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Deep Song, the new recording from acclaimed guitarist and composer Kurt Rosenwinkel. The album finds Rosenwinkel leading a stellar band featuring Brad Mehldau on piano and Joshua Redman on tenor saxophone. The result is Rosenwinkel's most accessible recording to date; it maintains the free-thinking innovation of modern jazz while incorporating melodies both pleasant and challenging.

The ten jam-packed pieces on Deep Song (the album is over 74 minutes long) document Rosenwinkel's stature as a composer and a band leader of the highest esteem. The former Berklee College of Music student wrote all but two of the album's works and also served as the recording's producer. He enlisted the much-admired talents of Mehldau and Redman as his core group along with Larry Grenadier on bass. Jeff Ballard and Ali Jackson alternate on drums.

Performances on Deep Song range from 'The Cross,' a rollicking jazz number propelled by some feisty improvisation courtesy of Joshua Redman, to the tender and haunting ballad 'Use of Light,' to a seductive rendition of the standard 'If I Should Lose You' by the classic Hollywood songwriting duo of Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin. Deep Song also includes two impressive, epic compositions by Rosenwinkel, 'Cake' and 'The Next Step.'

Deep Song's aptly-named title track is the poignant ballad composed by George Cory and Douglass Cross and made famous by Billie Holiday. Other Rosenwinkel compositions on the CD include 'Brooklyn Sometimes,' 'Synthetics,' and 'Gesture.' While the album features songs of a wide variety of styles, tempos, and moods, the constant is Rosenwinkel's signature guitar style, which is showcased throughout.

While Rosenwinkel's previous Verve recordings ( Enemies of Energy, The Next Step, and Heartcore) have garnered great praise from critics and fellow musicians alike, Deep Song is the one that should finally expose Rosenwinkel to a wide popular audience. The album is a beautifully and smartly-constructed work that will appeal to the most serious jazz aficionado as well as the more casual listener.

There are certain singers you feel you know from the very first song. Whether it's the intimacy of their voice or the subtle shading of their delivery, a whole personality takes shape in our imagination.

Rebekka Bakken is such a singer. With her highly acclaimed Universal Music debut 'The Art of How To Fall' in 2003, she effortlessly created her own space in a crowded music scene with an album whose lyrics resonated with meaning and whose melodies dissolved musical boundaries

On her latest album Is That You? , she goes deeper into the moods and grooves that so excited the critics and delighted the public with The Art of How To Fall. Revealing her growing maturity as a singer and her skill as songwriter and arranger with new originals, she says, 'Music has always come from a spot of joy in me. It's never been work, just pure joy, it got established in me during my teenage years and its never left me.'

TRACKLISTING
01.    Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven - Love Is Just Around the Corner
02.    The Kansas City Six - Them There Eyes
03.    Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
04.    Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores - That's a Plenty
05.   Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra - Flying Home
06.    Dick Haymes and the Song Spinners - You'll Never Know
07.    Billie Holiday - Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
08.   The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola
09.    Bing Crosby and the Jesters - McNamara's Band
10.   Louis Jordan and His Tympany 5 - Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
11.    Ella Fitzgerald - Oh, Lady, Be Good!
12.    Louis Armstrong - Blueberry Hill
13.    The Weavers - Goodnight Irene
14.    Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a Little Dream of Me
15.    Peggy Lee - Lover
16.    The Mills Brothers - The Glow-Worm
17.    Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean a Lot
18.    The Four Aces - Three Coins in the Fountain
19.    Bill Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock

Rare is the record producer whose career merits its own CD collection. Milt Gabler was the rarest of the rare: the founder of Commodore, the country's first independent jazz record company, he rose to an illustrious three-decade career as the head of artists and repertoire at Decca, one of the industry's biggest labels. From the 1930s to the 1970s, he shaped the music of pioneers in jazz (Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong), pop (Bing Crosby), folk (the Weavers), rhythm & blues (Louis Jordan), and rock & roll (Bill Haley). Comedian and actor Billy Crystal - Gabler's nephew - personally compiled this survey of one man's astounding impact on American popular music in the twentieth century. Also includes DVD featuring an interview with Billy discussing his childhood, some classic Decca and Commodore recordings that his Uncle, Milt Gabler, produced and some archival footage as well

TRACKLISTING
On the Sunny Side of the Street
My Old Flame
Fine and Mellow
Embraceable You
As Time Goes By
He's Funny That Way
I'll Get By
I Cover the Waterfront
Yesterdays
I'll Be Seeing You
Lover, Come Back To Me
Strange Fruit
God Bless the Child
Don't Explain
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)

'It is her artistry that I love, and have loved since I was a young kid,' the comedian and actor Billy Crystal writes of Billie Holiday. Not just another Billie Holiday fan, the young Crystal had the rare opportunity to observe that artistry up close - Milt Gabler, the man who produced some of Holiday's most memorable recordings, was his uncle.

At the apex of Holiday's career, Gabler was her first choice to oversee her in the studio, and she was his highest aspiration: 'I'm very proud I recorded Billie and got her at the peak of her vocal abilities. You can hear the warmth and fullness of her voice in those recordings.' These timeless tracks, personally picked by Crystal, pay tribute to that fruitful and still influential relationship.

TRACKLISTING
Bloomdido
Africana
I Know That You Know
Exactly Like You
Cool Breeze
Caravan
Medley: I Can't Get Started/'Round Midnight
Blue Moon
Bebop
I Remember Clifford
Leap Frog

A musical revolutionary of the first order, trumpeter John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie played a seminal role in developing both bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz. While perhaps best known for his virtuosic workouts with fellow bebop pioneer Charlie Parker, Gillespie was also given to sensitive ballad performances and brawny big-band romps. This CD surveys the full range of Gillespie's work from 1950 to 1963, from classic small group outings with fellow luminaries like Parker, Oscar Peterson, and Stan Getz, to selections featuring what Gillespie himself considered to be the finest big band he ever led. It serves as a companion to Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie, by Donald L. Maggin, who also provides liner notes.

Remix of the 2002 Nils Petter Movaer Album 'NP3'

TRACKLISTING
1 Axis of Ignorance
Funkstoerungs 'Mass destruction Remix'
Remix and additional production by Funkstorung
2 Hurry Slowly
Herberts moving mix
Remix and additional production by Matthew 'flights' Herbert
3 Marrow
Sofa Version
Remix and additional production by Raymond c. Pellicer
Percussion - Hamlet
Additional sounds & effects - Fredrik Moller Ellingsen
4 Axis of Ignorance
Pavel and Marsh remix
Remixed and produced by Mark de Clive-Lowe 4 Melodious Productions and Dego for 2000Black
Mixed by Somatik
5 Frozen
Side Broks Dagen derpa remix
Rap av Sjef R
Produced by Knut Saevik
6 Frozen
Translated by Bill Laswell
7 Simply So
Remixed and Produced by TeeBee
8 Little Indian
Aggie Frosts Manestrale miks
Rmx and add Programming and production by Aggle Frost Peterson
9 Little Indian
Bugges Indiana Jens mix
Remix and additional instruments by Bugge Wesseltoft
10 Simply So
So Simply mix
Remix and additional programming by Rune Arnesen
11 Little Indian
Koller Mix
Additional instruments by Martin Koller
Remixed and Produced by Martin Koller

VISIT: http://www.nilspettermolvaer.com

Nils Petter Molvær, Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer, connects stylistic extremes - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and breakbeats - and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity.

Born in 1960 in Sula ( Norway ), Nils Petter was introduced to jazz from an early age by his musician father. After playing in school bands and local clubs he left Sula in 1979 to study music at the conservatory of Trondheim, where he developed his unique style and started to gain a reputation as one of Norway 's emerging new talents.

Nils Petter has eclectic musical influences who he names as Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Billie Holiday, Brian Eno, Joni Mitchell and Bill Laswell. His interest in both acoustic and electric music shows the ease with which he handles the conventions of pop, rock and funk, alongside those of modern jazz. These unique sensibilities soon established him as a much sought after musician in Oslo .

After his intermezzo with the Norwegian jazz combo Masqualero, Nils Petter was introduced to Manfred Eicher, who integrated him into his cast of musicians and studio sessions with ECM artists such as Robyn Schulkowsky.