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LATEST RELEASES FROM CAPRI/TAPESTRY RECORDS

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ARTIST: HOLLY HOFMANN & MIKE WOFFORD
Title: Live At Athenauem Jazz Vol 2

Label: Capri Records
Catalogue No: CAPRI 74085-2

Personnel:
HOLLY HOFMANN, flute;
MIKE WOFFORD, piano

Track Listing:

1. More Than You Know
2. Floof
3. Introspection / Eronel
4. No Mercy
5. Twelve
6. Free Day (For Samuel Barber)
7. Out Of This World
8. If I Should Lose You
9. Presentimiento
10. Exactly Like You

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They have worked and recorded together in various configurations for about 17 years. For this duo album top flautist Holly Hofmann and husband/pianist Mike Wofford mix their own compositions with some jazz standards.

Most recently Hofmann was one of the three flautists on the recent Capri Flutology CD...like to get a nice laid-back groove going and swing...will definitely please.
- Tony Hall, Jazzwise UK

Hofmann has been recording steadily since the late 1980s and her credibility among musicians and jazz critics secured an award for her in the "Rising Star" category in the DownBeat Critics Jazz Poll...She possesses a strong but soulful delivery and in no way resembles the "flute-lite" sound heard frequently...Hofmann states the melody and launches into lyrical and swinging solos just as she did on the road with the Ray Brown Trio.
- Michael P. Gladstone, All About Jazz

Mike Wofford, a brilliant pianist who serves as musical director for Ella Fitzgerald and Saraah Vaughan.
- Andrew Gilbert, The Times

ARTIST: CHIP STEPHENS TRIO
Title: Holding On To What Counts

Label: Capri Records
Catalogue No: CAPRI 74082-2

Personnel:
CHIP STEPHENS, piano;
KEN WALKER, bass;
TODD REID, drums.

Track Listing:

1. Cookin' At The Continental
2. Pretty Little Puppet
3. Everything I Love
4. Epistrophy
5. Smiles Surrender
6. Passion Dance
7. Holding On To What Counts
8. Beans & Weenies
9. My Little Package (for Clay)
10. Medley: Up A Lazy River / Sweet Georgia Brown / Dig

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This trio is a perfect example of three players who listen, breathe, react, think and enjoy what they do...together. Their cohesive blend is so refreshing to experience. They take chances...and explore while leading each other through these musical journeys.

Born in Ashland, Ohio, in 1964, Chip is one of the best jazz artists of "generation x". A protegé of legendary pianist and cult figure Pat Pace of Akron, he is a veteran of the Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, and Maynard Ferguson bands. Now settled in Cleveland, he is part of a growing number of musicians demontrating that geography need not be destiny, namely that pianists far removed from the east coast can put together great trios and play convincing music. Possesing formidable technique, an advanced harmonic sense, and a restless mind, Chip's playing combines strength with whimsy and solidity with surprise.

Chip Stephens is an anxious, energetic, and uncommonly talented pianist and composer whose work displays an impressive command of a widely varied palette of compositional and improvisational styles. It will be interesting to follow his growth pattern as he assumes a leading role among pianists heading into the 21st century.

ARTIST: CHIE IMAIZUMI
Title: Unfailing Kindness

Label: Capri Records
Catalogue No: CAPRI 74081-2

Personnel:
GREG GISBERT, tpt, flghn; RON MILES, tpt, flghn; JOHN GUNTHER, as, ss, fl, ddoo; PETER SOMMER, ts, ss, fl, cl; GARY SMULYAN, bs, bc; ALEX HEITLINGER, trmb; MIKE ABBOTT, gt; JEFF JENKINS, pno, b3; MARK SIMON, b; PAUL ROMAINE, d; MANAVIHARE 'MIMY' FIAINDRATOVO, prc; JEREMY RAGSDALE, voc.

Track Listing:

1. A Change For The Better
2. The More The Merrier
3. Unfailing Kindness
4. Lonely
5. Round And Round
6. Adversity
7. Another Day

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ALL SONGS ARE COMPOSED AND ARRANGED
BY CHIE IMAZUMI
(lyrics to Another Day written by Tsunenori 'Lee' Abe)

This CD is representative of the best of current large ensemble recordings.
- Ed Trefzger, Jazz Week

After listening to one night of her vital, creative and engaging music...Imaizumi was on my short list of new composer/arrangers to watch.
- Norman Provisor, Rocky Mountain News

If you have heard the music, then you must be in a better mood than you were before you heard it. If not, you better listen to it again.
- Thomas Burns, Capri Records

There are many bumps on the road through life. I myself have travelled over quite a few and am sure there will be more to come. If my music can help listeners to overcome their obstacles, give them strength, or even just make them a little happier and put a smile on their face, then there is no better way to make me smile and be happy!
- Chie Imaizumi