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Embraceable You: Broadway in Love

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Tropic Affair

With seven commissioned works, eight world premieres and first recordings, these new pieces for brass ensemble are worth listening to at every moment, always enjoyable and never aloof or elitist. As dedicatees and performers of the works they themselves commissioend, Salaputia Brass significantly enriches the repertoire and range of recordings for brass ensemble. The members of Salaputia Brass met already as young musicians while playing for the Bundsjugendorchester, before forming the ensemble in 2007. Their success story began when they won First Prize at the Jugend musiziert national competition, continuing with a prize at the International Competition for Brass Ensembles in Passau. Today many of the ensemble's members hold solo positions in such leading German orchestras as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Gurzenich-Orchester Koln, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and several others.

The follow-up to 1995's from the Age of Swing reunites many musicians from the first recording with exciting new soloists for an uncannily realistic evocation of the days of Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. Players include Jay Leonhart (bass), Peter Appleyard (vibraphone), Nancy Marano (vocals), Butch Miles (drums), Ken Pizzarelli (guitar), Randy Sandke (trumpet), Frank Wess (sax) and Dick Hyman (piano). This album was recorded live to 2-track in stunning HDCD sound.

Eileen Farrell Sings Torch Songs

The Hot Club of San Francisco is a quintet of acoustic string virtuosos and one of the premier exponents of 'gypsy jazz' inspired by Django Reinhardt's HOT CLUB OF PARIS. This album includes special guest David Grisman, the world's best known mandolin player.

Original interpretations and impressions of David Bowie s best music, written and performed by Mike Garson. For over three decades, Garson was associated with rock legend David Bowie as his keyboardist and creative collaborator. He also worked with Free Flight, Stan Getz, Mel Tormé, Thad Jones, and others. The computer graphics used on the cover and in the booklet are more examples of Garson s creativity. This Prof. Johnson HDCD recording was made in a fine concert hall, and has RR s signature Grammy-winning sonics.

* Definitive performances of Bix Beiderbecke's five original piano pieces, plus new Hyman arrangements and improvisations on classic Beiderbecke recordings.

* A spectacular recording by seven-time Grammy nominee Keith O. Johnson, at the famed Skywalker Sound.

* Hyman was composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist for many Woody Allen films including Bullets Over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite. Other film scores have included Moonstruck and Billy Bathgate.

"Stunning virtuosity and audio fidelity that sets an unprecedented standard for recording that most recalcitrant of instrument, the grand piano. An extraordinary pianist with great taste, in total command of a magnificent instrument, recorded with awesome presence and fidelity!" -- JazzTimes

"A once-in-a-lifetime record that does everything right. The band is hot, and the sound is front-row center, the players set up in a virtual-reality semicircle inches from your face. It is the most enveloping recording in my collection, and my numero uno desert island LP." -- Stereophile

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William's Garden