Recording News

Jackie Ryan Set to Release "Doozy" Featuring Cyrus Chestnut, Eric Alexander, Romero Lubambo, Jeremy Pelt

Source: DL Media
July 19, 2009

DOOZY- A DOUBLE CD BOUNTY OF RARITIES, STANDARDS, BOSSA NOVA, BLUES JACKIE RYAN WITH CYRUS CHESTNUT, ERIC ALEXANDER, JEREMY PELT, ROMERO LUBAMBO IMPECCABLE WEST COAST JAZZ SINGER, PRAISED BY CRITICS AND FANS INTERNATIONALLY, SINGS HER FAVORITES WITH JAZZ ALL-STARS, CREATING TWO CLUB SETS FOR A TWO-CD ALBUM Jackie Ryan -- a note-perfect jazz singer with a naturally dramatic, beguiling and swinging sense of style and groove -- delivers a sweeping program of original vocalese, freshly interpreted familiar tunes, bittersweet Brazilian ...

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Guitarist Clay Ross Celebrates His New Release "Matuto" at Joe's Pub on August 25

Source: DL Media
July 19, 2009

Guitarist, Vocalist, and Composer Clay Ross Celebrates the Release of His Forthcoming Album Matuto With an Evening of Brazilian Carnival Meets Appalachia at Joe's Pub on August 25“Clay Ross thinks like a poet, writes like a novelist, and plays the guitar like a master." - JambaseMatuto (ma-two-toe) is Brazilian slang for country bumpkin. Imagine the sound of a Brazilian Carnaval in the Appalachian Mountains. A sound where exotic percussion instruments rumble beneath blues drenched vocals, Telecaster ...

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Inner City Presents the Condon Gang

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2009

Inner City/Classic Jazz presents a tribute to the great bandleader Eddie Condon and the Chicago & New York jazz scenes in which he was a prime mover. This album features Hal Smith's Rhythmakers and Evan Christopher's Chosen Eight, two groups of remarkably talented players. A great way to explore a seminal style of jazz.

“It is hoped that this CD will give those who listen a sense of the swing, excitement and musicality that Eddie Condon and his friends brought ...

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Gabriel Espinosa: Yucatan to Rio

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 18, 2009

Bassist Gabriel Espinosa grew up in Merida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. There, on the tip of Mexico's curled base in the early 1960s, Espinosa fell in love with the seductive bossa nova played by traveling Brazilian bands that stopped over in Merida on tour. After emigrating to the U.S., Espinosa attended Central College in Pella, Iowa, and then Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received a degree in arranging. He went on to earn a ...

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Breakfast Wine: Missing Too Long

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 18, 2009

Bobby Shew's Breakfast Wine is so rare that it does not appear in the Shew discography on the trumpeter's own web site. Nonetheless, the PAUSA long-playing vinyl album released in 1985 is a highlight not only of Shew's recording career but also of all jazz releases in the last two decades of the twentieth century. I lost my copy of Breakfast Wine in a move, so when I was rummaging through the used LP bin in a Seattle store the ...

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Ceu Sings out to the World Vagarosa

Source: Michael Ricci
July 17, 2009

On her sophomore project, Vagarosa, the Brazilian singer-songwriter continues to embrace music from far and wide.

If you've set foot in a Starbucks lately, chances are you've caught a few bars of Ceu's music. The Brazilian singer-songwriter's self-titled debut album was picked by the coffee chain to be the first release from an international artist featured in its Hear Music Debut CD series.

Critics showered praise, the disc rose to the top of Billboard's world music chart and Ceu (pronounced ...

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Bee Gees' 50th Anniversary Inspires Two New Collections

Source: Billboard Magazine
July 17, 2009

The Bee Gees' 50th anniversary will be celebrated with a pair of retrospective packages on Nov. 3 from Reprise. “Mythology" is a four-disc box set curated and produced by surviving Bee Gees Barry and Robin Gibb that will dedicate one disc each to the three brothers in the group, including the late Maurice Gibb, and one to their late younger brother Andy Gibb. Maurice's wife and three children chose the tracks for his disc, while Andy's daughter Peta chose the ...

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'Oliver!' Like You've Never Heard It Before

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2009

Inner City/Classic Jazz is proud to announce the re-issue of Bob Dorough's 1954 album An Excursion Through 'Oliver!'

While the arrangements and conceptions are credited chiefly to Dorough, a great deal of integrated creativity was brought to bear by quartet members Al Schackman (guitar), Ben Tucker (bass), and Bobby Thomas (drums).

Working at the time in (of all places) the Dickens Room in New York, they played through the music of 'Oliver!' each evening, weighing and shifting approaches, until arriving ...

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