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NEW RELEASES:

Vince Norman / Joe McCarthy Big Band
Bright Future
(OA2 22060)
Gail Pettis
Here in the Moment
(OA2 22059)
Tom Tallitsch
Perspective
(OA2 22058)
Josh Moshier & Mike Lebrun
Joy Not Jaded
(OA2 22057)
Jeff Baker
Of Things Not Seen
(OA2 22056)
AJ Kluth Quintet
Twice Now
(OA2 22055)
Ben Neuman
Introductions
(OA2 22054)
Fred Forney
Chasing Horizons
(OA2 22053)

FEBRUARY Releases

Liam Sillery Phenomenology
George Cotsirilos Trio Past Present

MARCH Releases

Debbie Poryes Catch Your Breath
Nelda Swiggett
This Time

APRIL Releases

Carrie Wicks I'll Get Around to It
Andrew Oliver Sextet 82% Chance of Rain
Michael Zilber Billy Collins Project

OA2 RECORDS NEWS

Origin Records at MIDEM 2010 - Cannes, France

The Origin Team has arrived in France to attend this year's MIDEM conference. There, they'll be meeting with many other industry professionals, and business leaders. The festival runs from January 23rd - 27th. Be sure to stay tuned for updates.

Gail Pettis Here In The Moment is in the JazzWeek top ten!

Gail Pettis shoots to the top of the national airplay charts with her new release Here In The Moment. This week it came in at #9, tying with Dana Hall's Into The Light, (Origin Records). This week, there are 14 Origin / OA2 releases in the top 200 on the JazzWeek National Airplay Charts!

Paul Tynan / Aaron Lington's Bi-Coastal Collective, nominated for Jazz Record of the Year, at the East Coast Music Awards!

The joint-venture by long-time musical friends, Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington The Bi-Coastal Collective: Chapter One has been nominated by the ECMA for Jazz Album of the Year. This Canadian Music Association helps foster, develop, promote and celebrate East Coast Music and its artists locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Check it out, online at http://www.ecma.ca. Also, stay tuned in April, for the follow up, The Bicoastal Collective, Chapter Two.

Dan Cavanagh wins international composition award from Greece's National Academy of Music

Dan Cavanagh's composition, "From the Barrage Comes Clarity," on John Adler's Origin Classical release Confronting Inertia, has been chosen as a Prize Winner by Greece's National Academy of Music during their 'International Music Prizes for Excellence in Composition 2009' competition, and awarded a Gold Medal of Distinction. The winners were announced at the Gala concert, at the Public Theater of Sykies in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Origin wins 2009 JazzWeek Record Label of the Year

Seattle’s Origin Records was recognized as the 2009 Jazz Label of the Year at the JazzWeek Awards, held June 20th in Rochester, NY, during the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. The JazzWeek awards are voted on by several hundred members of the jazz industry including radio program directors, disc jockeys, program syndicators, satellite and cable broadcasters, record labels and promoters.

JazzWeek’s Ed Trefzger presented the award to Origin’s John Bishop during the JazzWeek Conference which has taken place alongside the Rochester Jazz Festival each year since 2003.

Also nominated in the Label category were Concord Records, Palmetto, Sunnyside, Heads Up, and HighNote Records.

Read the feature article in the SEATTLE TIMES.

OA2 Artist, Josh Mosier awarded CMA's New Jazz Works Grant

Josh Moshier and Moshier/Lebrun Collective (Evanston, IL) was awarded a CMA New Jazz Works Grant for a work inspired by Studs Terkels memoir Touch and Go, the composer will utilize both sequenced song and through-composition in five self-contained songs. The work will be scored for tenor saxophone, piano, guitar, bass, and drum set. Check out their latest OA2 release, Joy Not Jaded today!


Ben Markley wins ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award.

Be sure to check out Second Introduction, the new OA2 release by pianist Ben Markley and hear why "Two To Go" was recognized for an ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award in 2008. Ben was also recently selected for the Kennedy Center's 2009 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program, an intensive 2-week program whose alumni includes Cyrus Chestnut, Jason Moran, Jacky Terrasson & Aaron Parks.


 

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Conscious Contact
from Tom Tallitsch's
Perspective

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Up-Coming Origin/OA2 Events:

Feb 17, 2010: Glenn White
Zinc Bar, New York
82 West 3rd Street
New York, NY 10012 {map it}
212-477-ZINC
Glenn White - tenor saxophone , Casper Gyldensoe - guitar , Kevin Thomas - bass , Rob Mitzner - drums


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Feb 23, 2010: Hal Galper
Birdland, New York City
315 W. 44th.
New York City, NY {map it}
212:581-3980
Jeff Johnson: Bass , John Bishop: Drums
Starts 8:30

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Mar 27, 2010: Glenn White
Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia
1421 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102 {map it}
215-568-3131
Glenn White - tenor saxophone , Casper Gyldensoe - guitar , Kevin Thomas - bass , Rob Mitzner - drums


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Mar 27, 2010: Hal Galper
Burien House Concert, Burien
3100 SW 170th St.,
Burien, WA 98166 {map it}
206-431-5677
Jeff Johnson: Bass , John Bishop: Drums
Starts 7:30 pm

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Mar 28, 2010: Hal Galper
American Museum of Radio & Electricity, Bellingham
1312 Bay Street,
Bellingham, WA {map it}

Jeff Johnson: Bass , John Bishop: Drums
Starts 3 pm

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