Looking for something new to listen to? Find out about some great CDs, audiobooks, playaways, and Suffolk Wave. Each column will feature something different that you may have yet to discover. Please let us know your recommendations.
In 2008, for the first time in over forty years, a jazz musician won Best Album. Herbie Hancock took the Grammy for River: The Joni Letters , a tribute to Joni Mitchell. This CD is full of luminary guests, including Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey Rose and Joni Mitchell herself.
Find more of Herbie Hancock at Suffolk Wave Digital Library, available to Riverhead Library patrons. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities presents Hancock's 2005 project with musicians Christina Aguilera, John Mayer, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox and Sting. Use your library card to download other audiobooks, videos and music from Suffolk Wave to your PC or portable device.
For those who like some jazz in their CD books, Rupert Holmes' Swing: A Mystery will take you back in time. Saxaphonist Ray Henderson, appearing with an orchestra in a fine hotel near the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, becomes entangled in a French woman's murder.
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