World Music

Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet Nicolas Enrich, bandoneon Abel Rogantini, piano Pablo Aslan, bass Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla, drums In 1959, Astor Piazzolla, then living in New York City, assembled a quintet of studio musicians and recorded Take Me Dancing. It was to be the birth of jazz [...]

On the Road of Life,  the collaboration between pianist and composer Roger Davidson and trumpeter, composer and bandleader Frank London, comprises 12 original Davidson compositions inspired on the Klezmer tradition. Klezmer, originally an instrumental music tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, is mostly [...]

Marco Granados is known for playing some of the most challenging music ever written for the flute, and much of it comes from his native Venezuela. Its wealth of local rhythms – some of them head-spinningly complex caught his fancy, and he’s devoted years to [...]

Sweet Guitar shines an overdue spotlight on an artist who has spent most of his career enhancing the work of others. Maybe you heard him playing throughout Elliot Goldenthal’s Oscar-winning soundtrack for Frida, or accompanying Placido Domingo in a recording of Die Fledermaus made in [...]

A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE is a collection of 21 songs by Klezmer giant Frank London with lyrics by Glen Berger. Performed by an array of stars including Manu Narayan, Lorin Sklamberg, They Might be Giants, Susan McKeown, and Craig Weddron, this extraordinary score [...]

With its dreamy melodicism and throbbing percussion,the bolero may be the most romantic of all South American dances. Roger Davidson, the versatile, feverishly prolific composer-pianist, has assembled some of the most outstanding Latin music recording artists to make this album inspired by his love of [...]

Recorded live at the First Festival of Universal Sacred Music, NYC October 2005 Raga Kalyan, an evening raga, conveys calmness of mind and self-realization, and is played in four parts: Alaap – Playing of the Raga without the accompaniment of the table. Slow Gat – [...]

Sacred songs of universal love and devotion for male vocals, harmonium, and small instrumental/vocal ensemble, based on the writings of 14th century Indian poet Kabir and featuring well-known vocalist Deepak Kumar Pareek.Four poems by the great poet Kabir are sung with great range, subtlety, and [...]

“The Thread of Life was presented as part of the second Festival of Universal Sacred Music in November 2006. In mid 2006 I had finished a commission for the Festival and the option of a separate concert for the upcoming festival was discussed with the [...]