Written in the Rocks

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Written in the Rocks
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 5, 2016
RecordedJune 15–16, 2015
Studio Sear Sound Studio C, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length56:48
Label Smoke Sessions
Producer Paul Stache
Renee Rosnes chronology
Manhattan Rain
(2010)
Written in the Rocks
(2016)
Beloved of the Sky
(2018)

Written in the Rocks is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Renee Rosnes which was released in 2016 by Smoke Sessions Records. It won the 2017 Juno Award for Solo Jazz Album of the Year. [1] It featured Steve Wilson on alto & soprano saxophones, Steve Nelson on vibraphone, Peter Washington on bass and drummer Bill Stewart (musician).

The album repertoire was composed by Rosnes: "The KT Boundary", "Galapagos", "So Simple A Beginning", "Lucy from Afar", "Written in the Rocks", "Deep in the Blue (Tiktaalik)", and "Cambrian Explosion". https://smokesessionsrecords.com/shop/albums/written-in-the-rocks/

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