Recording News

Ellery Eskelin: "On Great Night...Live" on Hatology 683

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2009

Ellery Eskelin: On Great Night...Live on Hatology 683 Ellery Eskelin –tenor saxophone Andrea Parkins –accordion, electric piano, organ, laptop sampler & grand piano Jim Black –drums & percussion

A live concert recording at Towson University, Baltimore on December 9th, 2007.

Throughout this set, Eskelin, Parkins, and Black are completely at ease with the core material. Over the years these three have grown into a unit that can bristle and wail; pick up on a melody and ...

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Gerry Hemingway Quintet: "Demon Chaser" on Hatology 673

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2009

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Polwechsel & John Tilbury: "Field" on Hatology 672

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2009

Along the Polwechsel path towards a reflected reintegration of the once

Excluded musical parameters, the two composers for this CD, Michael Moser and Werner Dafeldecker, have gone one step further while also reflecting.

Polwechsel’s own history: traditional parameters are reintroduced into the original Polwechsel idiom as disturbances, refractions or inclusions.

The invitation extended to guest soloist John Tilbury is also part of the reflected reintegration of traditional elements and the extension of Polwechsel's concept, which they develop in their cautious ...

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Horace Tapscott: "The Dark Tree" on Hatology 2-630

Source: Michael Ricci
August 12, 2009

Horace Tapscott The Dark Tree hatOLOGY 2-630 Horace Tapscott –piano John Carter – clarinet Cecil McBee – double bass Andrew Cyrill – drums

Recorded live in Hollywood on December 14-17, 1989. This was an important, revealing release when it was first issued in 1991. Now, with both Horace Tapscott and John Carter having passed on, it takes on even more significance with our knowing that they are beyond the vagaries ...

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Max Roach & Archie Shepp: "The Long March" on Hatology 2-640

Source: Michael Ricci
August 12, 2009

Max Roach & Archie Shepp The Long March Hatology 2-640 Max Roach – drums Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone Recorded in concert at Willisau Jazzfestival on August 30th, 1979, two significant artists of different generations share a creative impetus of social and political concern, find a common ground of sound, and improvise a music of conscience and consequence that transcends time and place and comments on the human condition – an eternal ...

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Lee Konitz & Martial Solal: "Star Eyes 1983" on Hatology 668

Source: Michael Ricci
August 12, 2009

Lee Konitz & Martial Solal Star Eyes 1983 Hatology 668

A live concert recording at New-Jazz-Festival Hamburg on November 11th, 1983. In their duo, Solal's gift to Konitz is a liberation from... inherent restrictions. This in turn inspires Konitz to follow his own lyrical impulses to the extreme listen to how often he stretches his line to the breaking point. This is improvisation that goes far beyond merely altered chords or variations on a theme. Each ...

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Living Colour: New Album and Tour

Source: JamBase
August 12, 2009

Living Colour Announce North American Tour New Album The Chair In The Doorway Set For Release September 15

Living Colour Living Colour has announced North American tour dates in support of the new album The Chair In The Doorway. The 28-date run will be bookended by performances at the Highline Ballroom in New York City, as they appear August 11 opening for The Roots, at their weekly Tuesday night jam session, and then again on October 30 for ...

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Harold Little Releases Dynamic Project "Daddy's Groove"

Source: Michael Ricci
August 12, 2009

Simply put, Harold Little knows jazz. With an education at D.C.'s renowned Duke Ellington School of the Arts and additional study at the University of District of Columbia's Jazz Studies Program, Little honed his craft for the improvisational genre. Having played with jazz icons Buck Hill, Calvin Jones, Webster Young, Eddie Gladden and Butch Warren, as well as “The Godfather of Go-Go", Chuck Brown, among others, the trumpeter has the experience to go with the “chops". He's a familiar site ...

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