Recording News

The Jason Parker Quartet Release Their Second Album "No More, No Less" Oct. 24

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2009

J&J Music is proud to present the release of The Jason Parker Quartet’s second album, “No More, No Less”. The JPQ will celebrate with a CD Release Party at Lucid Jazz Lounge on October 24, 2009 at 9:30pm. The JPQ is: Jason Parker (trumpet), Josh Rawlings (piano), Evan Flory-Barnes (bass) and D’Vonne Lewis (drums). They are joined on three tracks by special guest Cynthia Mullis on tenor sax.

“No More, No Less” is the follow-up to the JPQ’s self-titled debut ...

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Douglas Detrick's Anywhen Ensemble's "Walking Across"

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2009

Douglas Detrick's AnyWhen Ensemble announces the release of its debut album, “Walking Across" on 8 Bells Records. “Walking Across” is a collection of original compositions performed by his chamber jazz group Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble that feature improvisation and composition woven together into an engaging new music that lies somewhere between chamber music and jazz. The AnyWhen Ensemble, in addition to its debut recording on 8Bells Records, completed a successful, self-produced west coast tour, including a performance in Seattle featuring ...

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Norah Jones to Release "The Fall" on Blue Note Records

Source: Michael Ricci
September 26, 2009

Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release The Fall, her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records on November 17, 2009. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since completing tours in support of her 2007 global chart-topping, U.S. double-platinum album Not Too Late. Beloved by fans for her sultry vocals and jazz-informed, piano-driven pop songwriting, Jones has taken a new direction on The Fall, seeing it as ...

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Tori Amos: New Album First Seasonal Release

Source: JamBase
September 26, 2009

Midwinter Graces Arrives November 10

Tori Amos Tori Amos will release her first seasonal album, Midwinter Graces, on November 10 via Universal Republic. A follow up to Tori's critically acclaimed studio album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Midwinter Graces will find Amos reworking and expanding on classic carols as well as developing some of her own seasonal tracks.

Midwinter Graces is an album that has been in the making for the past 40 years. Raised in the Baltimore area under the ...

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Prestige to Release New Coltrane 5-CD Boxed Set

Source: On Target Media Group
September 26, 2009

Over the past three years, Prestige Records has released boxed sets of Coltrane’s numerous sessions from the mid to late ’50s, each spotlighting a specific dimension of his tenure with the label. Fearless Leader – released September 2006, in celebration of Coltrane’s 80th birthday – showcases his recordings as a bandleader. Interplay, released September 2007, contains Coltrane’s early collaborative recordings with a variety of stellar musicians from the same era. And now, Side Steps is the third and final set ...

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Hart 4 + SF7

Source: See! Hear! by Richard Kamins
September 25, 2009

(photo by John Rogers)Listener alert!  WBGO-FM and NPR presented the Billy Hart Quartet live in concert last night (9/23/09) and you can download the concert as well as Josh Jackson's informative interview with the drummer/ bandleader by going hereAnd, the next time someone informs you that “jazz is dying" or is a creative deadend, point them in the direction of this music.  The nearly 69-year old Hart plays with taste and occasional abandon throughout ...

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Dick Collins: Horn of Plenty

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
September 25, 2009

The beauty of jazz is that there's always a great musician you've never heard of lurking in the e-bins of online jazz stores. One of these fabulous phantoms was trumpeter Dick Collins, whose horn had a pert, lyrical sound that wasn't too hot or too cool. During the 1950s, Collins recorded as a sideman with various San Francisco artists and with Woody Herman and Les Brown up until 1962, when he presumably disappeared into the studio orchestras of the West ...

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Creedence Clearwater Revival Boxed 'The Singles Collection'

Source: conqueroo
September 25, 2009

Creedence Clearwater Revival's golden era of hit singles (fall of 1968 through spring of 1972) rivals that of any band in rock 'n' roll history. The Southern-flavored quartet from El Cerrito, Calif., turned out 17 hits in a 44-month stretch, nine of them in the Top 10, five of them in the Top 5.

On November 3, Fantasy Records will release The Singles Collection, a two-CD, one-DVD box with a slip case, containing all of the band's U.S. singles -- ...

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