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A Sides For Lovers, from the new A Sides series from Jazzheads.

Prior to streaming, digital downloads, CDs and other recording formats, the in vogue format was the 45 RPM recording. The 45 (as it was called) only contained two tracks, front and back. They were called the A side and the B side.

The A side contained the song by an artist that the record company wanted to push toward radio and to the public audience. The B side was usually a ‘throwaway’ cut that the label didn’t deem relevant. So, getting an A side record from any major artist was a very big deal. Occasionally, B sides emerged, but for the most part, it was the A side that was the hit and received the most airplay and attention.

With this idea in mind, I have chosen selections from the vast collection of tracks in the Jazzheads catalogue to be included in the new A Sides series of recordings. The first release from the series is titled, A Sides For Lovers. Imagine an evening filled with amour backed by this beautiful music enhancing the romantic moments. A Sides For Lovers!

Be on the lookout for more A Sides from Jazzheads. www.jazzheads.com Be A Jazzhead!

Randy Klein

¡Que Viva Harlem! one of Downbeat's Best Albums of 2014!

Jazzheads would like to congratulate MSM and Bobby Sanabria for ¡Que Viva Harlem! being featured in the latest issue of Downbeat Magazine as one of their 50 best albums of 2014.

Click here to see the list, or click here to listen to the music!

Playing Goodbye speaks about the end of an era with the selling of the legendary Steinway Hall, the New York City home of Steinway & Sons since 1925. Steinway Artist Randy Klein, taking advantage of one of the last opportunities to perform in Steinway Hall, pays tribute to this historic landmark. This marks an important moment in the architectural and musical history of New York City.

Thank You For Your Consideration

Jazzheads would like to thank all of the Grammy voters who considered Diane Schuur (I Remember You), Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra (Que Viva Harlem), and Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra (The Symphonic Ellington) for their respective first round Grammy nominations.

Thank you for supporting our artists and their outstanding music. Be a Jazzhead!

Jazzheads is proud to announce the Grammy First Round Entry Nominations for your consideration.

Best Jazz Vocal Album I REMEMBER YOU (WITH LOVE TO STAN AND FRANK) Diane Schuur

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

THE SYMPHONIC ELLINGTON Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Justin DiCioccio

Best Latin Jazz Album QUE VIVA HARLEM Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Bobby Sanabria

Best Improvised Jazz Solo LET THERE BE SWING Patrick Bartley, soloist Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Bobby Sanabria QUE VIVA HARLEM Leo Pellegrino, soloist Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Bobby Sanabria

WATCH WHAT HAPPENTS Joel Frahm, soloist Diane Schuur – I Remember You (with love to Stan and Frank)

Best Instrumental Composition

LET THERE BE SWING Eugene ‘Gene’ Marlow, Composer Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Bobby Sanabria

QUE VIVA HARLEM Kyle Athayde, Composer Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Bobby Sanabria

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella QUE VIVA HARLEM Kyle Athayde & Bobby Sanabria, Arrangers Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Bobby Sanabria

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN Alan Broadbent, Arranger Diane Schuur – I Remember You (with love to Stan and Frank)

Grammy Voters!

Grammy Voters! Please note that Manhattan School of Music ARTISTRY IN RHYTHM CD on Jazzheads is in the first round of voting. Please consider this wonderful CD when nominating for final round.

Thank you,

Randy Klein President

Field 10 – Jazz Category 34 – Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album 032 – Artistry In Rhythm – Manhattan School Of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra

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Randy Klein - Solo Piano Improvisation #18

New York City Pianos. Times Square. Piano painted by Maxine Nienow. Condition of the piano: all notes work, naked cowboys, playing with the din. Recorded on Sing For Hope Pianos - June 2013

Randy Kein CDs are available from Jazzheads http://goo.gl/iBGli, iTunes http://goo.gl/olMBQ Amazon http://goo.gl/8J9XG

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THIS WEEK ONLY: 10/7 - 10/13 Bobby Sanabria CDs ON SALE!

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Bobby Sanabria Big Band MULTIVERSE (Grammy Award Nominee for Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement)

Bobby Sanabria - BIG BAND URBAN FOLKTALES

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Hispanic Music - Present and Future: Oct 3 Panel Discussion with Bobby Sanabria et al.

Hispanic Music - Present and Future

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6:30 pm

Location: THE NEW SCHOOL, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (Room I202), Arnhold Hall - 55 West 13th Street, NYC

The New School is proud to bring together a collection of musical luminaries who are deeply involved and committed to Latin music to discuss its current state and what kind of promises and challenges the future holds for a variety of genres within it.

As part of this one-of-a-kind discussion, we will have Grammy-nominated jazz artist and New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music faculty member Bobby Sanabria; Sandra Velasquez from the indie rock band Pistolera; bandleader/historian Aurora Flores; Claudia Norman, manager and Festival Founder + Director of Celebrate Mexico Now; and publicist Yuzzy Acosta from Eclectic Media. Composer/theorist Chris Stover of The New School will serve as moderator for the panel.

Be prepared to enrich yourself and witness a dynamic, multi-cultural roundtable discussion about the common threads and relationships between different types of Latin music, the challenges that they all face in America today and what will be the future of these styles of music.

Sponsored by the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and The New School for Public Engagement.

This event is free and open to the public, no reservations required.

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Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble with special guest, Bill Kirchner

CONCERT: Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble

LOCATION: Eastman's Kilbourn Hall, Rochester, NY

DATE: Thursday, October 17, at 8 p.m. (FREE)

Dear Friends:

Of all the varied projects I've done in my career of over forty years, the Nonet (i.e., nine players) that I led from 1980 to 2001 is the achievement of which I'm most proud. It was a working band that comprised some of NYC's finest jazz musicians, and it performed extensively in concerts, clubs, and major festivals throughout the U.S. We did four albums: two LPs (WHAT IT IS TO BE FRANK and INFANT EYES for the Sea Breeze label), a 2-CD set (TRANCE DANCE, A-Records) recorded in concert at the Smithsonian Institution, and a CD recorded at the Chicago Jazz Festival (ONE STARRY NIGHT, Jazzheads) with guest vocalist Sheila Jordan. The CDs are still available commercially. (Though if anyone is interested, I still have unopened copies of the LPs.) One of the best compliments we ever received came from the late Detroit pianist Kenn Cox, whose "Trance Dance" I arranged for the band: "...your writing and your colleagues are most impressive. The CD is full of the true essence of this Music as I know it. Adventure, working it out, making that statement at all costs and taking the audience along for the journey....not pandering to them." Next month, for the first time some of the Nonet's repertoire will be played by a collegiate ensemble. One of America's finest conservatories, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, will present an evening of this music. It will be performed by the Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble directed by Dave Rivello. I'll be the guest conductor. The music will include three of my original compositions; my arrangements of pieces by Marc Copland, Marshall Hawkins, Sergio Mendes, Mike Richmond, Joe Sample, Wayne Shorter, and Denny Zeitlin; and two reorchestrations I did of big-band works by Eastman alumni Manny Mendelson and Michael Patterson. The concert will be held in Eastman's Kilbourn Hall on Thursday, October 17, at 8 p.m. It's free and open to the public. If you live in the Rochester area or know someone who does, please come or spread the word. Best, Bill Kirchner http://www.jazzsuite.com/

Bill Kirchner's CD are available from the Jazzheads Catalog:

One Starry Night with special guest Sheila Jordan

Old Friends - Bill Kirchner & Marc Copland

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Check out this award-winning song from the first album ever released on @Jazzheads from @RandyKlein #coffee #jazz

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Review: Susie Arioli "All The Way"

Dan Singer from New York City turns the spotlight on some overlooked Singers of the past and some bright newcomers, all of which are Singer's Singers (Sept 2013).

Susie Arioli “All The Way” Jazzheads JH1192 www.susiearioli.com

Susie Arioli’s voice has just the right amount of a Billie Holiday tint to just make this unusual 13-song program run ever so smoothly. Her version of “What A Difference A Day Made” (Delettre/ Grover) sung in French is brightly supported with an upbeat trumpet solo from the remarkable Jerome Dupuis Cloutier. The swinging “Here’s To The Losers” (Wells/Segal) stands up well. Susie leaves no stone unturned in her most intimate vocals on a pair of Burke/Van Heusen standards: “Here’s That Rainy Day” and “It’s Always You”. They truly sparkle! Susie brings plenty of flavor to the finely crafted “Forgetful” (Segal/Handy). David Allyn vocally introduced this sensitive song in the 1940s. Wrapping up her set she lets it all hang out for “Time After Time” (Cahn/Styne). It’s simply terrific! Throughout the cd we are treated the most appealing guitarist Jordan Officer. Listening to them together here is truly heavenly.

Available from Jazzheads: http://goo.gl/kKbPKM

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New Release: Jordan Officer

Introducing the debut solo album from Jordan Officer.

Jordan Officer's first solo album consists of his own creations with the exception of a superb reprise of the Duke Ellington classic “Sophisticated Lady.” With this disc, titled simply Jordan Officer, he gives free rein to his virtuosity while remaining true to an approach in which the music must always play the leading role. You can also hear Jordan Officer playing guitar on vocalist Susie Arioli’s albums: All The Way, Night Lights and Christmas Dreaming (Jazzheads).

Available for Digital Download:

Jazzheads Catalog: http://goo.gl/voXnjy iTunes: http://goo.gl/D7bXBl Amazon: http://goo.gl/2ERxJt

#Jordan Officer #Jazzheads #Susie Arioli #jazz guitar #music

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JazzTimes Review: Randy Klein's Two Duos "What's Next?"

8/11/13

By Travis Rogers

Randy Klein's Two Duos: What's Next?

Klein teams up with Alex Skolnick and Boris Kozlov in a series of memorable duos

“What’s Next?” is the second album in “Randy Klein’s Two Duos” series. The first in the series was 2010’s “Sunday Morning” featuring famed trombonist Chris Washburne and tenor sax player Oleg Kireyev.

The second volume—in what one hopes will become a vast series—brings guitarist Alek Skolnick (of the jazz band Alex Skolnick Trio and thrash metal band Testament) and Boris Kozlov, the two-time Grammy-winning bassist with the Mingus Big Band.

This riveting CD begins with the track entitled “Exalted Kingdom” in an almost-Vince Guaraldi feel. The joyous jump of the united piano and guitar is punctuated by Skolnick’s treatment of the melody until Klein’s piano returns to smooth things out. Klein describes this as a song that has been too long sitting on the piano but, for the listener, it has been worth the wait.

This recording is musical alchemy from the beginning to the very end.

The piece “What’s Next?” is described in Klein’s liner notes as challenging the players to “hear time and experience the space.” Kozlov scores big on this track as he moves from punch to glide, from unison to independence. Klein’s piano is brilliant as he acts as the axis around whom Kozlov rotates.

“Casa China” has the feeling “that it should never end,” according to Klein and I could not agree more. Klein and Skolnick start out in a virtuosic frenzy that drops into sweet melody. The guitar and piano are not so much partners as they are twin strands of a jazz double-helix.

“Dear Charles Mingus” is a gorgeous duo of piano and bass. It is whimsical. It is sweet. It is quite nearly the perfect composition for piano and bass and it is the right musicians playing it.

Alek Skolnick returns for “No” and he provides such a “Wes Montgomery jazz” sound that it is easy to forget that he is a master thrash metal guitarist. The song is almost a lullaby in the simplicity and elegance displayed by Klein and Skolnick. Kozlov and Klein continue the lovely simplicity in “Lark” which is as lyrical as the title suggests. Almost a nocturne in its emotion and movement, “Lark” highlights Klein’s exquisite piano work and Kozlov is in perfect step with him.

“Where’s My Glasses?” is perfectly understandable to anyone who is forced to undertake the daily search. The piece moves logically in a near-search pattern—turning frantic—until the inevitable moment of “Oh, there they are.” The search is undertaken by Klein and Skolnick and, musically, they certainly discover what they were looking to find.

The minuet “Tea for Three” takes the hearer away in its waltzing ¾ meter. “Lilts” is the word Randy Klein uses to describe it. Indeed, it does that. It is charming and dreamy and Kozlov’s bass lines add to the imagery magnificently.

Originally a film score for a documentary film about the author Richard Wright, “Pere La Chaise” is a haunting melody that Klein has long-wanted to use in short form. Klein and Skolnick deliver impressions of questing-and-not-finding. The piece is almost heart-breaking in its composition and performance.

“Inner Voice” follows and is a meditative work full of memory and longing. It is succeeded by the equally-moving “In the Twilight Hours” with Kozlov in the preceding piece and Skolnick in the second. In fact, with “Pere La Chaise”, they form almost a suite.

However, “In the Twilight Hours” may be Klein at his most emotionally evocative with Skolnick partnering brilliantly. It has great moments of delicacy and tenderness.

“Return to Splendor” is a fine and fitting end to such an intriguing and welcome album. The tug between piano and bass is a hallmark of all the duos found on this recording.

The running together and running away between the musicians is always tight and thrilling in the album. There is no weak moment and while the CD may have answered the question “What’s Next?” regarding the first album in the series, it certainly begs the question for the succeeding ones. It is a question worth pondering and worth anticipating.

"What's Next?" is manufactured and distributed under Randy's own Jazzheads label.

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Congratulations to Jazzheads artists honored in DownBeat Magazine 61st Annual Critics Poll

Congratulations to Jazzheads artists honored in the DownBeat Magazine 61st Annual Critics Poll:

Dave Liebman - Soprano Saxophone #2, Flute #9 Bobby Sanabria - Percussion #2 Bobby Sanabria Big Band - Rising Star Big Band #2 Mark Weinstein - Rising Star Flute #8 Susie Arioli - Rising Star Female Vocalist #20

#Dave Liebman #Bobby Sanabria #Bobby Sanabria Big Band #Mark Weinstein #Susie Arioli #Jazzheads #DownBeat Critics Poll

Dion Parson & 21st Century Band at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola June 27 - 30, 2013

Dion Parson & 21st Century Band

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

June 27 - 30, 2013 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm

Reservations: 212-258-9595

"Combining Caribbean rhythms with jazz, pop, and reggae harmonies, drummer Dion Parson and his 21st Century Band create an infectiously joyous sound." - JALC

#Dion Parson & the 21st Century Band #Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola #Dion Parson #Rashawn Ross #Terell Stafford

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