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Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns
Label: Tilapia Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah); Hyfrydol (Love Divine, All Loves Excelling); There is a Balm in Gilead; Lasst uns Erfreuen (All Creatures of Our God and King); Nicaea (Holy, Holy, Holy); Woodworth (Just As I Am); St. Elizabeth (Fairest Lord Jesus); Kings of Orient (We Three Kings); Beach Spring; Foundation (How Firm a Foundation); Hymn to Joy (Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee); Lord, I Want to Be a Christian; Holy Manna; Abbot’s Leigh; St. Elizabeth (Fairest Lord Jesus).
Kings of Orient (We Three Kings)
Album: Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns
By Deanna Witkowski
Label: Tilapia Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 03:45
Deanna Witkowski: Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns
by Dan Bilawsky
The improvisatory phrase and the song of praise don't stem from the same place, but who's to say they can't break bread together? With Makes The Heart To Sing: Jazz Hymns, pianist Deanna Witkowski erases lines between the strict-toned sacred and malleable secular, creating music that manages to be tradition-minded and open-minded all at once.
Pianist Deanna Witkowski Presents Trio Arrangements Of 14 Hymns On "Makes The Heart To Sing: Jazz Hymns," Set For November 3 Release
Grace, serenity, and rhapsody are on abundant display throughout the 14 songs pianist Deanna Witkowski performs with her trio on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns, set for release November 3 on Tilapia Records. One would expect this to be the case, given that the source material is not the Great American Songbook, but the ...
Jazz Vocalist Dolores Scozzesi Debuts At New York's Metropolitan Room, Sunday, March 19th
Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist Dolores Scozzesi finally brings her unique brand of storytelling to New York City in her debut performance at The Metropolitan Room on Sunday, March 19th with one show at 7:00pm. Accompanying Ms. Scozzesi are Deanna Witkowski (piano), Daniel Foose (bass) and Alexander Kautz (drums). Tickets can be purchased here. Scozzesi was lauded ...
Sophisticated Ladies: Piano Gems of the Past Year
Claire Ritter, Deanna Witkowski and Janice Friedman are not household names on the piano jazz circuit. But like the best ingredients, their taste and intrigue far outshines their notoriety. In late 2014 and 2015, each released a recording worthy of “top ten" status as well as repeated listening. Once a student of Mary Lou Williams and ...
Deanna Witkowski: Raindrop: Improvisations with Chopin
by Hrayr Attarian
Pianist Deanna Witkowski is a truly versatile artist and consummate musician. Her superb forays into sacred music in a jazz framework, for instance, are captivating in their free flowing spirituality and her subtly adventurous category defying explorations thrill in their spontaneity and their imagination. On her fifth release, the intimate Raindrop she goes solo ...
Notable and Nearly Missed 2014
by C. Michael Bailey
As I have grown older, I have come to the startling and disheartening realization that I will not be able to read all the books there are, and, more importantly, listen to all the music there is (much less write about it). I otherwise appreciate a finite lifespan, but not when it comes to books and ...
Raindrop: Improvisations with Chopin
Label: Tilapia Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2; Walking the Labyrinth; Prelude in E Minor,
Op. 28,
No. 4 / Insensatez;. Prelude in E-Flat Minor, Op. 28, No. 14;. Nocturne in E Minor,
Op. 72,
No. 1 / Manhã De Carnaval; Finding Joy; Nocturne in B Major, Op. 9, No. 3; A Single
Thought; Etude in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10, No. 6 / You and the Night and the Music;
Light
That Shimmers; Following Intuition; Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 / Olha Maria;
Prelude in D-Flat Major ("Raindrop"), Op. 28, No. 15; In Parting.
