DAN LIPTON: PEACEFUL PIANO (2023)

In 2023, I'll be consistently rolling out peaceful instrumental piano music. It is music meant to be played quietly. Use it while meditating or studying, at the spa during a massage, or even as you sleep. Yes, I'd be honored if you'd fall asleep to my music.

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THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL: MUSIC FROM SEASON FOUR (2022)

My friends Tom Mizer and Curtis Moore write songs for Maisel and sometimes I get to play on them. I played piano, organ and clavinet on a bunch of stuff for Season Four including "Maybe Monica," a Belafonte doppelbänger performed by Josh A. Dawson that earned Mizer & Moore their 2nd Emmy nomination.

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DOC HEILEIN & FRIENDS: BENEFIZ GALA (2022)

The German translation of "They Don't Let You In The Opera (If You're A Country Star)" you've been waiting for! German soprano Sarah Bouwers gave the song, written by DL & David Rossmer for Kelli O'Hara, its European debut with full orchestra, conducted by Armanda ten Brink at the Dusseldorf Tonhalle in November 2021. The evening was released as this live album in 2022.

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MUSICIANS COOK! ...AND PLAY! (2021)

During the pandemic, flutist Reva Youngstein started a the Musicians Cook YouTube channel for unemployed musicians stuck at home to share recipes. She asked me to provide some theme music for the series, which was recorded of course by quarantined players. The project evolved into a cookbook, with sales benefitting the musicians' union... and then a 39-track compilation album of contributions from the book's musician/cooks.

My song "Taco Night" kicks off the whole set. I wrote "Taco Night" in June 2009, during my Sunday Songs song-blogging year, and recorded it with drummer Damien Bassman that same week. That's this recording, just the duo of us playing it down live in my old studio on W 25th St.

Visit the Musicians Cook website!

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DAVID FIRST: NEW PARTY SYSTEMS (2020)

Dave was my "school of rock" teacher at summer camp. He placed me in my, um, FIRST band when I was 10 and taught me how to be a collaborative musician. He's also an experimental music star and drone composer, but every few years he writes some songs. It was a blast to lay down some keyboards for D1st during the pandemic. Full album below, I'm on "Far Away" and "Cradle of Life."

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