At last!

Kenny Werner’s new award-winning CD
on the Half Note Label,
No Beginning, No End
is now available at all retail outlets!

Here’s what the Editorial Review at Amazon.com had to say:

OverviewWinner of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award.  Kenny Werner’s magnum opus with Woodwinds, Voices & Strings. His deeply personal tribute to daughter Katheryn, a triumphant work of composed and improvised musics.  Classical and Jazz. Performed by nearly 100 musicians.  Highlighted by saxophonist Joe Lovano and vocalist Judi Silvano.  No Beginning, No End is a milestone composition and recording – as much for its creative reach as for the emotional terrain it examines.  “The most important music I’ll ever write,” is how Werner puts it.  A career high point.

Get your copy by clicking on this Amazon link:

and then watch the videos of the making of this landmark recording:

http://www.NoBeginningNoEnd.org

Thank you for being here
as part of our Effortless Mastery Community,
and thank you for supporting the arts
by purchasing a copy of this Guggenheim-award
winning recording.

Kenny Werner
Dr. Andrew Colyer
KennyWernerLive.com
ConsciousWorldMedia.com

Question:  What does the original Woodstock Festival
have in common with Kenny Werner?

Answer:  They both have original performances
in upstate New York, at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Click this link to get your tickets to see Kenny Werner at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

On Saturday, November 14th, at 7 pm,

Kenny will be doing a solo concert
at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts,
in Bethel, New York.

Click this link to get your tickets to see Kenny Werner at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a $100 million outdoor performing arts center
and museum located approximately 90 minutes from New York City
at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York.
The 15,000 seat outdoor performing arts venue and The Museum at Bethel Woods
are set within nearly 2,000 bucolic acres.

Get Your Tickets Now — it’s only six weeks away!

Click this link to get your tickets to see Kenny Werner at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Thank you for being part of our Effortless Mastery community.

Kenny Werner
and
Dr. Andrew Colyer

KennyWernerLive.com
and
ConsciousWorldMedia.com

P.S.  Here’s that link to Get Your Tickets Now:
Click this link to get your tickets to see Kenny Werner at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

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Here’s a link from the Billboard Publicity Wire:

Delirium Blues Project, Co-Led by Kenny Werner and Roseanna Vitro, Debuts on CD March 25

Delirium celebrates the blues as the basis for much of popular music,” says Half Note vice president Jeff Levenson,
who produced, directed, and steered the project to completion. “But its music transcends and bridges
the categories–gospel, blues, country, pop, jazz, rhythm and blues.”

Werner’s arrangements aimed to “capture a spirit,” says the pianist, “to highlight the blues as a foundational form
worthy of progressive interpretation. I found the writing process fascinating, because some of the tunes were
very familiar in their original recorded versions, but I still wanted to give them a new spin. That required me to
honor the essence of what made them work the first time around–whether they were funky or nasty or rockin’.”

Amazon Editorial Reviews

Product Description
“Just think of it as a soundtrack for a seance – ROSEANNA VITRO on vocals, KENNY WERNER on Ouija board.

THE DELIRIUM BLUES PROJECT throws the spotlight on blues-based material refracted through the advanced
minds of writer/arranger KENNY WERNER and vocalist ROSEANNA VITRO.

The group is a powerhouse, featuring a cast of heavyweights: RANDY BRECKER, JAMES CARTER, JOHN PATITUCCI,
ADAM ROGERS, RAY ANDERSON et al.
Featured are tunes by Tower of Power, Tracy Nelson, Janis Joplin, Mose Allison, Esther Philips, Joni Mitchell, and Nina Simone.

This is a genre-bending project, showcasing the shared DNA between blues and jazz.”

Have you gotten your copy yet?

Click on the Amazon link below to Get Your Copy of the Delirium Blues Project CD with Kenny Werner and Roseanna Vitro:

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Here’s a fine post about Kenny and the Delirium Blues Project,
over at Arnaldo DeSoutier’s Blog, “Jazz Station”:

Jazz Station – Arnaldo DeSouteiro’s Blog: Delirium Blues Project debuts on CD

Thank you.

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The author of the blog post below states that a Kenny Werner trio
live gig was a life-changing musical experience for him, back in 2004:

Thoughts that may shatter into tiny pieces: Life-changing musical experiences
Kenny Werner trio with Dan Weiss at Ryles, 2004

Kenny must obviously have been demonstrating Effortless Mastery
at that gig, to have that profound an effect on someone.

Have you seen Kenny live?

How was it?

What life changing musical experiences have you had?

What performances and who would you list as being life-changing musical experiences?

Feel free to leave your comments!

Click on this Amazon link to purchase your own copy of Kenny Werner’s Effortless Mastery

Or, click on this Amazon link to purchase your copy of Kenny’s latest Blue Note release, Kenny Werner’s Lawn Chair Society

Thank you.

Dr. Andrew Colyer
Kenny’s Web Guy

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Kenny Werner is performing with Betty Buckley
from February 12th through February 24th
in New York City
at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency,
540 Park Avenue at 61st Street.

Here’s a bit from a recent New York Times article:

“Few if any singers with Ms. Buckley’s Broadway background have ventured so fearlessly into jazz. Especially when she uses her piercing, steely voice to belt, her sound and style are decidedly un-jazz-like. She doesn’t swing in any conventional sense. Yet her fusion of theatrical grandeur with open-ended pop-jazz arrangements, which elongates songs into iconoclastic think pieces, is wildly ambitious and never less than fascinating.

This fusion is a product of Ms. Buckley’s increasingly daring collaboration with her longtime musical director, the pianist Kenny Werner, who is joining her on Feb. 12 for the last two weeks of her engagement.”

Click the link below for the full review:

Betty Buckley – Music – Review – New York Times

Feel free to purchase and enjoy Kenny & Betty’s latest CD
through this Amazon link:

Thank you.

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Here at KennyWernerLive.com, we are documenting as many
“Top Lists” as possible for Kenny and his music.

Here’s a quote from a recent post on The Jazz Clinic blog:

“I will say that a ton of really good records just didn’t make the cut this year
for one reason or another (mostly because I didn’t have enough time to listen to them
thoroughly and come to appreciate their nuances and/or highlights).”

Fortunately, Kenny Werner’s latest Blue Note Release, “Lawn Chair Society”,
made The Jazz Clinic’s Top 20 list.

For the full article, click on the link below:

The Jazz Clinic: other lists

Click on this Amazon link to purchase your copy
of Kenny’s latest Blue Note release, Kenny Werner’s Lawn Chair Society

Thank you.

Dr. Andrew Colyer
Kenny’s Web Guy

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Here’s a really nice review by Richard Kamins on the recent CD

With You In Mind - Russ Nolan & The Kenny Werner Trio (Rhinoceruss Music)

of which Kenny was an integral part.

“First thing right is he made the CD with pianist Kenny Werner,
one of the more creative musicians around.
If jazz is, as the late critic-reviewer Whitney Balliett asserted,
then Werner always keeps the listener on his aural toes.
His solos crackle with energy, his comping, at times,
is as funky as James Brown’s music and his ballad work is luscious. “

To read the complete review, click on the link below:

Richard Kamins | See! Hear!: CD Reviews: Mid-Winter Warmers

Click on this CD Baby Link to purchase your own copy of

With You In Mind = Russ Nolan & The Kenny Werner Trio

Thank you.

Dr. Andrew Colyer
Kenny’s Web Guy

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