RACHAEL & VILRAY " I LOVE A LOVE SONG "

Combinando la singolare voce di Rachael Price con l'abilità di Vilray per la scrittura di canzoni, I Love a Love Song! mette in mostra l'evoluzione di Rachael e Vilray, spingendoli a un nuovo livello mentre saltano avanti nella visione e nella guida. Il duo ha profondamente assorbito il lavoro dai loro predecessori jazz, prendendo il meglio del passato e creando qualcosa di nuovo. Registrato alla United Recording a Los Angeles, CA, l'album di dodici tracce è stato prodotto, ingegnerizzato e mixato da Dan Knobler (Judy Collins , Allison Russell) e include arrangiamenti di Jacob Zimmerman. Tutte le canzoni sono state scritte da Vilray ad eccezione del classico degli anni '30 "Goodnight My Love", che è stato scritto da Mack Gordon e Harry Revel. di musica. Vilray formò un paio di band con i futuri compagni di band di Price nei Lake Street Dive—Price ricorda che aveva una mente agile e un'arguzia quando si trattava di testi. È stato più di un decennio dopo che Price e Vilray hanno iniziato a collaborare. RACHAEL VILRAY

MINGS AND CRAIG "DAY BY DAY"

Mings and Craig is a jazz guitar duo consisting of Jim Mings and Monty Craig. They are based in South Carolina and have self-released their first CD Day By Day. The album includes classics such as “Day By Day,” “Till There Was You,” “Nature Boy,” “Emily,” “I Thought About You,” “’Round Midnight,” and others. This project is the culmination of 28 years of musical and personal friendship. The album unfolds as a thoughtful musical conversation between two people who deeply listen to each other and share mutual respect.Jim and Monty’s unique gift is to create beautiful melodic music that speaks directly to the heart. Their style is peaceful, uncluttered, straight-ahead, and swinging! In Day by Day, they chose songs that tell stories. These songs appeal to all people, no matter what type of music they like. Because Monty and Jim are grounded in their shared goal of taking the listeners to happy destinations, there is plenty of room for joyful exploration and improvisation during the journey. MINGS AND CRAIG 
 

BRIAN LYNCH AND EMMET COHEN "QUESTIONED ANSWER"

This intergenerational collaboration between Grammy© Award winning trumpeter Brian Lynch and new piano star on the modern jazz horizon Emmet Cohen combines new school excitement and exuberant swing. In the quartet setting, joined by legendary drummer Billy Hart and master bassist Boris Kozlov, Lynch and Cohen present a program of their own searching and often epic original music, bridging traditional and contemporary sounds with virtuosity, passion and swinging aplomb. And as a duo, they essay and recast jazz classics and standards (both classic and contemporary) with warmth, intelligence and lack of cliche, often journeying into uncharted territory only bound by their searching imagination and desire to swing. The musical lock between Lynch and Cohen has roots that go beyond the work they've put in towards crafting a distinctive sound in both quartet and duo formats. Their common ground in committing to grounded, yet contemporary and uncliched playing and composing, coupled with the mixture of Lynch's magisterial command and Cohen's poised beyond his years musicality, has resulted in a original and compelling new group sound tailored for today's listener. BRIAN LYNCH AND EMMET COHEN