Albums

There are certain bodily movements that humans do without thinking: the expansion and contraction of the lungs, the beating of the heart, or in this case, the tapping of the foot to a deliciously slow, swinging groove. On  CT!, baritone saxophonist and bandleader  Adam Schroeder  teams up with arranger  Mark Masters  to deliver a tasty baker’s dozen tunes in the…

The original cast album of Adam Guettel’s new Broadway musical,  Days of Wine and Roses, is now digitally available; it will be available on CD in the spring. Craig Lucas  wrote the show’s book and  Michael Greif  directs the production, which previously ran at the Atlantic Theater Company earlier this year.  Kelli O’Hara  and  Brian d’Arcy James  star in this searing musical, based…

THIS WILL PUT YOU IN PIANO HEAVEN Astor’s Place is a gorgeously rendered album that reveals the genius of Dimitri Landrain. The acclaimed French composer and pianist based in New York City has traveled the world and found inspiration among his adventures. This album is a tribute to all those wonderful musical worlds he’s experienced….

AH, PERFECTO I know when you hear “Latin Jazz” you think congas and dancing rhythms, but this beautifully produced and played album is — and I say this in a good way — cocktail jazz done as dreamy New Age on a breezy afternoon sipping a mojito. It’s not sappy Easy Listening Jazz, but a…

Veteran pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto debuts on prestigious Japanese label evosound with A Shade Of Blue, out on CD and vinyl now, and digitally on December 8, 2023. Famed for his light touch, exquisite musical sensitivity, and hard-swinging approach to the piano, master Yamamoto has enjoyed a long and storied career that has yielded over 50…

SUMPTUOUS ALBUM On Friday, November 10, 2023,  The Crossing, one of our greatest choirs, will release  SUMPTUOUS  PLANET,  a  virtuosic  and spectacular concert-length work by composer David  Shapiro  based primarily on the writings of the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins  (famous, in part, for his defense of  atheism).  Sumptuous  Planet  is  an expression of belief  about the nature of life  and the joy we can find in understanding it, paradoxically told through  a  Christian  Mass  and…