Sharing this message I received today from Michael Arnowitt:
"Friends,
Very excited to report that after about a year and a half of work, my new jazz recording Sweet Spontaneous is being released this Friday on Parma Recordings' Big Round record label. Please join me if you can at the launch event:
Friday, July 13
5 to 8 pm
North Branch Café
41 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont
This is an informal, free to the public meet and greet event with:
- hear the new recording
- I'm making a trip to Vermont to be there, chat with people, autograph CDs
- Enjoy some live music with me, Dan Silverman on trombone, and Rob Morse on bass as we play some trio versions of excerpts from the recording
- there will be available (for 20 dollars) copies of Sweet Spontaneous on CD, or a T-shirt of the recording's cover art, a painting by Maggie Neale.
Sweet Spontaneous is a 2 CD set featuring 14 of my original jazz compositions played by an outstanding cast of over a dozen top New York City jazz musicians. Each song on the recording has a different instrumentation, with 5 to 9 instruments per song chosen to best evoke the particular colors of each individual tune.
Altogether, the recording's performers are Colin Stranahan, drums; Rick Rosato, bass; Yosvany Terry, alto sax; Lucas Pino, tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet; Dave Smith and Tatum Greenblatt, trumpets and flugelhorns; Dan Silverman, Matt Haviland, and Nick Grinder, trombones; Shirley Crabbe, vocals; Therisa Rogers, spoken word; Al Roman, violin; and Randall Wolfgang, oboe.
Sweet Spontaneous will be available at record stores worldwide through Parma's distributor Naxos, as well as through your favorite online retailers in either CD or digital downloads or streaming. Locally here in Vermont, I know the CD will be stocked at Buch Spieler Records on Langdon Street in Montpelier.
More about Sweet Spontaneous, including ordering info:
http://bigroundrecords.com/catalog/br8952/
A few other public gigs I have during my visit to Vermont:
Saturday, July 14, 8:30 to 10:30 pm at the Marriott Hotel in Burlington, jazz trio with Steve Blair guitar and Rob morse, bass
Wednesday, July 18, 6:30 to 9 pm at Juniors in Stowe, jazz and more with vocalist John Wilson
I am very pleased with this new CD which was recorded at the historic Sear Sound studio in Manhattan, New York City with some of the nation's top jazz engineers and a fantastic Steinway 9' concert grand piano. I'd be most grateful for anything you can do to help me share this music and get it out into the world. (For example, if you have favorite record stores anywhere in the world, or know of radio stations or media people that I could try to interest in my music.)
Any of you who are on Facebook or Twitter, I'd be happy for us to follow each other:
Facebook music professional page: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelArnowittPiano
Facebook personal page: https://www.facebook.com/michael.arnowitt
Twitter music professional page: https://twitter.com/piano_ma
Twitter personal page: https://twitter.com/foodsong
Follow me/send me friend requests on any or all of these and I'll be happy to reciprocate. I try to post interesting thoughts about music I've heard or am currently practicing on the piano.
All the best,
Michael Arnowitt"