiry funk, stirring soul, and indigenous Creole rhythms.

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CD: MAY 250092 (Q )

CD: MAY 250128 (Q )

File Under: Rock

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Rick Derringer

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Hoochie Koo Once More

Texas Roadhouse Favorites

Track Listing Rock ‘n’ Roll Hoochie Koo · Jump, Jump, Jump · Still Alive and Well · Teenage Love Affair · Beyond the Universe · Beat the Clock · Don’t Worry Mother · Let Me In · Hang On Sloopy · Fever · C’mon Let’s Go · You Make Me Feel So Good · I Got To Go Back · Hang On Sloopy (Reggae Version) · Hoochie Coo · Everybody’s Comin’

Track Listing Blue Suede Shoes · Down and Out · Nothin’ Shakin’ (But the Leaves on the Trees) · Milk Cow Blues · What Made Milwaukee Famous · Hard Headed Woman · Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar · Wine, Wine, Wine · Truck Driving Man · Hot Rod Lincoln · Lawdy Miss Clawdy · Hey, Hey, Hey · Jailhouse Rock

Selling Points Includes the majority of Rick Derringer’s enduring hits, including a previously unavailable reggae version of “Hang On Sloopy” performed by Edgar & Johnny Winter, Leon Russell, White Trash Horns, and Carmine Appice. Derringer’s trio will tour in 2006, and he will also tour with The Rock and Roll Army, featuring Spencer Davis, Mitch Ryder, and Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night.

Selling Points First conceived in 1967, Commander Cody’s album Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas was listed as one of the 100 Best Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone. It was originally intended to be a double album, and Texas Roadhouse Favorites contains the live tracks that were omitted from the original package!

CD: MAY 250129 (Q )

CD: MAY 250127 (Q )

File Under: Country/Rock

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Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Poco

Our Most Dangerous Stunts

Alive in the Heart of the Night

Track Listing

Chicken Train · Jackie Blue · Fly Away Home · I’ll Shine When It Shines · If You Wanna Get To Heaven · Black Sky · Homemade Wine · Walkin’ Down the Road · You Made It Right · Country Girl

Where Did the Time Go · Keep On Tryin’ · Crazy Love · Pickin’ Up the Pieces · Bad Weather · Call It Love · Let’s Dance · Magnolia · You’d Better Think Twice · Spellbound · Indian Summer · Kind Woman · Rose of Cimarron · Ride the Country · Good Feelin’ to Know · Heart of the Night

Selling Points One of country rock’s more inventive exponents, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were among the most popular outfits in the genre. Our Most Dangerous Stunts is a wonderful collection of their greatest hits, providing memorable moments for aficionados while serving as an excellent introduction for new listeners.

Selling Points Born out of the fading success of Buffalo Springfield, over the years Poco lost various members to The Eagles and the SoutherHillman-Furay Band. In spite of this, they continued to record and release fine albums, from which they culled many successful hit singles. Here, founding member Richie Furay makes a special guest appearance!

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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VOCALS Jim Van Slyke Open Road

CD: LML 199 (Q ) File Under: Vocals

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One the finest male voices in cabaret. — CABARET HOTLINE

Press Quotes “[Van Slyke] has an appealing vocal quality that is sincere and sweet, and the best parts of this CD are quite likable. Open Road evidences a man on the road to bigger and better things … well done, with emotion and class.” — TALKINBROADWAY.COM “One of the best new voices to come along in years.” — NEW YORK DAILY NEWS “ LML Music’s newest artist, Jim Van Slyke, continues to celebrate the release of his debut album … the show, which spans over fifty years of popular music, exquisitely showcases Jim’s soaring, golden voice in a blend of cabaret, pop and jazz standards.” — NEW YORK COOL

Featured Artists Jim Van Slyke, piano, vocals/Bill Stanley, piano/Dan Weiner, drums/Mary Scott, bass/Wayne Lyle, bass/Lon Ephraim, guitar/Renae Toney, vocals/Keri Coulter, vocals/Maria Egler, vocals/Jason Wooley, vocals

Track Listing Open Road · Sailing · Summer Breeze · Moondance · Kiss Me in the Rain · Night on Broadway · In the Darkest Place · I Don’t Know How To Love You Anymore · When the Bartender Cries · Leavin’ in the Morning · I’d Rather Leave While I’m In Love

Selling Point · Jim Van Slyke has been hailed one of the finest male voices in cabaret, and Open Road evidences why audiences and critics agree this is a voice you must hear! · Van Slyke’s voice is a refreshing reminder that great artistry and singing still exist within popular music. He displays a sense of musicality and sophistication rarely found in today’s popular music and a sincere, romantic quality rarely found in contemporary vocalists · The critically acclaimed vocalist brings a refreshing, pure sound to an eclectic mix of pop standards. Possessing one of the purest tenor voices around, this powerhouse performer delivers both emotionally and musically · Van Slyke’s performances have captivated audiences all over the world. He was a featured performer for President Clinton’s Inaugural Ball and has worked under Placido Domingo with the Washington National Opera · Features the music of some of pop music’s greatest writers – Peter Allen, Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, and Barry Gibb – in addition to brilliant covers of such artists as Seals and Crofts, Barbara Streisand, Christopher Cross, and Barry Manilow · Promotion to press, radio, and web publications

Key Markets Canandaigua/Rochester NY (Hometown). Also: Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Miami, Nashville, Dallas, Ithaca, Syracuse

Order Date: May 25, 2006

ROCK Daize Shayne

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Live Your Dreams

CD: BCR 70006 (Q ) File Under: Rock

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Like the potent Pacific waves she rides, Daize Shayne’s music is rooted in forces that recall a time when rock was defined by the music. — ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Press Quotes “Daize Shayne … sounds like a blend of Alanis Morisette and Fiona Apple, with maybe a hint of Sarah McLachlan … great music for top-down summertime cruising.” — BRAIN SHAVINGS “Daize Shayne … sticks to radio-friendly material. Still, there is a lot of energy and a harder edge then might be expected. Tracks like ‘Naughty Girl’ have a classic rock sound with excellent production, even including a solid electric guitar solo.” — SOUTHBOUND BEAT

Featured Artists Daize Shayne, vocals, guitar/Ricky Z, guitar/Ed Roth, keyboards/Carlitos del Puerto, bass/Jimmy Paxson, drums

Track Listing Naughty Girl · Movin On · Why Can’t You Understand Me · Can’t Have Just A Little · Where Love Is · Reach · Believe · Everything I Own · So Addicting · More Than Kisses · All I Want To Do · When You’re Gone · I’m Da Kine A Girl · Live Your Dreams

Selling Points · Daize Shayne is living her dreams. She’s a world-renowned champion surfer, successful model/actress, flourishing recording artist and one of the hottest new rising stars to hit the entertainment arena! · Shayne grew up in Hawaii, where she taught herself to surf. To date, she’s a two-time World Longboard Champion, has captured First Place at the Converse Longboard Nose Riding Championship and the Quicksilver Winter Classic, and was an Action Girl of the Year finalist · Although Shayne has been singing and playing guitar as long as she has been surfing, it is only after reaching the pinnacle of success as a surfer that she began to focus on her music career · She’s already headlined a nine-city Hard Rock Café tour, filled in for Eddie Van Halen at the National Association of Music Merchants convention, and performed at several high-profile political events including one at Madison Square Garden · Features backing by a band full of session pros – guitarist Ricky Z (Jessica Simpson), keyboardist Ed Roth (Glenn Hughes, Ronnie Montrose), bassist Carlitos del Puerto, and drummer Jimmy Paxson (Sophie B. Hawkins) · Will perform at 40 dates opening up for Sammy Hagar in Summer 2006 · Radio and press promotion by Jerome Radio Promotions and Kari On Promotions · Ads will run in Rolling Stone, Guitar Magazine and more · Shayne has landed several coveted equipment endorsements with companies such as Peavey, DiMarzio PickUps, Audix Mics, and Harman Music. Peavey has created the Daize Shayne Live Your Dreams Starter Kit for teens, which includes a guitar, amp, tuner, strap and an instructional video featuring Shayne · Shayne has appeared in GQ, Sports Illustrated, Longboard Magazine, Surflife, and Ready Go · Media service by Mantra Public Relations

Order Date: May 25, 2006

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POP/SOUL The Supremes Dream Girls Track Listing Baby Love · Come See About Me · Stop! In the Name of Love · Back in My Arms Again · I Hear a Symphony · You Can’t Hurry Love · You Keep Me Hangin’ On · Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone · Where Did Our Love Go · The Happening

Selling Points

CD: ALE 192031 (K)

· The Supremes set the music world on fire with sizzling hot songs and glamorous visuals to match! · Beginning in 1964, “Where Did Our Love Go” was their first of five back-to-back Number One pop hits. The song established the group and their sound in one giant step · By the end of the decade, The Supremes had racked up twelve Number One pop hits and numerous Gold Records to become the most successful female group of all time · Dream Girls includes ten Number One pop hits!

File Under: Pop/Soul

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Percy Sledge The Golden Voice of Soul Track Listing When a Man Loves a Woman · Warm and Tender Love · Take Time To Know Her · It Tears Me Up · Out of Left Field · Cover Me · Sudden Stop · My Special Prayer · Baby, Help Me · Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)

Selling Points

CD: ALE 192032 (K)

· With his Southern gospel voice and pure, pleading style, Percy Sledge cut some of the best soul music of the sixties · He sang all of his songs with passion, anguish, and pain, melting the hearts of millions upon millions of listeners. While countless stars have remade his magnificent soul anthem “When a Man Loves a Woman,” none have ever captured the magic that is Percy Sledge · The Golden Voice of Soul includes this chart-topping smash hit, regarded as the most romantic song ever recorded!

File Under: Pop/Soul

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Sam and Dave Double Dynamite Track Listing Hold On! I’m A Comin’ · Soul Man · When Something Is Wrong With My Baby · You Don’t Know Like I Know · I Thank You · You Got Me Hummin’ · Soothe Me · Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody · Soul Sister, Brown Sugar · You Don’t Know What You Mean To Me

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CD: ALE 192033 (K) File Under: Pop/Soul

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

· The legendary Sam & Dave created some of the greatest hits of the soul era by fusing R&B with the sounds of the Southern gospel church · During their heyday, Sam & Dave were backed by the finest musicians in the Memphis scene, including Booker T. Jones (organ), Donald “Duck” Dunn (bass), and Steve Cropper (guitar) · Sam & Dave were nicknamed Double Dynamite for their explosive, energetic live shows · Double Dynamite includes their chartbusting classics “Soul Man” and “Hold On! I’m A Comin’”

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Court Jesters of Rock and Roll Track Listing Yakety Yak · Young Blood · Charlie Brown · Searchin’ · Poison Ivy · Down in Mexico · Along Came Jones · Little Egypt (Ying-Yang) · Run Red Run · Love Potion Number Nine

Selling Points · Back when rock ‘n’ roll was fun, no group mixed music and comedy as successfully as The Coasters. Although their onstage antics and undeniably funny lyrics might have suggested a troupe of clowns, they were no mere novelty act! · From 1956 to 1961, The Coasters unleashed a barrage of classic singles that reflected the life of the American teenager with keen wit and hot harmonies. Invariably, those songs were written, arranged, and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two of the most important songwriters in the history of rock ‘n’ roll · Court Jesters of Rock & Roll includes their Number One smash hits “Poison Ivy,” “Searchin’” and “Yakety Yak”

CD: ALE 192034 (K) File Under: Pop/Soul

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Brook Benton Silky Soul Balladeer Track Listing Rainy Night in Georgia · Kiddio · It’s Just a Matter of Time · So Many Ways · Endlessly · The Boll Weevil Song · Hotel Happiness · Thank You Pretty Baby · Lie To Me · Think Twice

Selling Points · In 1959, Brook Benton ushered in a new era of sophisticated soul music with his first Number One hit, “It’s Just a Matter of Time” · Lush string arrangements became his hallmark, a perfect complement to his creamy, warm baritone and silky smooth ballad style · He reigned supreme throughout the mid-sixties with twenty-five Top Forty hits, including six chart-topping smashes. A remarkably talented songwriter, Benton co-wrote the majority of his hits, largely with his producer Clyde Otis · Silky Soul Balladeer features ten Top Ten hits, including the crown of his illustrious career, the Number One Gold Single “Rainy Night In Georgia”

CD: ALE 192035 (K) File Under: Pop/Soul

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Louis Armstrong Ambassador of Jazz Track Listing On the Sunny Side of the Street · Body and Soul · If I Could Be With You, One Hour Tonight · Just a Gigolo · Jeepers Creepers · West End Blues · Public Melody Number One · When You’re Smiling · It’s Wonderful · Squeeze Me

Selling Points · Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong is the single greatest influence in all of American popular music. He stands out not only as a master of the jazz trumpet, but as a superlative vocalist whose unique phrasing made every song he sang his own · According to the ever-elegant Duke Ellington, “Louis Armstrong was the epitome of jazz, and always will be. He is what I call an American standard; an American original” · Ambassador of Jazz features ten timeless classics, including “On the Sunny Side of the Street” and “Just a Gigolo”

CD: ALE 192036 (K) File Under: Jazz

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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– UP TO 4 HOURS OF THE GREATEST THE SULTRY SIREN SETS THE SCREEN ON FIRE IN TWO CLASSIC MYSTERIES! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 15 min Algiers (1938) 95 min B&W Starring: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr; Director: John Cromwell In this romantic thriller, cunning criminal Pepe Le Moko (Charles Boyer) hides in the Casbah, safe from French authorities. However, police inspector Slimane keeps a close eye on Pepe, waiting for him to falter. Pepe lets his guard down when he falls for an alluring tourist named Gaby (Hedy Lamarr). Algiers was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Strange Woman (1946) 100 min B&W Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Gene Lockhart, George Sanders, Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Hedy Lamarr

In the logging town of Bangor, Maine, young and beautiful Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) marries a businessman twenty years her senior. However, that doesn’t stop her from conquering the affections of his son and the local woodsman. Raised in poverty by an abusive alcoholic father, the now-wealthy Jenny has compassion towards those less fortunate than her. Torn between a sense of public duty and her own selfish desires, how will Jenny fare?

Algiers/Strange Woman DVD: PFX 190008 (C) File Under: Mystery

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THE GREATEST GODDESS OF THE SILVER SCREEN IN TWO ROMANTIC GEMS! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 30 min The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) 116 min COLOR Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson; Donna Reed, Walter Pigeon; Director: Richard Brooks With Paris liberated after the war, where could be a better place to fall in love? A young American reporter (Van Johnson) meets a beautiful aristocrat (Elizabeth Taylor) in Paris. They marry and things go well until their decadent lifestyle ultimately delivers a fatal blow to their happiness. Make sure to have tissues nearby – this is a tearjerker! Father’s Little Dividend (1951) 94 min COLOR Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor; Director: Vincent Minnelli Director Vincent Minnelli and cast return with this light-hearted sequel to Father of the Bride. Now that his daughter is married, dad Spencer Tracy adjusts to his new solo life. But who would think that the arrival of a grandchild would put this new grandpa’s emotions into a tailspin? Great laughs, and Elizabeth Taylor is as beautiful as ever.

Elizabeth Taylor The Last Time I Saw Paris/ Father’s Little Dividend DVD: PFX 190009 (C) File Under: Romance

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

DVD

FILMS & THE BIGGEST STARS – ALL ON ONE DISC!

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SINATRA’S FILM CAREER FOUND A NEW EDGE WITH THESE TWO SERIOUS ROLES! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 29 min Man with the Golden Arm (1955) 119 min B&W Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker; Director: Otto Preminger Fresh out of rehab for heroin addiction, a professional card dealer struggles to become a jazz drummer while his drug pusher and conniving wife both conspire to bring him back to his old habits. Frank Sinatra’s riveting, hard-edged performance gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film also garnered nominations for Best Art Direction and for Elmer Bernstein’s magnificently jazzy score. Suddenly (1954) 90 min B&W Starring: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason; Director: Lewis Allen A psychopathic killer and his two cohorts are hired to assassinate the President of the United States as he passes through the normally tranquil small town of Suddenly. Can the local sheriff (Sterling Hayden) save the day? Frank Sinatra is absolutely spellbinding as the snarling, cold-blooded assassin.

Frank Sinatra Man with the Golden Arm/Suddenly DVD: PFX 190013 (C) File Under: Mystery

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THE TOUGH-GUY SCREEN LEGEND IN TWO ACTION FAVORITES! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 11 min Cold Sweat (1970) 94 min COLOR Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Liv Ullman, James Mason; Director: Terence Young Charles Bronson is at his brutal, brawling best in this high-energy, action-packed thriller. Bronson plays Joe Moran, an American ex-con living in France with his wife (Liv Ullman) and stepdaughter. His past returns to haunt him after his old crew is released from prison and tracks him down. When Joe turns down an offer to join the gang, his former friends kidnap his family for revenge. Now, it’s a race against time as Joe takes on the captors one by one to save the lives of his loved ones … as well as his own! Chino (1973) 97 min COLOR Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten; Director: John Sturges

Charles Bronson Cold Sweat/Chino

In this classic western, Charles Bronson plays Chino Valdez, a half-breed Indian who is ostracized by the nearby townsfolk. He lives a solitary existence on the open range, breaking wild horses for a living. When an antagonistic rancher threatens his livelihood, love, and life, the real showdown begins! Adapted from the novel The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman.

DVD: PFX 190014 (C) File Under: Action

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

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DVD THE GREATEST ICON OF MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA IN TWO HIGH-KICKING FLICKS! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 18 min Bruce Lee got his start in America as Kato in the 1960s TV series The Green Hornet. Later, he went to Hong Kong and founded the institution of kung fu cinema. Lee reached a pinnacle in 1973 with Enter the Dragon, and his untimely death before the film’s release helped make him an enduring cult figure. Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1977) 90 min COLOR Starring: Bruce Lee, Fred Williamson; Director: Matthew Mallinson The biggest and baddest martial arts tournament in history is captured on film at New York’s Madison Square Garden! This nonstop action extravaganza features footage of the legendary Bruce Lee at the peak of his career along with former all-pro football star Fred “The Hammer” Williamson. The Real Bruce Lee (1979) 108 min COLOR Starring: Bruce Lee, Dragon Lee; Director: Jim Markovic

Bruce Lee Fist of Fear, Touch of Death/ The Real Bruce Lee

Chronicles Bruce Lee’s journey from a young martial arts student to a world-famous action star, featuring scenes from four rare films once thought lost, but later discovered in Chinese film archives. A must-see for all Bruce Lee and martial arts fans.

DVD: PFX 190015 (C) File Under: Martial Arts

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CELEBRITY-STUDDED CASTS HIGHLIGHT THESE RICHLY PORTRAYED BIBLICAL STORIES! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 24 min Esther and The King (1960) 109 min COLOR Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Egan; Director: Raoul Walsh The wife of Persian King Ahasuerus has been murdered, and an attractive young Jewish woman named Esther is selected to be the next queen. Trouble awaits Esther and her people, however. Villainous Haman, the King’s First Minister, plots to take over the throne and remove the Jews from the land. Esther perseveres through trying times while still staying loyal to her husband. Her patience and loyalty make this biblical story an inspiration for young and old alike. David and Goliath (1961) 95 min COLOR Starring: Orson Welles, Kronos; Director: Ferninando Baldi From the “sword and sandal” epics comes this captivating story of King Saul and David. The brooding and introspective king grapples with the challenge of the Philistines, backed by their intimidating giant, Goliath. A word from the prophet tells Saul that a young shepherd named David will lead his people to victory. Filmed on location in Jerusalem and Yugoslavia.

Joan Collins/Orson Welles Esther and the King/David and Goliath DVD: PFX 190020 (C) File Under: Christian

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Order Date: May 25, 2006

ALLEGRO ARTISTS ON TOUR! For additional performance dates check out www.allegro-music.com/tour.asp VENUE

DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

6/26–30/06 New York, NY

Danny’s Skylight Room

5/26–27/06

Dallas, TX

Myerson Symphony Center

71/06

Joe’s Pub

6/3/06

Columbia, MO

Jesse Auditorium

6/23/06

N. Wilkesboro, NC

Ft. Hamby Park

7/7–8/06

Jackpot, NV

Cactus Pete’s

8/5/06

Long Island, NY

Harry Chapin Theater

DATE

CITY/STATE New York, NY

Adi Braun

The Kingston Trio

The Rules of the Game

The Kingston Trio w/ Dave Guard

CD: LML BRR 2 (Q ) UPC: 777320127020

2XCD: SWC 1055 (2F) UPC: 787991105524

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DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

DATE

CITY/STATE

6/24/06

Saratoga, NY

Freihofer’s Jazz Festival

5/3/06

Brooklyn, NY

Barbes

8/13/06

Newport, RI

Newport Jazz Festival

5/4/06

Brooklyn, NY

Black Pearl

11/8/06

Newport, RI

Miller Theatre

5/10/06

New York, NY

55 Bar

Marty Ehrlich

A Fine Balance

CD: OTI 12003 (Q ) UPC: 686281200324

CD: BTL 71211 (Q ) UPC: 608917121124

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CITY/STATE

VENUE

DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

6/27/06

Highland Park, IL

Ravinia Festival

5/13/06

Newark, NJ

NJPAC Concert

6/30/06

Lenox, MA

Tanglewood

5/29/06

New York, NY

Blue Note

6/9/06

New York, NY

Jolly Hotel Madison Towers

Roseanna Vitro

Live at the Library of Congress Vol. 4

* performance by contemporary quartet

CD: DHR 5706 UPC: 723721228750

Las Vegas Rhapsody

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CITY/STATE

VENUE

DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

5/11/06

Memphis, TN

W.C. Handy Awards

5/12/06

Temecula, CA

Miramonte Winery

5/13/06

San Jose, CA

SJS Metro Fountain Blues Festival

5/27/06

Las Cruces, NM

Southern NM Wine Festival

6/9/06

Chicago, IL

Buddy Guy’s Blues Legends

5/28/06

Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque Wine Festival

6/10/06

Struthers, OH

The Cellar

6/17/06

San Francisco, CA

North Beach Festival

6/11/06

Hughesville, PA

Billtown Blues Festival

6/22/06

Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque Biological Park

6/17/06

St. Paul, MN

Blues Festival

6/24/06

Denver, CO

INATS

Incendio Incendio CD: NWC 44 (Q) UPC: 767715004425

DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

5/2/06

Seattle, WA

Consolidated Works

5/20/06

East Lansing, MI

East Lansing Art Festival

5/4/06

Vancouver, BC

Rime

6/3/06

Ann Arbor, MI

The Ark

5/24/06

New York, NY

Whitney Museum

7/12/06

Plymouth, MI

Concert in the Park

6/2/06

New York, NY

Joe’s Pub

7/23–28/06

San Diego, CA

Camp Hope

6/10–11/06

Philadelphia, PA

Ryerss Museum

10/26–29/06

Kalamazoo, MI

Engaging the Other Conference

Josh White Jr. Delicate Balance

CD: WTR 116 (R) UPC: 025091011629

CD: SWC 1070 (Q ) UPC: 787991107023

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CITY/STATE

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DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

5/6/06

Tallahassee, FL

Blues & BBQ Festival

7/6/06

Hollywood, CA

Summer Jazz Series

6/1/06

W. Palm Beach, FL

Clematis By Night

7/16/06

Cleveland, OH

Winchester Tavern

6/19/06

Rockland, ME

Timeout Pub

6/17/06

Toledo, OH

Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival

6/20/06

Auburn, ME

Midnight Blues

7/23/06

Philadelphia, PA

West Oak Lane Jazz Fest

7/30/06

Montreal, QC

Montreal Jazz Fest

7/20/06

Washington, DC

Blues Alley

7/27/06

Oakland, CA

Yoshi’s

Albert Castiglia

6/23/06

A Stone’s Throw

7/28/06

CD: BLB 9833 (Q ) UPC: 664453983329

Live at the Kennedy Center CD: CHR 73252 (Q ) UPC: 608917325225

CD: WLF 120809 (R) UPC: 799582080929

Theo Bleckmann

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DATE

Juilliard String Quartet

Tin Pan Alley

VENUE

Michael Bates’ Outside Sources

Malinke’s Dance

Magic Slim

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Buffalo, NY Maryville, TN

Lafayette Tap Room Brackins

Joey DeFrancesco All or Nothing at All CD: SWC 1067 (Q ) UPC: 787991106729

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* All dates subject to change Order Date: May 25, 2006

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