Recording News

Review of Joe Albano's Debut Album "Open the Gate and Flood the Valley" from breakthruradio.com.

Source: Michael Ricci
November 15, 2009

Joe Albano's debut album Open the Gate and Flood the Valley is an intense spectacle of some daring music, often expressed with complex lines, intense vamps and grooves; at times it even takes shape in experimental or free improvisation. It is no coincidence Albano launched his group under the name Joe and the Meanderthals, as once in a while there seems to be some aimless or undetermined wandering around happening in their music. This is in no way to be ...

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Balkan King Hands Crown to Youthful Prince

Source: Michael Ricci
November 15, 2009

Balkan King Hands Crown to Youthful Prince: Father/Son Duo Create a Dancefloor Heaven

Clad in a suave white suit, it's not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban Markovi with getting his homeland out of a recent jam: Markovic's spit-fire precision is rumored to have so seduced Bill Clinton that the saxophone playing president called off the further NATO bombing of Serbia.

True or not, one thing is clear: Markovic and his son, prized protege Marko, ...

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Haftor Medboe Group Releases "A Box of Monkeys"

Source: Michael Ricci
November 14, 2009

Fabrikant Records announces the limited release on November 16th of A Box of Monkeys by Haftor Medbe Group available in CD and download formats exclusively from fabrikant-records.net with worldwide digital release scheduled for 01/01/10.

This fourth album by Haftor Medbe Group features exquisitely lyrical vocals by Anneke Kampman and helter-skelter programming by Gavin Hislop (aka Babyshaker) and continues the groups collaboration with Danish bass monster, Eva Malling.

Influenced by Nordic artists such as Bjork, Sigur Ros and EST alongside Scottish ...

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Recent Listening: Dick Katz (RIP)

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 14, 2009

Dick Katz, The Line Forms Here (Reservoir). The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording. It covers the range of his talents as pianist, composer and arranger. He plays alone in a moving performance of Duke Ellington's “Lotus Blossom," in a trio supported by bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Ben Riley, and blends the tenor saxophone of the veteran Benny Golson and the trumpet of newcomer Ryan Kisor in quintet ...

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Recent Listening: John Hollenbeck

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 14, 2009

John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside). The ensemble is Large, all right, in the size of the band -- 20 pieces -- and in the expansiveness of Hollenbeck's vision. He is a composer who moves into, out of and beyond established categories of musical thinking and a drummer who brilliantly meets the challenges he sets himself in his writing. Drawing on his mentor Bob Brookmeyer's example of originality and fearless innovation, Hollenbeck tempers the contemporaneity of his ideas with ...

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Salvador Santana Solo Album

Source: JamBase
November 14, 2009

SALVADOR SANTANA DEBUTS SOLO ALBUM, COLLABORATES WITH MONEY MARK, DEL, AND GZA Keyboard City Out February 2 Via Quannum/Various Music

Salvador Santana Music is a burst of choices. Not only what note to play when and with what instrument, but whether to play a note at all. Salvador Santana, the 26-year-old keyboardist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter with strong Bay Area roots, knows what it means to navigate the infinite options of music. His 2008 project with the Salvador ...

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Radiohead: Kid a/Amnesiac/Hail: Collector's Editions

Source: JamBase
November 14, 2009

By: Ron Hart

When you talk to anyone who is big into Radiohead and ask them what their three favorite Radiohead albums are, chances are you'll get something along the lines of The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A, or perhaps OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows; or you might even have the rare Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer combo plate - rare because most fans of Radiohead today hardly acknowledge the Oxford progressives' 1993 rote stutter ...

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Kimock: Live Album, Fall Tour All-Request Show, Post-Phish NYC

Source: JamBase
November 14, 2009

STEVE KIMOCK CRAZY ENGINE FALL TOUR ROLLS ON, LATE NIGHT NYC POST-PHISH FILLMORE ALL REQUEST SHOW, AND MORE

Steve Kimock Lots of Steve Kimock happenings. Where to begin?

Fan Made Voting Still Going On Now is the time to put your opinion on the record and be a part of Kimock history by voting for your favorite live song. Each week, three live songs from the tour will be posted on Kimock's Facebook page for public ...

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