Recording News

Jessie Kol's New Ep Making Impact on Itunes

Source: Michael Ricci
November 5, 2009

Released on October 20, Jessie Kol's self-titled EP is now available on iTunes. Her new vocal-jazz offering features two classic love songs, “The Way You Look Tonight" and “When I Fall In Love", and two original compositions, “Controversy" written by Tom Howard and Cindy Morgan and “This Time Of The Night" written by Tom Howard. The release of her EP is long-awaited and has already made an impressive impact with music fans on iTunes. For three days in a row, ...

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New York Prog Ensemble Izz Set to Release First Installment of Epic Series

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
November 5, 2009

New York, NY - The progressive community is buzzing with anticipation of the upcoming release by New York prog ensemble IZZ. In the past decade the group has released several highly acclaimed albums and have acumulated a large dedicated following in the process. The band's newest CD The Darkened Room is scheduled for release on November 17th and is part of an ongoing series. “This is sort of a 'Part One' of a two-part album series," says John Galgano, who ...

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Tineke Postma's "The Traveller" Featuring Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington & Scott Colley Set for U.S. Release January 12, 2010

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
November 5, 2009

Acclaimed Dutch Saxophonist's Fourth Album As A Leader Launches New Amsterdam Based Label EtceteraNow Records To Be Distributed By Allegro (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) With the January 12, 2010 release in the U.S. of The Traveller, the award-winning Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma is poised to claim within the all-important American jazz community what she has already earned in Europe and Japan: A legitimate place among today's leading jazz instrumentalists and composers.

The Traveller (EtceteraNow KTD 6003), Postma's fourth album as a ...

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Earthrise Soundsystem: The Yoga Sessions

Source: Michael Ricci
November 5, 2009

When EarthRise SoundSystem's Derek Beres and David “Duke Mushroom" Schommer first joined together to remix a song by popular mantra singer Deva Premal, they set out to create a new paradigm as to what 'yoga music' meant. The result was a percussively rich, organically spacious and dubby soundscape. This approach laid the foundation for their full length album, The Yoga Sessions (Yoga Organix: January 1, 2010), a collection of 21st century electronically inspired yet organically grown original music that will ...

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Sub Pop Announces Next Ambiance, Bassekou Kouyate

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
November 5, 2009

SUB POP RECORDS AND HOST OF KEXP'S THE BEST AMBIANCE RADIO SHOW TEAM UP TO CREATE NEW WORLD MUSIC IMPRINT: NEXT AMBIANCE

Next Ambiance's Debut Album, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba's I Speak Fula, Scheduled for Digital Release in North America on December 1st, 2009

SEATTLE, WA -- Sub Pop Records and KEXP radio host Jon Kertzer have come together to form Next Ambiance, a world music imprint. Malian band Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba's I Speak Fula will be ...

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Ashley Brown Releases Solo Debut

Source: Michael Ricci
November 5, 2009

ASHLEY BROWN, ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICES IN THE CONCERT WORLD TODAY MAKES SOLO DEBUT ALBUM SPEAK LOW RELEASING ON JANUARY 12, 2010 “A wondrous voice!" - Marvin Hamlisch New York - New York - October 29, 2009 - In the great tradition of multitalented stars, Broadway's newest diva Ashley Brown will make her solo record debut with her jazz vocal album, Speak Low. Speak Low will be released nationwide on January 12, 2010 via Ghostlight Records and Sony ...

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A Weekend of Improvisations and CD Picks

Source: See! Hear! by Richard Kamins
November 5, 2009

It's a busy weekend (11/06 & 07) at Firehouse 12 in New Haven.  On Friday evening, the Fall 2009 Concert series continues with the appearance of ODE. Originally the trio of Larry Ochs (saxophone), Trevor Dunn (bass), and Lisle Ellis (electronics, electric bass), they have added drummer Michael Sarin to the mix. The music is highly experimental, both musically and sonically, and one expects it will go in many directions. Ochs is, perhaps, best known for his work with the ...

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Funky Global Citizen Christine Vaindirlis Channels the Spirit of Home

Source: Michael Ricci
November 4, 2009

Born in London, raised in Johannesburg, trained in Milan under La Scala supervision and in Boston at Berklee, singer, composer and arranger Christine Vaindirlis is more than a mere globetrotter; she is the world. Yet wherever her free-spirited journey has taken her, shes always yearned for home: Africa!

Vaindirlis lets her global chops and love for her South African homeland shine on her vivacious debut, Dance Mama! (Ubuntu World Music; November 3, 2009), a shout out to South African jazz ...

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