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News: Recording

Recent Listening: Jessica Williams

September 13, 2009

Jessica Williams, The Art Of The Piano (Origin). Williams' 2800-word liner essay declares renewed and deepened love for the piano and rededicated independence from the strictures and orthodoxies of the music establishment. She cites an internet video clip of Glenn Gould playing Bach as “...a life-altering event" that took her back to “...a music founded on ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tonight - Saxophonist/Composer Sarah Manning's Shatter the Glass at Cornelia Street Cafe

September 9, 2009

Double Bill With Saxophonist Sean Nowell Tonight, September 9th, at 8:30PM, Sarah Manning's Shatter the Glass debuts at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan’s West Village. Catching fire on the West Coast, alto saxophonist Sarah Manning was recently reborn from the ashes onto the New York scene. With bassist Linda Oh, pianist Art Hirahara and drummer ...

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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 31, 2009

September 8, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 266 248 +18 0 60 1 6 2 2 3 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 207 209 -2 2 53 2 12 3 28 36 Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) 185 92 +93 2 ...

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News: Music Industry

Saxophonist and Composer Sarah Manning Signed to Posi-Tone Records

August 31, 2009

New York City based alto saxophonist and composer Sarah Manning has signed on to Posi-Tone Records and will be recording a new album this fall, with an anticipated release of Spring or Summer of 2010. The Posi-Tone release will be Manning’s third album as a leader, and the first to feature her regular quartet, Shatter the ...

Song of the Day

Prophets

August 20, 2009

Album: The Art of the Piano
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 7:07

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 10, 2009

August 18, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 4 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 261 290 -29 12 63 1 3 2 3 1 Joe Locke & David Hazeltine Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine) 206 195 +11 1 53 1 8 3 2 5 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind ...

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Article: Album Review

Jessica Williams: Art of the Piano

Read "Art of the Piano" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 15, 2009

Pianist Jessica Williams' third Origin Records CD, The Art of the Piano, brings to mind Brad Mehldau's Art of the Trio series that ran through five discs. In Mehldau's case the recordings were, of course, with his trio, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy (later, Jeff Ballard). Williams' three sets on Origin are all ...

Album

Tatum's Ultimatum

By Jessica Williams

Label: Blue & Red Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Gone with the Wind; Can't Get Started; Petite Fleur; I Never Knew; Embraceable You; Begin the Beguine; Ballad for Art Tatum; Squeeze Me; Easy Livin'; Drivin' Me Crazy; Ain't She Sweet.

Album

Blood Music

By Jessica Williams

Label: Red and Blue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Nyaho; Signals; Iraq 43; Invention for Elaine; Iraq 41; Fire in the Blood; Silent Run; Escape From New York; Funeral March; Snake Charmer.

Album

Deep Monk

By Jessica Williams

Label: Red and Blue Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Misterioso; April in Paris; Easy Street; Ugly Beauty; Crepuscule With Nellie; Monk's Mood; I Should Care; Ghost of a Chance; Blues Five Spot.