Debbie Poryes - Catch Your Breath - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Meant as an homage to the great Hank Jones, the title of Bay Area pianist Debbie Poryes' latest trio recording also offers a metaphor for the significance the jazz masters, the music and the players have in her life. With longtime band mates Peter Barshay on bass and drummer David Rokeach, those feelings shine through as the trio brings warmth, humor and swing to a collection of six originals, along with arrangements of beloved standards including InchWonderful DayInch and InchHow About You,Inch and a special look at Joni Mitchell's classic, InchBoth Sides Now.Inch Inch... a group that plays with an interactive verve and elegance... a knockout listening experience.Inch - ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Roberto Fabbriciani is an innovator of flute techniques developed through personal research of the flute's sonorous possibilities. He has collaborated with some of the major composers of our time, and has worked for many years with Luigi Nono in the experimental studio of the SWF in Freiberg, blazing new and unusual trails in music. He performs on this new alongside Alvise Vidolin on electronics. The pieces on this album tell of water as a game, passion and necessity; Roberto's dreams, childhood games and imagination, but also the dark, dramatic historical moment experienced in his youth the flooding of Florence. It is again a return to loving and playing with water as a source of life.

Denise Donatelli returns to Savant Records with Take My Breath Away, a celebratory new recording that finds the multi-GRAMMY® nominated vocalist bringing together contemporary songcraft, Brazilian music, her acclaimed jazz stylings and intimate balladry in a program as deeply personal as it is musically expansive. Long admired for her warm, expressive tone and interpretive depth, Donatelli once again joins forces with longtime collaborator, pianist and arranger Geoffrey Keezer, whose imaginative settings provide an ideal framework for her artistry. Recorded in New York with a stellar ensemble including Ron Blake, Donny McCaslin, Chien Chien Lu, Yotam Silberstein, and background vocals from Arnold McCuller, Take My Breath Away moves effortlessly from the sophisticated swing of InchHow Little We KnowInch to the luminous string quintet textures of James Taylor's InchYou and I Again,Inch Antonio Jobim's InchThis Happy MadnessInch and the reflective beauty of Irving Berlin's InchHow Deep Is the Ocean.Inch Donatelli and Keezer's collaborative approach unifies these varied musical landscapes into a recording of remarkable warmth and emotional clarity. At once adventurous, intimate and quietly triumphant, Take My Breath Away celebrates resilience, artistry and the enduring power of great songs beautifully sung.