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"Swingin' for the Ride"
"Dangerous Mood"
"A Dear in the Headlights"
"Triptych"
"Janice Friedman Quartet featuring Claudio Roditi"
"Court Jester"
"Milt Hinton- The Bassment Tapes"
"Women's Work"
"Swinging Ladies- Take Two"
"Christmas Card"
"Elaine St. George- That Old Fashioned Love"
"Stan Edwards- Play Me Hearts and Flowers"
"Mark Buselli- Through the Eyes of a Child"
"Mark Biles- Club Car Memoir"
"Stephanie Clark"
"Diva- Something's Coming"
"John Lee Krasnow -Ululation"
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This is my newest CD and, by golly,
I do believe it's really a good one.
It was recorded with my acoustic trio at a super happy time in my life. That
feeling comes across in the music and, from what people tell me, it's
catchy. I wanted something that would create a nice
not-in-your-ambience, but also would keep you happy and interested if you
felt like listening deeply. I decided to let it all hang out on this one- singing as well
as playing on everything. Yes, everything, and, by golly at the same time
too. I wrote almost half of the tunes on the CD, both
music and lyric, and grabbed the other tunes from those that we all know and
are "favorites of the people." Happiness guaranteed. You could buy this CD or any
tune on it at
I'm the pianist/keyboardist and arranger on this CD that
accompanies a most wonderful vocalist and entertainer named Suede. The
tunes are eclectic in terms of the groove and the band size ranges from a
small group to a 14 piece band. So, each tune takes you on it's own
journey. This one took a whole lot of time and energy to put together.
It was just released this year and I'm happy to say, we're all very, very proud of
our new "baby." You
can purchase it at 
This rather unlikely CD for me to have arranged and played
on was put together for a nutty and unique vocalist name Royal Jones in 2007.
The tunes tend toward retro funky jazz with a bit of R and B (back ground
singers and everything). Nice for dancing and working out to, I'd say.
It's mostly originals- many of which were collaborations between the
vocalist and myself. Also available at
This is one of my CD's from about 1985. It's an
acoustic piano trio CD. The tunes are standards, Brazilian tunes and
jazz tunes with an original or two thrown in. I did it with three of
my favorite trios. This CD has some of my most favorite piano trio
tunes on it, "Baby Won't You Please Come Home." There may be
one copy left of this CD. Maybe. Try
Although this CD from the JazzMania label 1993 is not
really available anymore, unfortunately, but it was one to be proud of.
After all it featured the fantastic trumpeter, Claudio Roditi, with my trio
including, Tom Rainey on drums and John Goldsby on bass. If you find
copies of this CD, let me know!
What an incredible sextet this was lead by world renowned
trumpeter, Greg Gisbert, with Tim Ries on tenor, Jon Gordon on alto, Conrad
Herwig on bone, Greg Hutchinson on drums and Jay Anderson on bass. Not
bad I'd say. I'm happy to say that Greg used a couple of my tunes on
this CrissCross 1996 release. This CD can be purchased at the
I was really happy to be a part of Milt Hinton history on
this CD on the Charoscuro Record label. The CD has lots of different
and wonderful groups recorded in the the year 1989. I join Milt and am
featured with the amazing trumpeter, Warren Vache' with whom I had done many
tours and gigs with in the past. Can be purchased at
This CD was recorded live at Sweet Rhythm in 2007 with
vocalist Judi Silvano at the helm. It features all women in the band,
including the great Allison Miller on drums and Jennifer Vincent on bass.
In addition to all the players being female, all of the tunes are by women
composers as well (including one of my own). It's got a good vibe.
Can be purchased at 
This energetic all female quintet was recorded in 1996 in
Germany by Inak Records. We had a ball with this band lead by bassist
Lindy Huppertsburg and featuring the great trumpeter Stacy Rowles. The
listeners could not believe it was all women. They were looking under
our chairs for tape recorders. Wish I was kidding! 
This CD of Christmas tunes I arranged for opera singer
Janet Villas. We accompanied her with mostly piano trio and a bit of
sax and flute thrown in.
Elaine put together a show entitled "The Girl That I
Marry" and recorded these tunes live with myself and Adam Armstrong on bass
at the Playwrights Horizons play house of New York City in June of 2004.
It is a short play disc.
This one really goes back a ways. It was arranged
and played on by guitarist Dom Minasi. Stan has a Frank Sinatraish way
about him.
Mark is a beautiful trumpeter from Indiana, the state of
my schooling at IU. This quintet part of the CD was recorded in NYC in
1997. There's a duo section that features Mark with my most important
mentor, pianist, Claude Sifferlen from the early 80's. How cool is that to
share a CD with such an important person to me? You can pick this up at
This CD was recorded in 2000. The tunes and
arrangements are all Mark's. A nice recording, I'd say.
In 2002, I helped produce this shorter play CD and of
course played on it as well. Stephanie has the kind of voice quality
that you just can't not like.
Ir was
an experience no doubt.
This
LP, done in 1987, is the first professional recording I was ever on. The
band is a quintet playing all original tunes by John Lee Krasnow. It features some great players- Jerry Vejmola on tenor, Valery
Ponomorov on trumpet, Jeff Hitman on alto and, of course, John Lee Krasnow on
the bari. For many weeks we had a party at my apartment to practice
for this LP. None of us, except Jack, knew that this was to be his
legacy. He died three years after it came out. I still have
people calling me about this CD.