This site's been up for over four years now, and in that time, we've been posting lots of songs and snippets for your collective enjoyment. Here's a quick roundup of where you can find all the music we've put online so far:

from Songs for a New World:

Stars and the Moon, Jessica Molaskey (original cast recording, 1996)
She Cries, Jason Robert Brown (live, 2002)
The River Won't Flow, Brian D'arcy James, Billy Porter, Andréa Burns, Amy Ryder (demo, 1994)
King of the World, Billy Porter (demo, 1994)
Surabaya-Santa, Kristine Zbornik (live, 2002)
The Flagmaker, 1775, Julia Murney (live, 2003)

from Parade:

All The Wasted Time, Brent Carver & Carolee Carmello (original cast recording, 1999)
I Have Something To Say/Special To The New York Herald! (cut from the show) JRB (demo, 1996)
It Goes On And On Evan Pappas (original cast recording outtake, 1999)

from The Last Five Years:

Shiksa Goddess, Norbert Leo Butz (original cast recording, 2002)
Moving Too Fast, Jason Robert Brown (live, 2002)

from Urban Cowboy:

That's How Texas Was Born, Jason Robert Brown (original cast recording, 2003)
Mr. Hopalong Heartbreak, Jenn Colella (original cast recording, 2003)

from "13":

What It Means To Be A Friend, Krista Pioppi (demo, 2004)
"13" Medley: Being A Geek/Brand New You/Thirteen, members of the original Los Angeles cast (radio commercial, 2006)
Being A Geek, Ricky Ashley & Boys (Los Angeles cast recording, 2007)

from The Moneyman:

Coming Home (The Ballad of Michael Milken), Jason Robert Brown, Lauren Mufson (demo, 1996)
The X-Shaped Desk, The Caucasian Rhythm Kings and Orchestra (demo, 1996)
Reborn (The Fallen Angel), Jason Robert Brown (demo, 1996)
Milken On The Floor, The Caucasian Rhythm Kings and Orchestra (demo, 1996)
Money Gonna Make You A Real Man, Jason Robert Brown (demo, 1996)
I Rise, Lauren Mufson, Jason Robert Brown (demo, 1996)
Mexico, The Caucasian Rhythm Kings and Orchestra (demo, 1996)

Assorted other songs:

And I Will Follow, Lauren Kennedy (Songs of Jason Robert Brown, 2003)

Someone To Fall Back On, Jason Robert Brown (Wearing Someone Else's Clothes, 2005)

Getting Out (piano solo outtakes), Jason Robert Brown (Wearing Someone Else's Clothes outtakes, 2005)

Chanukah Suite, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, conductor (live radio broadcast, 2005)

In This Room, Lauren Kennedy & Rozz Morehead (studio recording, 2004)

More Than A Hamburger, Alise Wojciechowski (studio recording, 1998)

Theme from Rose's Dilemma, Jason Robert Brown & The Caucasian Rhythm Kings (studio recording, 2003)

Title song from show whose title cannot be disclosed, Nicole Van Giesen (studio recording, 2003)

Goin' My Way, Nicole Van Giesen (studio recording, 2003)

I had the delightful privilege of being interviewed for John Jacobson's Music Express Magazine, a Hal Leonard publication for elementary school kids. You can pick up the May/June 2010 issue here, which includes simplified sheet music for "What It Means To Be A Friend" and "Thirteen", as well as a fun article about me and my work; and you can listen to my interview with Lauren Frost by clicking this little link right here. Thanks to Andy Waterman for setting up the interview, and thanks to Music Express for having me on board!

Willkommen, bienvenue, hellobama!

It's going to be a very exciting September – the Caucasian Rhythm Kings and I are crossing the pond to bring our phantasmagoric extravaganza to the benighted peasantry of Europe, with some amazing singers along for the ride!

First stop: HAMBURG! This will be my first time performing in Deutschland and I'm totally stoked. In addition to our intrepid trio, we've got four bona fide German musical theater stars singing along with us: PIA DOUWES, WILLEMIJN VERKAIK, VOLKAN BAYDARand ALEXANDER KLAWS! And there are more fantastic singers to come!

We'll be at the TUI Operettenhaus on Monday, September 20 at 8:00 pm, and we're gonna kick the spaetzle out of that place! Ticket info is right here!

After Germany, the Boys and I high-tail it to LONDON, ENGLAND, site of many of our previous triumphs! This time, there are several special differences:

1. It's our first time performing in a real live West End theatre!
2. In addition to the trio, we've got a drummer and a horn section to make us extra-funky!
3. We're dragging along the amazing ANIKA NONI ROSE for her debut in the UK!

It's almost too much entertainment for one venue to bear, but we're going to do our best. We've got TWO performances, September 24 & 25 at the Garrick Theatre at 8:00 pm.

Ticket information for our London engagement can be found by clicking hither. Can't wait to make some musical magic on the Continent!

And while I have your attention, today marks the release of Stuart Matthew Price's debut album, All Things In Time. Stuart was the Young Soldier and Frankie Epps in the Donmar production of Parade three years ago, and since then, he's been pulling together this wonderful album of new theater songs. Georgia and I produced three of the tracks, including a brand new song of mine (the title track), a gorgeous Shakespeare setting by Georgia, and Stuart's magnificent opening number from Parade. You can find out more and pick up a copy by clicking this link to SimG Productions' website, and I would be honored if you did!

Along the same lines, the thrillingly-voiced Kevin Odekirk has released a new CD called Unheard, featuring previously unsung musical theater songs, and two of them are mine (with me at the piano and conducting the band) - "I Take It Back" from the not-particularly-lamented Urban Cowboy, and "My Name Is Archie," which was cut from 13 after the LA run. (And there's a song of Georgia's on this CD too!) You can pick up a copy of the CD at Amazon.com, and you'll agree that between Stuart and Kevin, my songs are being very well-served on recordings this year!

That's all for now, though there should be some great new sheet-music news coming soon. See you in Europe!

Auf wiedersehen, a bientôt, goodbiden!
Jason Robert Brown

And hey, follow me on Twitter!

The Festival of New American Musicals first appeared in Southern California in 2008, and since then, the folks over there have been spreading the word about musical theater all around the region, bringing under their umbrella a wonderful diversity of shows, concerts, classes & competitions, so that even the sourpussiest curmudgeon will find something to cheer his miserable heart when he talks about "LA theater, grumble grumble."

Now, to celebrate the end of their third fantastic year, FNAM have given me the extraordinary honor of devoting their final concert to my work. And so, at a very fancy-shmancy garden party in Pacific Palisades, I will be leading a kick-ass band and some of my favorite singers in the whole world through a wild afternoon JRB hoedown, and I want YOU to come!

Here's who's on the agenda:
ADAM PASCAL!
LARA PULVER!
GRAHAM PHILLIPS!
NITA WHITAKER!
with special guests The Theater Geeks Of America!
And me, of course, reducing an otherwise perfectly creditable piano to rubble while shrieking somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitches.

Won't you come out at 4 PM on Saturday, August 21 and help support this fantastic festival? And hear some insanely talented singers nail my songs? What better way is there to spend a Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles?

To make your reservation, you can just go to http://lafestival.org/2010/events/ev10closingParty.html, so go DO THAT! There are only 150 tickets!

See you on August 21!
Jason Robert Brown

Joyful greetings! A lot of firsts in this month's update!

This weekend marks my first concert in San Francisco! (Well, San Mateo, to be precise, but close enough.) I'll be doing a show on Saturday, July 24 at Broadway By The Bay's Bayside Performing Arts Center starting at 7 pm. I hope I'll see you there - please click here for more information!

Then I'm spending next week in beautiful Fargo, North Dakota, my first time ever visiting there. The historic Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre is producing 13 this summer, and to help them celebrate, I'll be doing a concert on July 28th at 7 pm as well as a Q & A, and of course I'll be attending opening night! Tickets for the concert are available here, and there's more info on the JRB website or at the FMCT website.

There have been a lot of firsts at JasonRobertBrown.com as well. If you haven't heard about the brouhaha, let me catch you up quickly: I tossed off a casual blog about a teenager named Eleanor who was uploading my sheet music illegally; suddenly thousands of people were looking at it, and blogging and tweeting about it, including David Pogue in the New York Times, which led to (among other things) me being interviewed by the BBC, me having to shut down the comments on my blog because I was getting attacked by insane tech pirates, me writing my own article about the fracas for the Times, then having a final tete-a-tete with an intellectual property lawyer at Stanford University, and it's not over yet, since I just did an interview on NPR about it yesterday that will be broadcast some time in August. So that's my first major viral Internet controversy! Sort of fun! Sort of not!

(Also on the blog, some bloodcurdling outtakes from the Wearing Someone Else's Clothes sessions, and a contest that no one has yet had the courage to enter!)

Lots of incredible stuff coming up in the next couple of months, including a Songs for a New World concert at Town Hall, concerts in Stuttgart and London, and a whole bunch of new shows that I've just started working on.

And if you care, I'm actually on Twitter! Why? Who knows! But there I am: @MrJasonRBrown, if you will. Follow me and enjoy the randomness!

See you all in San Francisco this weekend!
Jason Robert Brown

Marty Hughley's article in The Oregonian here.

Composer Jason Robert Brown highlights Portland's summer of...Jason Robert Brown
Published: Thursday, July 01, 2010, 12:33 AM
Updated: Thursday, July 01, 2010, 1:23 AM
Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

“I had always planned, somewhere along the line,” Jason Robert Brown told the audience, “to be Billy Joel.”

Jason Robert Brown joked that he was so close to the audience at the Miracle Theatre that he could "collect DNA samples." His fans didn't mind the intimate setting. Well, not everyone who wants to be a rock star ends up as one, and Brown’s skills as pianist and songwriter took him in a different direction, landing him not in arenas but on Broadway.

Even so, he might have felt at least a little like a rock star in Sunday night at Miracle Theatre, where a sold-out house of musical-theater aficionados greeted him with a roaring standing ovation, hung on his every word throughout a 90-minute solo set and a 45-minute question-and-answer session, and mobbed him (politely) for autographs during a post-show reception.

Brown may not be as widely known as Billy Joel, but he has won a Tony Award and established himself as a leading voice among a younger generation of composers (he’s recently turned 40 but first made his mark on Broadway while in his 20s) who’ve brought a rock-bred sensibility to the American musical.

Those who don’t know his work have a few more chances this summer to get acquainted. Brown is the focus of a series of events being produced jointly by the little musical-theater company Staged! and the Miracle Theatre Group, for which this weekend is prime time. A spirited production of “Songs for a New World,” -- which, as an Off-Broadway revue in 1995, launched Brown’s career -- runs through Saturday. Late Friday night, one of the city’s most talented singer/actors, Isaac Lamb, will star with Courtney Freed in a one-night-only performance of “The Last Five Years” (which also made for a fine Stumptown Stages production two years ago), Brown’s ingeniously structured and incisively emotional look at the dissolution of his own first marriage.

“Parade,” the 1999 show that earned Brown won his Tony Award for best score, and his more recent tale of adolescent social struggles, “13,” will be the basis for a pair of educational workshops, running July 19-30 for ages 10-14 and Aug. 2-13 for older teens. Then the series will conclude Aug. 19 with a cabaret featuring various Portland musical-theater stalwarts dipping into Brown’s songbook.

Chanda Hall, artistic director for Staged!, says it was “Songs for a New World” in particular that led to the series.

“We feel kind of a kinship because we’re a young company and that was a show he wrote as a young man,” she says. “It felt right because it’s an accessible work but also a difficult one that would challenge us.”

For Miracle, which focuses largely on bilingual plays with Hispanic cultural themes, the collaboration is a way to utilize its Southeast Portland theater during the off season, and to build broader connections with audiences and the artistic community.

“We love music, and we love music in our space, (which allows it to be) intimate, up-close, acoustic,” says marketing director Tim Krause. “We came to appreciate the aesthetic that Staged! has of stripping musicals down to their essence.”

So far, the biggest impediment to success for the series, Krause feels, has been the late arrival of sunny weather, which has made Portlanders gravitate to outdoor activities.

“The audiences have been smaller than we hoped, but the experience has been even greater than we expected,” he says.

The heat, however, hardly interfered with the enthusiasm on Sunday, which Brown described in a message on his web site as “a really warm (in both senses of the word) and fun concert...in Portland, my first-ever visit to this beautiful city.”

Though it’s possible a few folks in the excited crowd weren’t JRB fans coming in, it’s unlikely any remained unconverted by evening’s end.

For starters, Brown’s piano playing verged on the breathtaking, characterized by rhythmic drive and complexity, and a kind of glistening melodic architecture that subsumed decades of pop vernacular into the refined emotive machinery of Broadway. He delivered his songs (which have been covered by such magnificent singers as Audra McDonald) in an assured, flexible baritone. And he created some of the most exciting moments by inviting the -- surprised and thrilled -- cast members from “Songs for a New World” (which he’d seen earlier in the afternoon) to perform with him.

As witty and engaging as he was in his between-song banter, he was even more so during the Q&A, addressing his working methods (“By the time I get the first line, the song will be done by the end of the day; but what it takes to get me to the first line is often months”); the shortcomings of his early songs (“‘Stars and the Moon,’ I mean, I’m glad people like it and I even like it but...the whole premise of the song is farcockt!”); the importance of emotional honesty in singers (“There are a lot of great voices, but there are very few great singers”); of Hal Prince giving him his breakthrough with “Parade” (“If he had given me a musical about the history of vacuum cleaners, I’d have said, ‘I’m on it!’”).

The one question he shied from, though, might have told us the most. Asked how he felt about the state of musical theater, he replied, “I’ve learned at great cost not to expound on that...I do it the way I think it should be done and just leave it at that.”

Andrew Gans's article here.

Jason Robert Brown/Georgia Stitt Concert to Feature Taylor, Trimm, Pulver, Ryder, Chapman, Callaway
By Andrew Gans
Playbill Online, 07 Jun 2010

The songs of Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt will be presented June 12 at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, CA.

The evening of songs by the husband-and-wife composers will feature the talents of Ty Taylor (Songs for a New World), Allie Trimm (13), Lara Pulver (Parade), Amy Ryder (Damn Yankees), Tracy Nicole Chapman (Caroline, or Change) and Dan Callaway (Phantom of the Opera) as well as a 30-voice choir. Show time for the benefit concert for the church is 7:30 PM.

"We'll be doing 20 songs, many of which we've never done in concert in Los Angeles before, and those of you who don't already know Georgia's work will get to hear some incredible songs performed by an extraordinary cast," Tony winner Brown said in an e-mail.

Brown won a Tony Award for his score to Parade. He was most recently represented on Broadway with the new musical 13.

A composer, lyricist, musical director, conductor, arranger and pianist, Georgia Stitt's musicals include The Water, Big Red Sun and Sing Me a Happy Song. Stitt was the assistant conductor for the Broadway bow of Little Shop of Horrors and the associate conductor for Encores! mounting of Can-Can. A recipient of the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Fellowship and the Sue Brewer Award for excellence in music composition, Stitt is married to Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown. Her CD is titled "This Ordinary Thursday"; she also recently collaborated with lyricist Marcy Heisler on "Alphabet City Cycle," a five-song cycle for soprano.

Pasadena Presbyterian Church is located at 585 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA. For tickets, priced $35, call (626) 793-2191 or visit www.ppc.net.