Recording News

Elvin Bishop Releases Benefit CD to Help Little Smokey Smothers

Source: Just Roots PR
January 11, 2010

Elvin Bishop has released an album with his longtime friend and musical mentor, “Little Smokey" Smothers to help during a time of need. Smokey has had declining health over the last few years and recently has lost both his legs to diabetes.

Elvin met Smokey in Chicago in 1960 while attending regular college at the University of Chicago and “blues college" on the south and west sides. Smokey would have a steady mostly local career in the Chicago blues scene, ...

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Frank Sinatra's 'Strangers in the Night' CD Reissued in Deluxe Edition by Concord Music Group with Three Bonus Tracks

Source: conqueroo
January 11, 2010

With his biggest single as its centerpiece, the album won four Grammy Awards pairing the Chairman with arranger Nelson Riddle and producers Jimmy Bowen and Sonny Burke.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- “Strangers in the Night" was Frank Sinatra's best-selling single and -- between the single and its namesake album -- the recipient of four Grammy Awards including Record of the Year in 1966. But it almost didn't get to market in time, with Bobby Darin and Jack Jones cutting the ...

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New Zappa Live Disc: Philly '76

Source: JamBase
January 11, 2010

VAULTERNATIVE RECORDS RELEASES FRANK ZAPPA'S DOUBLE CD CONCERT SET PHILLY '76

Frank Zappa On December 21, which would have been Frank Zappa's 69th birthday, Vaulternative Records released Philly '76, a double CD concert recording. The new release continues the Zappa Family Trust's mission to celebrate and protect the legacy of Frank Zappa.

Recorded October 29, 1976, at the Philadelphia Spectrum, the thrilling Philly '76 is the only 16-track recording from this lineup, which features Zappa (guitar/vocals), Bianca Odin (keyboards/vocals), Ray ...

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Herb Pomeroy: A Splendored Gig

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 11, 2010

Before he became an educator at Boston's Berklee School of Music, trumpeter Herb Pomeroy briefly led a big band in the late 1950s. The band had a solid, swinging sound, like a steam locomotive going at full tilt. While Maynard Ferguson's band during this period was about the sonic impact of the brass section and frenzied daring of its soloists, Pomeroy's short-lived orchestra specialized in rhythm and round tonality, with an airy emphasis on the reed section. Through deft composing ...

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John Ellis: New Album/Tour

Source: JamBase
January 11, 2010

JOHN ELLIS AND DOUBLE WIDE TOUR IN SUPPORT OF NEW RELEASE, PUPPET MISCHIEF

John Ellis Brooklyn saxophonist John Ellis is gearing up for a busy 2010. On February 23, ObliqSound will release Puppet Mischief, the second album with his New Orleans-based band Double Wide, which in addition to Ellis features Brian Coogan on organ, Matt Perrine on sousaphone and Jason Marsalis on drums, plus special guests Gregoire Maret on harmonica and Alan Ferber on trombone.

The recording continues the former ...

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Danish guitarist Anders Westfall Releases "Live At K2"

Source: Michael Ricci
January 11, 2010

Anders Westfall-guitar, Jasper Hoiby-bass og Kalle Mathiesen-drums “Anders Westfall is a personal and true improviser and together with his band he has developed an original trio-ensemble playing characterized by openness and spontaneity" Live At K2 is recorded live at Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2008. The music is a natural and organic flow with sturdy contrasts and an infectious enjoyment. The album consists in 10 original compositions full of small references and peculiar details. ...

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Small Town Saxman Enamored by the Beat of the City

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
January 11, 2010

Michael J Thomas will release his debut soul-jazz album, City Beat, March 2nd; lilting title track is the first radio single Growing up in Cecilia, Kentucky, a small town outside of Elizabethtown, Michael J Thomas was surrounded by country music, which easily could have become his muse. Instead his parents reared him on a steady diet of Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince. Thus the saxophonist-songwriter learned how to write potent pop hooks set amidst funky and soulful ...

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18-Year-Old Rhys Tivey Featured at Gallagher's Steak House

Source: Cirillo World
January 11, 2010

Steak, with a Side of Jazz: Dinner at Gallagher's Steak House (228 West 52nd Street) will be “jazzed up" in 2010 as 18-year-old Rhys Tivey and his rotating quartet will showcase their talents every Friday and Saturday night at the famed New York eatery. The performances are from 9 p.m. - midnight on those two nights. For reservations, patrons can contact 212-245-5336 and mention JAZZ to be seated accordingly. A two drink minimum is required for those making reservations who ...

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