Eliane Elias and Charlie Hunter - Exclusive Worldwide Representation

Tree Lawn is very proud to announce that ELIANE ELIAS is now a worldwide exclusive booking client! We look forward to bringing her to your corner of the globe soon. She is an international treasure and we are very happy with this development.

CHARLIE HUNTER, who recently also put all his touring eggs in the Tree Lawn basket, is offering a sneak peek of his forthcoming CD...some amazing stuff.

Christian McBride releases Kind of Brown

Tree Lawn Artists would like to congratulate CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE on his new release Kind of Brown. This CD, the title of which is a play on the iconic Kind of Blue album title, a nod to McBride's mentor Ray Brown, and a tribute to the omnipresent influence of James Brown, features McBride's new quintet Inside Straight, comprised of pianist Eric Reed, alto saxophonist Steve Wilson, drummer Carl Allen, and vibraphonist Warren Wolf, McBride's former student. The self-produced album, released by Mack Avenue records, blends hard swing to gospel and blues grooves. The set delivers top-notch improvisations and memorable melodies on ten selections, including two tribute tracks - one to the late trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and a cover of "Theme for Kareem" by pianist James Williams.

NEW MUSIC TUESDAY: Ari Hest Releases New Album, Embarks On Two Month Coast-To-Coast Tour!

ARI HEST is celebrating the release of his new studio CD, Twelve Mondays, with two sold-out concerts at Joe's Pub in NYC, March 13th and 14th, as well as a 2 month-long tour that will take him from the Northeast through the Midwest and South, up the West coast and ending up in the Pacific Northwest. More info at arihest.com.

Twelve Mondays features re-worked versions of 12 fan-selected songs, culled from Ari's recently-completed, unprecedented '52' project, during which he wrote, recorded, produced and released one new song per week, for 52 weeks in a row. The new album showcases the diversity of Hest's songwriting - from the haunting, mini-masterpiece "Broken Voices" to the USA TODAY 'Listen Up Music Pick' "The Weight," which was praised as a "poignant, acoustic reverie..."

NEW MUSIC TUESDAY: Jesse Harris and Tierney Sutton Release New Albums

Tree Lawn Artists is happy to announce the release of two albums today:

After over a year of touring as a duo, playing the 6-string banjo with a Brazilian-based percussionist, JESSE HARRIS decided to make that surprisingly full and efficient instrumentation the foundation of his new album Watching The Sky. Expanding upon the rhythmic direction of his previous release, Feel, this new recording is centered around the backbone percussion of Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto, Forro In The Dark) who also plays vibes, marimba, and keyboards; and augmented by the versatile bass and guitar playing of his old pal from The Ferdinandos, Tony Scherr (Bill Frisell, Willie Nelson, Jenny Scheinman).

TIERNEY SUTTON, a leading figure in vocal jazz for nearly a decade, seeks the path to the true self in her new recording, Desire. This philosophical and spiritual approach to cutting a jazz record is not as new for the Tierney Sutton Band as it may seem. Sutton and her fellow musicians - pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker - have been interpreting various standards from this perspective for the fifteen years that they've been together. Tierney maintains that the obsession with fame and material things - a phenomenon that has been accelerated and amplified in this media-centric new century - is wasted energy. Worse yet, it comes with a dark aspect that can infect the soul.

New Releases by Jeff "Tain" Watts and Marco Benevento

Today marks the release of two new albums by Tree Lawn Artists JEFF "TAIN" WATTS' and MARCO BENEVENTO. Tain's new CD, WATTS features CHRISTIAN McBRIDE, TERENCE BLANCHARD, and BRANFORD MARSALIS. Marco's new CD, Me Not Me features Marco's regular cohorts REED MATHIS (JFJO, The Slip), MATT CHAMBERLAIN, and ANDREW BARR. Both discs are great, and we congratulate both artists on successful independent releases. Both projects have availability in 2009>2010. Contact eric@treelawn.org for more information about the WATTS project, and nate@treelawn.org for more information about the Marco Benevento Trio

Eliane Elias celebrates release of Bossa Nova Stories in the US!

Tree Lawn Artists congratulates ELIANE ELIAS on the US release of Bossa Nova Stories on Blue Note Records!!

Bossa Nova Stories was released in Europe/Japan during 2008, and debuted at #1 on the French Charts and remained #1 for three consecutive weeks. It's was also the #1 Best Selling Jazz Vocal Album in Japan, May-June 2008 (Swing Journal).

This is Eliane's second release within one year. Bossa Nova Stories was preceeded by Something for You, Eliane Elias Sings and Plays Bill Evans. A very productive year indeed!

Bossa Nova Stories is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Bossa Nova and features Eliane's vocals accompanied by a stellar rhythm section and orchestra. Eliane performs some of the great Bossa Nova classics and songs from the American songbook including Antonio Carlos Jobim's classics, "The Girl From Ipanema", "Chega de Saudade" & "Desafinado", Stevie Wonder's "Superwoman", and George and Ira Gershwin's "They Can't Take That Away From Me".

Chuck Brown at HoB New Orleans, New Album Forthcoming

CHUCK BROWN is booked to headline the House of Blues at the 2007 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival! The show will be Friday night, May 4, 2007. Should be unbelievable... In conjunction with the release of his forthcoming (April 24) Raw Venture CD, We're About The Business.