Recording News

Funky Butt Brass Band Releases Debut CD

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 14, 2009

The Funky Butt Brass Band has self-released their debut CD, Cut The Body Loose.The disc has 14 tracks, including two originals from the St. Louis-based sextet, spanning “trad jazz to Chicago blues to down-and-dirty funk that'll make your backbone slip--plus a few aural surprises."Cut Your Body Loose currently is on sale at the band's gigs, or tracks can be downloaded at www.digstation.com. The FBBB also plans to make the CD available for download and mail order ...

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Hidden Jazz Downloads (Vol. 10)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 14, 2009

From time to time I feature fabulous little-known albums that are available as downloads at iTunes, Amazon and other online retailers. I call them “hidden" because online retailers do so little promotion that you'd never know these albums existed unless you stumbled upon them like I did. (For the other nine volumes in this series, go to my search engine in the upper right-hand corner and type in “Hidden Jazz Downloads.") Here are my latest five finds:

Delightful Doris Drew ...

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Jerry Joseph Live Album

Source: JamBase
August 14, 2009

Jerry Joseph Live Recording Announced Virginia City, Montana at Bandito's - August 28-30, 2009

Jerry Joseph Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons featuring Jerry Joseph (guitar/vocals), JR Ruppel (bass/vocals) and Steve Drizos (drums) will make their triumphant return to Bandito's in Virginia City, Montana on August 28-30, 2009 for three shows! This year the band will be doing something special, as they plan to record the run of shows for the next Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons live release Live ...

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard: To Release Kerouac Tribute

Source: JamBase
August 14, 2009

Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard Join Forces For New Album Inspired By Jack Kerouac's Big Sur One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur Out October 20

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie - with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur - is set ...

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Miroslav Vitous - Remembering Weather Report

Source: ECM Records
August 13, 2009

Remembering Weather Report - a new album from bassist Miroslav Vitous was released on July 7th. According to Nate Chinen of the New York Times, Vitous “brings a rigorous sense of proportion to this album, exploring free-form terrain with the stateliest kind of boldness" and he calls it a “severely elegant album." Vitous was one of the founders of Weather Report and helped to shape its early (and revolutionary) mix of enigmatic, free-flowing compositions and high-level improvisational dialogues, in which ...

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John Surman - New CD and Performances in the USA

Source: ECM Records
August 13, 2009

On August 4th ECM released Brewster's Rooster a powerful, exciting, real “jazz" album, from the great British horn-player John Surman. Soulful ballads, hard-driving pieces and fiery improvisations show Surman at the top of his creative form on baritone and soprano saxophones, surrounded by an all-star cast featuring John Abercrombie, Drew Gress and Jack DeJohnette. Surman, making a rare US appearance, will perform with this quartet later in the month. Mark these dates! August 27 - 29 in Washington DC, at ...

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8 Cal Tjader Albums to Kickstart Your Latin Jazz Record Collection

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
August 13, 2009

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr., better known to the Latin Jazz world as Cal Tjader, led a long and influential career that changed the course of Latin Jazz. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area under entertainer parents, Tjader found early success as a child tap dancer. After a stint in the army, Tjader returned to San Francisco to finish college and jump into the city’s music scene. He found work in the city’s active jazz scene, working as a ...

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Golden Earings

Source: Mixed Media Promotion
August 13, 2009

GOLDEN EARRINGS SERVES AS A TESTAMENT TO TASTE, TALENT, AND EXCEPTIONAL CHEMISTRY

Golden Earrings is a triumph that recalls the past glory of classic guitar-vocal duets like Les Paul and Mary Ford or Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald. Bill Milkowski/liner notes

On its surface, Golden Earrings is a simple duet recording. Just beneath that surface, however, lie several extraordinary qualities. Most obviously, it's a duet recording between two special talents. Secondly, it is a testament to the work ...

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