04 Jul

[ July 21st, 2023 release on MAMA records: Chuck Owen & WDR Big Band w. Sara Caswell – Renderings ]

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Renderings, due out July 21, 2023 via MAMA Records, features guest violinist Sara Caswell and a repertoire of jazz standards and music by Owen, WDR members, and Chick Corea

“Owen is . . . producing music of considerable finesse, rich in detail and harmonic sophistication, at turns powerfully exultant, sharp, incisive and evocatively elegiac.” – Euan Dixon, Jazz Views

“Owen is particularly gifted in creating musical vignettes that stay with the listener long after they’re played.” – Thomas Cunliffe, JazzHistory Online

02 Mar

[ March the 3rd,2023 release via Anzic Records: Sara Caswell’s The Way To You ]

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The brilliant Grammy-nominated violinist/composer Sara Caswell releases The Way To You, her first album as a leader in nearly 20 years, March 3, 2023 via Anzic Records. The band celebrates with a NYC album release concert March 5 at Birdland Theater.

“Sara Caswell is an anointed musician. From the first splash of tone pouring out of her violin, we are invited into a visceral sensation of deep-spirited passion, harnessed and polished through artistic devotion. As always, Sara’s playing soothes my spirit, and inspires my mind. I am very grateful for her most recent offering, and excited on behalf of the many listeners who will receive the sonic blessings contained therein.” – esperanza spalding

07 May

[ 15th of May release via Blue Land Records: Brian Lundrus Quartet with Strings – For Now ]

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Available May 15, 2020 via BlueLand Records

“Tonal nuance, melodic sense and instrumental command that set him apart from his peers.” – Ed Enright, DownBeat

For Now has a lot to say about romance, and it says it with quiet conviction and passionate declaration. Ace multi-reedist and composer Brian Landrus whose groundbreaking 2017 large-ensemble album Generations “takes the jazz big band tradition into the mesosphere” (Giovanni Russonello, New York Times), turns here to inner pathways, bringing together a remarkable quartet: pianist Fred Hersch bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart. Rounding out the musical equation are the brilliant young players Michael Rodriguez (trumpet) and Sara Caswell (violin), plus inventive and elegant string quartet arrangements by Landrus and the distinguished opera composer Robert Aldridge featuring Caswell and Joyce Hamman (violin), Lois Martin (viola) and Jody Redhage-Ferber (cello). The album is produced by Aldridge and composer/writer Herschel Garfein, both Grammy winners.