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Last Summer
Release Date: January 2012 |
Last Summer is Reynold's first album of 2012 and casts his gypsy jazz and jazz guitar into a more highly produced context. Utilizing real strings, brass and woodwinds, Reynold exercises his arranging skills. |
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Tales from the North Woods
Release Date: April 2011 |
Reynold's latest CD features nine new original compositions exploring his personal takes on gypsy jazz, bebop, Slavic folk, latin folk and modal jazz are displayed throughout the CD.
The album title reflects Reynold's childhood influences growing up in northern Minnesota and further explores his Slavic ancestry much like the All the Things You Are release. |
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All the Things You Are
Release Date: June 2010
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This CD of new compositions combines Reynold's love for the guitar and is also a homage to his Slavic ancestors. He has been continuing to research his ancestry and found his grandparents came from an area in Poland called Upper Silesia, situated in the Silesian highlands between the upper Oder and upper Vistula rivers and split between Poland and the Czech Republic. |
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Imagine That
Released: December 2009
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Coming full circle to his roots as a singer, Reynold has assembled a solid compilation of timeless classics by Gus Kahn and George Gershwin plus a few originals to give it a energetic balance. This is the first recording in a long time to feature his vocals and allows the listener an opportunity to see him in a fresh but still very familiar setting.
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East Side
Released: March 2009
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The new quartet of Reynold (guitar), Clint Hoover (chromatic harmonica), Matt Senjem (acoustic bass) and Michael Bissonnette (percussion) makes up EAST SIDE. The new CD has six original tunes and the music is a blend of influences from Piazzolla to Miles Davis with some tunes in a very extended forms with lots of interplay and improvisation.
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Anthology
Released: October 2008
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This collection has Reynold in a number of settings (quartet, quintet, solo and with orchestra). Reynold's penchant for arranging has him cast with virtuoso players on chromatic harmonica, violin, flute, viola and accordion. The sixteen tracks are an impressive mixture of Reynold's career work (so far), styles and influences throughout his four decade career as a singer/songwriter.
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Long Ago, Far Away
Released: November 2007 |
As Reynold's music journey continues to evolve into jazz and gypsy jazz, an opportunity to remaster a select group of tracks from his singer/songwriter phase became available. The chance to remaster some favorite tracks to give them a little more contemporary sparkle and to finally make them for digital download was too good to pass up. This limited edition CD brings a chance to hear nine Reynold tracks far cleaner and more powerful than ever before.
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What It Is
Released: September 2007
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What It Is was born from several Spring 2007 sessions as preparation for a solo gig scheduled for early summer. This new work is primarily first takes, which preserves the spontaneity which is usually only found in live performances. The thirteen tracks are an energetic mixture of originals and standards with the selections grounded in both improvisational excitement and the desire to take risks to embrace the feeling which only comes when the artist embraces "what it is" and makes the moment their own. |
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Artifacts and Curiosities
Released: January 2006
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The CD is an odds and ends compilation, featuring four new never-released-before versions of his compositions, an assortment of remixed tracks and some surprise additions.
Reynold is successful in providing listeners with some dramatic remixes of previously released tracks and as a result, improves the listening experience. He wanted to present his "best" pieces without merely recycling old recordings and therefore, creating something new from the old.. |
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25
Released: October 2005
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This album has special meaning for Reynold at several levels: When this CD was released, it had been 25 years since he was diagnosed with cancer and it happened to be the 25th album released under his name. The album contains eight tracks: all but one of these tracks are new and freshly recorded versions of previously recorded tunes. Influenced by a wide range of musicians from Hank Williams to Django to Pat Martino to Thelonious Monk, 25 represents a moment to reflect and look ahead at the same time.
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Bistro
Released: January 2005
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Still bearing the key influences of both gypsy and American jazz, Bistro captures some of the spirit found in the music of both the 1950's and 1960's but still keeps true to Reynold's consistent quality of recorded material. This CD also represents a return to a record featuring vocals.
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Grey Chalet
Released: May 2004
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This Reynold release comes with a continuation of the Homage to Django project. That limited edition CD sold out so Reynold added some ten new tunes (both four originals plus Django tunes) all in the Gypsy (Manouche) Jazz style. By the end of 2004, Reynold began performing this material with longtime friend, Michael Bettendorf.
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Three Piece Suite
Released: December 2003
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A nice departure from his solo work, Reynold enlists the very talented saxophonist Al Asmus and equally talented bassist Jeff Engholm to explore some of Reynold's innovative works. The first three tracks (Lisbon '65, The Laughing Cavalier and Sidewalk Cafe) provide the listener with some intriguing harmonic backdrops for melody and composition. These pieces were written years apart yet there are striking harmonic links and natural progressions evident throughout.
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Themes from Imaginary Movies
Released: January 2003
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Taking inspiration from 1960's film scores, pop and jazz, Philipsek has fashioned his own set of memorable themes for imaginary movies. Reynold's guitar soars above lush orchestrations of everything from a pseudo-James Bond theme to a spaghetti western. The new CD has 11 tracks and is instrumental tracks featuring guitar and orchestra and recreates movie-like themes from a faux James Bond to Spaghetti Western and film noir.
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Guitar
Released: June 2002
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The follow-up to the well-received 14 Pieces for Guitar, this collection is a balanced mix of standards and originals that properly showcase this guitarist's sense of form and knack for jazz improvisation.
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Paris Suite
Released: November 2000
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Inspired by a trip to Paris, this CD captures the sounds and spirit of this great city.
"Philipsek, a prolific guitarist/songwriter and arranger, presents chamber compositions that seem inspired by Satie, Ravel and Debussy. This CD is a musical walking tour of the city of light." - Dirty Linen Review, 2001.
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Old Ghosts
Released: October 1999
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The CD was released just in time for Halloween 1999 and provides provoking songs covering many aspects that haunt in the realm of the supernatural. A favorite of many of his fans, Old Ghosts balances Reynold's whimsy, solid musicianship with an overall adventurous vibe that has aged well since its 1999 release.
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Paint Your Own World
Released: May 1998
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A "best of " compilation of Reynold's more pop-oriented material. City Pages said in 1998 that the CD was "the greatest hits of the local guitar wiz and an invaluable aid to surfing through his tidal wave of releases."
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The First Hundred Years (...are the roughest)
Released: September 1996
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Guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Reynold D. Philipsek displays an eclectic approach featuring both live and studio tracks on 14 original pieces.
The StarTribune (8/1996) wrote, "He is a consistently impressive daredevil who seems destined for rediscovery sometime next century. Why wait?"
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House of Curiosities
Released: November 1995
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A concept album influenced by Reynold's interest in Poe, Dickens and The Beatles.
"Reynold creates his own mythology. Musically, he is as likely to crib form 12 tone music as 12 bar blues." - Twin Cities Reader. January, 1996
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Global Home Movie
Released: December 1994
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Inspired by Reynold's around the world travels, this album was nominated for the 1995 Minnesota Music Award for best OVERALL WORLD MUSIC RECORDING.
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Titles Available only from Rephi Records
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Cottage Industry
Released: October 2009 |
Homage to Django
Released: July 2003 |
Now What?
Released: May 2003 |
Middle-aged Child Prodigy
Released: January 2002 |
14 Pieces for Guitar
Released: June 2001 |
Fool's Paradise
Released: April 2000 |
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20th Century Good-bye
Released: July 1997 |
Reynold
Released: May 1993 |
Memory Lane
Released: June 1992 |
What's Inside?
Released: April 1991 |
The Peter Pan Principle
Released: June 1989 |
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Three Piece Suite/Munsinger Gardens (DVD)
Released: February 2005 |
Filmed in July 2004, Reynold has created a DVD of the trio's gig in Munsinger Gardens. Teamed with Saxophonist Al Asmus and Bassist Jeff Engholm, the DVD captures both the beauty of Munsinger Gardens and eleven tracks of both Reynold's origins and classic standards.
The eleven tracks include cuts from Reynold's Three Piece Suite CD (Lisbon, July and East Side), his Now What? CD (Roma, Philip Marlowe) as well as some classic tunes (Days of Wine and Roses, Night and Day, All of Me). This limited edition DVD was recently made available and is a great compliment to Reynold's CD catalog. |
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Journey to the Middle Ages
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Released: June 1999 |
Inspired by Chaucer and Dante, these verses primarily deal with Reynold's thoughts about death, aging, time, fear and religion.
Reynold writes in the introduction: "This is a book of verse. I won't call in poetry because I've heard in order to be called poetry it would have to be some pretty highfalutin stuff. Actually, these verses were originally intended to be set to music for my 11th CD album of songs. The lyrics and general theme grew beyond my usual scope for song fodder, so I threw caution to the wind and decided to publish this book."
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