Welcome to Blue Duchess Records
The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio's Wobble Walkin" is now available for pre-order and will ship in a week for our pre-street release available for our special fans!
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Award winning guitarist Duke Robillard and Jesse A. Finkelstein have teamed up to create a new label group to promote exciting new jazz and blues artists as well as long established masters of their idioms.
They will balance releases between the classic and the contemporary, honoring the history of America's original musical art forms of blues and jazz while looking to the future of each genre with eager anticipation.
The Blue Duchess label will release 3 meticulously recorded albums of classic jazz by veterans and new artists in the spring/summer of 2012 - please visit our artist pages for details.
Lakewest Recording is the home studio of our label and engineer-studio owner Jack Gauthier and Duke have been working together for years honing a distinctive and classic recording and producing style.
Along the way they have garnered awards and accolades the world over while recording a wealth of blues and jazz giants and pioneers in an impressive array of recordings for the Stony plain label.
In this age of constantly changing electronic development and literally here today, forgotten tomorrow fads and styles, it's easy to lose track of what really matters. This is true in nearly every facet of today's fast paced lifestyle…..even music.
We at Blues Duchess/Shining Stone invite you to check out our site and enjoy the great music that has grown out of the American musical forms of jazz and blues music. Their influence on popular culture resonates from the early 1900's to today.
The artists we represent are all people with intense love and respect for these idioms besides being world class artists themselves. The love and dedication that goes into honing a craft like those of our artists is a lifelong experience and one developed of an artistic and emotional need.
So we celebrate great music with soul, improvisation and taste with our new labels and hope to deliver to you a superior musical product for your listening pleasure.
We have recorded all projects in 24 bit resolution for the eventual option of HD downloads and/or 180 gram super audio vinyl records. Please take time to respond to our survey of your interest in vinyl or HD downloads so we can prepare for these choices for customers desiring either of these formats in addition to compact discs.