Recording News

Vocalist Xavier Casellas Newly Uploaded Tracks from Upcoming Album Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

Please check out some of the tunes from new recording, newly uploaded and available on Myspace player.

FEATURED TRACKS: “Failure gates" (based on 'Brooklyn sometimes' from album Deep Song) by Kurt Rosenwinkel/lyrics by Xavier Casellas “Unguarded Smiles" (based on 'Ron's place' from The Art of Trio Vol. 1) by Brad Mehldau / lyrics by Xavier Casellas “What Love Can Do" by Stephen Bishop (a new vision of a great 70's tune written by former Grammy & ...

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Bay Area Bassist & Composer Edo Castro Announces Third CD: Sacred Graffiti

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

“This is one of the most beautiful bass solo pieces I've ever heard. I can't believe I hadn't heard of Edo before. Where have I been?” - You Tube Fan after viewing “Rain” written and performed by Edo Castro. June 5, 2009 - Passion Star Records' artist Edo Castro has been in studio recording his current project, Sacred Graffiti, at Skywalker Sound in Nicasio, California with Ray Cooper as producer. This will be his second release on the Passion Star ...

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Visionsound Releases "World Rising" by Keyboardist Ben Dowling

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2009

All-Star Jazz Music of the Future with Echoes of the Past

Los Angeles, CA - World Rising, to be released by Visionsound on August 11, is a powerful production from keyboardist Ben Dowling featuring a cast of famous friends from the jazz, funk and world music spheres. Notable contributions come from Mindi Abair, Luis Conte, Will Kennedy, Satnam Ramgotra, Bob Sheppard and include a previously unreleased track featuring a duet between vocalist extraordinaire Niki Haris and the late, great Carl ...

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Big Star Box Set

Source: JamBase
June 5, 2009

BIG STAR SHINES: Rhino Salutes Group With A Four-Disc Boxed Set Available From Rhino September 15

Big Star inspired a fevered allegiance among fans of power pop, giving rise to a cult of believers who spent decades spreading the gospel. Their enthusiasm turned this obscure Memphis pop band - one that got little airplay, sold few records, and only played a handful of times - into a remarkable rock and roll resurrection story. Big Star's trek from obscure ...

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"Art Pepper: The Art History Project," 3-CD Set, to be Released by Widow's Taste June 23

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 4, 2009

Art Pepper played the most autobiographical instrumental music in the world. The 17 selections on the forthcoming Widow’s Taste release, The Art History Project, describe the emotional and musical evolution of an artist as he reacted, always intensely, to the events of his own life and to the events of the music world in general. The 3-CD set, lovingly compiled by the alto saxophonist’s widow, Laurie Pepper, and set for release on June 23, includes a 20-page booklet filled with ...

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Kurt Elling to Release New Live Album

Source: On Target Media Group
June 3, 2009

Grammy nominated and critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Kurt Elling will release Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman on June 23rd, Kurt Elling's eighth album and second release for Concord Jazz. The live collection was recorded in January 2009 at the Allen Room in the Lincoln Center, New York as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. The new 12-track release features an all-star cast of musicians including saxophonist Ernie Watts, the Laurence Hobgood Trio ...

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Ocote Soul Sounds: The Psychedelic Offspring of Antibalas and Grupo Fantasma

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
June 3, 2009

The Catalysts of Coconut Rock: Ocote Soul Sounds Creative Mutations and Funky Beats

Just a sliver of the ocote wood starts a blaze. A few pieces of this pine was all Martn Perna needed to get his cooking fires started in a small fishing village in Michoacn, Mexico. It was there that Pernaknown for founding Antibalas, the NYC collective that sparked an Afrobeat revivalfound a new direction.

“For several years, I'd spend time in this little fishing village," Perna recounts, ...

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Acuna -- Hoff -- Mathisen Trio Debuts "Jungle City"

Source: Kim Smith Public Relations
June 3, 2009

New York, NY - In celebration of Jungle City (Alessa Records, 6/17/09), the Acuna-Hoff-Mathisen Trio makes its US debut in New York on June 17th at the Iridium Jazz Club at 7pm, followed by a 10pm set at the 55 Bar and onto the Rochester Jazz Festival the next day, on June 18th. Founded in the Spring of 2008, the trio was formed when legendary drummer/percussionist Alex Acuna met two of Norway's greatest musicians, pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff and bassist ...

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