Joel Brenner

A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the dire consequences for government, business, and individuals. Shortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the National Security Agency, then as the head of counterintelligence for the director of national intelligence. He saw at close range the battleground on which our adversaries are now attacking us-cyberspace.

Valentino, Rosenblatt, Browne is a new album of funky acoustic jazz. Featuring guitarist Vinny Valentino, drummer Joel Rosenblatt and bassist Baron Browne this new recording has 7 new compositions and 2 cover songs. This album may be the first of it’s kind of funky, groove tunes played on acoustic instruments. The newly imagined Earth Wind and Fire classic “Shining Star”, features vocalist Chrissi Poland along with the trio of guitarist Vinny Valentino, bassist Baron Browne, and drummer Joel Rosenblatt. Chrissi also makes an appearance on the chorus of the Jackson Five cover, “I Want You Back”.

Based in New York City, Vinny tours extensively, playing concerts, festivals, and club engagements around the world. Currently in addition to performing with his own bands Vinny is performing with Bill Evans as well as Steve Smith and Vital Information. Vinny and his trio On 3 (on3music.com) were selected by the Kennedy Center and the Department of State to represent the United States in the U.S. Jazz Ambassadors Program.

Dear Friend, I’m starting a new club and I’m inviting you to join me there. It’s called Love Club. You don’t need a membership card, a VISA or a passport to join this club. In fact you don’t need anything at all. Every man and woman is welcome. The single requirement for joining Love Club is having an ability to love each other and to love yourself. You can dance in the Love Club. You can make Love in the Love Club. There are deep soulful jams and funky, psychedelic wig-outs. There are horn sections, string sections and smooth, silky vocals. And there is disco…. lots of disco.

Having sold more than 100 million records over the past quarter of a century, Billy Joel ranks as one of most popular recording artists and respected entertainers in the world. In the US he has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. In the UK he has had 14 top 40 hits including the number one hit “Uptown Girl” as well as the original version of “She’s Always a Woman”. In addition to his multiple awards, including Grammys and American Music Awards, his contribution to the industry saw him inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2005 he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Piano Man brings all of Billy Joel’s best loved hits together on one disc.

Recent musicological research tends to suggest that the 'Markuspassion' is not the work of Reinhard Keiser, essentially for stylistic reasons. However, it has not yet proved possible to attribute it positively to any other contemporary composer, such as Nicolaus Bruhns, or to Gottfried Keiser, Reinhard’s father, and so its paternity is currently uncertain.

Kim Andre Arnesen is one of Norway’s most frequently performed contemporary composers. International recognition of his music includes a performance of the beautifully evocative Cradle Hymn at the White House for Barack Obama in 2016. Arnesen’s association with Denver’s Kantorei resulted in their commissioning the warmly expressive ‘The gift I’ll leave you’ and the eloquent ‘Making or Breaking.’ ‘Even when He Is Silent’ sets a text written by a prisoner on a concentration camp wall, and Arnesen’s own summing-up of ‘Flight Song’ is that “music making is the song of new life, fragile as the fall of a feather.”

Composer Joel Levine speaks a unique voice with the recorder with his debut release The Whistleblower on the Iyouwe label. The 13 song disc, Levine's first as a solo artist, finds the Toronto based recordist joined by singers and instrumentalists including legendary drummer and multi-Grammy award winner Lenny White. Levine says, “I grew up in Philly where I began to play the recorder in the early '60s but when the time came to move on to another instrument, as most students do, I stayed with the recorder. Everything changed when I heard Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, especially Coltrane. I wanted to play that music on the recorder which, as far as I could tell, nobody ever had. I wanted to speak using the voice of the recorder."

Spiral Sky is the 2007 album by The David Joel Quartet, lead by guitarist David Joel. The entire album features original Joel compositions, which may mean they are the best. This is a self-released project.