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NEWS: videos, podcasts, sheet music, touring, articles

VIDEOS: Deanna's jazz setting of the Magnificat (June 6 trio performance, Rumson, NJ)

Deanna's quartet in Brazil w/guest Filó Machado (June 17 performance, São Paulo, Brazil)

More videos (including clips from Deanna's Kennedy Center performance of Moving with the Spirit: The Sacred Jazz of Mary Lou Williams) are available at her video page.

NOVA ENTREVISTA EM PORTUGUES/NEW INTERVIEW IN PORTUGUESE! Click here to read an August interview in Comunidade News. Thanks to Angela Schreiber!

MID-OCTOBER TOUR w/FILÓ MACHADO: Deanna is currently booking dates from western NY to Cleveland to Boston for her duo with São Paulo-based guitarist/vocalist/composer, Filó Machado. If you would like to bring Deanna and Filó to your school, church, or other venue, contact Deanna via email.

Click here to watch a video of Filó playing/singing solo.

Confirmed dates:

Oct 10: All Nite Soul at Saint Peter's Church, New York (Filó/Deanna duo)
Oct 14: Syracuse University (daytime masterclass)
Oct 14: First Presbyterian Church United, Syracuse (evening concert)
Oct 15: Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester (Deanna solo improvisations on Chopin preludes/nocturnes)
Oct 17: Nighttown, Cleveland (Filó/Deanna duo)
Oct 20: Berklee College of Music, Boston (workshop/performance)
Oct 20: Ryles Jazz Club, Boston (w/guest Felipe Salles)
Oct 21: Bar Next Door, New York (Filó/Deanna duo)

Click here to read an interview with Filó (em portugues) where he speaks about our June 2010 shows in São Paulo.

PODCASTS: Click here to listen to Jazz and the Spirit, an hour-long interview focusing on Deanna's work in combining jazz and liturgy.

SHEET MUSIC: The From This Place songbook is now available, in both physical and pdf format! Check out the store page for ordering info.

ARTICLE: Click here to read Deanna's article, Mary Lou's Sacred Jazz, an April 20 piece at Urban Faith.

UPCOMING GIGS:
Aug 17: Rebeca Vallejo Group at Esperanto, New York
Aug 27: Vanderlei Pereira and Blindfold Test at Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow, NY
As always, check out the calendar page for more specifics.

WORKSHOPS: Back in February, Deanna's trio gave two performance/lectures at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY: Moving with the Spirit: Jazz and Christian Worship and A Jazz Musician Looks at Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. Click here to listen to the audio from both lectures!

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

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From This Place: order your copy here!

with Donny McCaslin, John Patitucci, Scott Latzky, and 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