Recording News

"Love Will Come" with New George Winston Album

Source: Michael Ricci
December 3, 2009

Pianist George Winston recorded a tribute album in 1996 to jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976), a musician beloved by generations for the compositions he recorded for various Charlie Brown television specials and for his standard “Cast Your Fate to the Wind." That album was Linus & Lucy--The Music of Vince Guaraldi, and Winston revisits his musical hero a second time with Love Will Come--The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Vol. 2, a collection of a wide range of Guaraldi interpretations. The ...

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New Miles Brown CD Featuring Steve Brown and Rich Thompson!

Source: Michael Ricci
December 2, 2009

Just released! Bassist Miles Brown's first solo album! Featuring his father, Steve Brown, and drummer Rich Thompson, Share My Life is a straight-ahead jazz guitar trio record in the style of Jim Hall, Joe Pass, and Wes Montgomery.

Miles Brown is a versatile bassist and composer. In addition to his own jazz groups, Miles is the bassist for the New Music Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, and works as an orchestral bassist in the Metro Detroit and New York areas. Miles ...

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Massive Attack to Release Heliogoland February 9

Source: JamBase
December 2, 2009

MASSIVE ATTACK SET TO RELEASE FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM HELIGOLAND, ON VIRGIN RECORDS FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Massive Attack Legendary trip-hop duo Massive Attack are set to release their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Heligoland, on EMI's Virgin Records on February 9, 2010. Last month, the duo released their first new material in three years, giving fans a preview of Heligoland with a four song EP titled Splitting the Atom, which features two album tracks and two album track remixes. ...

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CDs of Note

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
December 2, 2009

Hal Weary, A Rendezvous with Deja Vu (Musichal Entertainment)

There's more than a little influence of Horace Silver on this hard-bop project. This is a good thing, as rarely can you gone with the funky sort of swing that graced the best of Silver's projects. All right, all of his projects. Weary, a New York-based pianist, has strong support from trumpeter Kenyatta Beasley, saxophonist Stantawn Kendrick, bassist Gregory Williams and drummer Jerome Jennings. All of the playing is stellar. My ...

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Was (Not Was) to Release 3-Decade Retrospective Set, 'Pick of the Litter (1980-2010)'

Source: conqueroo
December 2, 2009

19-song compilation features Sweet Pea Atkinson, Sir Harry Bowens, Wayne Kramer, Booker T. Jones, Iggy Pop, Al Kooper, Doug Fieger, Marcus Miller and more

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Was (Not Was), dubbed “the funkier art-funk band" by The New York Times, have spanned three decades with their mutant mix of jazz, rock, R&B and funk. On February 23, 2010, Micro Werks will release Pick of the Litter (1980-2010), a 19- song disc that opens with the ZE/Antilles 12" single “Wheel ...

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A Special Selection of Black Saint and Soul Note Recordings Will Be Available in an Exclusive Sale on iTunes

Source: Michael Ricci
December 1, 2009

From December 1 to January 5 Only CAM Jazz announced that iTunes, the world's largest digital music service, will be the retailer of 56 selected albums from the seminal Black Saint and Soul Note catalogs. iTunes will create a special sale room to feature the music from December 1 through January 5, 2010. The 56 albums include works by artists such as Lester Bowie, Art Farmer, Charlie Haden, Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor... just to name a few. Two ...

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Which is Which, the New Release by Baritone Saxophone Trio Reed's Bass Drum

Source: Michael Ricci
December 1, 2009

Reed's Bass Drum is a Brooklyn based jazz collective focused on composing music as dialogue for baritone saxophone, bass and drums. “I originally organized the trio as a workshop for compositions that simultaneously embrace the spectral range of baritone saxophone and bass, and are built around melodies that transcend the trio sound and become collective musical statements," says baritone saxophonist and composer Jonah Parzen-Johnson. Reed's Bass Drum explores the trio format both as a way to place the bass and ...

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Groove Armada: Black Light

Source: JamBase
December 1, 2009

GROOVE ARMADA SET TO RELEASE BLACK LIGHT FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Groove Armada Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, better known together as Groove Armada, will release their sixth studio album, Black Light, February 23, 2010 in the U.S. The album, which features an impressive list of guest artists, represents a bold new phase in the duo's artistic evolution, while maintaining a signature Groove Armada style that fans have come to know and love.

Drawing inspiration from Lovebox - their award-winning London ...

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