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About
CHRISTOPHER DENNY (music director and arranger*) is a multi-Bistro and MAC Award winner who has served as musical director, arranger, and pianist for such theater, cabaret, and opera luminaries as Julie Wilson, Karen Mason, Brent Barrett, Lorna Dallas, Rod Gilfry, Tammy Grimes, Gregg Edelman, David Campbell, David Burnham, Ron Raines, Faith Prince, Jason Graae, Andrea Marcovicci, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Loudon, Kaye Ballard, Jeff Harnar and Steven Brinberg. His forty-year career has taken him to virtually all of the major venues in New York and throughout the U.S., notably including Carnegie Hall, where he performed his own arrangements with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, as well as to Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Paris and London's West End. Film work includes having produced the recording sessions of Placido Domingo for Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-winning musical film, Moulin Rouge. He has recorded about thirty-five CDs.
ALEX RYBECK* (music director and arranger of Snow) is a multi-award-winning music director, composer, arranger, and pianist, best known for his work in concerts and cabarets, on recordings, and in the theater. Broadway credits include MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG and GRAND HOTEL among others. After growing up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and attending Oberlin College, he moved to New York City, where he was mentored by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Schwartz. He has worked with many artists including such legends as George Abbott, Metropolitan Opera diva Roberta Peters, "Voice of Hollywood" Marni Nixon, Eartha Kitt, The McGuire Sisters, Julie Wilson, Faith Prince, Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway, Jane Olivor, Karen Mason, Jeff Harnar, Donna McKechnie, Ann Kittredge, Jason Graae, Lee Roy Reams, Tovah Feldshuh, Rita Gardner, Roslyn Kind, Amanda McBroom. His original song "What a Funny Boy He Is" was recorded by the late Nancy LaMott
LINER NOTES
Dear James,
Thanks for your interest. I truly appreciate your time and consideration. As a reminder, these are mostly final mixes on their way to being mastered. Also, there are 8 songs. Make sure you scroll down to see the 8th one.
As you consider doing the liner notes, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
We are holding off on the packaging production until we make sure we have a credit included for the liner notes. If you decide to do it, we will add the credit and then we will be able to provide you with the final packaging graphics. In the meantime, I've included a link with the credit information underneath the album cover.
For your convenience, I provide a few bios of the core of my creative team.
So grateful for this opportunity! We love what we came up with and I hope you do, too.
Warmly,
Ann
BIOS
ANN KITTREDGE (vocalist, exec. producer, background vocals) has done it all—Broadway (King David, A Christmas Carol), Off-Broadway (Dessa Rose, Nunsense, Encores!), TV, Film, concert halls, and major venues across the country. Whether in musicals or dramas, she is known for breathing fresh life into every role, earning praise for her standout performances as Marian Paroo, Eliza Doolittle, Sarah Brown, Iolanthe, Rosalind (Moon Over Buffalo), and Yvonne/Naomi (Sunday in the Park with George). Most recently, she lit up the stage as Ruth in 54 Below’s 60th Anniversary concert of "High Spirits." In the cabaret world, Ann’s versatility has allowed her to move effortlessly from the Great American Songbook to jazz, classic pop, and contemporary musical theatre. With a ravishing voice, a quirky sense of humor, and a knack for drawing audiences in, she’s been called “the real thing.” Lately, she’s been making waves in the recording industry, too. Her debut album, "reIMAGINE," won the LaMott-Friedman Award, and her second, "Romantic Notions"—a 2025 Bistro Award winner—was named one of the top 10 vocal albums of 2024 by The Broadway Radio Show. Together, her albums have charted worldwide. Discover more at AnnKittredge.com and Jazzheads.com (album label).
RANDY KLEIN (president, Jazzheads Music Group) is a multi-award-winning composer, pianist, record producer, author and music educator. He is the composer of For My People, a song cycle featuring the poetry of American author, Margaret Walker. For My People was featured at the Furious Flower Poetry Festival at James Madison University and the University of Kansas. His compositions, Facing It and Dear John, Dear Coltrane, based on the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Harper premiered at the 2014 Furious Flower Poetry Conference. The world premiere of his composition Fanfare For Jerusalem took place at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center March 2017, Rose Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center, May 2017 and in Jerusalem, Israel, June 2017. His new concert work Brockton world premiered in April 2018. His documentary film scores include: National Emmy winners Free To Dance (PBS Great Performances) and Beyond Tara – The Extraordinary Life Of Hattie McDaniel(American Movie Classics) and Richard Wright – Black Boy (PBS/BBC production). His music can be heard at the Burial Ground Museum in lower Manhattan and at the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC. Musical theater works include Move!, a dance musical commissioned by the Royal Theatre Carre', Amsterdam; Capture The Moon, based on the Eastern European folklore stories of the Wise Men of Chelm. Falling Apart, a chamber musical utilizing elements of both musical theater and the jazz concert; Bucky And His Friends, a full-length contemporary vaudeville show for stage, video and CD; Flambe’ Dreams, Ever Happily After (NYMF), Fancy Nancy ‘Splendiferous’ Christmas, and Twinkle Tames A Dragon. His newest project, a musical called Black Swan Blues, in collaboration with Joan Ross Sorkin, bookwriter and lyricist, is inspired by the ballet “Swan Lake.” Black Swan Blues explores white privilege and racism in America in the South in the early 1960’s. The score is timeless and contemporary evoking the period.
PAUL ROLNICK (producer, mixer) is a record producer, engineer, session singer and Award-winning songwriter. Including LET THE MUSIC PLAY (2022 MAC AWARD), IT’S ABOUT TIME (2013 MAC AWARD), COLD ENOUGH TO CROSS (2006 Backstage BISTRO AWARD), and SHOOT FOR THE MOON (EMMY AWARD Nomination). He was honored with the 2020 ASCAP FOUNDATION JAMIE DEROY & FRIENDS AWARD. Paul co-created, co-produced and co-wrote AUTO-TUNE The Munsters for COZI-TV. And theme music for The Big Apple Circus. Artists he has worked with include Judy Collins, Michael McDonald, Jimmy Buffet, Willie Nelson, Shawn Colvin, Rosanne Cash, Jim Dawson, Steven Stills, Ani DiFranco, Frank Sinatra, Julie Gold, Robert Gordon, Joan Baez, Stephen Schwartz, Kathy Lee Gifford, Barry Manilow, Billy Stritch, Karen Mason (8 Albums), Paul Evans, Rebecca Luker, Billy Goldenberg, Julie Wilson, Shelly Markham, Jamie DeRoy & Friends (6 Albums), David Friedman, and Herman Munster. TV music includes: Embracing Judaism; Grateful Am I, To You; To God's Ear (ABC); Kid’s Court(Nickelodeon); Afterdrive (Comedy Central); American Families (Nostalgia Network); numerous songs on Young & Restless, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, Another World and Hallmark Movies.
ALAN SILVERMAN (masterer) has mastered numerous Grammy Award CDs, and has been nominated muliple times, including world music sensation Lagrimas Negras, nominated for Record of The Year, Album of The Year, and Best Engineered Record at the Latin Grammy Awards. Alan began his engineering career in the '80s, working with producer Mutt Lange, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Hall and Oates, and Foreigner. He then moved on to become a staff engineer at A&R Recording Studios, working with legendary producers Phil Ramone and Arif Mardin, and artists Billy Joel and Judy Collins. At A&R he also recorded and mixed music scores for directors David Mamet, Richard Attenborough, Francis Coppola, and Frank Oz, and for major film composers Elmer Bernstein and Ralph Burns.
When the studio went dark in the early '90s, Alan began working freelance, producing records for Judy Collins as well as continuing to record scores for feature films, engineering the soundtrack of the United Artists musical adaptation of
The Fantasticks. He later worked as a music supervisor for Sesame Workshop, producing music and directing Muppet performers and celebrities for the Sesame Street network television specials Elmopalooza and Cinderelmo. Alan turned to full-time mastering in 1996 and celebrated mastering his 60th Grammy Award project in 2015. He received critical acclaim for re-mastering the RCA and MCA back catalogs of the British supergroup The Kinks for hi-resolution SACD, for his restoration of the soundtrack for the Americana cult-classic Heartworn Highways, voted by the editors of Sterophile as one of the "Top 66 CDs of All Time," and for an SACD featuring Norah Jones. In 2014, four of the eight Grammy nominated albums in Latin Jazz (4-NARAS, 4-LARAS) were mastered by Alan at Arf! Mastering. In 2015, he co-produced, mixed, and mastered "Strangers Again," a new album by Judy Collins featuring duets with Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Michael McDonald and Jeff Bridges. The album reached the Billboard top--100, putting Ms. Collins back on the charts for the first time since 1982. Reviewers have given effusive raves to the album's music and sound. Alan is active in the Audio Engineering Society and has chaired workshops in high-resolution mastering at the Society's national conventions. He teaches the art of mastering to undergrads in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU's Tisch School Of The Arts, and to graduate students in the Tonemeister program at NYU-Steinhardt.
Dedication
Dedicated to one of the most beautiful souls I have ever known, my mother. To the many years of singing in the church choir together, to the warmth of your smile and tender, sweet soprano voice. Thank you.
My Glorious Team
