Recording News

More Free MP3 Sampler Albums Available from amazon.com

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 10, 2009

Everybody likes getting free stuff, and online retailer Amazon.com regularly offers free music in MP3 format to entice potential customers into checking out some of its more esoteric offerings as well as the top hits. Amazon currently is offering two free sampler albums in MP3 format that, although they may not have a specific connection to St. Louis, may be of interest to StLJN readers.First, there's a free sampler from Pi Records that contains ten tracks from musicians ...

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John Coltrane: Side Steps

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 9, 2009

When box sets are smartly packaged, they provide enormous joy and education. Listening to an artist through a great set exposes you to vital recordings you may have skipped otherwise. You also experience the full thrust of the artist's work and are able to track the creative growth curve over a period of years. But for a box to be truly superb, it must be more than just a vast collection of music clinging to a timeline. The quality of ...

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Vocal Music in the Elm City and CD Pick

Source: See! Hear! by Richard Kamins
December 9, 2009

The Fall 09 season at Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street in New Haven, continues this week with the Amy Cervini Quartet playing 2 shows Friday night (12/11) at 8:30 and 10 p.m. Ms. Cervini and band (brother Ernesto on drums, bassist Mark Lau and pianist Michael Cabe) are in the midst of a short tour that takes them from New York (12/08) to Boston (12/10) and finishing at Firehouse 12. There's a new cd, “Lovefool“ (Orange Grove Artists), her second ...

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Charlie Hunter New Album 01/12

Source: JamBase
December 9, 2009

CHARLIE HUNTER TO RELEASE GENTLEMEN, I NEGLECTED TO INFORM YOU YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING PAID ON JANUARY 12, 2010

Charlie Hunter Charlie Hunter's latest recording effort, Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid, features the jaw-dropping guitarist alongside drummer Eric Kalb (Sharon Jones, John Scofield), and a new horn section including trombonist Curtis Fowlkes (Jazz Passengers, Lounge Lizards, Bill Frisell), trombonist Alan Ferber (Don Byron, Kenny Wheeler), and trumpeter Eric Biondo (Antibalas, ...

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Brian Owens Releases New CD/DVD

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 9, 2009

Singer Brian Owens, who blends jazz with soul, pop and gospel, has released a new combination CD/DVD package called Brian Owens and Martha Mae Live at the Sheldon Concert Hall.The project (pictured) was recorded in November at The Sheldon, and is currently on sale for $25 per copy via Owens' website.Owens will do a free holiday concert at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 20 at O'Fallon Township High School's Milburn Campus Auditorium in O'Fallon, IL, and ...

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The Rosenberg Trio and Bireli Lagrene Celebrate Django in 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
December 9, 2009

THE ROSENBERG TRIO DJANGOLOGISTS FEATURING BIRELI LAGRENE NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN JANUARY 2010 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY ON THE ROSENBERG TRIO'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE AND ITUNES, AMAZON, NAPSTER ETC. As a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Manouche guitar genius Django Reinhardt, The Rosenberg Trio invite their friend and guitarist extraordinaire Bireli Lagrene, premiering studio time for an unparrallelled Manouche “Dream-Team". The Rosenberg Trio steps into digital distribution, and seizes the opportunity to go BIG : ...

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Art Farmer: The Aztec Suite

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 9, 2009

Many top jazz albums recorded in 1959 were exhaustively celebrated this year in print on behalf of their 50-year anniversaries. The list includes Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, Time Out, Mingus Ah Um and The Shape of Jazz to Come. One recording that's in the same league but has been strangely overlooked is Art Farmer's The Aztec Suite, with arrangements by Chico O'Farrill. Recorded on July 29 and 30, 1959, The Aztec Suite appeared on United Artists Records, which was ...

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Leni Stern "Spirit in the Water" Evokes India, Mali, Madagascar

Source: Seth Cohen PR
December 9, 2009

Elemental Spirits, Dream Readers, Sorcerers, Tuaregs and Geopolitics Fuel Leni Stern's Global Sound, as she Roams from South India to Africa on Striking New EP Songs in Tamil, Wollof, Bambara, Uruba (and English,) All Recorded on Analog Tape, Create a Haunting Dreamscape, as Stern Evokes Peter Gabriel on 'Spirit in the Water' Singer/guitarist Leni Stern wraps her arms around a global sound on her striking new EP, 'Sprit In the Water'. Fueled by recent journeys to India, Mali, Madagascar and ...

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