Jay Rodriguez -||- Brooklyn Connections [Pony Japan/Zoom]

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Jay Rodriguez, Jazz, Saxophone

Jay Rodriguez - Brooklyn Connections

Jay Rodriguez -||- Brooklyn Connections [Pony Japan/Zoom, 2010]

Prolific. Prodigal. Profound. That is Jay Rodriguez. Sometimes the sound is explosive, wild and full of fury, other times his music aches with a passion that’s painful and bare. Always modest and reverent, Rodriguez harnesses the unbridled audacity of youth and melds it with the uncanny discipline of a hardened New York jazz veteran. Married to the song while sleeping with the groove, his sound sings of commitment to an ideal—it is spontaneity, culturally untethered and unpretentious, the excitement of far flung love at all costs. It is perfectionism kissed by chaos. — Michael Gelfand

New Justin Time Signing Matt Herskowitz Delivers Big on Ambitious Label Debut, Jerusalem Trilogy, Set For August 10 Release

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Jazz, Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, Matt Herskowitz, Piano

Matt Herskowitz - Jerusalem Trilogy

Pianist & composer Matt Herskowitz’s Jerusalem Trilogy was born from a proposed concert of works by Jewish composers for the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York. The composer was commissioned to write something for the concert, to represent a more contemporary side of the program, and by a living composer.

Happily, the piece was a big success, and Herskowitz began thinking about the possibility of recording it. He soon realized that Jerusalem Trilogy had a unique sound all its own, and that the envisaged album should continue exploring the concept of blending classical and jazz elements – present in all Herskowitz’s work – with the unique hybrid of Arab and Jewish styles.

Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes -||- Double Portrait [Blue Note Records]

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Bill Charlap, Jazz, Piano, Renee Rosnes

Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes - Double Portrait

Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes -||- Double Portrait [Blue Note Records, 2010]

Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes, two of the premiere pianists in Jazz, and also husband and wife, have joined forces to record their first collaborative album, Double Portrait. The album is a sparkling set of four-hand piano duets that traverses many of the couple’s musical touchstones including the great jazz composers (Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson), Great American Songbook composers (George & Ira Gershwin, Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz), and one of Rosnes’ own striking original compositions.

The depth of musical experience shared between Charlap and Rosnes is truly staggering. Charlap is a two-time Grammy Award nominee and the son of two renowned musicians (Broadway composer Moose Charlap and pop singer Sandy Stewart) who has performed with icons such as Tony Bennett, Phil Woods and Gerry Mulligan, and served as the musical director of The Blue Note 7. The Canadian-born Rosnes is a four-time Juno Award winner who has collaborated with legends the likes of Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and J.J. Johnson, and has also been the pianist and contributing composer in the dynamic SFJAZZ Collective. It’s a happy musical marriage that both proclaim is “a natural evolution of our partnership and love for each other.”

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