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Welcome to Francesca Records!
Our artists include award winning jazz guitarist Gerry Beaudoin, rock -blues superstar guitarist Jay Geils of the legendary J.GEILS BAND, The New Guitar Summit featuring Gerry Beaudoin, Jay Geils and blues icon Duke Robillard, The Kings Of Strings featuring Gerry and Jay on acoustic guitar, Bob Nieske acoustic bass and Aaron Weinstein on mandolin and violin. We are a jazz and blues guitar oriented label. The latest act to be signed to Francesca Records is The Installers. Their new CD Nail It ,was produced by Jay Geils. Jay also plays some stinging slide and fantastic blues guitar on six cuts. Available shortly at www.cdbaby.com and www.amazon.com as well as through this website. To learn more about the Installers go to their website at www.theinstallers.net
Our motto is " Home cooked jazz and blues."
Enjoy our music.
Our company was started in 1996 by jazz guitarist and Francesca CFO Gerry Beaudoin. After years of of recording for others Gerry started his own company to promote his trio recording LIVE AT THE RENDEZVOUS. This was followed in 1998 with the all acoustic recording JUST AMONG FRIENDS with legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and mandolin titan David Grisman. Just Among Friends was distributed by Honest Entertainment but now is back home at Francesca Records. In 2002 the New Guitar Summit recorded four tracks for the FRANCESCA CD RETROSPECTIVE. The rest of this recording is tracks from Gerry, Jay and Dukes previous releases and features Jay and Magic Dick from the J.Geils Band, tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton, David Grisman, Bucky Pizzarelli, and members of Roomful Of Blues. In September 2004 Francesca released the first solo recording by Jay Geils. Returning to his first love classic jazz and blues it is titled JAY GEILS PLAYS JAZZ. It was picked up by STONY PLAIN RECORDS and a worldwide release is scheduled for March 8, 2005. Featured performers include Scott Hamilton, Billy Novick and Greg Piccolo.
Since we sell mostly on internet sites like CD Baby and Amazon or through mail order our recordings might be hard to find except for ones released through Stony Plain Records. Our Stony Plain distributed products include the self titled New Guitar Summit CD, THe New Guitar Summit DVD: Live At The Stoneham Theater and Jay Geils Plays Jazz.
All our products are available for sale through Franesca Records. To view our products please go to our BUY page.
Enjoy our music.
The Francesca Records Staff