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"Passion Of A Lonely Heart" is the title track from Jana Herzen's new release on Motema Music, a duo project with bassist Charnett Moffett.

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Many jazz aficionados only know Jana Herzen as the founder and president of the acclaimed Motéma Music record label. Under her stewardship, Motéma has advocated for visionaries Randy Weston, Monty Alexander, Geri Allen, Rene Marie, Gregory Porter and dozens of other dynamic and virtuosic composer/performers. What many may not realize, however, is that Ms. Herzen, whose initial professional life was in the theater, is a seasoned performer and instrumentalist with quite a talent for writing and performing.

In fact, the now multi-Grammy nominated Motéma label initially took root as an outlet for Herzen's own debut recording, Soup's on Fire. That all-original set of jazz-tinged folk, rock and worldbeat music, gained much praise for its musicality, originality and emotional depth. But Herzen's life as a record label executive increasingly took the foreground in her life as she built her label, and it's only now, on the dawn of Motéma's tenth anniversary of 'promoting artists of power an distinction', that Herzen will at last release a new album of her own powerful and distinctive music. Her sophomore release, Passion of a Lonely Heart, will street on October 9th.