Sowerby/ Avalon String Quartet - Paul Whiteman Commissions Condition:New often backing visiting US Blues

often backing visiting US Blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf

as soon as the first warm sunbeams let nature awake to new life

Grammy award-winning blues icon returns to his Delta blues roots for the most captivating musical statement of his long and legendary career

halfway between tradition and modernity

Sowerby/ Avalon String Quartet - Paul Whiteman Commissions Condition:New often backing visiting US BluesEvoking the Roaring Twenties, Chicago composer Leo Sowerby's engaging and ingenious Synconata (1924) and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra ("Monotony") (1925), critically praised for their distinctive harmony, counterpoint, and humor, receive world premiere recordings by Chicago bandleader trombonist Andrew Baker and his Andy Baker Orchestra, making their Cedille Records debuts. Sowerby was among the leading young American classical composers commissioned