Download on iTunes   Download at Amazon HALF MOON (Live in New York) Kendra Shank & Geoffrey Keezer Alone Together 6:48 (Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz) The Music is the Magic 7:33 (Abbey Lincoln) Kneel 8:38 (Jeremy Siskind) Song of Life 4:58 (Norma Winstone / Fred Hersch) Half Moon 4:44 (words: K. Shank / …

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WHAT YOU MEAN TO ME   What You Mean To Me is the first recording to feature Joel Forrester with his Trio. This ensemble format brings out new facets to his compositions, and the years they’ve spent together are evident in the performances. We’ll let Joel explain (from his notes on the record): The steady gig!! …

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IN NEW YORK IN NEW YORK is the result (happy & inevitable) of a year’s collaboration between Christina Clare and Joel Forrester. Over that span, the two developed for performance 35 of Forrester’s songs—some first penned 40 years ago; some written in the meantime and shelved, for one reason or another; others composed specifically for …

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  Furtive Sex features Joel’s quintet, The Truth, and several of his tunes never recorded before. As Joel says in his liner notes for the record: Two hundred tunes ago, I showed up at a pre-gig session with a medium swinger called “Claire’s Idea”. A month after, my long-time bari player told me: “You know, …

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Claire Daly has long been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene and her baritone saxophone has notably graced the groups of Joel Forrester.  Her 2001 recording, Movin’ On is now available on Ride Symbol.  Claire leads a quartet that includes pianist Eli Yamin, bassist Dave Hofstra, drummer Peter Grant and, on two selections, …

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