JEFFREY CHAPPELL - PIANIST
RECORDINGS
Jazz Sonata
Jeffrey Chappell, composer
Jeffrey Chappell, solo piano
Label: Centaur Records
Catalog Number: CRC 2772
Cover art: Kim Chappell
World premiere recording of solo piano compositions by Jeffrey Chappell, performed by Jeffrey Chappell. Includes Jazz Sonata, On The Wing, Piano Trio, Pop Songs Without Words, Melancholy Moon, Banana Jam, and the prizewinning American Sonata.
Reviews: Jed Distler at Classics Today.com and James Manheim at allmusic.com.
To purchase: Visit Centaur Records, Amazon.com, or iTunes.
Pick It Up
Jeffrey Chappell, composer
Jeffrey Chappell, solo piano
Label: Centaur Records
Catalog Number: CRC 2771
Cover art: Kim Chappell
Jazzified arrangements of tunes you know but never heard like this, composed and performed by Jeffrey Chappell. Includes Pick It Up, Easy Living, 'Round Midnight, It Don't Mean A Thing, Body and Soul, Misty, and Summertime.
To purchase: Visit Centaur Records, Amazon.com or iTunes.
Romantic Music for Flute and Piano
Karen Kevra, Flute
Jeffrey Chappell, piano
Label: Petrichor Records
Catalog Number: PTR 0001
Includes Suite for Flute and Piano by Charles-Marie Widor, Sonata “Undine” for Flute and Piano by Carl Reinecke, and Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blümen” by Franz Schubert.
Kevra's rich sound has a vocal, even operatic quality. Chappell complements Kevra's flowing lyricism with an unusual clarity of both sound and spirit. This is a particularly fine CD. — Jim Lowe, Times Argus
To purchase: Visit karenkevra.com.
Birth of a Soul
Key West Symphony Orchestra
Sebrina Maria Alfonso, Conductor
Live recording of debut concert of Key West Symphony, December, 1998; including Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and Edward MacDowell's Piano Concerto No. 2.
MacDowell was played by Jeffrey Chappell in an outstanding individual performance, technically brilliant and intense. — Key West Solares Hill
To purchase: Contact Jeffrey Chappell.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
James Grant, Composer
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sebrina Maria Alfonso, Conductor
World premiere recording of a work in part composed for and commissioned by Jeffrey Chappell, who gave the world premier performance in concert. Includes other works by James Grant.
To purchase: Contact Jeffrey Chappell.
MMC New Century, Vol. XV
The Dream Wanderer
Composer: Sotireos Vlahopoulos
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Valek, Conductor
Label: MMC Recordings
Catalog Number: MMC2099
World premiere recording of a work composed for Jeffrey Chappell, who gave the world premiere performance in concert. Includes other works by living American composers including Roger Briggs, Richard Campanelli, Salvador Brotons and John Downey.
To purchase: Visit Amazon.com or MMC Recordings.
The Firebird, Petrushka & Fireworks
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman, Conductor
Label: Telarc Records
Catalog Number: CD-80270
Jeffrey Chappell is unattributed pianist on this recording of Petrushka.
To purchase: Visit Amazon.com or Telarc Records.
Clarinet Now
Chester Brezniak, clarinet
Jeffrey Chappell, piano
Robert Stallman, flute
Label: Centaur Records
Catalog Number: CRC 2663
Includes Melancholy Moon, an original jazz composition for clarinet & piano by Jeffrey Chappell, Sonata for Clarinet & Piano by Leonard Bernstein, Duo for Flute & Clarinet by Morton Gould, Four Humors for Clarinet & Piano by Elizabeth Walton Vercoe, and 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs by Bela Bartok (trans. for clarinet by Chester Brezniak).
To purchase: Visit Centaur Records or Amazon.com.
Crosscurrents
Noah Getz, saxophone
Jeffrey Chappell, piano
Label: Albany Records
Catalog Number: TROY971
Includes Digressioni modali by Andrián Pertout, Rabescatura by Miklós Maros, Song 72 by Fernando Benadon, Chasing the Trane Out of Darmstadt by Scott Lindroth, Partita by Ronald Roseman, and Sonata deus sax machina by Gregory Wanamaker.
To purchase: Visit Albany Records or iTunes.