Cover of the upcoming CD, From This Place
Photo credit: Janis Wilkins

NEWS (or, how to listen, read, watch, and link to Deanna!)

Updated on 26 Dec 08:

My sacred jazz CD, From This Place, is in the hands of the pressing company! I'll have copies just in time for my quartet showcase at the Chamber Music America conference on 18 January.

In October, my trio gave a presentation entitled Moving With the Spirit at Duke University in Durham, NC. We offered a handout on musicians who have composed or currently compose liturgical jazz. Download the handout here.

On the same trip to Duke, my trio also played a jazz vespers at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Durham (click for photos!). Check out the bulletin to get a sense of how evening prayer and jazz can enrich each other!

Listen: to brand new mixes from From This Place: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say; Kyrie (Lord, Have Mercy); Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)

Pre-order your copy of the CD and receive a free mp3 of Never Before, a three-part a cappella piece (w/myself, Kate McGarry, and Laila Biali) that was originally written for a lessons and carols service.

Read my blog to find out what it's like to walk labyrinths and to set 19th century hymn text to new music.

Watch a streaming video of my trio's recent Kennedy Center performance.

Link as my friend on facebook; myspace

Listen to my radio interview on Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired.

Seeing the kinetic event of Deanna's music is reserved for the fortunate at live concerts. But hearing the extraordinary vitality of her piano and her voice is open to all. In traditional material and in works fresh from her own creative spirit, Deanna is in touch with some muse in the depths which she meets and makes known to us all. -Rev. Stephen Phelps, Buffalo, NY

From This Place: Order here and the CD will be in your hands by January 31, 2009!
with Donny McCaslin, John Patitucci, Scott Latzky,
a nd guest vocalists Laila Biali, Peter Eldridge, and Kate McGarry

Length of Days
If, among contemporary pianists, Brad Mehldau and Bill Charlap represent the gold standard, then Deanna Witkowski deservedly ranks as their sterling sister. -Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes

Wide Open Window
Witkowski is not far from jazz stardom with her keyboard techniques, her imaginative composing and arranging, and her wordless vocalizing. Remember her name.
-Harvey Siders, JazzTimes

Having to Ask
Deanna's spirit- and her spirituality- come through on this consummate debut, and that spirit is astonishing.
-Don Glasgo, Jazz Improv