Jesse Harris w/Norah Jones on David Letterman

JESSE HARRIS appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman this past Wednesday night. Joining him were Norah Jones on piano, Tony Scherr on bass, and Dan Rieser on percussion. Jesse performed "It Will Stay With Us" from his newly released album, Watching The Sky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnS3y7y1qK4

NEW MUSIC TUESDAY: Ari Hest Releases New Album, Embarks On Two Month Coast-To-Coast Tour!

ARI HEST is celebrating the release of his new studio CD, Twelve Mondays, with two sold-out concerts at Joe's Pub in NYC, March 13th and 14th, as well as a 2 month-long tour that will take him from the Northeast through the Midwest and South, up the West coast and ending up in the Pacific Northwest. More info at arihest.com.

Twelve Mondays features re-worked versions of 12 fan-selected songs, culled from Ari's recently-completed, unprecedented '52' project, during which he wrote, recorded, produced and released one new song per week, for 52 weeks in a row. The new album showcases the diversity of Hest's songwriting - from the haunting, mini-masterpiece "Broken Voices" to the USA TODAY 'Listen Up Music Pick' "The Weight," which was praised as a "poignant, acoustic reverie..."

NEW MUSIC TUESDAY: Jesse Harris and Tierney Sutton Release New Albums

Tree Lawn Artists is happy to announce the release of two albums today:

After over a year of touring as a duo, playing the 6-string banjo with a Brazilian-based percussionist, JESSE HARRIS decided to make that surprisingly full and efficient instrumentation the foundation of his new album Watching The Sky. Expanding upon the rhythmic direction of his previous release, Feel, this new recording is centered around the backbone percussion of Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto, Forro In The Dark) who also plays vibes, marimba, and keyboards; and augmented by the versatile bass and guitar playing of his old pal from The Ferdinandos, Tony Scherr (Bill Frisell, Willie Nelson, Jenny Scheinman).

TIERNEY SUTTON, a leading figure in vocal jazz for nearly a decade, seeks the path to the true self in her new recording, Desire. This philosophical and spiritual approach to cutting a jazz record is not as new for the Tierney Sutton Band as it may seem. Sutton and her fellow musicians - pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker - have been interpreting various standards from this perspective for the fifteen years that they've been together. Tierney maintains that the obsession with fame and material things - a phenomenon that has been accelerated and amplified in this media-centric new century - is wasted energy. Worse yet, it comes with a dark aspect that can infect the soul.