Dreamtown Records - "Songs of a Mother's Love" - Maureen Dechter - Mother's Day gift

Members of our Dreamtown Records family are always involved in some exciting project of one sort or another. We offer this page to keep you appraised of our (often hectic!) schedule and hope that sometime you can somehow share or witness one of our projects.

• Maureen will appear with the Brad Dechter Octet on May 4, 2003, at The Hamlet, a restaurant and noted jazz venue in the beautiful seaside town of Cambria, California. Click for more information > Concerts at The Hamlet

• Maureen’s album, "Songs of a Mother's Love" , is still receiving praise for its heartwarming and emotional musicality. Though the album had a small local and internet release a couple of years ago, we will be promoting it on a larger scale. In the meantime, Maureen is considering new projects; among the possibilities are a voice and piano album of romantic and emotional songs and another is a fun album of Brazilian-style bossa novas and sambas with a very interesting instrumentation idea! Stay tuned...

Public Performances:

SPRING 2003 -

• Brad will appear with his Brad Dechter Octet on May 4, 2003, at The Hamlet, a restaurant and noted jazz venue in the beautiful seaside town of Cambria, California. Click for more information > Concerts at The Hamlet

Recording Projects:

LATE 2002/EARLY2003 -

• Saw the release of Cy Coleman's life-retrospective album,
"It Started With a Dream," arranged and conducted by Brad
• Orchestration for the feature film "The Hot Chick."
• Orchestration for the feature film "The Tuxedo."
• Orchestration for the feature film "The Emporer's Club."
• Orchestration for the feature film "Treasure Planet."
• Orchestration for the feature film "Dreamcatcher."
• Orchestration for the feature film "Down With Love."
• Orchestration for the feature film "Bruce Almighty."
• Continuing work on tuba virtuoso Jim Self's jazz album with orchestra

SEPTEMBER 2002 -

• The Octet was honored to be a part of the 2002 Los Angeles Jazz Society's Annual Awards Dinner, for which Octet member Roger Neumann was honored as the Composer/Arranger of the year. We performed a handful of Roger's arrangements in the ballroom at the Biltmore Hotel. Brad was Roger's presenter while Roger gratefully accepted with an amusing and heartfelt speech. We were in great company, including the night's emcee and pre-eminent jazz deejay Chuck Niles, presenters and awardees Quincy Jones, Annie Ross, Nancy Wilson, Gerald Clayton, Herbie Hancock, not to mention an audience of hundreds which included Benny Carter, Horace Silver, John Clayton and more!

MAY 4, 2003 -

• The Brad Dechter Octet will perform at The Hamlet, a restaurant and noted jazz venue in the beautiful seaside town of Cambria, California. Click for more information > Concerts at The Hamlet