"Rivers Music," the second album by the genre-crossing Douglas Detrick's AnyWhen Ensemble, follows its own course through the channels of jazz, free improvisation and contemporary chamber music, bringing them together into something engaging and unique. The New York-based composer and trumpeter Douglas Detrick finds inspiration in the movement of rivers for this extended meditation for trumpet, saxophone, bassoon, cello and drumset. Rivers Music has a broad and deep sensibility: quiet, delicate passages and forceful masses of sound all meant to amplify the mysterious whispers of the world around us.

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Through commissioned works ranging from Chris Stover's arrangement of Joni Mitchell's "Blue," to David Glenn's more traditional title track, and works by Bix Beiderbecke, Thelonius Monk and members of the group, the Free Range Saxophone Quartet present an eclectic mix of music performed in a traditional chamber music setting, offering a unique vision of a familiar medium. With Saul Cline, a highly regarded freelance saxophonist in the Northwest, and Vanessa Sielert, Todd DelGiudice and Gregory Yasinitsky, who teach saxophone at the University of Idaho, Eastern Washington University and Washington State University respectively.

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Along with soprano Lisa Ponten and pianist Kevin Johnson, acclaimed Seattle trumpeter Brian Chin explores five new works for trumpet as he introduces his Universal Language Project - a collaboration of modern composers striving to create music that can transend cultures and differences. An international soloist and advocate for new music, Brian Chin has commissioned and premiered many new works. He was a co-founder of the early music ensemble, the Seattle Trumpet Consort and he performs frequently on baroque trumpet, serves as Principal Trumpet for the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, performs for the Seattle Symphony and is on the faculty of Seattle Pacific University.

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Drawing from his own library of compositional works, mallet percussionist Tom Collier presents a deep and varied collection of works for marimba and vibraphone. He seamlessly weaves the timbres of the instruments on "Three Scenes for Vibraphone and Marimba," and "Duettino Improvisando for Vibraphone and Marimba," while "Marimba Fantastique" serves to cement both his compositional and improvisational prowess, intertwined with a deep musicality. Collier has maintained a strong professional presence for decades in Los Angeles and Seattle; from international tours, to major motion pictures, to holding the Director of ...

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"Fissures" presents saxophonist Idit Shner and harpist Yumiko Endo Schlaffer in a program of works for this unique combination of instruments that has rarely been represented in recorded form. A wide array of composers and musical expression are represented in the selections - from Rokus de Groot's bass saxophone feature "Cadenza," to Yvonne Desportes' virtuosic "Une fleur sur l’étang," and Dr. Yusef Lateef's light and transparent "Romance." Now based in Eugene, Oregon, Idit Shner is an active performer of both jazz and classical music and has commissioned and recorded new music, performed solo recitals in the US and Israel, and plays regularly with the Oregon Symphony.

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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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