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Solo Piano Albums and CDs
To order any of the CDs, send me an Email and I'll get one to you.
  
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birdsong in the parkade
- solo piano on a Steinway grand, recorded in the lowest level of Victoria's View Street parkade, with music based on bird songs collected on a cross-Canada camping trip in 2016.  Available at iTunes.



KAREL
                                ROESSINGH: Nature Boy




Nature Boy
- solo piano arrangements of new jazz originals and jazz and pop standards, recorded at the Phillip T. Young recital hall at the University of Victoria. Includes My Funny Valentine, Cheek to Cheek, and Comes Love, as well as two tunes dedicated to biodiesel use (Oh Lord Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz and the original Biodiesel).  CD available on various websites.

KAREL ROESSINGH: Tea Favourites




Tea Favourites
- solo piano arrangements of the most popular tunes from the Fairmont Empress tea lobby. Also recorded at the Phillip T. Young recital hall. Includes Because We Believe, Sarah McLachlan's Angel, What'll I Do? and The Mission.
Sold out.

KAREL ROESSINGH: Do
                                You Hear What I Hear?




Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Solo piano arrangements of traditional Christmas music, also recorded at the Phillip T. Young recital hall. Includes both Bach's and Schubert's Ave Maria, O Holy Night, a medley of Dutch Sinter Klaas children's songs, and well-known Christmas carols such as What Child is This?, O Christmas Tree, and Silent Night.
Available on itunes titled Ave Maria.






Keys
- original piano compositions (cassette).


Karel Roessingh: Piano by the Sea


Piano by the Sea - original piano compositions with sounds of the sea.





Orca Suite



Orca Suite
- original piano compositions with whale sounds. Includes "Golden Dawn", used by UK men's skating champion Neil Wilson in his long programme.





Thinking of You -  popular songs of friendship (including You've Got a Friend, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Wind Beneath My Wings, and seven others, with two originals).





Blue Green



Blue/Green
- recorded live in concert at the Alix Goolden Hall in 2001. Includes original compositions, jazz standards, traditional folk tunes, and the blues.  Some cuts are available for download here titled Monday's Child.






Sweets - a collection of original jazz suites including "Highlands Suite", "Mayoral Suite", and "Sweet a la Mode", along with "Let's Suite" (standards whose titles begin with "Let's"), and a suite of Dutch children's carols. Recorded live at the Alix Goolden Hall in Victoria on May 23rd, 2003.  Some cuts are available for download in iTunes here.



Orchestrated and group CDs

KAREL ROESSINGH TRIO: kr3+

kr3+ - original jazz tunes played by the karel roessingh trio, with
  • Karel Roessingh on piano, percussion and synthesizer,
  • Joey Smith on bass, and
  • Josh Dixon on drums,

  • and special guests

  • Gary Karr on arco bass,
  • Dan Lapp on trumpet, flugelhorn and peck horn, and
  • Paul Wainwright on soprano sax.

On itunes here.


Karel Roessingh: Cat Fud



Cat Fud
- original upbeat jazz tunes for piano trio,
with Joey Smith on bass on Don Leppard on drums.  Download it here.



Classics for Relaxation - orchestrated classics with nature sounds (music co-produced with Mark Bracken).

Butchart Gardens
- orchestrated original music (co-written with Kenneth G. Williams)

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Wings of Summer - orchestrated original music with nature sounds.

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Collaborations

with
Valdy - Read Between the Lines
producer, arranger, keyboardist, and train whistle blower


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with
Maureen Washington - Blues in the Night
piano, engineer, editor, co-producer
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with
Gary Karr - Brown Soft Shoe - Remembering Ray Brown
piano
Christmas Is




with
Maureen Washington - Christmas Is
piano, keyboards, engineer, editor, co-producer


Children's Albums (as keyboardist and arranger)

  • Babes,Beasts & Birds - Pat Carfra, the Lullaby Lady.
  • My Backyard - John Demers.
  • The Cat Lady from KooKoo Nut Bay, and other stories - George Dixon.

Music and nature sounds CDs and cassettes are internationally distributed by Tandem Music.   Butchart Gardens CDs are available at the gardens.

birdsong in the parkade and kr3+ (CD, $18.00 CAN, $18.00 US) are available.  Send me an email and I'll get them to you.
Email to Karel Roessingh

(prices include postage)


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