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)

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.

Stop kvetching! It's a beautiful day in May, and I've got concerts coming up!

The fantastic and enterprising Roustabout Theater in Santa Rosa, California, is bringing me out for a fun-filled weekend, and I hope you'll come join us!

On Saturday, MAY 22 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, MAY 23 at 3 pm, I'll be taking the stage at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts with a choir from the Roustabout Apprentice Program as well as my old friend and muse, AMY RYDER. We'll be doing lots of stuff from all of my shows, as well as a whole bunch of new songs. You can order tickets by clicking right here, or going to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102734.

Also, on Friday night, May 21, I'll be doing a public Master Class with the Roustabout students at the Carston Cabaret. More info on that can be found at the Roustabout Theater website.

And for all you Los Angelenos waiting for me to do a concert out here in L.A., mark SATURDAY, JUNE 12 on your calendars. More details to come soon!

Hey look! It's a song from Honeymoon In Vegas!

See you in Santa Rosa!
Jason Robert Brown

Go on, look up there at the title of this post. Look at that. Is that a thing of beauty? I am very proud of that subject line, people.

For all four of my shows at Birdland in March, I am being joined by the magnificent ANIKA NONI ROSE, diva of the stage (Tony Award winner for Caroline, Or Change and star of the 2008 revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), television (star of HBO's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), movies (Dreamgirls), and, according to my four-year-old daughter, easily the coolest person that has ever stepped foot in this house (thank you, Princess and the Frog).

Anika's going to be singing a whole bunch of songs, some brand new, some way old, and she will be accompanied not just by the usual Caucasian Rhythm Kings, but by the Brand New Caucasian Horns in their concert debut! That stage is going to be crowded, y'all.

So come git your tickets, people! 7 pm on March 14, 16, 17 & 18. See you there!

Sunday, March 14, at 7 pm
Tuesday, March 16, at 7 pm
Wednesday, March 17, at 7 pm
Thursday, March 18, at 7 pm

She was even in From Justin to Kelly! That's a STAR!

See you in March!
Jason Robert Brown

In the "Good Things Coming To Those Who Wait" Dept.:

I have been getting requests for "Music of Heaven" for thirteen years now, and I am delighted to say that you can now purchase the sheet music online at SheetMusicDirect.com, along with every other song of mine currently in print. Go forth! Enjoy!

Click here to go to SheetMusicDirect.com's Jason Robert Brown feature page!

And check out my new WonderPets episode starting Friday morning!

What's gonna work?
Jason Robert Brown