Debbie Poryes - Loving HankMeant as an homage to the great Hank Jones, the title of Bay Area pianist Debbie Poryes' latest trio recording also offers a metaphor for the significance the jazz masters, the music and the players have in her life. With longtime band mates Peter Barshay on bass and drummer David Rokeach, those feelings shine through as the trio brings warmth, humor and swing to a collection of six originals, along with arrangements of beloved standards including

but this recording marks the first time she's chosen to apply them to her own work

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the brilliant musician Adam Mital gives us another highly virtuosic composition of his own for solo cello

The score follows a pattern similar to Donizetti's other works in the opera seria genre: sentiments are expressed with a cavatina or a cabaletta and duets taken at breakneck speed contrast with grandiose concertato numbers with melody lines even catchier than in the composer's other works

and I know his material

in "Revelation of the Daleks

It brings together three Christmas oratorios from Telemann's Oratorischer Jahrgang for the church year 1730/31 and a cantata from the annual cycle Musicalisches Lob Gottes printed in score form in Nuremberg in 1744

Then Christine's high school friend Gord Disley came over with his guitar

Based on Henry James's strange ghost story

over-the-top anachronisms and a witty theme song

both longtime members of Pat Green's band

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