OWLSONG returns! This bargain-priced sampler features new and coming releases and makes historic Owlsong performances available again! Jazz upright bass player and composer Alan Lewine founded Owlsong Productions in 1982 in Taos, New Mexico, producing a memorial concert honoring Thelonious Monk and his music. In 1986, Owlsong issued its first recording - "Original Jazz" featuring the Alan Lewine Septet in a live 1985 concert of Lewine's compositions. From then through 2001, Owlsong issued several recordings on vinyl, cassette or CD as technologies evolved. Owlsong Productions shuttered then for over a decade as Lewine pursued another career. Now, in 2014, Owlsong returns with new recordings such as Arded, Corazón, Arded by operatic soprano Ana María Díaz, the classical/jazz fusion duo Soprano Meets Contrabass, and more of Lewine's projects spanning virtually every style that can be called jazz, plus planned rereleases of earlier Owlsong material. This album samples all of that and previews coming attractions for a bargain price. (c) 2014, Owlsong Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. (<i>Sample these</i>: * from Ana Maria DÍaz - Arded, Corazón, Arded - Songs of the Spanish Baroque (released 2014) Recelos, Cuidados (Hidalgo, Spanish cántico, 1675) Vuelve Barquilla (Anónimo, lyrics by Lope de Vega, Spanish cántico, 1632) * From Ana María Díaz - Alma y Vida de Mujer (to be released in 2014 or 2015) Canción Andaluza (Fernández Caballero, Spanish Zarzuela El Dúo de la Africana, 1893) La Mamma Morta (Giordano, Italian opera Andrea Chenier, 1896) * from Soprano Meets Contrabass featuring Ana Maria Díaz and Alan Lewine (to be released in 2014): Tres Morillas (Anonymous XV C. Spanish song) María La O (Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban Zarzuela, 1931) Bésame Mucho (Velázquez, Mexican Bolero, 1940) * From <b>Alan Lewine Trio</b> (to be released in 2015): Soñar Contigo (Lewine, US jazz, 2012) * From Alan Lewine Septet (originally released 1986 - rerelease planned): Nefertiti's Dream (Lewine, US jazz, 1985) Chauvinism (Lewine, US jazz, 1984) - * From Red Hot Peppers (originally released 1990 - rerelease planned): Muskrat Ramble (Kid Ory, New Orleans jazz, 1926) Take Me Out To The Ballgame (Norworth, Tilzer, Tin Pan Alley, 1908) * From Lewine/Brown Xtet (originally released 1991 - rerelease planned): Freewheeling (Lewine, US jazz, 1990) Obfuscation Through Syllabification (Lewine, US jazz, 1990)