I’ve Had a Love (S/R): Singer, actor, artist, and editor of Cabaret Scenes magazine, Frank Dain performs a 16-track collection of music from th
e Great American Songbook, including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Comden and Green, George and Ira Gershwin and Johnny Burke, to name a few iconic songwriters. Music director-pianist-arranger Kathleen Landis leads a band of some of NYC’s finest musicians.
Painting the Town (Human Child): After four solo CDs each and midway through their 20th anniversary year, singer-pianist Eric Comstock a
nd vocalist Barbara Fasano have released their first joint album. The married musical couple have painted a portrait of their love for one another, the music, and their “brilliant, resilient helluva town.” Joining them are their frequent collaborators Sean Smith (bass) and Vito Lesczak (drums), plus their special guest, legendary tenor saxophonist Houston Person.
Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club 44): Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn devotee, Anais Reno, came across a title she’d never heard of, “Lady of the Lavender Mist, “ was intrigued and realizing the tune didn’t have lyrics, wrote some. A few months into writing, 
Reno started assembling an album of standards with “Lady of the Lavender Mist” its centerpiece. She opens with “Les Feuilles Mortes/The Autumn Leaves,” singing it half in French. Other tunes include “When Lights Are Low,” “Gravy Waltz,” “Take Love Easy” and more.
Karen Mason And All That Jazz! (Jazzheads/Zevely/King Kozmo): For this personal collection, Mason explores the songbook of John Kander and 
Fred Ebb, the Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning team behind the Broadway musicals Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; and beyond. Mason is accompanied on solo piano by her longtime music director, Christopher Denny. Songs include “All That Jazz,” “Maybe This Time” and “A Quiet Thing,” Love and Love Alone”, “Go Back Home” and “My Coloring Book,” a rare entry in the Kander & Ebb oeuvre not taken from the musical theater, but a stand-alone hit.
What It Means (Cellar Music Group): Trumpeter-vocalist Bria Skonberg’s performs a love letter to the music and 
tradition of New Orleans. The album’s title is a truncated version of one of the most famous standards about the Crescent City: “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” By evoking this standard, Skonberg aligns the album with the history and tradition of that great musical city. What It Means features standards such as “Petite Fleur,” “Comes Love” and “The Beat Goes On, plus Skonberg originals.
No Wonder ((Jewel City Jazz/A Train): Over her 20-year career, Judy Wexler 
has earned the reputa4on as one of the most compelling West Coast jazz vocalists, often performing songs that are off-the-beaten path. This 7th album covers many of the finest songs from the Great American Songbook (a new venture for Wexler) and includes arrangements by her longtime music director-pianist Jeff Colella. She opens the album with the title track, “No Wonder,” one of the two outliers on the album, written and arranged by vocalist and songwriter Luciana Souza. Other tunes include “Never Will I Marry,,” “Wish You Were Here” and others.
My Ideal (Dot Time): GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell and rising star pianist Sean Mason’s new album features a rare and intimate collection of voice-and-piano duets, 
creating a dialogue that spans the vast landscape of jazz, blues and American popular music. Russell’s powerful interpretation of classics and Mason’s nuanced mastery of the piano bring a fresh yet timeless sound to every track—from playful renditions of Fats Waller to heartfelt tributes to Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.
Song: Duets for Voice and Piano (Southport): Married couple Joanie 
Pattlatto (voice-composer) and Bradley Parker-Sparrow (piano-composer) present twelve tracks of original music and lyrics that create a mood of intimacy, improvisation and reflection. Their personal songs of harmonizing energy are presented as the first duet recording released from Chicago’s renowned couple, featuring gentle songs, swinging grooves, scat singing and expansive piano solos.
Colors of My Life: A Cy Coleman Songbook (Club 44): Following The Manhattan Transfer’s final concert in Los Angeles, singer Janis Siegel and pianist Yaron Gershovsky 
discovered that both had worked with the songwriter Cy Coleman—Gershovsky as the vocal arranger for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical City of Angels, Siegel as part of the all-star vocal ensemble for Coleman’s final collaboration with lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman at the Kennedy Center. The Colors of My Life features the duo’s interpretations of ten favorite Coleman compositions, with an elite roster of musicians including bassists David Finck and Boris Kozlov, drummer Cliff Almond, guest vocalist Aubrey Johnson, and The Crosby Street String Quartet.
Jazz Is My Lifestyle (Jazz Art): Multi-partite, multi-instrumentalist 
Gunhild Carling performs 11 of her originals with her 13-horn big band, the Prague Strings Chamber Orchestra, and such guests as trumpeter Scotty Barnhart, trombonist Idun Carling (her daughter), clarinetists Nathan Tokunaga and Chloe Feoranzo, drummer Viggo Blom. (her son) and banjoist Johan Blom. (her husband). The program begins with the joyful “Jazz Is My Lifestyle,” which utilizes the chord changes of “When The Saints Go Marching In,” and enthusiastically goes from hints of Dixieland to swing.
Secret Lovers (S/R): The project: album, ten videos and songbook from singer-songwriters Anya Turner and Robert Grusecki comprise a box set. The group of ten new songs are inspired by their own life experience and by poet Emily Dickenson, novelist Virginia Woolf, essayist Joan Didion and painter Mary Cassatt, as well as New Zealand-born street artist Deborah Wood, blues singer Gladys Bentley, transgender jazz pianist Billy Tipton and British jazz singer-pianist Liane Carroll.
