Recording News

Roman Miroshnichenko's CD in Top Albums List !

Source: All About Jazz
October 11, 2009

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B.J. Jansen to Release His Fourth Album, "Syracuse Connection," Featuring Frank Stagnitta

Source: JM Creative
October 10, 2009

B.J. Jansen to release his fourth Album, Syracuse Connection, featuring Frank Stagnitta on JansenMusic Records, LLC - USA Release date: November 6th, 2009 at 11:06:09 AM. Syracuse Connection features four new original compositions by B.J. Jansen and one new composition from Frank Stagnitta with two additional Jansen arrangements of popular standards. Musicians on the date include: B.J. Jansen (baritone saxophone), Frank Stagnitta (piano), Matt Vacanti (bass) and Karl Sterling (drums). This album ...

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Bill Perkins: On Stage

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 9, 2009

Tenor Saxophonist Bill Perkins' first album as a leader was On Stage for Pacific Jazz Records. In February 1956, “Perk" or “Phineas" assembled an impressive octet and reached out to California's leading arrangers of the day for charts. What makes On Stage special is Perkins' saxophone sound, which is strong, eloquent and smoothly sculptured. As legendary arranger and tenor saxophonist Bill Holman told me yesterday, Perkins was among the finest practitioners of the Lester Young style of playing and had ...

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Waylon Jennings' RCA Years Chronicled on Collectors' Choice

Source: conqueroo
October 9, 2009

From 1966’s Chet Atkins-produced RCA debut, Folk Country, to 1970’s Waylon album, these Colin Escott-annotated reissues track the birth of an Outlaw.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Waylon Jennings is the recognized father of the Outlaw movement of country, a rebel against the Nashville establishment whose recordings blended honky- tonk, rock ’n’ roll and folk in a way virtually nobody else was doing at the time. Collectors’ Choice has chosen six of Jennings’ many RCA long-players from 1966-’70 and ...

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Somi Releases Third Album, If the Rains Come First

Source: GoMedia PR
October 9, 2009

Acclaimed Jazz/World/Neo-Soul Artist Will Perform in New York, DC and Boston To Support CD Release

When Somi was growing up, her mother told her that the rain, ever unpredictable, could be as much a blessing as a challenge. The blessings might come before the rain, or they could come after - it's all in the timing, she said. That notion has stayed with the charismatic singer and songwriter all her life and ...

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Fulfilling Graduation Requirement, Ui Saxophone Student's CD is Opening Ears

Source: All About Jazz
October 9, 2009

Fulfilling graduation requirement, UI saxophone student's CD is opening ears Programming directors and on-air personalities at jazz radio stations keep their ears open for exciting new work in the ongoing stream of new CD releases. When they hear something fresh, they share the music with their listeners. One of the recent CD's to catch their attention is “Complete Life," by saxophonist Joel Vanderheyden (http://www.joelvanderheyden.com), which has already captured airtime in Iowa, New York, California, Virginia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Michigan, ...

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Jon Irabagon Set to Release Concord Jazz Debut

Source: On Target Media Group
October 9, 2009

On October 20th, Concord Jazz will release The Observer, saxophonist and composer Jon Irabagon’s newest recording as a leader, Concord debut and follow up to his first album as leader, Outright!, released last year by Innova. Winning the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition has afforded Irabagon the opportunity to assemble a dream-team of musicians, including the stellar rhythm section of pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Victor Lewis, alongside veteran producer Don Sickler and legendary engineer Rudy ...

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Brian Wilson to Finish Some George Gershwin Songs

Source: Michael Ricci
October 8, 2009

Wilson plans to finish and record at least two songs on an album of Gershwin music that could be released next year.

In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of “Good Vibrations," the other the Jazz Age creator of “Rhapsody in Blue," former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937.

He plans to ...

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