(New Amsterdam Records) This debut album by composer and classical guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee — a doctoral student in composition at Princeton — features two large scale solo works for guitar that he recorded in the vestibule outside of Procter Hall in the...
(New Amsterdam Records) Graduate student Judd Greenstein composed two songs — “Escape” and “The Night Gatherers” — on this debut recording for violist Nadia Sirota, an “indie-classical” musician in New York. Greenstein is a New York-based composer,...
(Levels and Lines and Blink Music) This 11-song debut album by singer-songwriter and pianist Aaron Jackson ’02 features all original compositions in a pop-rock style with hints of jazz and world music. The album will be released in stages. Currently it is...
This debut album by the all-girl camp country trio — Emily Moore ’99, Jessica Del Vecchio ’99, and Rachel Levy — features three-part harmonies and acoustic guitars. The Brooklyn-based indie band, Ménage à Twang, sings about the challenges women face...
(Origin Records). Composer ANTHONY BRANKER ’80 leads the jazz collective Ascent on the group’s second album. The music brings together the sensibilities of Brazilian, Cuban, and African musical traditions along with a variety of jazz influences and the sounds...
(PS Classics)
The album for the concert-musical-theater project created by GrooveLily’s VALERIE VIGODA ’87 (vocals and electric violin), Brendan Milburn (vocals and keyboard), and GENE LEWIN ’84 (drums and vocals) features the trio playing various roles in...
(Grigri)
CHERYL TERWILLIGER ’92 plays trumpet in the D.C.-based Chopteeth, a 14-piece Afrofunk orchestra that explores the “common groove” between West African and American popular music. The sound is Afrobeat: a big-band funk invented by Fela Kuti in...
