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GRAMMY Award-winning keyboardist/composer/producer Jeff Lorber recalls seeing guitarist Mike Stern during his much-ballyhooed tenure with Miles Davis in the early ‘80s. “I’ve been a fan of his for a long time,” said the keyboardist, who was touring hard in support of his hit records Wizard Island and It’s a Fact in those analog days. “Jeff Lorber Fusion and Miles Davis were playing some of the same festivals back then, so I got to hear him play.” For his part, Stern offered, “To be honest, I was aware of him, and had heard a bunch of good things, but I had never really checked him out. We were just in different orbits, me and Jeff.”

Dan Tepfer — whom New York magazine dubbed “one of the moment’s most adventurous and relevant musicians” — has criss-crossed the globe over the past several years. The broad success of the pianist’s 2011 album Goldberg Variations / Variations — an improvisational exploration of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece — led to packed concerts from London’s Wigmore Hall, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival and SF Jazz in San Francisco to events in Berlin, Prague, Tokyo, Vancouver and Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge, with The New York Times declaring the latter performance “riveting and inspiring.” Tepfer followed that with Small Constructions, a studio-savvy 2013 album with reed player Ben Wendel, as well as his ongoing collaboration with sax icon Lee Konitz.

Violin Concerto (Eleven Eleven) And Piano Quartet are the sensational new works on the new album from the Grammy winning, four time Oscar nominated composer Danny Elfman. Danny Elfman has composed more than 100 film and television scores these include the critically acclaimed films Men In Black, Good Will Hunting, Nightmare before Christmas and Spider-man. The Violin Concerto (Eleven Eleven) is performed by the internationally renowned Royal Scottish National orchestra and the outstanding violinist Sandy Cameron. Also featured on this album is the Piano Quartet performed by members of the incredible Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.