Roger Manins, Ron Samsom, Michel Bénébig, Carl Lockett
Shuffle [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 28/Nov/2018 ] This project started with the news that jazz organist Michel Bénébig had finally located the legendary San Francisco guitarist, Carl Lockett. Michel had wanted to play with Carl since hearing him play with Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff. Soul jazz... |
EVE DE CASTRO ROBINSON
Castro-Robinson: The Gristle Of Knuckles Nathan Haines, Ron Samsom, Kingsley Melhuish, Don McGlashan, Delaney Davidson et al [ Rattle / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] NEW ZEALAND MUSIC AWARDS WINNER - Best Classical Recording 2018 |
RON GOODWIN
Goodwin: Drake 400 (includes the New Zealand Suite) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Ron Goodwin [ Naxos British Light Music / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Ron Goodwin is famous for several iconic film scores such as the rousing 633 Squadron. His was an instantly recognisable musical voice, combining an innate ability to write both memorable tunes and to evoke the many moods demanded by film directors. |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehar: The Merry Widow (complete operetta recorded in 1988) Opera Australia / Joan Sutherland, Ron Stevens, Ann-Maree McDonald / Richard Bonynge (cond) [ ABC Universal DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] The sparkling story concerns a national crisis in the picture-postcard country of Pontevedro, as the recently-widowed Hanna Glawari appears to be in danger of marrying a foreigner. |
Joshua Redman, with Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade
Still Dreaming [ Nonesuch / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and trumpeter Ron Miles for Still Dreaming - an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's 1976-1987 band, Old and New Dreams. |
Kevin Field / Ron Samsom / Olivier Holland
Irony [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 21/Dec/2009 ] Having played together for five years, this NZ trio have developed a unique musical identity, rich with intimacy, energy, lucidity and risk, all captured in this exceptional debut recording. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town {first complete recording) Rebecca Luker & Ron Raines / Studio Cast conducted by John Owen Edwards [ Jay Digital / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/May/1996 ] Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. |
Ron Carter, Danny Simmons
The Brown Beatnik Tomes - Live at BRIC House [ Blue Note / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] On one autumn night at Brooklyn's BRIC House, Carter and Simmons turned raw plucked bass lines and hotly read poetry into something that rang with meaning and felt like magic What they created that night was, and still is, called The Brown Beatnik... |
HARVEY SCHMIDT
Schmidt: 110 in the Shade [First complete recording] Ron Haines & Karen Ziemba / 1999 Studio Cast [ Jay Productions Masterworks Edition / 2 CD - released 17/May/1999 ] 110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. A 1992 New York City Opera production, directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Susan Stroman, starred Karen Ziemba as Lizzie. |
Ron Samsom and the Nutrino Funk Experience
Ace Tone [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] A regular sideman on numerous Rattle Jazz releases, Ron Samsom's first album as band leader is an affectionate, no-holds-barred, pumping homage to 70s jazz funk. Ace Tone bristles with energy and attitude, evident not only in the forward-leaning... |