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Sarah Jane Cion

Sarah Jane Cion is a 1st Place Winner of the internationally acclaimed 17th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition. The judges were Horace Silver, Kenny Barron, Ellis Marsalis, Benny Green and Bill Charlap. Ms. Cion’s trio has performed in Japan at the prestigious Fukuoka Blue Note and Sarah appeared on the Nationally syndicated NPR radio show “Piano Jazz“ with Marian McPartland. Most recently, her songs “Cat in the Hat” and “Golden Song” were featured respectively in Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Mule in 2018 and Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Golden Song in Thor: The Dark World. 

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News: Book / Magazine

Sarah Jane Cion Releases Jazz Memoir 'The Now Era'

Sarah Jane Cion Releases Jazz Memoir 'The Now Era'

Jazz pianist, composer, and educator Sarah Jane Cion—known for her award-winning artistry and her acclaimed appearances on NPR’s Piano Jazz—announces the release of her debut memoir, The Now Era: Improvisations on Presence, Rhythm, and the Art of Being Human. The book offers an intimate, often humorous look at life in and around music, while exploring presence, ...

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Article: Album Review

Livia Devereux: Night Winds Whisper

Read "Night Winds Whisper" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


New York City vocalist Livia Devereux sings con brio. She packs a passel of this con brio into a brief set of eight songs with a total time less than 30 minutes. However, brevity is the soul of wit, and Devereux has no trouble rendering her music to the bare bone. The title, Night Winds Whisper, ...

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Article: Album Review

Livia Devereux: Night Winds Whisper

Read "Night Winds Whisper" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Night Winds Whisper--clocking in at a mere twenty-five minutes--seems like more of a teaser than a full blown album, but vocalist Livia Devereux still manages to put her own stamp on some classics during this record's brief life span. One of the most intriguing aspects of Devereux's delivery is the way that she manages to infuse ...

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Summer Night

Label: Naxos
Released: 2001
Track listing: Never Never Land, Part B. Pure Imagination; Walking On the Moon; Summer Night; Gabrielle; Stage One; Prisoner Of War; Safflower; Solo Piano Medley.

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Article: Album Review

Sarah Jane Cion: Summer Night

Read "Summer Night" reviewed by Greg Henry Waters


It takes a lifetime to become a real artist. Mozart, with all his talent, didn't write any mature music until he was twenty-five years old. What a task to take on and Sarah Jane Cion has done just that, with all the pain and non-glory that goes with being an artist. Cion is a pianist who ...

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Article: Album Review

Sarah Jane Cion: Summer Night

Read "Summer Night" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Ms. Cion's follow up to Moon Song will not disappoint; she is a major dynamo in a quiet and lyrical sort of way. Sarah Jane Cion, the jazz pianist-composer, has a beautiful consistency about her. For her follow up to last year's well-received Moon Song, she has chosen another nocturnal title, Summer Night. Her compositions on ...

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Article: Album Review

Sarah Jane Cion: Summer Night

Read "Summer Night" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Ms. Cion's follow up to Moon Song will not disappoint; she is a major dynamo in a quiet and lyrical sort of way. Sarah Jane Cion, the jazz pianist-composer, has a beautiful consistency about her. For her follow up to last year's well-received Moon Song, she has chosen another nocturnal title, Summer Night. Her compositions on ...

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Moon Song

Label: Naxos Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: A Pond Beneath The Moon; Last Cha Cha At Longbeach; Moon Song; Samba Picara; Waltz For Fall; Blues For Chick; Suncycle; How Long Has This Been Going On; Solo Piano Medley: I'll Keep Loving You; Ballad Of The Sad Young Men; What If.

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Article: Album Review

Sarah Jane Cion: Moon Song

Read "Moon Song" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A New Face on Jazz. Sarah Jane Cion, the conservatory-trained (the New England Conservatory) phenomenon, was awarded First Place in the 1999 Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville Florida. From there she found her way into the arms of Naxos Jazz, which has now has produced her first recording as a leader, Moon Song. She ...


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