Michael Chorney Discography of CDs

Michael Chorney albums Dollar General is a new band that has been playing together for years. Chorney, bassist Morse and drummer Carr have collaborated on numerous projects, most recently as the core of the Hadestown Orchestra, performing the concert version of Hadestown, the folk-opera that Chorney orchestrated and arranged with Anais Mitchell. With Dollar General as the heart of ...

Michael Chorney music CDs Dollar General is a new band that has been playing together for years. Chorney, bassist Morse and drummer Carr have collaborated on numerous projects, most recently as the core of the Hadestown Orchestra, performing the concert version of Hadestown, the folk-opera that Chorney orchestrated and arranged with Anais Mitchell. With Dollar General as the heart of ...

Michael Chorney discography Michael Chorney is best known in his native Vermont as a band-leader and composer. His past projects include the nine-piece touring group viperHouse, Magic City, The Seven Deadly Sins, a host of one-off special events and a discography that includes 17 of his own records and several more as a sideman. In 2003 Michael returned to his ...

Michael Chorney CD discography Recording information: Brooklyn Recording; Earycanal; East Side Studios; Seaside Lounge. Photographers: Erik Borg; Jay Sansone. Arranger: Todd Sickafoose. Personnel: Anaïs Mitchell (vocals, guitar); Jefferson Hamer (vocals, electric guitar); Chris Thile (vocals, mandolin); Rachel Ries (vocals); Adam Levy (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Michael Chorney (acoustic guitar); Brandon Seabrook (electric guitar); Jenny Scheinman (violin); Jessica Lurie (flute); Rob Burger (accordion, organ); ...

Michael Chorney albums Singer and songwriter Anais Mitchell wrote the first draft of her "folk opera" Hadestown in 2006 with arranger Michael Chorney and director Ben T. Matchstick. After numerous drafts and performances, it is set in stone here. Hadestown retells the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in an America of hard times economically, socially, and politically. (There is ...

Michael Chorney music CDs " Not since Bob Dylan's early years has a 23 year old songwriter had such power and meaning. "Hymns For the Exiled" comes to us from both sides of a story, here and there, inside and out. With literary aplomb, she gives us footnotes in the artwork, so that we can do our reading and catch ...

Michael Chorney discography Anais Mitchell's assured major label debut features songs that seem to have emerged from a profusion of experiences beyond the young Vermont singer-songwriter's years, but these aren't the musings of a world-weary hipster. Instead they're filled with optimism and freshness, which extends to the confident sparseness with which the album is arranged. The accent here is ...

Michael Chorney songs Recorded at Middlebury College Center For The Arts Concert Hall, Middlebury, Vermont on August 18-20, 1993. So-Called Jazz Sextet: Michael Chorney (alto saxophone); Bill Heminway (trumpet); Ray Paczkowski (piano); Justin Perdue (guitar); Jeremy Harlos (bass); Bill Letters (drums). Personnel: Michael Chorney (alto saxophone); Bill Heminway (trumpet); Ray Paczkowski (piano); Bill Leters (drums). Recording information: Middlebury College Center For The ...

Michael Chorney CD discography Bookended by a pair of Duke Ellington covers ("Blue Pepper" and "Virgin Jungle"), Lap Hen captures a composite live set by Viperhouse over a pair of nights in their home state of Vermont. The mix is rich and organic-sounding, grounded by Ray Packowski's sweet-sounding organ work. The band fits together perfectly in the live setting, ...