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STREET DATE July 11, 2006 ORDER DUE DATE June 23, 2006

Clifford Adams/Kool & The Gang page 3 Don Alias Remembered page 8 NAIL–Distributed Jazz pages 9–13 Mae West page 28 David & Steve Gordon page 30 page 35

NEW LABEL: Celluloid page 29

The Eastman Wind Ensemble –Danzante page 16 Quink Vocal Ensemble Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle page 19

ARTISTS ON TOUR page 39

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JAZZ “It is a rare occasion when performers and their audiences connect on a number of levels – professional, personal, and emotional. WJQ has done this in spades every time, and I can think of no greater endorsement.” — GREGORY ADAMS, CULTURAL COORDINATOR FOR THE US INFORMATION AGENCY

Featured Artists Jamey Haddad, percussion/Scott Cowan, trumpet, flugelhorn/Trent Kynaston, tenor & soprano sax, alto flute/Steve Zegree, piano/Tim Froncek, drums/Tom Knific, bass

Track Listing Jesse’s Dilemma · Lady Rainbow · The Warrior Temple · Something · I Can’t Dance · Siena · Nobody’s Song But His Own · Some Other Time · Harlem River Drive

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Western Jazz Quartet Mayan Myths

CD: SBJ 3079 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

· The Western Jazz Quartet melds the talent, experience, passion, and professionalism of four gifted musicians whose artistic vision and performances have garnered international acclaim · The quartet’s unique ability to blend culture, education, and aesthetics demonstrates multifaceted versatility. They have energized and tantalized audiences around the globe! · Mailing to college, community, and NPR radio · Service to over thirty press/internet/digital radio outlets · Key Markets: Kalamazoo (Hometown). Also: New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Portland, Washington DC, Orlando, Tampa, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Francisco

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“Gene Burkert’s quartet swings this one with a positive attitude that reflects his varied approach to the many textures that jazz holds on its colorful palette.” — JIM SANTELLA

Featured Artists Gene Burkert, alto, tenor & soprano sax, flute/Christian Jacob, piano/ Trey Henry, bass/Dave Tull, drums, vocals/Larry Koonse, guitar/Darrell Voss, percussion/Celena Lares, vocals

Track Listing Sugar · Our Pleasure · Rogue March · Yesterdays · Gaviota · Yatra Ta · Alikeness · Talking Walls · Rasa and Her Moods · The Very Thought of You · Straight Ahead · Wind in Time · Relative Material

Selling Points · A colorful program includes five original compositions and several standards performed by recognized, top-flight California musicians · Gene Burkert has played as a session musician, been a member of Grammy-winning and Broadway orchestras, and performs regularly with a variety of jazz, big band, and fusion ensembles · Features guest guitarist Larry Koonse, known for his work with Mel Torme, Terry Gibbs, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Childs, David Friesen, and Warne Marsh · Mailing to college, community, and NPR radio · Service to over thirty press/internet/digital radio outlets · Key Markets: Los Angeles (Hometown). Also: New York, Pittsburgh, Portland, Washington DC, Orlando, Tampa, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Francisco

Gene Burkert The Jazz Palette

CD: SBJ 3078 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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JAZZ “On his exciting debut Village Strut, [Larry Antonino] hams it up with a handful of great artists who add more than familiar names to the stickers on the shrink-wrap. Clearly, Antonino is interested in trying new techniques that work with his catchy melodies and ensemble action.” — JAZZIZ

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Featured Artists Larry Antonino, bass/Rob Mullins, piano/Freddie Ravel, keyboards/Steve Oliver, guitar/Ron Pedley, keyboards

Track Listing Village Strut · Santa Ana · Love Was Strong · I Knew That Love Would Find Me · Cruisin’ in Houston · Always With You · Back in Your Arms Again · Pamela’s Song · Just My Imagination · Full Circle

Selling Points · Larry Antonino is one of the most innovative bass guitarists on the music scene today. His distinctively fresh sound has been described as exciting and just plain funky · Village Strut features original songs Antonino has written or co-written, accompanied by extraordinary musicians including Rob Mullins, Freddie Ravel, Steve Oliver, and Ron Pedley from smooth jazz group Kombo · The former Air Supply bass player’s contribution to the Los Angeles music scene includes live performances and recordings with renowned artists such as Ronnie Laws, The Jazz Crusaders, Jeff Beck, Bobby Caldwell, and Al Jarreau. He has composed for a variety of talented artists ranging in style from Air Supply to Ronnie Laws and Jeff Tyzik · Antonino was featured in the 1996 Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do, which also earned him a Gold Record for his contribution to the soundtrack · Features three smooth jazz radio cuts and one hit song for AC Top 40 · Radio promotion by All That Jazz and Bill Jerome Radio Promotions · Publicity by Kari On Promotions

Larry Antonino Village Strut

CD: BCR 70007 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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“It’s about time one of the most original and soulful voices has been documented playing his own music. Clifford Adams is an important addition to the resurrection of the trombone.” — WYNTON MARSALIS

Featured artists Clifford Adams, trombone/Kool & The Gang

Track Listing Dreams of a New Saint · Joanna · I Fell Your Spirit · Slam Dunk for MJ · People Make the World Go Round · Ground Zero · 24-7-365 · Don’t Know Why · Love’s Gonna Get You · Try Me · I’ll Be There For You · In a Minute

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Clifford Adams feat. Kool & The Gang I Feel Your Spirit CD: BCR 70008 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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· While Clifford Adams is well known to audiences for his long-time tenure with Kool & The Gang, his musical roots reside in the fertile soil of jazz · In 1973, Adams was part of the horn section for The Stylistics’ world tour.

He then embarked on a two-year stint with the world famous Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Big Band and, after playing with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra, toured Europe with Max Roach. This strong musical repertoire attracted Kool & The Gang in 1977, and it continues to delight contemporary audiences around the globe! · As a charter member of Kool & The Gang, Clifford Adams has received countless civic awards, numerous commercial endorsements, and been honored with Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards, and Soul Train Awards · File under: Kool & The Gang · Adams will open for Kool & The Gang (and play with them) in upcoming tours · Radio promotion by All That Jazz · Publicity by Kari On Promotions Order Date: June 23, 2006

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JAZZ “A vet of some serious Big Apple big bands, Bixler takes to the streets on his own behalf with results that go way beyond downtown skronk and into some real creative but accessible pastures. Leading a handpicked crew of New York jazzbos, this is a voice you’ll be glad to have come across … a great find!” — MIDWEST RECORD RECAP

Featured Artists David Bixler, alto sax/Scott Wendholt, trumpet/John Hart, guitar/Ugonna Ugekwo, bass/Andy Watson, drums

Track Listing Aiding And Abetting · Unraveled · Game Face · Gemenlie · Scratch and Sniff the Jive · He Cries Every Day · Good Deal?

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David Bixler Call It a Good Deal

CD: ZMR 200608 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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· On Call It a Good Deal, his first indie label release, alto saxophonist David Bixler emerges as an urbane, highly accomplished bandleader and composer · In a quintet date of seven original compositions featuring his long-term collaborators, Bixler creatively pushes the envelope of mainstream instrumental jazz with hard grooves, highly inventive instrumental voicings, and a solid sense of swing · Since 1999, Bixler has held the lead alto position in the Chico O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, performing at the famous Birdland Jazz Club every Sunday night. He has also toured with the orchestras of Tokishi Akiyoshi and Duke Ellington · Aggressive grassroots marketing effort through Jazz Promo Services directed at national jazz and Latin jazz media; radio campaign by Jazzzdog Promotions · Ads will run in Down Beat July-September 2006 · Key Markets: New York (Hometown). Also: Newark, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC

“A tremendously swinging music … contemporary jazz that brings pure joy.” — JAZZPAGES

Featured Artists Anke Helfrich, piano/Martin Gjakonovski, bass/Dejan Terzic, drums/Roy Hargrove, trumpet, flugelhorn

Track Listing Movin’ In · My Ship · Der Turm · Thanks for Being There · Better Times Ahead · I Mean You · Miniatur: An-Ma-De · Trust & Faith · Ask Me Now

Selling Points · Anke Helfrich is a gifted piano player and an extraordinary composer.

One of the brightest young stars on the European jazz scene, Helfrich studied in Holland before going to New York in 1996 on a Dutch scholarship, where she took lessons with Larry Goldings and Kenny Barron · Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself among the premier players in jazz and beyond. Ever-stretching into more challenging ways to flex his musical chops, Hargrove has left indelible imprints in a vast array of artful settings · Featuring piano legend Jesus “Chucho” Valdes and wonder drummer Horatio “El Negro” Hernandez, Hargrove’s Cuban-based band Crisol won the Latin Jazz Performance Grammy for the album Habana. In 2002, Hargrove, Herbie Hancock, and Michael Brecker won Best Instrumental Jazz Album for their three-way collaboration Directions in Music. Roy Hargrove appears courtesy of Verve Records · This recording features compositions by Helfrich as well as two tunes by Thelonious Monk and one piece by Weill/Gershwin · Groovy, funky tunes and intimate ballads – the band can do it all! · National press campaign will blanket top 100 jazz magazines and writers; service to top NPR and college radio stations

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Anke Helfrich Trio feat. Roy Hargrove Better Times Ahead CD: CHR DM 71053 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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Featured Artists Amy Shook, bass/Pat Shook, tenor sax/Frank Russo, drums/Tim Young, piano/Greg Gisbert, trumpet, flugelhorn

Track Listing Waltz for Nanami · Finger Food · Alice with the Blue Flannel Hair · Somewhere Within · Wollie’s Favorite Dress · Only Words · Penuche Sauce · Sweet Begonia · No Answer

Selling Points · The Shook Russo Quartet has developed an incredible, unique sound by merging the diverse backgrounds of each of its fine musicians into one voice. The result is a whirlwind of grooves, melodies, and diverse textures that is a true delight · Here, the group is joined by Greg Gisbert, one of the leading trumpeters in the international jazz scene who performed frequently with Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Gary Burton, the Mingus Epitaph, and more.

He currently tours with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and co-leads Denver-based jazz sextet Convergence · Amy Shook, one of the most in-demand upright bassists in the DC area, is coveted for her huge sound and driving groove. She has received national recognition for her contribution to the album Uncertain Path by the Rob Levit Trio · Frank Russo is one of the premier drummers in the DC area. He completed a distinguished career with the Naval Academy Band, and his previous recordings with Pete Barenbregge and Bob Boguslaw have gained national recognition in Down Beat, JazzTimes, and Modern Drummer · Jazz radio will be serviced and tracked; large mailing to press/internet/ digital radio outlets · Ads will run JazzTimes and Down Beat · Key Markets: Washington DC/Baltimore (Hometowns). Also: Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

The Shook Russo Quartet Featuring Greg Gisbert

CD: SMT 458 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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“As an improviser, Mackay is highly original and energetic.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Featured Artists John Mackay, organ, piano, synth/Lorne Lofsky, guitar/Randy Vincent, guitar/Barry Elmes, drums/Kendrick Freeman, drums/Paul Fitterer, drums/Rich Duvall, drums, percussion/Michael Stuart, sax/Ylonda Nickell, sax/Dan Huebner, sax/John MacLeod, flugelhorn

Track Listing Serving Notice · Falling in Love with Love · Get Over It · See-3 · The Blues of This · Get Brightened Up · Tyrone · Tripura’s Walk · The Three Tenants · Doet

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John Mackay Organoptics CD: SMT CCP 7004 (Q) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

· John Mackay began his professional career at eighteen, playing the Hammond B-3 in a number of venues. He has worked with some of Canada’s finest jazz musicians, including Peter Appleyard, Don Thompson, Marty Morell, and Michael Stewart while simultaneously playing commercial gigs with Roger Whittaker and Jim Carey · Winner of the 2005 Composers’ Guild Award for Best Jazz Composition · Jazz radio will be serviced and tracked; large mailing to press/internet/digital radio outlets · Ads will run JazzTimes and Down Beat · Key Markets: San Francisco (Hometown). Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Chicago

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CD: CHR DB 75249 (Q )

CD: CHR 70129 (Q )

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Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron

Harmen Fraanje Quintet

At the Bimhuis 1982

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“The pairing of saxophone and piano might not, in lesser hands, be something that would garner great interest; yet Waldron and Lacy have such distinctive styles and voices, ultimately rooted in investigating similar problems, that the meeting is perfect.”

— ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Featured Artists Harmen Fraanje, piano/“Magic” Malik Mezzadri, flute, vocals/ Nelson Veras, guitar/Hein Van de Geyn, bass/Matthieu Chazarenc, drums

Featured Artists

Innocent Eye, Chrystal See · Ufopia · My Funny Valentine · Bo3eog · Voices · Haitoe · Karna-Tic · Oceania · Ufopia Duo · Song for Mete

Steve Lacy, soprano sax/Mal Waldron, piano

Track Listing

Selling Points Track Listing Blues for Aida · Snake Out · Reflections · ‘Round Midnight · Epistrophy

Selling Points Recorded in 1982 at Amsterdam’s famous Bimhuis, Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron are a perfect duo! This tribute to one of the greatest duos in jazz history is also a farewell to the popular club. National press campaign will blanket top 100 jazz magazines and writers; service to top NPR and college radio stations

Includes wonderful reworkings of “My Funny Valentine” and Björk’s “Oceania.” Harmen Fraanje has been playing piano since an early age. Flute player “Magic” Malik Mezzadri and Brazilian guitarist Nelson Veras are well known for their releases on Label Bleu. Hein van de Geyn has been famous for his bass playing since his performances with Chet Baker and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

between the lines

CD: CHR JIM 75227 (Q )

CD: BTL 71214 (Q )

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Yuri Honing/Vince Mendoza/Metropole Orchestra Symphonic Featured Artists Yuri Honing, saxes/Metropole Orchestra/Vince Mendoza, conductor

Track Listing Elegant People · Atras Da Porta · Diana · Paranoid · Yasutani · L’Avventura · In a Silent Way

Selling Points Features originals as well as material by Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, and Radiohead. With brilliant sax playing and wonderful compositions, Yuri Honing is considered one of the leading Dutch voices in jazz. Conductor Vince Mendoza has been heralded by critics as a master of contemporary idioms. Includes two bonus films.

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Christy Doran’s New Bag Now’s the Time Featured Artists Christy Doran, acoustic guitar/Bruno Amstad, vocals/Fabian Kuratlli, drums/Hans-Peter Pfammatter, piano/Wolfgang Zwiauer, acoustic bass

Track Listing Five-Four Afro · Light and Darkness · Ghost Notes · A Deal, Part I · A Deal, Part II · Terrible Wonderland · The Time Is Now, Part I · The Time Is Now, Part II

Selling Points A totally new sound somewhere between jazz, jazz-rock, and art rock! Doran has enjoyed a large fan base since his first recordings for ECM with the project OM. This is the group’s fourth album, and their first acoustic one.

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2XCD: ARB 19343 (Q )

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Roy Ayers

The World’s Greatest Jazz Band

Perfection

At Manchester’s Free Trade Hall, England 1971

Track Listing

Featured Artists

Drome · Ears · Steppin’ · Wave · Thick & Thin · Perfection · Colors · Afro · Smoke · Bags · Fish · Calm · Clear

Yank Lawson, trumpet/Billy Butterfield, trumpet, flugelhorn/ Ed Hubble, trombone/Vic Dickenson, trombone/Bob Wilber, clarinet, soprano sax/Bud Freeman, tenor sax/Ralph Sutton, piano/Bob Haggart, bass/Gus Johnson, Jr., drums

Selling Points Born in 1940, Roy Ayers was a musical child prodigy. In 1961, he turned pro and worked with Teddy Edwards, Chico Hamilton, and Phineas Newborn, among others. Ayers made his recording debut as a leader in 1963 with West Coast Vibes, produced by the legendary Leonard Feather. An extremely prolific artist, he has recorded over fifty albums in a career spanning more than forty years. This is the first worldwide release of the obscure Perfection, originally recorded for Ayers’ own AFI label in 2000.

Track Listing Panama · Dogtown Blues · Ain’t Misbehavin’ · Black and Blue · Alligator Crawl · I Got Rhythm · Limehouse Blues · Big Noise from Winnetka · What’s New · South Rampart Street Parade · Bourbon Street Parade · The Girl on The Beach · and more (21 total)

Selling Points The World’s Greatest Jazz Band at its finest with a rare live performance in a 2 CD set for the price of a single! Liner notes feature original cartoons by Bob Haggart. Promotion to Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, and jazz radio.

CD: HEP 1 (M)

CD: HEP 81 (M) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra

Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra

Town Hall Concert featuring Clark Terry

Jubilee Performances 1946

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Track Listing

Jubilee Jump · Moods · Budandy · Dirty Rotten Shame Blues · Blue Moon · Bop a Boogie · Rockin’ in Rhythm · Tell Me Dreamface · My Old Flame · Caravan · Andy’s Boogie · Pompton Turnpike · Cherokee · Skyliner · East Side · Things Ain’t What They Used To Be · Hello Baby Blues · Terry Tune · The Gal From Joe’s · Medley.

Tonsillectomy · Picnic in the Wintertime · Night in Tunisia · Rip Van Winckle · Yerxa · Eagle Flies · Temptation · Boyd Meets Stravinsky · Caravan · Memphis in June · Two Spoos · I Don’t Care Who Knows it · That’s Where I Came In · Dalvatore Sally · Hey Look I’m Dancing · Grey Suede · Keef · Night in Tunis · Hep Boyds

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Town Hall Concert features the Barnet Orchestra at one of its peaks of creativity, with arrangements by Andy Gibson and Neal Hefti. Soloists include Clark Terry and Claude Williamson.

There are also four very rare tracks by Barnet’s small group, The Cherokees, from November 1947.

This is the very first HEP Records issue, now available again and featuring the mold-breaking arrangements of George Handy and Eddie Finckle. These broadcast performances dating from late 1945 to mid-1946 include such soloists as Lucky Thompson, Britt Woodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, with David Allyn and Ginnie Powell on vocals.

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DON ALIAS REMEMBERED 1939–2006

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— NINA SIMONE

Acclaimed percussionist Don Alias, a highly respected and in-demand musician who first came to fame in the early seventies playing with Miles Davis (Bitches Brew), passed away suddenly on March 28, 2006.

During his long career, Alias recorded and/or toured with Stone Alliance, Blood Sweat & Tears, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone, Carla Bley, Marty Ehrlich’s Dark Woods, Michael Brecker, Mongo Santamaria, Joey Calderazzo, Carlos Santana, David Sanborn, Terry Lyne Carrington, Jaco Pastorious and Peter Erskine, among many others.

At the time of his death, Don Alias had been a part of over 226 recordings. A tribute to the lasting impact of his musical work was aired on NPR’s All Things Considered in April 2006.

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Stone Alliance

Stone Alliance

A Very Rare Evening

Live in Bremen

Live in Amsterdam

CD: MBO 5144 (Q )

CD: MBO 5136 (Q )

CD: MBO 5116 (Q )

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Stone Alliance

Marcio Montarroyos & Stone Alliance

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Heads Up

CD: MBO 5143 (Q )

CD: MBO 5146 (Q )

CD: MBO 5125 (Q )

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Ophiuchus Butterfly CD: PIE 19 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Jazz

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— NEW YORK TIMES

Press Quotes

“A terrific guitarist, Ellman plays with a rhythmic charge and a decisive touch.” — GARY GIDDINS, VILLAGE VOICE “Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing … guitarists on the New York scene today.” — BILL MILKOWSKI, JAZZTIMES

Featured Artists Liberty Ellman, guitar, synthesizer, sampler/Steve Lehman, alto sax/Mark Shim, tenor sax/Jose Davilla, tuba/Stephan Crump, bass/Gerald Cleaver, drums

Track Listing

WORLD PREMIERE

Ophiuchus Butterfly · Aestivation · Snow Lips · You Have Ears · The Naturalists · Pretty Words, Like Blades · Tarmacadam · Looking Up · Chromos · Borealis

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· Liberty Ellman’s Ophiuchus Butterfly is the culmination of three years of development and study as both a composer & listener, and the unique sound & fresh approach are the by-products of Ellman’s influences and tastes I N C Lchoices, U D E Sand · Tasteful and understated, Ellman’s playing is centered in his original rhythmic phrasing, often surprising intervallic melodic jumps · Liberty Ellman is a key figure in the current New York composer/improviser scene that also includes Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, and Rudresh Mahanthappa RECORDINGS! · Ellman’s work with Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, and Greg Osby over the past three years has helped to raise his profile · Pi Recordings will do a full press mailing to top music publications and a full radio mailing to CMJ, Jazz Week, and NPR · Ads will run in Down Beat and JazzTimes as well as music websites

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Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, Dallas, Louisville, Chicago, Boston

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JAZZ Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake & William Parker Palm of Soul CD: AUM 38 (P) Digipak File Under: Jazz

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Press Quotes “Jordan launches his solos by building them layer by dynamic layer. [He ignites] the atmosphere with an overwhelming abundance of innovation and musicality.” — ONE FINAL NOTE “William Parker and Hamid Drake are the best rhythm section in jazz right now.” — ALTERNATIVE PRESS

Featured Artists Kidd Jordan, tenor sax/Hamid Drake, drums, tablas, frame drum, vocals/William Parker, bass, guimbri, gongs, talking drum

INCLUDES FIRST WORLD RECORDING PREMIERE Selling Points RECORDING! EVER! RECORDING! · For some time, AUM Fidelity has wanted to produce an album featuring legendary New Orleans saxophonist Kidd Jordan with fellow

WORLD Peppermint Falls · Forever · Living Peace · Unity Call · So Often · Resolution · Last of the Chicken Wings PREMIERE Track Listing

master musicians William Parker and Hamid Drake INCLUDES IIN NC CLLU UD DE ESS · Finally, everything came together last summer – and then Hurricane Katrina hit. A week later, when AUM finally reached Jordan by phone and asked if he would still be able to make the session, he said, “Yeah man, let’s do it!” · Kidd Jordan is the patriarch of one of New Orleans’ three principal contemporary families of music (along with the Marsalis’ and the Nevilles). A partial list of artists he has performed with over the last 40+ years includes Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, RECORDING! RECORDINGS! Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra Arkestra, Ellis Marsalis, The Temptations, and Cecil Taylor · Palm of Soul presents three master musicians in intimate musical conversation at the highest levels, rendering songs and trance pieces that I N C L U D E S elicit the full gamut of emotions. A major, utterly distinct, and distinguished album, this is most definitely foreground music · Packaged in deluxe six-panel digipak with gorgeous artwork · AUM Fidelity will handle full service & promotion to national press, e-media, and college/non-commercial/NPR radio RECORDING! · Ads will run in Signal to Noise, Arthur, Point of Departure, and more

WORLD PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

FIRST TIME WORLD PREMIERE ON CD!

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Hometowns: New Orleans, New York, Chicago. Also: San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, Philadelphia

Key Titles From AUM Fidelity · AUM 21 (P) Organic Grooves Black Cherry (642623302125) · AUM 22 (P) William Parker Quartet O’Neal’s Porch (642623302224) · AUM 24 (P) Maneri Ensemble Going to Church (642623302422) · AUM 23 (P) David S. Ware Quartet Freedom Suite (642623302323) · AUM 25 (P) Carter/Radding Luminescence (642623302521) · AUM 34 (P) William Parker Quartet Sound Unity (642623303429) · AUM AFA 101 (2J) Various Artists Vision3 [CD+DVD] (642623110126) · AUM 35 (P) Triptych Myth The Beautiful (642623303528) For a complete list, visit www.allegroB2B.com or ask your account manager for details.

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Medeski, Martin & Wood

William Parker

Roy Nathanson

Sauna: Um, Dois, Três

Farmer’s Reserve

Long Hidden: The Olmec Series

Sotto Voce

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Rob Mazurek has appeared on the cover of The Wire and has a huge discography with releases on Thrill Jockey, Delmark, Mego and Aesthetics.

Sauna features contributions from members of The Eternals, Town & Country, Hurtmold, and Chicago Underground. “Limitless in its possibilities.” — ROLLING STONE

A continuous forty-minute improvisation followed by a fifteen-minute epilogue, this pristine recording will win the hearts of both audiophiles and fans that dig the experimental & humorous side of these bad boys. “[MMW] move, groove, morph, and mix with reckless abandon.” — POPMATTERS

Explores the ancient DNA/cultural codex that connects Africa to the Americas, reflecting Parker’s longabiding interest in the continental connection between the Manding people of West Africa and the Olmec of ancient Mexico. “A fascinating exploration of multiple sound worlds.”

— ALTERNATIVE PRESS

The new album from gifted alto sax player Roy Nathanson features fellow Jazz Passengers Curtis Fowlkes and Sam Bardfeld along with Tim Kiah and Napolean Maddox. “An extraordinary composer leads this perky, irreverent group that somehow manages to orbit both the Marx Brothers and Sun Ra.” — NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Anderson/Drake/Parker

Sun Ra

Albert Ayler

Calvin Keys

Blue Winter

Concert for the Comet Kohoutek Spirits Rejoice

Vertical Clearance

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A milestone achievement in the great career of Fred Anderson, one of the stalwarts of the tenor sax, features William Parker on bass & nagaswaram and Hamid Drake on drums. “Anderson shares with Von Freeman a knack for sounding absolutely contemporary & completely steeped in tradition.”

— PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

Recorded in 1973 at New York’s famous Town Hall, this eclectic celebration of the Comet Kohoutek featured a fire-eater, talking drums, and Sun Ra’s Arkestra. “A major innovator … experimenting with primitive electric keyboards and playing free long before the avant-garde got established.”

— ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Engineer David Hancock chose Judson Hall for its acoustics, and one afternoon in September 1965, this private session was recorded at 30 IPS to achieve the highest possible fidelity.

“Proof that there was an underlying logic even to Ayler’s most extreme moments … a tremendously inspiring recording.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE

With outstanding contributions from jazz legends Sonny Fortune, Phil Ranelin, Doug Carn, and Babatunde, guitarist Calvin Keys’ new album draws upon their collective roots to create an authentic and inspiring recording. “Calvin Keys’s … playing is so deep in the pocket, it comes off elegant and effortless.” — MERCURY NEWS

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Heliocentric Worlds Volume 3 Pharoah’s First Ruminations in New York (DVD) Nothing Is Complete ESP-Disk’ Recording Bells/Prophecy Complete ESP-Disk’ Recording Marion Brown Quartet Complete ESP-Disk’ Recording Slugs Saloon Heliocentric Worlds Volumes 1 & 2 Amazing Nina Simone, The (LP) Nina At Town Hall (LP) Swiss Movement (LP) Electrifying Eddie Harris, The (LP) Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (LP) Liturgy Of Ghosts, The Tigersmilk S/T Benthic It’s Magnificent, But It Isn’t War Embers Beloved Music, The Ashe A Go-Go Expansion Shot X Shot S/T Panoptic Modes Black Water Age Of Everything Eloping With The Sun Prophet Moon Likewise Don’t Go It Alone Holy Ghost (LP) Nefertiti, The Beautiful One (LP) Music And Dance (LP) Immolation/Immersion Detours Into Unconscious Rhythms Detours Into Unconscious Rhythms (LP) Inspiration Inspiration (LP)

Sun Ra Sanders, Pharoa Marsalis, Ellis Sun Ra Wright, Frank Ayler, Albert Simmons, Sonny Brown, Marion Waters, Patty Ayler, Albert Sun Ra Simone, Nina Simone, Nina McCann, Les/Eddie Harris Harris, Eddie Blakey, Art Unstable Ensemble Tigersmilk Bivins, Jason/Davis, Ian Cold Bleak Heat Unstable Ensemble Flaherty, Paul/Corsano, Chris Sonic Liberation Front Burrell, Dave/Full Blown Trio Shot X Shot Iyer, Vijay Mahanthappa, Rudresh Morris, Joe Trio Parker, William/Morris, Joe/Drake, Hamid Dickey, Whit/Trio Ahxoloxha Stone House Levin, Daniel/Quartet Ayler, Albert Taylor, Cecil Bailey, Derek Cline, Nels/Shoup, Wally/Corsano, Chris Keys, Calvin Keys, Calvin Ranelin, Phil Ranelin, Phil

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Jesse Belvin & The Chargers

Soul Rebels

So Fine

More Jams from No More Parades

Track Listing

Track Listing

Confessing · Deep In My Heart · Black Stockings · Rock ‘n’ Roll Cowboy · Tarzan · What Have You Done To My Heart · I Need Your Love · Dollar and a Quarter · Wondering · Dandelion · Old McDonald · This Heart of Mine · (29 total)

Roy’s Har-Groove · We Be Rollin’ · Who Dat · Skin · Shut Up Po’ · Drive · Do It for the Rebel · Footprints · Makin’ Statements · Moment with the Rebel · Rebel Rock · I’m Worse · We Be Rollin’

Selling Points Selling Points Jesse Belvin was one of the smoothest balladeers of the fifties, as anyone who has ever heard “Goodnight My Love” knows. Now, producer Aaron Fuchs has compiled twenty-nine of his previously unreleased tracks! The range of material – some solo, many with The Chargers – is remarkable, from a novelty like “Rock ‘n’ Roll Cowboy” to ballads and a take on The Fiestas’ “So Fine.”

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Anttex & The Mother Funkin Clik

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Suburban Etiquette

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Wake Up People · Trip 2 the Buburbs · Get Em Now Bad Influence · Crack Ya Back · Flavor with the Neighbors · Girls Like We Know · Warning Flammable · GTO and the Funky Horns · Skull Funkin · Talk That Talk · Ki Ki Bobo · Hot Summer Days · Understand Me Vanessa · To the Climax · As the World Turns · Dedicate · Oh Olivia

Ultramagnetic MC’s – Make You Shake · DJ Hollywood – Hollywood’s World · Grand Wizard Theodore – Can I Get a Soul Clap · Cold Crush Brothers – Fresh, Wild, Fly and Bold · Davy DMX – The DMX Will Rock · The Choice MC’s – Brooklyn Style · The Outlaw Four – Million Dollar Legs · Grandmaster Caz – Mister Bill · Funkmaster Wizard Wiz – Bellevue Patient · Spoonie Gee – The Godfather of Hip Hop · Barry B. – Barry’s Routine · The Cold Crush Brothers – Freestylin’

Selling Points In the early nineties, hip-hop was an all-expansive medium whose most popular exponent was PM Dawn, with a range of samples that stood hip-hop’s ghetto-ism on its head. This kind of artistry was also characteristic of Anttex, whose recordings were a precious example of hip-hop’s new romanticism. Now, Tuff City makes a limited number of original pressings of this classic album available!

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The intermingling of New Orleans music past & present is exemplified in this Tuf America release, a supplement to the Soul Rebels’ No More Parades album, which earned the 1998 Offbeat Award for Best Brass Band Album. Described as “the missing link between Louis Armstrong & Public Enemy,” by the Village Voice, this version features radical remixes plus new jams, all of which are PG-rated.

Order Date: June 23, 2006

Selling Points A low-priced sampling of the best from Ol’ Skool Flava’s old school rap labels features Spoonie Gee, The Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Caz, and many more.

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The whole audience sat silent and attentive, transfixed

by Virgil’s dynamic and musical approach to the transcendent counterpoint of Johann Sebastian Bach … these ‘Bach Gamut’ concerts were tours de force, and I marvelled at Virgil’s stamina and prodigious technique.

— RICHARD TORRENCE AND MARSHALL YAEGER, VIRGIL FOX: THE DISH

“He tossed off one after another of the monumental preludes, toccatas, fantasies and fugues with comparative ease, permeating them all with pure joy. The audience erupted with spontaneous praise after each of the mighty blockbusters” — TED ALAN WORTH, VIRGIL FOX: THE DISH

Virgil Fox, organ J.S. BACH: Fantasy & Fugue in G minor • Sheep May Safely Graze • Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C • St. Matthew Passion – finale • Prelude & Fugue in A minor • Air on a G String • Prelude & Fugue in D • I Call to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ

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A household name among organ fans, Virgil Fox (1912–1980) was one of the most beloved organists of the twentieth century Fox made more than sixty best-selling albums over the years on Columbia, RCA Victor, Command, and other labels This original release, engineered by Reference Recordings’ own Keith O. Johnson, is from a live recording of a landmark sold-out San Francisco concert in 1976, in which Fox performs on the grand Ruffatti pipe organ in St. Mary’s Cathedral. This is not a reissue!

A thrilling program of Bach blockbusters for the organ!

Born in Princeton, Illinois, Virgil Fox was a child prodigy who was playing church services on the organ by the age of ten. At seventeen he became the first organist ever chosen as the unanimous winner of the biennial contest of the National Federation of Music Clubs in Boston Winning a scholarship to study at the Peabody Institute, Fox became the first student in Peabody history to graduate with the highest honors after only one year. Only five years later he was appointed head of Peabody’s organ department Fox enlisted in the Army Air Force during World War II and performed 600 recitals in three years to raise money for the armed services In 1946, Fox gave three sold-out concerts at the Library of Congress in which he played forty-four major organ works from memory.

In the same year he was named organist of New York’s famed Riverside Church, where he served for nineteen years Virgil Fox was the featured performer at many of the national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, he performed three times at the White House, and was selected by the State Department to represent the U.S. at 1952’s first International Conference of Sacred Music in Switzerland In his long and brilliant career, Virgil Fox gave recitals on practically every important organ in the world. He was the first non-German artist to perform the works of J. S. Bach at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig In 1977, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his concert debut, he played a sold-out concert (“The Bach Gamut”) at Kennedy Center, at Tokyo’s NHK Hall, and in San Francisco, where the present recording was made Service to national and 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 and specialty stations. Full promotion services by TradeSecrets

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CLASSICAL The Eastman Wind Ensemble/Mark Davis Scatterday, conductor/James Thompson, trumpet Eric EWAZEN: Danzante • Louis STEWART: Folk Music • Jacques HETU: Concerto for Trumpet, Op. 42a • Michel COLOMBIER (tr. Scatterday): Emmanuel • Dana WILSON: Leader, Lieder (Concerto for Trumpet)

The Eastman Wind Ensemble Danzante

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• The Eastman Wind Ensemble is America’s leading wind ensemble. Its core of about fifty performers includes undergraduate and graduate students of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester • Frederick Fennell first formulated the general concept of the wind ensemble at Eastman more than fifty years ago. Under his leadership, the group became known as the pioneering force in the symphonic wind band movement in the U.S. and abroad • A. Clyde Roller served as conductor between 1962 and 1964, continuing the tradition established by Fennell. Donald Hunsberger became conductor in 1965 and led the ensemble for thirty-seven years to international prominence • Ever since its founding, the EWE has been in the forefront of elevating the wind repertory through recordings. Now they bring their legacy to Summit Records!

• The ensemble’s current director, Mark Davis Scatterday, was introduced as the fourth conductor of this prestigious group during the EWE’s fiftieth anniversary celebration on February 8, 2002 • Mark Davis Scatterday is Professor of Conducting and Chair of the Conducting and Ensembles Department at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. In 2005, Scatterday conducted the Eastman Wind Ensemble in a highly acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall and also conducted a concert in Japan • This is the first recording with Scatterday – and is powerful testimony of the next great conductor and legacy at Eastman. Former Principal Trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony and current Eastman faculty member, Scatterday provides the shine on a wonderful performance!

• Prior to joining the faculty at the Eastman School of Music, James Thompson served as Principal Trumpet in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, beginning in 1990. Since coming to Eastman he has performed as guest Principal Trumpet with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Boston Symphony • Aggressive mailing to classical press including Gramophone and American Record Guide. Mailing to 100+ classical music stations across the country. Focused mailing to individual music journals and internet sites. Ads in American Record Guide

Thomas Bacon, horn/Caio Pagano, piano/Katie McLin, violin/James Graber, horn/ James DeMars, voice Almeida PRADO: Trio “a carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha” • Celestial Charts III • James DE MARS: Dedicaçe • Robert AVALON: Zeal • Errollyn WALLEN: At the Ending of a Year • Kazunori MARUYAMA: Foxtrot for Tomcat

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WORLD PREMIERE World premiere recordings of six new pieces by five different composers that were

RECORDING! written for hornist Thomas Bacon and pianist Caio Pagano • The title comes from the major work on the disc: Trio “a carta de Pero IN CL UD ES Vaz de Caminha” for horn violin and piano. Inspired by the writing of Pero Vaz de WORLD Caminha, the secretary and keeper of the journal chronicling the events of the first PREMIERE Portuguese expedition to Brazil in the year 1500, the Trio describes theRECORDINGS! explorers’ first sighting of the land and its people • The Trio was written by Almeida Prado in the year 2000 upon the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Portuguese discovery of Brazil • Hornist Thomas Bacon’s work in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia has placed him in the highest echelon of hornists worldwide S P ECIA L

• Bacon was founder and general editor of The Complete Hornist, a very popular SUPER-BUDGET and successful series of music for horn and horn ensemble PRICE! published in 1987

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Birds Fragments “Astoundingly versatile musicians … make up Alter Ego.” — GRAMOPHONE

Alter Ego/Claudio Jacomucci, accordion HOSOKAWA: Atem Lied, for bass flute • In Memory of Isang Yun, for violin, cello & piano • Vertical Time Study I, for clarinet, cello & piano • Birds Fragments III, for accordion & flutes • Duo for violin & cello • Haiku for Pierre Boulez, for piano

Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955) is one of today’s foremost living Japanese composers. Of his own work he has written: “My music is deeply influenced by Japanese Noh music; I am attempting to turn the vertical arrangement of time in Noh into my own sort of music … the tension of the moment when horizontal time meets vertical time creates visible cracks in time, visible gaps in space. My aim is to elicit the polisemy and complexity of these momentary sounds and to plumb their depths. Individual sounds are shaped like the brush strokes in oriental calligraphy. These brush strokes are drawn with consideration given to the blank space behind them. In the same vein, I have written this music with the space in which it will resound (the blank spaces of calligraphy) in mind.”

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Evaristo Felice DALL’ABACO Violin Sonatas “The performers make the most of Italian spirit and songfulness with natural, not forced tempos throughout. The reproduction is first class.” — GOLDBERG

Giorgio Sasso, violin/Insieme Strumentale di Roma DALL’ABACO: Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 (sel.) • Sonatas for 2 Violins, Op. 3 (sel.)

The Op. 1 of Dall’Abaco (1675–1742) consists of chamber sonatas for violin solo and continuo, and dates from ca. 1705-06 during his stay in Brussels. Op. 3 consists of twelve church and chamber sonatas for two violins and bass, from his time in France. In this French period he was almost obliged to try to adapt the technical and stylistic tools acquired in his Italian apprenticeship to the peculiarities of the French style. The elements of modernity that Dall’Abaco’s music reveals do not alter its basically conservative quality. The structural balance of his music makes it an ideal representation of the Baroque sonata at the height of its classicity, by the purity and craft of its design. It would be hard not to acknowledge that the pages recorded for this CD may be considered – as far as melodic inventiveness, variety, and expressive power – to be the least conventional and most cleverly structured of their kind.

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Astor PIAZZOLLA Complete Guitar Music Matteo Mela & Lorenzo Micheli, guitars/Per Arne Glorvingen, bandoneon/Ivan Rabaglia, violin/I Solist di Parma PIAZZOLLA: Tango Suite for 2 guitars • Histoire du Tango for violin & guitar • Cinco Piezas for solo guitar • Double Concerto for guitar, bandoneon & strings

Among Astor Piazzolla’s works, the group of guitar compositions is a very significant one, although he did not write for the instrument until the early 1980s. The cycle known as Cinco Piezas (Five Pieces) was composed in 1981. In March 1985, Piazzolla and his old friend Cacho Tirao premiered the Concerto for Bandoneon and Gujitar at the Liège Guitar Festival in Belgium, which saw also the premiere of Histoire du Tango. Less than a year later, in 1984, Piazzolla had completed his Tango Suite. Because of the wealth of colors, solid formal cohesion, and perfect balance between the instruments, these pieces can be counted among the most important works in late twentieth-century guitar repertoire. Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli are both accomplished and prize-winning classical guitarists from Italy.

Mela has made recordings for Italian TV and appeared on several radio and TV broadcasts in Europe and in the U.S.

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CLASSICAL W.A. MOZART Requiem (String Quartet Version) Quartetto Aglàia/Laura Alvini, fortepiano MOZART: Requiem Mass (arr. Lichtenthal)–version for string quartet • Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466 (arr. Lichtenthal)–chamber version

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Peter Lichtenthal (1780–1853), born in Mozart’s lifetime, became a passionate advocate of his music. Lichtenthal was a doctor by profession, but also a composer and musicologist who wrote an important early biography of Mozart in 1816. Lichtenthal transcribed several Mozart compositions for string quartet, string quintet, and other ensembles. His transcription of the Requiem Mass for string quartet was designed to preserve Mozart’s great melodies in a domestic setting, before the existence of sound recordings. Likewise the beloved Piano Concerto No. 20, transformed here into a version that could be played in many bourgeois or upper-middle-class drawing rooms in the early nineteenth century. The Aglàia Quartet is one form of the larger Ensemble Aglàia, founded in Milan in 1992 and named after one of the three Graces from Greek mythology. They specialize in Baroque and pre-classical music performed on original instruments. They are joined here by Laura Alvini, one of Italy’s best-known keyboard artists for early music, both on harpsichord and fortepiano.

Guillame DUFAY Masses “The performances on this recording are conceived extremely carefully … the performers understand exactly the subtlety and complexity of Dufay’s counterpoint and really enjoy his melodic writing. A fundamental contribution to the Dufay discography.” — GOLDBERG

Cantica Symphonia/Kees Boeke & Giuseppe Maletto, conductors DUFAY: Missa Resveillies vous • Missa Ave Regina

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Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474), a native of Cambrai in Flanders, was already a famous composer of sacred and secular music in his twenties. From 1428 to 1433 he served in the Papal Choir at the Vatican. Thereafter he was employed as a music director a few years at a time in various cities, mostly in Italy, but often returned to Cambrai, where he eventually retired. Although he was responsible for few innovations in music and his forms were often remarkably simple, he dominated his field thanks to a distinctive gift for melody and a direct, persuasive manner. Perhaps his greatest achievement was making his compositions progress smoothly and gracefully; previously, most medieval music had a certain awkwardness about it, charming as it might be. His style dominated all others and determined the course of Western music well into the Renaissance.

J. Melvin Butler & Roger W. Sherman Thomsen Chapel Inaugural Recitals “Butler’s performances are idiomatically on the mark, and so atmospheric that one can almost smell the incense.” — FANFARE

J. Melvin Butler & Roger W. Sherman, organists STANLEY: Voluntary XIII (Prelude & Fugue) • Voluntary VI • CLARKE: The Prince of Denmark’s March • BUXTEHUDE: “Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott” • Praeludium in D Major, BuxWV 139 • J. S. BACH: Six chorale preludes from Orgelbüchlein • Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547 • BRAHMS: “O Welt, ich muß dich lassen” • TOON HAGEN: “Vater unser im Himmelreich” (chorale and 4 variations) • VIERNE: “Adagio” from Symphony III • “Impromptu” from Pièces de Fantaisie

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This recording, the first on the new Paul Fritts organ at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, documents the inaugural recitals given on the instrument in 2003. The new Paul Fritts organ embodies many of the aesthetic principles that represent a return to the core elements that personified the “golden age” of organ building exemplified by such noted historical organ builders as Arp Schnitger and Andreas Silbermann. The works on the program were chosen to showcase the organ’s unique qualities.

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Petite Messe Solennelle (2 CDs) Quink Vocal Ensemble ROSSINI: Petite Messe Solennelle

Rossini’s “Little Solemn Mass, ” which the composer famously called “neither little, nor more than intermittently solemn,” was nevertheless a great success at its premiere in Paris on March 14, 1864, by which time the famous opera composer was already long “retired,” though he continued to write in non-operatic genres. Rossini was 71 when he wrote it, and it was to be his last large composition. The other small songs and piano pieces he created were published under the ironic title of Péchés de vieillesse – “Sins of My Old Age.” The first version was scored for two pianos, harmonium, and twelve voices and did not yet include the “O Salutaris” for soprano solo which was added later. Within three years Rossini had responded to requests for an orchestration; this version for large ensemble was not given until after the composer’s death, at the Théâtre Italien in Paris, on February 24, 1869. The Quink Vocal Ensemble is one of the best vocal groups in the world. Their repertoire includes a cappella works ranging from the early Renaissance to contemporary music. Quink has toured the U.S. at least once a year since 1985 and recorded many albums for Telarc.

CD: CHR 72157 (2P) Standard Double Jewel Case File Under: Classical

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Johann Wilhelm WILMS 4 Symphonies (2 CDs) Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra/Anthony Halstead, conductor WILMS: Symphony in C minor, Op. 23 • Symphony in E-flat, Op. 14 • Variations on “Wilhelmus van Nassauwe” • Symphony in D, Op. 52 • Symphony in D minor, Op. 58

Johann Wilhem Wilms (1772 –1847) was the most important composer in the Amsterdam music world during the first half of the nineteenth century, occupying a place similar to that of Berwald in Sweden. Born in Germany two years after Beethoven, he was influenced by the works of Haydn and Mozart. He wrote a number of symphonies, but only a handful are available on CD. Anthony Halstead’s prominence as a conductor and director in the periodinstrument movement increasingly takes him to those ‘modern’ orchestras whose players, using conventional instruments, wish to develop a stylistic awareness of authentic practice in the baroque, classical, and romantic eras. He has had a long association with The Hanover Band, and also has a special empathy with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the fortypiece Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, which has toured worldwide and is well known for its interpretations of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, but also of modern compositions.

Halstead was recently awarded a Gold Disc for over 40,000 sales of one of his recordings.

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ARENSKY & KORNGOLD Cello Works Escher Trio (Jeroen Bal, piano/Sonja van Beek, violin/Johan van Iersel, cello) ARENSKY: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 • KORNGOLD: Piano Trio in D, Op. 1

Impressive homogeneity, an energized style, great individuality, and daring programming are qualities that have characterized the Escher Trio since its inception a decade ago. The Escher Trio has won international acclaim from successful tours of Germany, the Czech Republic, Norway, and the U.S., where it received rave reviews in several newspapers including the Washington Post. Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861–1906) was a Russian composer, conductor, and pianist. Although many of his works have a Russian feel, he was not as nationalistic as Rimsky-Korsakov. His greatest influence was Tchaikovsky. Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) was a child prodigy, causing a sensation in Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century and singled out by Gustav Mahler as a genius of music. Korngold started work on his Piano Trio Op. 1 in 1909 at the age of twelve, finishing it a month before his thirteenth birthday in April. He fled the Nazi regime for America and was welcomed with open arms by the Hollywood film industry. He wrote the scores for some nineteen films, including two Oscar winners.

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CLASSICAL J.S. BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 (2 Cds) Julia Cload, piano J. S. BACH: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I, BWV 846-869

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British pianist Julia Cload is making a major reputation playing music of the earlier periods. Her Goldberg Variations were highly praised by Classic CD, and her Haydn piano sonatas by both Gramophone and Haydn expert H. C. Robbins Landon, who said, “she has now become a leading interpreter of Haydn.” If this release is any indication, she is also unquestionably a leading interpreter of Bach.

Karol SZYMANOWSKI Complete Mazurkas for Piano Kaoru Bingham, piano SZYMANOWSKI: Mazurkas Op. 50 & 62 for piano CD: MER 84323 (R) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Classical

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After Chopin, Polish composer Szymanowski was the only one to write significant music in the mazurka form. One of Japan’s leading concert pianists, Kaoru Bingham’s extensive repertoire covers a full spectrum from Baroque to the present day. Kaoru’s recordings for Meridian include Liszt Transcriptions and these complete Mazurkas of Szymanowski, the latter chosen as Critics Choice by Classic FM in February 1997.

Franz LISZT Piano Transcriptions Antony Peebles, piano

CD: MER 84278 (R) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Classical

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LISZT: Reminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), Nos. 1 & 2 • La sonnambula (Bellini) • Illustrations du Prophète (Meyerbeer) • Fantasy on Motives from The Ruins of Athens (Beethoven) • March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz)

The second volume of the complete Liszt transcriptions as performed by eminent British pianist Antony Peebles, who won the BBC Piano Competition in 1971 and swept the Debussy Competition in France.

Josef SUK Solo Piano Works, Vol. 1 Neil Immelman, piano

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SUK: Spring • Longing • About Friendship • Things Lived and Dreamt • On the Recovery of My Son • To the Forgotten Graves in a Corner of the Krecovice Cemetery • Humoresque • Two Little Idylls • Love Song

Dvorˇák’s son-in-law Josef Suk left the finest and most consistent corpus of piano music of any Czech composer. This is the first complete survey of his work on any label. Neil Immelman’s recordings have received critical acclaim and have been Classic CD’s Pick of the Year.

Frank BRIDGE Phantasie Trio Dussek Piano Trio BRIDGE: Phantasie Trio in C minor • Piano Trio No. 2 • Miniatures CD: MER 84290 (R) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Classical

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Frank Bridge (1879–1941) is most often mentioned as the teacher of a later and more famous British composer, Benjamin Britten, but his own music has become more and more admired after a long period of neglect.

The Dussek Piano Trio was formed in 1988 by three performers of considerable international experience. They have received widespread recognition for their performances at leading venues. Their recordings of trios by Brahms, Bridge, and Haydn have been highly acclaimed.

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The Sixteen

G.F. HANDEL

Eton Choirbook II: The Crown of Thorns

Alexander’s Feast (2 CDs)

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, director

“A remarkable recording.” — REPERTOIRE (FRANCE)

DAVY: Stabat Mater • BROWNE: Jesu, mercy, how may this be? • BROWN: Stabat Mater • CORNYSH THE ELDER: Stabat Mater • SHERYNGHAM: Ah, gentle Jesu • MACMILLAN: O bone Jesu

Nancy Argenta, soprano/Ian Partridge, tenor/Michael George/ bass/The Symphony of Harmony and Invention/The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers, director

The Crown of Thorns embodies the sacrifice at the heart of the Passion story in reflections such as the Stabat Mater text, a moving portrayal of the anguish of Christ’s mother, unaware of the resurrection to come. The vast power of the royal courts of England and Scotland may be long gone, but the sumptuous sounds of their worship are not lost. This disc brings together music of some of the most outstanding but now little-known composers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and introduces a major new work by one of this century’s most remarkable composers, James MacMillan.

HANDEL: Alexander’s Feast (2 CDs)

The nature of Alexander’s Feast is perhaps better summed up by its other title, The Power of Music. It is a celebratory ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, written by Dryden in 1697 for the traditional celebration of the patron saint of music and set in celebratory style by Handel in 1736. At its first performance that year, he incorporated two delightful concertos, one for harp and one for organ, and these are included on this recording. Winner of the Deutschen Schallplattenkritik prize.

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The Sixteen

Tomás Luis de VICTORIA

La Jeune France

The Mystery of the Cross

“This disc is something not far from a revelation ... elaborately sonorous, radiantly glowing ... as usual from this fine group, the performances are immaculately detailed, and, especially in the Messiaen, they have a very un-English sense of the sumptuousness that binds it in to a compelling whole.” — THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

“This is what recording should be about ... excellent performances and recorded sound ... beautiful and moving.” — GRAMOPHONE

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, director JOLIVET: Épithalame • MESSIAEN: Cinq Rechants • DANIEL-LESUR: Le Cantique des Cantiques

Three composers from the group which styled itself “La Jeune France” here test vocal technique as never before in music that is rapturous, visceral, fresh, and erotic; wholly new and yet recognizably French, a subtle mix of primitive emotion and sophistication overlaid with the élan of a reborn Paris striding into the second half of the twentieth century.

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, director VICTORIA: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday • HYMN: Vexilla Regis • Lamentations for Good Friday • HYMN: Pange Lingua • Lamentations for Holy Saturday

Scholar, mystic, priest, singer, organist, and composer – six persons all rolled into one and that is, quite simply, why Victoria was the most outstanding composer of the Spanish Renaissance. His music, highly dramatic and emotional, fully reflects the heartfelt passion with which Victoria wrote for the church. These performances are of new editions, specially commissioned for this series, and thus never before heard on disc. Authoritative liner notes by the eminent musicologist who made the editions.

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“These are performances to evoke an ideal vision of 18th century chamber music-making; friends playing together for mutual enjoyment, sounding spontaneous and unaffected. The recording, too, is top-quality … it’s a perfect present in 2006 for any Mozart enthusiast.” — GRAMOPHONE, MARCH 2006

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“Rare and ravishing Koechlin … a revelation. Banse appears an ideal interpreter for Koechlin’s soaring, refulgent vocal lines. Not for nothing was he one of the 20th century’s greatest authorities on orchestration: his scoring is of miraculous refinement, resonance and plangency … a hedonistic delight: I doubt if 2006 will bring anything more wonderful.” — BBC MUSIC,

“Compelling … superb … Koopman uses his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, a strong and supple instrument completely responsive to his direction. For listeners … who are looking for a recording that emphasizes the work’s dramatic qualities, the 2005 Koopman is the one to hear.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE [★★★★]

FEBRUARY 2006 [★★★★★ PERFORMANCE AND SOUND!]

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“Packs a powerful punch … this recital is full of powerful music played with passion and skill.”

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“Top-notch Tavener with the orchestra’s leader on soaring form … I would venture to say that Ikon of Eros is the most alluring of Tavener’s recent works … the recording seems close to ideal. Both the performance and the engineering are unlikely to be bettered any time soon.” — GRAMOPHONE

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“[Cimarosa’s] racy life and dazzling spirit are reflected in this fine recital where he so often tosses convention aside to explore a wide range of picturesque styles and effects.

Soifertis … clearly relishes every facet of Cimarosa’s diamond-like chippings, many of which glint and sparkle with myriad surprises … his performances are masterly and affectionate.” — GRAMOPHONE, MARCH 2006

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“Everything about it is first-rate. The packaging is attractive.

The essay is informative. The cast lists are complete. The picture discs in plastic sleeves are lovely. And the remastering is, far and away, the best the Krauss Ring has ever had: old, yes, and live, certainly, but transparent and filled with color and light. Those who love Wagner owe it to themselves to hear this set.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE [★★★★★]

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“Jenny Lin’s performances seem highly idiomatic, alert to the myriad changing moods and colours of these pieces, each of which seems to encapsulate its own moment in time. I strongly recommend this recording to anyone interested in this fascinating period.” — BBC MUSIC, FEBRUARY 2006 [★★★★★ PERFORMANCE AND SOUND!]

“These are all excellently played performances, and comparisons with previous recordings suggest that they do Henze’s music full justice. Arte Nova has been a frequent and welcome presence in my CD player, consistently delivering interesting, superb sounding discs at a rock-bottom price.”

— FANFARE, MARCH/APRIL 2006

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Stabat Mater Bettina Rubortone, soprano/Chiarastella Onorati, contralto/Benedetto Marcello Chamber Orchestra/Flavio Emilio Scogna, director PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater

This central Baroque masterpiece receives an authoritative performance by Early Music specialists, using the critical edition of the score realized by Helmut Hucke in 1987. Composed for two female soloists with strings and continuo, this work is a setting of the beautiful fourteenth century verses of Jacopone da Todi describing Mary standing at the foot of the cross. It was an audience success from its first performance thanks to the aura of pathos that colors the composer’s last work, as well as by his premature death in 1736 at the age of twenty-six. Born in 1710, Pergolesi was one of the first important composers of comic opera, of which La Serva Padrona is still popular today. The Stabat Mater, written in 1736 for Good Friday services in Naples, became the most frequently printed work of the entire eighteenth century. Other composers often stole from it – including J.S. Bach in his Psalm Tilge, Höchster, meine Sündern, BWV 1083.

CD: TCT 711603 (L) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Classical

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Ludovico Antonio RONCALLI Harmonic Caprices for Spanish Guitar Giacomo Parimbelli, guitar RONCALLI: Capricci Armonici

If the surname of this composer sounds familiar, it is most likely because of his far more famous descendant, Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who later became Pope John XXIII. Ludovico Roncalli (1654–1713) was a noble churchman himself (both an Abbott and Count), but also a guitarist and composer. This recording, made in 2004 (exactly 350 years after Roncalli’s birth), forms an essential contribution to a study of his work. The research was done by the artist, Giacomo Parimbelli (b. 1964), a noted Italian historian and master of the guitar.

The Capricci Armonici were published in 1692 as Roncalli’s Op. 1, but little noted in later eras until Ottorino Respighi used some of the melodies in his Ancient Airs and Dances suites.

Parimbelli notes that, “Roncalli should be numbered among the great guitarists of his day.

The performance of his music requires a certain technical mastery of the instrument on the part of the interpreter and listening to it can easily transport us to the rose-colored salons of the Italian baroque period.” The guitar used on this recording is a historic six-stringed instrument made by Pasquale Vinaccia of Naples in 1878.

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Concentus Lucensis Lauds on the Life of Jesus Concentus Lucensis/I Cantori del Miserere di Sessa Aurunca/Stefano Albarello, director 17 Lauds for the Resurrection and for the vigils of the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ

It is hard to draw a definite picture of the medieval dramatic song; although it can be clearly seen from their texts that the laude were widespread in Italy, we do not know how they were performed. Scholars are inclined to think that when the texts of dramatic laude were performed for an audience they were sung rather than recited, in the same way as the more archaic dramatic theater models. The field is therefore restricted to the few laudari with text and music handed down to us, surviving for the most part in two substantial manuscripts, the Laudario di Cortona and the Laudario Magliabechiano. For this recording, songs were selected that included dialogue and revolved around the life of Christ. The interpretative hypothesis employed here means to recreate the spontaneous spirit of the songs, performing parts of the laudario polyphonically in the form of discanti, something that is often still done in some Confraternities on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.

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CLASSICAL Irasema Terrazas, soprano/Yleana Bautista, Isaac Saúl & Cristina Montero, pianists/Marisa Canales, flute/Edward Spencer, English horn/Marcia Yount, oboe/Eleanor Weingartner, clarinet/Beata Kukawska, violin/Victor Flores, contrabass/Gabriela Jiménez, percussion GAMBOA: Voces de tierra • OLIVA: Por siempre Sabines • ZYMAN: Solamenta sola • SAÚL: Canción de ausencia • KAVINDU: Cuatro piezas devocionales

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• Irasema Terrazas is one of Mexico’s leading female vocalists, and here she presents a program of favorite songs and cycles by living Mexican composers • Terrazas graduated with highest honors from the National School of Music and did postgraduate studies at the famed Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, with scholarships including one from Mexico’s Foreign Ministry • Her artistic merit has earned several awards, including the 1999 prize for Starring Role in Musical Theater by the Agrupación de Periodistas Teatrales; the Young Artist and Luis Girón awards at the Carlo Morelli National Singing Competition; and second place at the seventh Francisco Araiza Competition • Throughout her career, Irasema Terrazas has sung under distinguished orchestra conductors as a guest soloist in Mexico’s main orchestras. She has performed in concerts in Mexico and Switzerland • In the opera she has played the roles of Euridice, Micaela, Giulia, Madeline, Flor, Silvia, Pamina, Amy, Leila, Freia, Helmwige, the Forest Bird, and Arianna, among others • Voces de tierra (Earth Voices) is a short cycle by Eduardo Gamboa set to poems of Alberto Ruy Sánchez and written expressly for Irasema Terrazas • Three poems by Jaime Sabines form the texts for Julio César Oliva’s cycle Por siempre Sabines, and film director Salvador Carrasco wrote the verse for Solamenta sola by Samuel Zyman. Four Buddhist songs by Kavindu round out this unique recital

Irasema Terrazas, soprano/Cristina Montero, piano KAVINDU: Ah • Tara • Karuna • Imasmim sali • Ekagata • Sunati • Padma • Mitrata • Shanti

• Alejandro Velasco Sotomayor was born in Mexico City in 1956. In 2001 he became a member of the Western Buddhist Order and now uses his ordination name Kavindu, meaning “moon of poet and sages” • He graduated in composition from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago • After several years of writing for the stage in the U.S. and Mexico he founded Arcana Ensemble Acustico, a quintet of piano, marimba, percussion, flute, sax, and cello. They have toured the U.S., Mexico, and South America interpreting Kavindu’s music • Since 1990 he has taught in Mexico City, and made several recordings • Seven of the nine pieces on this CD began life as a commission in 2003 from choreographer and arts patron Isabel Beteta for a ballet based on the tarot cards entitled In the Hands of Destiny. Later, Kavindu added two more songs especially for soprano Irasema Terrazas to include on this album • Terrazas is one of Mexico’s leading female vocalists and has sung under distinguished orchestra conductors as a guest soloist in Mexico’s main orchestras • Cristina Montero Roura began studying piano at an early age. Even as a child she was performing in concert halls, often playing her own compositions • She graduated with honors from the National School of Music (Mexico) in 2001 and has since performed in numerous concerts as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles, interpreting classical repertoire and contemporary music • Currently she is principal pianist with the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra and a member of the piano faculty at the National School of Music

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Franz SCHUBERT

Michelagnolo GALILEI

15 Lieder

Sonatas from the First Lute Book

Gundula Janowitz, soprano/Charles Spencer, piano

Paul Beier, lute

SCHUBERT: 15 Lieder

GALILEI: Lute Sonatas (6) from Il Primo Libro d’Intavolatura di Liuto (1620) • Passemezzo e saltarello

Gundula Janowitz (born August 2, 1937 in Berlin) was one of the greatest lyric sopranos in modern history, renowned for her magnificent tone – often described as “creamy” or “silvery” – and her vocal control at the top of her range. She studied at the Graz Conservatory and, in 1960, made her debut in Vienna. Popularity came quickly for her. She was especially admired, and often cast,

by Herbert von Karajan. Her fame came primarily from singing German-language compositions. She is mostly associated with works by Mozart, Wagner, Weber, Beethoven, R. Strauss, and Bach.

She performed Elisabetta from Don Carlo and the Countess from The Marriage of Figaro brilliantly. An excerpt of the latter portrayal features prominently in the critically acclaimed 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption.

Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631) was the younger brother of Galileo Galilei, the famous astronomer – who also wrote some music. The fame of Galileo has quite overshadowed the fact that the whole family was highly musical, and their father, Vincenzo Galilei, was one of the outstanding composers and lutenists of his day. His more famous relatives have overshadowed Michelagnolo, but his music, as shown on this recording, is of the first quality.

Paul Beier, a graduate of the Royal College of Music, London, is one of the most eminent lutenists working today. He has performed both as a soloist and in early music groups throughout Europe, Australia, and North and South America, and is the founder and director of Galatea.

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Giovanni BOTTESINI

La Reverdie

Virtuoso Works for double Bass & Strings

Bestiarium: Animals in the Music of the Middle Ages

Massimo Giorgi, double bass/Diego Conti, violin/Vincenzo Mariozzi, clarinet/I Solisti Aquilani/Vittorio Antonellini BOTTESINI: Gran Duo Concertante, for violin, double bass & strings • Elegia e Tarantella, for double bass & strings • Gran Duo, for clarinet, double bass & strings • Allegretto e Capriccio, for double bass & strings • Variazioni su ‘La Sonnambula’ for double bass & strings • Introduzione e Gavotte, for double bass & strings • ‘Passioni Amorose’ for violin, double bass & strings

Perhaps no musician has ever been more typecast than Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889), known in his own day as “the Paganini of the double bass.” There is no escaping the fact that no composer wrote more (or more characteristic) music for this instrument, despite the fact that Bottesini also wrote a number of successful operas and was so admired as a conductor that he led the world premiere of Verdi’s Aida in 1871.

La Reverdie 20 medieval songs and dances about animals, by anonymous composers as well as Landino, von Wolkenstein, Giovanni da Firenze, Donato da Firenze, Jean Vaillant, Jacopo da Bologna & Marcabru

Animals are abundant in the art, heraldry, gastronomy, and music of the Middle Ages. Bestiaries were popular books describing animals, sometimes in fanciful terms, but always lovingly. This musical bestiary presents a vivid concert of medieval animal songs and dances as performed on period instruments by La Reverdie, an Early Music ensemble formed in 1984 by two pairs of sisters who studied under some of the leading personalities in the field. Their concerts have excited the enthusiasm of both critics and the public. Instruments heard include the lute, rebec, santur, lyre, viella, tabor, harp, and flutes.

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Vladimir Orloff

Erich Kleiber

The 1949–1976 Recording Legacy (3 CDs)

Kleiber Archives, Vol. 1

“One of the greatest cellists of our time, with focused tone, refined expression and intelligence.” — LE MONDE (FRANCE)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Erich Kleiber, conductor

Cello concertos by Schumann, Vieru, Elgar, Haydn, Saint-Saëns & Shostakovich • Cello sonatas by Boccherini & Locatelli • BRAHMS: Double Concerto, Op. 102

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Johanna Martzy

Erica Morini

Johanna Martzy, Vol. 1

Erica Morini, Vol. 1: Live & Studio Recordings 1921–1944

HANDEL: Violin Sonata in F, Op. 1, No. 12 • J.S. BACH: Sonata for Violin Solo No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 • BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonatas No. 8 in G, Op. 30, No. 3 • STRAVINSKY: Duo Concertante for violin & piano • BARTÓK: Rumanian Folk Dances • SZYMANOWSKI: Notturno and Tarantella, Op. 28

Live performances from a 1960 recital in Redpath Hall (Montreal) by one of the most respected violinists of the twentieth century, Johanna Martzy (1924–1979). Martzy was a recording artist with both EMI and Deutsche Grammophon. Her LPs have been among the most sought-after by collectors; in fact, when listed by secondhand record dealers they are usually priced higher than any other LPs of any classical artist!

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Erica Morini, violin/NBC Symphony Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy, conductor/Louis Kentner, Alice Morini, Charlton Keith, Michael Raucheisen & Max Lanner, pianists WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 2 • MOZART: Violin Sonata, K.454 • SARASATE: Romanza andaluza (2 vers.) • Introduction & Tarantelle • and more!

Recordings of the legendary violinist Erica Morini (1904–1995) are truly treasures – especially ones as rare as these. Once one of the great concert artists, looked up to by both Heifetz and Milstein for inspiration, she spent her last years in ill health and seclusion after suffering the theft of her Stradivarius and all her scores and memorabilia. These HMV, Polydor, Victor, and Armed Forces Radio Service recordings from before World War II are priceless records of her genius.

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Muddy Waters

John Lee Hooker

They Call Me Muddy Waters

King of the Boogie

Track Listing

Track Listing

Gypsy Woman · I Can’t Be Satisfied · I Feel Like Going Home · Screamin’ and Cryin’ · Rollin’ and Tumblin’ · Rollin’ Stone · You’re Gonna Need My Help I Said · Early Morning Blues · Louisiana Blues · Long Distance Call · Honey Bee · Howlin’ Wolf · She Moves Me · Still a Fool · All Night Long · and more (41 total)

Boogie Chillen · Sally Mae · My First Wife Left Me · Crawling King Snake · Momma Poppa Boogie · Howlin’ Wolf · Hobo Blues · Graveyard Blues · Black Cat Blues · Alberta · House Rent Boogie · Hello Baby · Mean Old Train · I’m in the Mood · Baby How Can You Do It? · Four Women in My Life · and more (40 total)

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Disc One contains all the hits produced by Leonard & Phil Chess and/or Willie Dixon in Chicago between 1947 and 1955. Disc Two features a live concert, recorded in Warsaw, at the International Folk Music Festival & Jazz Jamboree on October 22, 1976. Includes a twelve-page booklet featuring extensive biography and rare photos.

“Boogie Chillen,” a seemingly spontaneous combination of spoken narrative and verses sung over brusque changes of pace on the guitar, became a #1 hit, and the first million-seller for John Lee Hooker. Bernie Besman recorded the bulk of Hooker’s output up to 1952, and nearly all the tracks on this album originate from that period.

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Howlin’ Wolf

Canned Heat

Howlin’ the Blues

Canned, Labeled and Shelved

Track Listing

Track Listing

Moanin’ at Midnight · How Many More Years · Cryin’ at Daybreak · Passing By Blues · I Want Your Picture · The Wolf is at Your Door · Getting Old and Gray · My Baby Walked Off · Drinking My C.V. Wine · My Troubles and Me · Highway Man · Brown Skin Woman · The Sun is Rising · Color and Kind · Well That’s All Right · and more (41 total)

DISC ONE: Bullfrog Blues · Sweet Sixteen · I’d Rather Be the Devil · Dust My Broom · I Wish You Would · It Hurts Me Too · DISC TWO: Strut My Stuff · Hot Money · House of Blue Lights · Just Got To Be There · You Just Got To Rock · Human Condition · She’s Lookin’ Good · Open Your Back Door · Wrapped Up

Selling Points

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Disc One contains classic tracks produced by Sam Phillips and Ike Turner in Memphis, as well as cuts from the Chicago era produced

by Leonard & Phil Chess and/or Willie Dixon. Disc Two was recorded live in concert on November 6, 1964, featuring Howlin’ Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, and Clifton James.

Disc One, Live at the Kaleidoscope, features the classic Canned Heat linup: Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor, and Frank Cook. Disc Two, Human Condition, features special guests Harvey Mandel on lead guitar and The Chamber Brothers with backing vocals.

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CD: SEP 1075 (M) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Vocals

One of the greatest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era, Mae West’s sexy style first found an audience in Broadway comedies before her film debut in 1932. Although she recorded sporadically, she found time in the fifties to cut an album of twelve risqué numbers, re-issued here in its entirety with eighteen added bonus tracks performed by glamorous lady singers of the day such as April Stevens, Damita Jo, Connie Rusell, and Diana Dors. All thirty tracks are innocently naughty!

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Jack Smith Sings Jack, Jack, Jack

CD: SEP 1074 (M) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Vocals

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Jack Smith hosted his own radio show in the forties before moving to television in the fifties, where he fronted programs like You Asked For It. He was known as Smilin’ Jack Smith because he radiated a truly cheerful sound. He scored twelve Top 30 hits in the forties, all of which are featured on this CD including his biggest sellers “Cruising Down the River,” “Civilization,” and “Jack, Jack, Jack.” All twenty-nine tracks are on CD for the first time and the booklet contains rare photos supplied

by Smith himself, along with a personal note.

Felicia Sanders The Song from Moulin Rouge & Felicia at the Blue Angel

CD: SEP 1073 (M) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Vocals

In the fifties, Felicia Sanders was the crowd-drawer in chic New York clubs like Bon Soir. Despite “The Song from Moulin Rouge,” a massive hit single recorded with Percy Faith that reached #1 for eight weeks in 1953, Sanders has never had a solo CD in her name. This twenty-eight-track release is an attempt to rectify this injustice with the inclusion of sixteen sides from her single releases as well as the LP Felicia at the Blue Angel.

Most tracks on CD for the first time. Liner notes by jazz critic Jim Gavin.

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Bing Crosby Good & Rare

CD: SEP 1071 (M) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Vocals

Bing Crosby was the most popular entertainer of the twentieth century’s first fifty years. Over three decades, he sold more than 300 million records and starred in over fifty movies, winning an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1944. This disc features twenty-seven tracks never available on CD, hence the title. Amongst the gems are songs Crosby recorded in French, Broadway numbers, ballads, and rare songs from films like the Academy Award-winning The Country Girl.

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Original London Cast The Pajama Game

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Following its success on Broadway, The Pajama Game opened in London in October 1955 with Max Wall, Joy Nichols, Edmund Hockridge, and Elizabeth Seal in the leads, running for 588 performances. This CD release features the long unavailable 1955 Original London Cast recording of the musical, which is currently enjoying a successful revival on Broadway. Includes showstoppers “Hey There,” “Steam Heat,” and more. Twenty-six tracks total – with bonus tracks by Joy Nichols on CD for the first time!

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Since its inception in 1979, Celluloid Records’ mission has been to break the boundaries of music, redefining the idea of communicating with sound. With artists as diverse as Manu Dibango, Bill Laswell, Afrika Bambaataa, Brian Eno, and Herbie Hancock, Celluloid has established itself as a matrix for innovation in music.

Amália Rodrigues American Songs “In Amália’s hands, fado was a black rose with a sultry perfume and long, sharp thorns.

She smelled the one, bled from the other, and kept coming back for more.” — ROOTSWORLD

Track Listing Who Will Buy · Long Ago and Far Away · All the Things You Are · Blue Moon · Summertime · The Nearness of You · I Can’t Begin to Tell You · I Can’t Help Loving Dat Man

Selling Points · Amália Rodrigues, the undisputed queen of Portuguese fado, enraptured audiences worldwide with her stunning voice and emotion-drenched renditions of her homeland’s poignant and dramatic vocal tradition. This collection features many of her most beloved performances from her long career! · Liner notes by Tom Schnabel of KCRW · Service to college radio & press

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Manu Dibango Abele Dance “Dibango has released seminal Afro-jazz albums … performed with stars too numerous to mention, written an autobiography, and generally mellowed into the role of an elder statesman of African music.” — BBC.CO.UK

Track Listing Abele Dance · Abele Dance Club Mix

Selling Points · Manu Dibango collaborated with French producer Martin Meissonnier on the single “Abele Dance” in 1984. Astonishingly modern, this title was a terrific hit in Europe, Africa, and New York · Service to college radio & press

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Material/Bill Laswell One Down “Bill Laswell … is a Béla Bartók with wings … an artist who has made it his mission in music to search for more spatial interpretations of harmony and rhythm.” — ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Track Listing Take a Chance · I’m the One · Time Out · Let Me Have It All · Come Down · Holding On · Memories · Don’t Lose Control · Busting Out

Selling Points · A foray into poppy, synth-driven dance music, One Down is as funky as it gets! · Features a rendition of Sly Stone’s “Let Me Have It All” with vocals by funk goddess Nona Hendryx, superstar Whitney Houston’s first solo vocal effort on the dance ditty “Memories,” and “Holding On,” co-written by the great Brian Eno

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NEW AGE “The Sequoia Groove label continues with its warm, soothing grooves and funky, exotic beats. Call it chill-out or techno-lounge – it all comes down to the same thing, and you’re lying if you say it never hits the spot.”

— ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Track Listing Jens Gad – Navajo · The Moontrane Conductors – Bossoraca · Achillea – Straraja Ladoga · Hands Upon Black Earth – Inbetween · David Gordon – Sunset Lounge · Artemisia – Euphoria · Opera-to-Relax – Fly · Win Meyerson – In-between · Steve Gordon – Way of the Shaman (Chill Edit) · Althea W. – Chanson Pour Une Femme · David & Steve Gordon – Enter the Sacred (Resort Edit) · Ulaim Az Zama Orchestra – Desert Night Stars

Selling Points

Sequoia Groove Hotel Tara 2 – The Intimate Side of Buddha-Lounge CD: SQR 916 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: Electronica

· Welcome back to the exotic resort where your soul can unwind. Chill out to a hypnotic new set of global electronica with the perfect recipe of entrancing rhythms and sensuous vocals · Create a hip atmosphere with the freshest sounds around from leading lounge mystics – perfect background music for entertaining or just relaxing at home · Features a luscious non-stop mix by award-winning DJs the Gordon Brothers (responsible for the Buddha-Lounge series) · Press releases and review copies to all major trade publications including Billboard · Service to radio, key reviewers, national publications, and e-media · Key Markets: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, St. Louis, Boston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland

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“Crafted artistry and modern sonic technology that will massage your soul.”

— ANODEA JUDITH, PHD

Featured Artists David & Steve Gordon, world drums, percussion, guitar, piano, native flutes, synthesizers, tamboura, crystal bowls, vocals, silver flute, dumbek, sitar, harp/Robin Silver/Vikki Hansen/Shajan/Karmacosmic

Track Listing Transformation–Sophia · 1st Chakra · 2nd Chakra · 3rd Chakra · 4th Chakra · 5th Chakra · 6th Chakra · 7th Chakra · Transcendence/Kundalini Rising

Selling Points · Serenely beautiful music evokes the vibration of each sacred energy center · The ultimate chakra music for meditation, massage, and yoga · Features deeply relaxing soundscapes of synthesizer, Indian sitar, tamboura, enchanting flutes, vocal chants, and hypnotic drumbeats · Best-selling leaders in the field of sound healing help to transform your inner world and align your body and spirit · Press releases and review copies to all major trade publications including Billboard · Service to radio, key reviewers, national publications, and e-media including Magical Blend, Utne Reader, Body and Soul, Yoga Journal, and Share Guide · Key Markets: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, St. Louis, Boston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland

David & Steve Gordon Chakra Healing Zone

CD: SQR 917 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: New Age

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Press Quotes “Utilizing traditional Tibetan instruments and sutras, Jonathan Goldman’s Medicine Buddha is the pioneering musician’s latest contribution to the use of sound as a healing tool … perfect for soft background music or something simply to unwind to at the end of a hectic day, or as part of a meditation and healing program for physical and emotional stresses.” — MYSTERIES

Featured Artists Jonathan Goldman, mantric chanting, vocal harmonics, singing bowl & bells, synthesizers, tuning forks, guitar, heart drum/Lama Tashi, Tibetan overtone chanting/John Galm, percussion/David Rugenstein, percussion/Alec Sims, vocal harmonics/Andi Goldman, vocals/ James Tanner, vocals/Riki Newell, Native American flute

Track Listing Medicine Buddha Suite · Heart of Wisdom Sutra

Selling Points · A unique amalgam of ancient and modern sounds, Medicine Buddha features two lush Tibetan Buddhist chants for healing and transformation. Each of the sacred mantras begins and ends with the extraordinary Tibetan “deep voice” chanting of world-renowned Chant Master and Grammy nominee Lama Tashi · At times extremely gentle and relaxing – at other times, it sounds like Tibetan monks jamming with the Grateful Dead! · This disc features the “Medicine Buddha Suite” with three movements, and the “Heart of Wisdom Sutra.” These long-form compositions are perfect for deep holistic journeys to the inner self. Designed to create health and higher consciousness, listeners can use this as a meditation experience or as background ambience · 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. He has been cited in national and international publications including USA Today and the New York Times IN CL U D E S FIRST · Goldman is a pioneer in the field of harmonics WORLD and a Gold-selling artist who has produced and engineered Grammy-nominated WORLD RECORDING PREMIERE recordings. albums and appeared on Grammy-winning An initiated Chant Master, his name is synonymous with healing sounds PREMIERE RECORDING! EVER! RECORDING! · Press service, interviews, workshops, lectures, and more IN CL UD E S

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Order Date: June 23, 2006

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NEW AGE The O’Neill Brothers Through the Years CD: BKR 1207 (O) Standard Jewel Case File Under: New Age Previously Available

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Gentle, graceful magic … accomplished keyboard artistry. — LOS ANGELES TIMES

Press Quotes “Reflective.” — PARENTING “Nobody plays it like the O’Neill Brothers.” — QVC “Soulful.” — MINNESOTA MONTHLY “Relaxing.” — MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

Featured Artists O’Neill Brothers, piano/Bruce Allard, violin/Katja Linfield, cello/Kenni Holmen, soprano sax/Brian Grivna, clarinet

Track Listing Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz, 1939) · As Time Goes By (Casablanca, 1942) · Unchained Melody (Unchained, 1955) · Can’t Help Falling in Love (Blue Hawaii, 1961) · Love Story (1970) · Somewhere in Time (1980) · On Golden Pond (1981) · The Thorn Birds (1983) · Schindler’s List (1993) · Forrest Gump (1994) · I Will Remember You (The Brothers McMullen, 1995) · The Patriot (2000) · Every Day · Through the Years

Selling Points · Reminisce about your favorite scenes while listening to this collection of classic movie themes featuring favorites such as “Unchained Melody” (Unchained, Ghost), the themes from Forrest Gump and Love Story, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (The Wizard of Oz), and more · The O’Neill Brothers’ style of relaxing piano music captures the soul of the listener. You’ll love humming along with these familiar melodies again and again · The O’Neill Brothers combine peaceful piano music with incredible solo instrumentalists. This CD features Brian Grivna on clarinet on “As Time Goes By,” Bruce Allard on violin on the theme from Schindler’s List, and the incredible Kenni Holmen on soprano sax on Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You” · A full hour of relaxing piano music, Through the Years is the most popular CD by the best selling O’Neill Brothers · Recent Midwest tour in February 2006 received radio, TV, and newspaper accolades

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PS I Love You

The Journey

Celebrate America

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— LARRY DOSSEY, MD

Featured Artists

Steven Halpern, Yamaha C-7, grand piano, Rhodes electric piano/Paul McCandless, English horn (Lake Suite III)

Track Listing

Lake Suite I · Greensleeves · Lake Suite II · Lake Suite III · Lake Suite IV · Lake Solo

Selling Points · Steven Halpern’s intimate solo piano, perfectly combined with soothing lakeshore sounds, provides “natural” stress relief · Sets a new standard of excellence in the “nature and music” genre, providing an hour of sonic serenity ideal for spas, massage centers, or as a gift to create the ambience of a summer vacation any time of the year · Lake Suite is the third in Halpern’s best selling Music and Nature series · Steven Halpern is the #1 name in the field of relaxation and healing music – an internationally acclaimed recording artist, producer, and pioneering sound healer · In-house promotional mailing · Key Markets: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, New York, Chicago

Also Available · IPM 7862 (Q) Serenity Suite (093791786222) · IPM 8003 (Q) Ocean Suite (093791800324)

Available Again with New Artwork!

Steven Halpern Welcome to the Comfort Zone, your personal oasis of serenity. Exquisite music, on solo and electric piano, provides an atmospheric ambience that is both functional and artistically pleasing. Comfort Zone is an ideal choice for many listening situations; at work, at home, by yourself, or with friends and family. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and enjoy the relaxation and renewal you’ll receive in your Comfort Zone.

Comfort Zone

CD: IPM 7786 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: New Age

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Steven Halpern

Steven Halpern

Steven Halpern

Enhancing Self-Esteem

Radiant Health & Well-Being

Enhancing Success

Steven Halpern Accelerating Learning

CD: IPM 2024 (N)

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CD: IPM 2017 (N)

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NEW AGE

SPOTLIGHT: AUTOMATIC 10% DISCOUNT ON POPULAR NEW WORLD MUSIC TITLES 6/1/2006 THROUGH 6/23/2006

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Riley Lee Breathe!

In this unique program, Grand Master shakuhachi player Dr. Riley Lee leads you through a series of simple breathing exercises to promote health, vitality and well being. Learning correct breathing techniques can help you reduce stress levels, increase blood circulation, optimize oxygen intake, develop conscious awareness, and can even assist asthma sufferers. Lee discusses the importance of correct breathing technique and invites you to participate as he demonstrates ten breathing and visualization exercises. The liner notes feature detailed descriptions of each exercise as well as background information on breathing. Includes bonus footage of Riley Lee and Taikoz in a phenomenal and energetic display of Taiko drumming!

DVD: NWC DVD 7018 (U) Amaray File Under: New Age Previously Available

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New World Artists Moving Stillness Moving Stillness is a play on opposites to show their inherent similarity. There is never lack of movement in this world, nor lack of silence. The title can be read forward and backwards – as the movement of stillness or the still nature of what has moved. What matters more than titles is the feeling each song invokes – a quiet, inspired reflection of a hectic world trying to find a bit of peace. Features Samsara Sound System, Dhamaal Sound System, Zeb, Sharaab, Eccodek, Ex-Centric Sound System, Nickodemus, Adham Shaikh, TJ Rehmi, Karsh Kale, and more.

CD: NWC 17 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: New Age Previously Available

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Daniel Otsuka Reiki Healing Touch Working closely with the Reiki Master Christopher Wilson, Otsuka has produced a quite stunning album timed in five-minute sections for Reiki treatments. The music has a beautiful eastern sound with traditional acoustic instruments such as flute and guitar delicately overlaying soothing, warm synthesizer chords, and tingshaw bells to create a wonderful selection that entices you into an alternative world of peace, harmony, and well being.

Perfect for aromatherapy, reflexology, and massage, or to simply relax after a busy day.

Includes a full-color guide to the practice of Reiki.

CD: NWC 924 (Q ) Standard Jewel Case File Under: New Age Previously Available

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— LARRY KING, CNN

Press Quotes “The Capitol Steps make it easier to leave public life.” — FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH SR. “#@!* you guys are funny!” — TOM CLANCY “Nothing argues as strenuously for a whirlwind of change to howl through Washington as the latest show by The Capitol Steps … [with] a consistently lofty level of insolence from start to finish.” — NEW YORK TIMES “When it comes to nibbling away at political institutions, this 30-strong musical troupe is right at the coalface.” — THE GUARDIAN

Track Listing Here’s to You, Reverend Robertson · George Bush speaks · I’m So Indicted · What a Difference Delay Makes · Three Little Kurds from School · Government Lessons for Little Children: Chicken Little · Can’t Get to a Church · GOP-BS · Sam Alito · How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea? · In the Metro · Rolling Kidney Stones · Dubai Dubai Doo · This Is the House That Jack Bribed · FU Airlines · Living Will · Old Finger · Rafael Palmiero’s Greatest Hits · John Bolton Goes to the UN · Michael Brown · Deep Throat · When I’m 84 · God Bless My SUV · Lirty Dies: Ecret Sagents, Ack Jabramoff, Chick Daney, Yubble-Doo and the Storrible Horm

Overview · 2006 marks The Capitol Steps’ 25th Anniversary! · Washington DC’s premiere political comics are back with their unique brand of political satire! Where else can you hear George Bush, Charles and Camilla, the four liberal Supreme Court Justices, and Dick Cheney – all on one CD? · The group has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Nightline, CNN’s Inside Politics, and NPR’s All Things Considered dozens of times · The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored conventional wisdom (“Don’t quit your day job!”), and although not all of the current members are former Capitol Hill staffers, together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent sixty-two years of collective House and Senate staff experience! · Mailing to 1,000 radio stations nationwide

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Capitol Steps

Capitol Steps

Four More Years in the Bush Leagues

Papa’s Got a Brand New Baghdad

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

CD: CTL 1025 (M)

CD: CTL 1024 (M)

CD: CTL 1023 (M)

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–UP TO 4 HOURS OF THE GREATEST Hugh Grant/Michelle Pfeiffer The Lady and the Highwayman/Passion, Power, Murder STAR-STUDDED CASTS POWER THESE TWO ROMANTIC DRAMAS! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 15 min The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) 93 min COLOR Starring: Hugh Grant, Emma Samms, Michael York, Oliver Reed Director: John Hough A swashbuckling romantic epic set in seventeenth-century England with engaging scenes of jealousy, execution, and conspiracy. A young woman trapped in an abusive marriage meets and falls in love with an aristocratic Robin Hood. He rescues her from her misery by challenging the husband to a duel. But trouble lies ahead when enemies plot to see these lovers fall!

Power, Passion, Murder (1987) 102 min COLOR Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Darren McGavin, Stella Stevens, Hector Elizondo Director: Paul Bogart, Leon Ichaso

DVD: PFX 190011 (C) Amaray File Under: Romance

Set in the glittering decadence of 1930s Hollywood, an aspiring starlet (Michelle Pfeiffer) risks her career by falling in love with a married film executive. The consequences are devastating when a very jealous wife uncovers the illicit affair.

Murder, scandal, and spine-tingling intrigue abound in this behind-the-closed-door look at Tinseltown. Lavish set design features great classic cars and costumes.

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Brad Harris/Fernando Rey Old Testament/Samson and Gideon THE STORIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT COME TO VIVID LIFE IN THESE TWO BIBLICAL FAVORITES! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 13 min Old Testament (1962) 88 min COLOR Starring: Brad Harris, Susan Paget, Margaret Taylor Director: Gianfranco Parolini This “sword and sandal” epic set in Biblical times depicts the Maccabees’ exodus into the desert to escape their Syrian oppressors. Bodybuilder, stuntman, and actor Brad Harris plays the role of Simon, a do-gooder who plans a counterattack and helps lead his people to victory.

Samson and Gideon (1966) 105 min COLOR Starring: Fernando Rey, Ivo Garrani, Rosalba Neri, Anton Geesink Director: Marcello Baldi, Francisco Perez Dolz This historical epic tells the stories of two of the most memorable figures in the Old Testament. Gideon (Ivo Garrani) saves the children of Israel when he defeats the Midianites by destroying the altar of Baal. Fernando Rey, whose most celebrated performance was as drug lord Alain Charnier in the two French Connection films of the seventies, highlights the supporting cast. In the second half of the film, Samson (played by two-time Wrestling World Champion and 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Anton Geesink) is the most physically powerful man in the world – until he falls prey to the alluring Delilah (Rosalba Neri).

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DVD: PFX 190012 (C) Amaray File Under: Christian

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William Powell Life with Father/My Man Godfrey HOLLYWOOD’S MOST ENDURING LEADING MAN IN TWO GREAT FILMS! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 33 min Life With Father (1947) 118 min COLOR Starring: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor Director: Michael Curtiz This is truly one of the best family films ever made. Based on a popular Broadway play by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, the film explores family life in New York during the 1880s. Each scene is an amusing anecdote – for instance, the wife’s desperate attempts to have her despotic husband baptized or the father’s awkward moments explaining the facts of life to his unimpressed son. Earned major nominations from the Academy Awards and the New York Film Critics.

My Man Godfrey (1936) 95 min B&W Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard Director: Gregory La Cava This wacky comedy classic takes a stab at high society. A pretentious wealthy family adopts “Godfrey,” a bum with a secretive past. Working as their butler, Godfrey becomes completely embroiled in their lives and soon takes charge. Later, he surprises the family with some shocking news. The film received Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories, as well as for Best Director and Screenplay!

DVD: PFX 190016 (C) Amaray File Under: Comedy

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James Cagney Blood on the Sun/Time of Your Life A NEW TWIST FOR CINEMA’S QUINTESSENTIAL TOUGH GUY! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 26 min Blood on the Sun (1945) 98 min COLOR Starring: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Armstrong Director: Frank Lloyd An American newspaper editor (James Cagney) working in Japan between WWI and WWII investigates the murder of a fellow reporter and his wife. Meanwhile, he discovers the villainous Tanaka Plan (a real-life document), a Japanese plot for world domination. Realizing that his life is also in danger, he gets the help of a beautiful Japanese-American spy (Sylvia Sidney). An action-packed adventure filled with great martial art sequences!

Time of Your Life (1948) 108 min B&W Starring: James Cagney, William Bendix, Broderick Crawford Director: H.C. Potter

DVD: PFX 190017 (C) Amaray File Under: Drama

Based on William Saroyan’s popular screenplay, this adaptation comes alive with an exceptional cast. A trashy San Francisco waterfront bar sets the stage for a cast of misfits, including ex-convicts and a variety of down-and-out characters. Cagney plays the central character, a philosophizing alcoholic ringleader who doles out sincere, heartfelt words of advice and inspiration.

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DVD Edward G. Robinson The Stranger/Scarlet Street TWO ENGROSSING FILMS FROM THE SILVER SCREEN’S “LITTLE GIANT”!

Total Running Time: 3 hrs 10 min The Stranger (1946) 95 min B&W Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young Director: Orson Welles Orson Welles is stellar as a Nazi war criminal posing incognito in a quaint town in Connecticut. He is so deceptive and cunning that he even fools his American wife with his new identity. Meanwhile, a war crimes detective (Edward G. Robinson) seeks him out to bring him to justice. This masterpiece of suspense received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing.

Scarlet Street (1945) 95 min B&W Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea Director: Fritz Lang

DVD: PFX 190019 (C) Amaray File Under: Mystery

In this gripping tale of despair, deception, and rage, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is saddled with a nagging wife and dead-end job. His only solace is painting – until he falls head-over-heels for Kitty (Joan Bennett), an alluring but manipulative femme fatale. Kitty’s true love is petty crook Johnny (Dan Duryea) and the two conspire to get rich off Christopher’s evocative artwork. The plot twists and turns as embezzlement and betrayal turn to madness and murder.

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Robert De Niro/Michael Madsen Swap/Against All Hope TWO EDGY STARS IN EARLY RARE FILMS! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 1 min Swap (1969) 92 min COLOR Starring: Robert De Niro, Jennifer Warren Directed by: John C. Broderick Sammy Nicoletti (Robert De Niro), a promising young film director, is mysteriously murdered while spending a weekend amongst a high-living jet set crowd. His brother Vito vows to find the killer and slowly uncovers a trail of passion, deceit, and blackmail. As he retraces the final events of Sammy’s life and draws nearer to the truth, he discovers that his own life hangs precariously in the balance.

Against All Hope (1982) 85 min COLOR Starring: Michael Madsen, Maureen McCarthy Directed by: Edward T. McDougal Michael Madsen (Kill Bill 1 & 2, Sin City) makes an impressive and unforgettable film debut as Cecil Moe, a family man whose life is tumbling around him.

Driven to alcohol abuse by his traumatic childhood, he finally hits bottom when his wife and two sons leave him. As a last resort, he reaches out to a preacher and ultimately rediscovers his Christian faith.

DVD: PFX 190024 (C) Amaray File Under: Drama

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Clifford Adams I Feel Your Spirit

CITY/STATE

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DATE

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VENUE Herbst Theatre

6/10/06

Boston, MA

The Hatch Shell

6/9/06

San Francisco, CA

6/11/06

Norfolk, VA

Harborfest

6/10/06

Santa Cruz, CA

Civic Center

6/29/06

Las Vegas, NV

Hilton Hotel

6/24/06

Boston, MA

Emerson Majestic Theatre

6/30–7/1/06

Las Vegas, NV

Silverton Casino

6/29/06

Towson, MD

Towson University

7/3/06

Interlochen, MI

Interlochen Center for the Arts

7/8/06

Aspen, CO

Elk Camp Lodge

The Capitol Steps

7/4/06

Ann Arbor, MI

Ann Arbor Summerfest

I’m So Indicted

7/11/06

New York, NY

The Supper Club

7/29/06

Boca Raton, FL

CD: BCS 70008 (Q) UPC: 890269001012

Boca Raton Resort & Spa

CD: CTL 1026 (M) UPC: 095632102628

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* See page 35

DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

DATE

CITY/STATE

6/22/06

New York, NY

Jazz Gallery

6/10/06

Bellevue, CO

VENUE Mishawaka Amphitheatre

7/20–21/06

New York, NY

Iridium

6/17/06

Manchester, TN

Bonnaroo Music Festival

7/23–24/06

New York, NY

Iridium

7/5/06

Milwaukee, WI

Summerfest

8/12/06

Oyster Bay, NY

Long Island Jazz Festival

* See page 9 Liberty Ellman

Medeski Martin & Wood

Ophiuchus Butterfly

Farmer’s Reserve

CD: PIE 19 (Q ) UPC: 808713001921

CD: AME 15 (O) UPC: 680490101526

Michael Bates’ Outside Sources

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DATE

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VENUE

6/19/06

Seattle, WA

Consolidated Works

6/9/06

New York, NY

Enzo’s

6/20/06

Calgary, AB

Calgary Jazz Festival

6/24/06

Denver, CO

Dazzle

6/20/06

Banff, AB

Banff Centre of the Arts

7/8/06

St. Louis, MO

Finale

6/24/06

Edmonton, AB

Edmonton Jazz Festival

7/14/06

Cleveland, OH

Night Town

6/25/06

Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Jazz Festival

7/15/06

Ann Arbor, MI

The Firefly

6/27/06

Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Jazz Festival

8/1/06

Cape Cod, MA

Wequassett Inn Jazz Festival

Roseanna Vitro Live at the Kennedy Center

A Fine Balance

CD: CHR 73252 (Q ) UPC: 60891732522

CD: BTL 71211 (Q ) UPC: 608917121124

DATE

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DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

6/1/06

Charlotte, NC

Visulite Theater

6/14/06

New York, NY

Barbes

7/9/06

Piermont, NY

The Turning Point

6/29/06

New York, NY

The Stone

7/11/06

New York, NY

B.B. King’s

7/28/06

New York, NY

55 Bar

Tim Berne

Bonnie Bramlett Roots, Blues & Jazz

Big Satan

CD: ZMR 200604 (Q ) UPC: 880956060422

CD: WTR 5 (R) UPC: 025091000524

Terrance Simien The Tribute Sessions

DATE

CITY/STATE

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DATE

CITY/STATE

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6/9/06

Asheville, NC

Orange Peel

7/9/06

Cleveland, OH

Blossom Festival

6/10/06

Chattanooga, TN

Riverbend Festival

7/14–15/06

San Diego

Bravo Broadway

6/22/06

Kitchener, ON

The Wax

7/29/06

Saratoga, NY

Philadelphia Orchestra

6/23/06

Oxford, MI

Blues Festival

8/11–13/06

San Diego

Bravo Broadway

11/10–11/06

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Symphony

12/10–13/06

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Broward Center

6/24-25/06

Windsor, ON

Place Concorde

6/29/06

Milwaukee, WI

Summerfest

Debbie Gravitte Defying Gravity

2XCD: AIM 5013 (Q ) UPC: 752211501325

CD: JAY 1393 UPC: 605288139321

DATE

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DATE

CITY/STATE

VENUE

6/3/06

Columbia, MO

Jesse Auditorium

6/9/06

Chicago, IL

Buddy Guy’s Blues Legends

6/23/06

N. Wilkesboro, NC

Ft. Hamby Park

6/10/06

Poland, OH

Salty Grog’s

7/7-8-06

Jackpot, NV

Cactus Pete’s

6/11/06

Hughesville, PA

Billtown Blues Festival

6/17/06

St. Paul, MN

Blues Festival

8/5/06

Long Island, NY

Harry Chapin Theater

9/1/06

Chelan, WA

Tsillan Cellars

The Kingston Trio

Magic Slim

The Kingston Trio w/ Dave Guard

Tin Pan Alley

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

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CD: WLF 120809 UPC: 799582080929

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