Chris Hazelton - In Rotation - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

BEING is pianist Chris Rottmayer's fourth album. It's a collection of original music, written as part of a study of pianist Mulgrew Miller and his recordings with the Woody Shaw Quintet. Joining him on this album are Russ Johnson on trumpet and flugelhorn, Matt Endres on drums, and jazz master Rufus Reid on acoustic bass. The skillful compositions and virtuosic performances on BEING weave an exotic and mysterious tapestry that explores Miller and Shaw's harmonic and modal concepts. Album Tracks 1. On the Street Where Woody Lives 2. Re-United 3. Pigalle 4. Châtelet 5. Autumn Evening 6. Song of Modes 7. Ballerina Dance 8. La Seizième 9. Pont Neuf 10. Rue Des Lombards

Following nearly 20 years of working together as a trio, and numerous cross-collaborations in different configuration between them, Ideologic Organ presents Placelessness, the debut full-length by Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, and Robbie Avenaim, comprising two long-form works at juncture of ambient music, minimalism, rigorous experimentalism and improvisation, and machine music. Having carved distinct pathways across a diverse number of musical idioms for decades, Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, and Robbie Avenaim are each, respectively, among the most noteworthy and groundbreaking figures to have emerged from Australia's thriving experimental music scene. Ambarchi and Avenaim first encountered Abrahams when seeing the Necks - the project that has served as the primary vehicle for his singular approach to the piano since it's founding in 1987 - together during the late 1980s, not long after having met in Sydney's underground music community. The pair's collaborations date back more than 35 years, criss-crossing Ambarchi's pioneering solo and ensemble work for guitar and Avenaim's visionary efforts for SARPS (Semi Automated Robotic Percussion System), robotic and kinetic extensions to his drum kit. In 2004, fate brought the three together in a trio performance at the What Is Music? Festival, the annual touring showcase of experimental music founded and run by Ambarchi and Avenaim between 1994-2012. For the nearly two decades since, Abrahams, Ambarchi, and Avenaim have intermittently reformed in exclusively live contexts, in Australia and abroad, cultivating and refining the fertile ground first tilled in that early meeting. Placelessness is the first album to present this remarkable trio's efforts in recorded form. Placelessness is the joining of three highly individualised streams, working in perfect harmony; the point at which friendship, mutual respect, and decades

A sequel of sorts to Chris Botti's 2006 PBS special, LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA & SPECIAL GUESTS, the September 2008 event LIVE IN BOSTON found the sartorially splendid cool jazz trumpeter accompanied by the Boston Symphony and a collection of celebrity vocalists. Also available as a DVD, the concert delivers an overview of popular music, with jazz standards like InchI've Got You Under My SkinInch right alongside InchAve MariaInch and Sting's InchIf I Ever Lose My Faith in You.Inch Whether featuring rocker Steven Tyler, AMERICAN IDOL chanteuse Katharine McPhee, or pop-opera superstar Josh Groban, all the tunes are presented in Botti's inimitable, Chet Baker-influenced uber-smooth style. Album Tracks 1. Ave Maria 2. When I Fall in Love 3. Seven Days Featuring Sting and Dominic Miller 4. Emmanuel Featuring Lucia Micarelli 5. I've Got You Under My Skin Featuring Katharine McPhee 6. Cinema Paradiso Featuring Yo-Yo Ma 7. Broken Vow Featuring Josh Groban 8. Flamenco Sketches 9. Glad to Be Unhappy Featuring John Mayer 10. Hallelujah 11. Smile Featuring Steven Tyler 12. If I Ever Lose My Faith in You Featuring Sting and Dominic Miller 13. Time to Say Goodbye