The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio

05/25/2024

"Omnyama" Nduduzo Makhathini Stream/download "uNomkhubulwane" here: https://NduduzoMakhathini.lnk.to/uNomkhubulwaneIDSubscribe to the Blue Note Channel: http...

05/09/2024

Really proud about this upcoming release from Nduduzo Makhathini on Blue Note Records!

03/13/2024

Chris Allen tracking today and comparing our Audeze headphones.

12/13/2023

04/25/2023

Congrats Vanessa! I’m glad I was a part of your beautiful album. YeeeeeAah.

This Is The Moment written by Friedrich Hollaender and Leo Robin from the 1948 musical film "That Lady in Ermine.""This Is The Moment" is the first single of...

06/22/2022

That was a fun session! I can’t wait to get a copy…

04/29/2022

We had a lot of fun this past week filming Fred Hersch’s next master class for Open Studio Jazz.

03/06/2022

Congrats Pietra Bros! I’m glad to be apart of this album.

The Pietra Group is a jazz-fusion group performing original compositions by brothers Joe and Mario Pietra. Following the success of their debut album, Remote Narration (2013), The Pietra Group elevates their storytelling in the newly-released studio album, People Chain (2021).

11/24/2021

Big Congratulations to Mr. Kenny Barron on his Grammy Nomination for best Jazz Improv solo “kick those feet” on my dear friend Gerry Gibbs album “songs from my father” which was recorded and mixed by David Stoller at the Samurai Hotel Recording Studio!

11/23/2021

Brandee Younger’s jazz album “Somewhere Different” has been nominated for a Grammy in the category “Best Instrumental Composition” We are so happy to have recorded and mixed her album here at The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio. Congrats Brandee!!!!

03/30/2021

I’m happy to be apart of this album. Fun was had!

The Pietra Group is a jazz-fusion group performing original compositions by brothers Joe and Mario Pietra. Following the success of their debut album, Remote Narration (2013), The Pietra Group elevates their storytelling in the newly-released studio album, People Chain (2021).

11/08/2020

https://youtu.be/SZpQRdbIMuA

Footage from the studio session for Supersense, featuring works by "cutting edge jazz star" (JazzTimes) and trumpeter Steph Richards, this project includes m...

11/04/2020

Come us with DJ Logic live from the Samurai Hotel tonight!

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09/30/2020

Congrats Matt Geraghty! I’m proud to play a small roll in this beautiful project!

⭐ The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music ⭐

We proudly announce our Latin Grammy Nomination for Best Long Form Music Video.

🙏🏽 Thanks to all of the artists who made this important project possible that challenges machismo, racism and discrimination with our best weapon, music.

🙏🏽 Thanks to the entire production team for their invaluable work and talent.

-Just Play

09/12/2020

08/20/2020

Nice review for my friend James Carney on NPR! We recorded this back in 2016 at the Samurai Hotel. Not only is he a great composer and pianist, he is one of the best piano technicians in NYC. If you are looking for a piano or need your piano worked on, James is your guy.

Carney rounds up diverse musicians in a sextet that cuts across generations, stylistic preferences and social circles. Their interpersonal chemistry flows on a new album.

08/18/2020

Live from the Samurai Hotel tonight!!!

08/10/2020

Happy to be apart of your beautiful album Carolina Calvache!

Music and Lyrics by Carolina Calvache. Musica y letra compuesta por Carolina Calvache. Te Conocí de Nuevo, es una canción que hace parte del album "Vida Prof...

06/24/2020

Beautiful work Matt Geraghty. Another masterpiece!

05/28/2020

Matt Geraghty has been releasing his beautiful compositions we recorded together over the past couple years together with some stunning videos.

05/23/2020

Recorded and mixed a beautiful record for JD Walter performing with some of the best pianists on the jazz scene. Here is a music video from this new release!

I was adopted before the age of one. "Dressed in a Song" was written for my Mother who was and is a musician. She nurtured me musically and helped me to find...

03/31/2020

Really sad about losing Wallace Roney today. He was such a great mentor to so many young great musicians. Wallace was part of the reason for me to move up to NYC in 2004 and the first person to encourage me to follow my dreams to build my first recording studio. Rest In Peace dear friend, mentor and genius.

08/11/2019

Photo Coverage: Anthony Nunziata Hits the Recording Studio for Solo Debut Album

https://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/Photo-Coverage-Anthony-Nunziata-Hits-the-Recording-Solo-for-Debut-Album-20190809

Nunziata fans are now going to be able to �take home Anthony� after his solo concert shows.  He's in the famed Samurai Hotel Recording Studios in Astoria, N.Y. recording his solo debut album as we speak.   You will not be able to take home his twin brother Will Nunziata on th...

04/17/2019

Congrats!

"LET'S PLAY!" IS OUT! My debut album with Ben Wolfe, Donald Edwards and Marcus Strickland, recorded at The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio. Thank you to Dan Miller for helping to get this started, Rachel Faro for helping us finish it and to Mary Ann Topper and Jason Byrne Red Cat Publicity for spreading the word. Here are a few ways to get it:
CD BABY - http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/brandongoldberg
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lets-play/1457158102
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/7C4qQNqOlDIzZ0vIt00WUC
AMAZON - https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Play-Brandon-Goldberg/dp/B07PWBCT3Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=let%27s+play+brandon+goldberg&qid=1555068496&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Cover Photo: Kasia Idzkowska

04/15/2019

Just Play

What a great documentary Matt Geraghty is putting together! We’re glad to be apart of these amazing Peruvian sessions.

Just Play continues our travels creating cross-cultural music collaborations around the world. In this series, Just Play is now in Lima, Peru for our documentary and upcoming album ‘The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music’ featuring powerful artists within the African diaspora.

Today Just Play launches our first chapter of this ongoing series featuring vocalist Rosita Guzmán León, Coco Vega (Guitar) and Matt Geraghty (Bass)

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Visit www.justplay.world to join our mailing list, learn more and donate to the ongoing international project.


Just Play continúa viajando y creando colaboraciones musicales interculturales en todo el mundo. En esta serie nos encontramos en Lima, Perú, donde realizamos nuestro documental y próximo álbum, "Mujeres Guerreras de la Música Afroperuana", con artistas poderosos dentro de la diáspora Africana.

Hoy Just Play lanza el primer capítulo de esta serie en curso presentando a la cantante Rosita Guzmán, a Coco Vega (Guitarra) y a Matt Geraghty (Contra Bajo)

Sigue en Instagram y visite www.justplay.world para aprender más sobre este proyecto internacional.
Executive Producer - Matt Geraghty
Producer - Araceli Poma Zúñiga
Producer - Javier Lazo
Music/Content Producer, Recording and Mixing Engineer - Zé Luis
The Atelier Music Studio
Engineered by Edu Olivé Gómez
Engineered and Mixed by David Stoller
The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio
Photography by Daniel Thissen and Elias Mujica Checa
New York, San Juan, Cuba, New Orleans Footage Filmed & Directed by Laura Newman
Additional Studio Footage by Joseph Mathew
Additional Creative Consultation: Karl Jacob, Brett Gardner, Rob K. Srivastava, Matt Callaghan
Translation: Israel Navarro
Special thanks to Alan Brain

04/10/2019

The maestro Benny Green and his trio wrapped up their third day in the studio with us today!

03/28/2019

Monday night we got out of the studio to celebrate Brandon Goldberg‘s cd release “LET’S PLAY!” at Dizzy’s club at Lincoln Center! We are very proud to have recorded, mixed and mastered this young mans debut album.

03/26/2019

Brandon Goldberg

Brandon Goldberg

In the studio and making of LET'S PLAY! SO excited to share this video with behind the scenes footage making my debut album, LET'S PLAY! (available 4/12/19) with the amazing Ben Wolfe, Donald Edwards, and special guest Marcus Strickland recorded at The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio. I am humbled, grateful and honored to have these very accomplished musicians on my first project. Thank you to Andrei Matorin for making this video. Red Cat Publicity

Let’s Play! (available worldwide on April 12) is the premiere album from Brandon Goldberg, an energetic, swinging new force on the piano. What you experience when hearing Goldberg (who turned thirteen in early 2019) on Let’s Play! is a refined gift, sculpted by years in the woodshed, inspired by pianists recognized by one name, Monk, McCoy, Herbie, Chick, Bud and others, imbued with a pure love and joy for this music and nurtured by a supportive family - all fortified by the Florida sun! Let’s Play! was recorded at The Samurai Hotel Recording Studio just weeks before Brandon's twelfth birthday, and features veteran musicians, Ben Wolfe on bass, Donald Edwards on drums and special guest Marcus Strickland on tenor saxophone. Video by Andrei Matorin

03/15/2019

We had a blast dancing and recording Oko Ebombo’s next record. His music blends seamlessly & mixes up hip hop, jazz, pop, dance and poetry. A shout out to our business partner and trumpet extraordinaire Antoine Drye, tenor saxophonist Myron Walden, trombonist Stafford Hunter, bassist/cellist Noah Jackson, pianist James Hurt & percussionist Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed.