In a program of newly commissioned works for trumpet and piano, trumpeter John Adler explores modern classical pieces from the pens of composers most often associated with the jazz world. Dr. James Miley, Dan Cavanaugh, and Steve Owen all contribute pieces to this unique album, full of advanced rhythmic and harmonic language, and often involving improvisational elements. The result is an intriguing package of seven new compositions that could invoke comparisons to the 20th Century works of Hindemith, Kennan, and Eric Ewazen. Dr. John Adler was one of three Americans invited to compete in the prestigious Maurice Andre Trumpet Competition, in Paris, 2006. He was voted "Best Classical Instrumentalist" in Downbeat Magazine, and has been a soloist with orchestras and chamber groups across the U.S.

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Jim Gailloreto's Jazz String Quintet offers a perfect blend of classical music and jazz: structure and spontaneity. Inspired by sources as diverse as the horn quintets of Mozart and Corky Siegel's "Chamber Blues," Gailloreto interweaves his own soprano saxophone with skilled modernist writing for string quartet. Through a grant from Chamber Music America's New Works Program, Gailloreto presents here his new suite "American Complex" along with a collection of jazz standards arranged for the quintet, and two works by and featuring vocalist/pianist Patricia Barber. "...the intricacy, detail and innovation of Gailloreto's writing evoked the sense of a chamber orchestra." -Chicago Tribune.

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Recorded live inside an abandoned cistern on the grounds of Fort Warden in Port Townsend, WA, composer, director, and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Barry uses the cistern's otherworldly acoustic properties to propel his music beyond our normal perceptions of time and space. All four instrumental families (brass, woodwind, string, and percussion) are represented along with the human voice, providing a colorful spectrum of soundscapes that aspire to transport the listener to faraway realms.

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"And I Remain" shows the joys and sorrows of love expressed in the three great art song traditions of the seventeenth century. This debut album from soprano, Linda Tsatsanis and lutenist, John Lenti gives a prismatic portrait of the chambers of the human heart. Elegant French court airs de cour, charming Elizabethan songs and passionate Italian monody tell the eternal story of love and loss. Canadian-born soprano Linda Tsatsanis enjoys an active and diverse career. Hailed"ravishing" (New York Times) for her performance at the Boston Early Music Festival and blessed with "crystalline purity" (Seattle Times),
Ms. Tsatsanis divides her time between early opera and concert performance.

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Through her research of women composers, clarinetist Florie Rothenberg has amassed a thorough collection of contemporary works, forming the basis for her new recording, Voices of Trees. Along with the commissioned title piece by her musical accompanist, pianist Rachel Matthews, Rothenberg includes compositions by Joan Tower, Libby Larsen, and Priaulx Rainier. Noting the powerful and clear voice of each composer through these works, Rothenberg hopes to help move these pieces further into the clarinet repertoire.

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Well known throughout his native Germany and in his adopted home of Los Angeles as a consummate composer & arranger for film, orchestras, and his Grammy-nominated Big Band, Chris Walden debuts his first Symphony, an exploration of the primal earth, fire, wind and water concepts, conducting the Hollywood Studio Symphony. Besides his recent Grammy nominations, Walden was honored last year by the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers, and lauded for his ground-breaking Kurt Marti Suite (Origin 82482) for Big Band and 100-member St. John’s choir from Hamburg, Germany.

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With a uniquely beautiful ensemble sound, and a high degree of historic integrity, the Seattle Trumpet Consort's debut recording explores works composed for the natural trumpet after the Baroque period, an era that has gone largely unexamined with these instruments. The consort performs works by Wagner, W.A. Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, Dvorak, and Britten with furthering the lineage with a newly-commissioned work from Boston-area composer Marti Epstein

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