Recording News

Dick Hyman Plays Weill, Duke, and Coward

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2009

Inner City Records is pleased to announce the re-release of three albums by Dick Hyman. Never before available on CD and quite rare even on vinyl, these albums represent some of the earliest recording efforts by a cornerstone of the jazz scene.

These are solo recordings, and demonstrate an inventive, ingenious and playful take on the great composers of the twentieth century.

September Song - The Music of Kurt Weill. On this first of three records, Hyman plays ...

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Olivier Calmel Electro Couac Quintet Releases 'Sha-Docks'

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2009

New album of Olivier Calmel's band upcoming on Septembre 2009.

Olivier Calmel Electro Couac Quintet

Christophe PANZANI (soprano & tenor saxophones) Frdric EYMARD (viola) Olivier CALMEL (piano, keyboards) Bruno SCHORP (double bass, electric bass) Frdric DELESTRE (drums) Vincent PEIRANI (accordion on Z trail OMT) Rmi MERLET (percussions on Z trail OMT) Karl JANNUSKA (percussions on Z trail OMT)

All compositions by Olivier CALMEL 2009

1. Z ...

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Lew Tabackin - Rites of Pan

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2009

Available for the first time on CD, Inner City Records is proud to announce the re-release of Lew Tabackin's 1977 album Rites of Pan.

This album showcases Lew in a small group format, and is the first album on which he played exclusively flute. He is joined by Toshiko Akiyoshi on piano, who wrote two of the tunes they play, Shelly Manne on drums, and John Heard & Bob Daugherty on bass. Together they take on some standards like Weill's ...

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Emma Alabaster Debut Release Third Generation the Daughters Are Free

Source: Just Roots PR
July 8, 2009

Modern Jazz Concept Album Signals Debut for New Artist and Label from New York City’s Underground.

Proliferate Music announced their debut release, Emma Alabaster’s In the Third Generation the Daughter’s Are Free. The release is being distributed digitally through popular online retailers such as iTunes, eMusic, Amie Street, Amazon, and others.

Alabaster’s album represents a unique voice in New York City’s underground jazz community. Coming across like an autobiographical concept album for the downtown scene, the compositions presented here are ...

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Linn Records Super Audio CD Promotion More Than 50% Discount!

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2009

Linn Records announces a new Super Audio CD jazz music collection, available throughout July 2009, at more than 50% off. This collection provides an ideal opportunity to explore some new artists and music for an unbeatable price. The collection features albums selected from across the Linn Records catalogue and represent a diverse range of repertoire, artists and styles. The collection will provide a great starting point for new collectors or broaden existing collections. All Linn Records SACDs are hybrid discs ...

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Rodrigo Amado New Trio CD

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2009

Three years after Teatro, his first trio recording with North-American double-bass player Kent Kessler and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, widely acclaimed by international reviewers and considered by many a major chapter in Portuguese jazz history, Rodrigo Amado releases The Abstract Truth, an homage to the art of Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. A studio recording, The Abstract Truth is all about the truth that exists in the act of total improvisation, a complex and demanding discipline that projects, unbiased, what ...

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Dennis Diken with Bell Sound Ready Debut CD 'Late Music' with Special Guests

Source: conqueroo
July 7, 2009

Smithereens drummer steps to the fore with help from collaborator Pete DiBella, producer Dave Amels, plus guests The Wondermints, Andy Paley, The Honeys and Jason Falkner

Album marks re-launch of Cryptovision Records

WOOD-RIDGE, N.J. — “I guess I’ve been writing songs since I was a kid,” says Dennis Diken. “There are melodies and lyric ideas that I just can’t get out of my head and some of them have been lodged there since I was five or six years old! ...

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Bill Evans: Early V. Late

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 6, 2009

Like the Hatfields and McCoys, fans of pianist Bill Evans' early and late periods love to square off. Musket muzzles emerge through the pickets on both sides whenever a writer or critic voices disappointment with Evans' recordings after 1970. For reasons that escape me, many of those who enjoy Evans' late period seem to take this criticism of Evans personally or are somehow unable to discern between the different artistic phases in the pianist's career. As with any artist, Evans ...

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