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Arkadia Records releases Liebman Plays Puccini: The 4th CD from saxophonist David Liebman

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Liebman Plays Puccini: A Walk in the Clouds is a cinematic and visionary reimagining of some of the major arias of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) in a 21st century context. In the individualistic way that only Liebman can offer, the arias are simultaneously rooted in the western European language of art music and American jazz--a restructuralizing of the harmonies and timbre of Puccini, who himself died at the beginning of the Jazz Age. Could he have imagined that almost 80 years later, his music would be some of the most revered in opera, and the focus of one of jazz

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