Recording News

Miles Davis' 1970 Fillmore East Concert Available as Free Download

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 25, 2009

Attention Miles Davis fans: The Web site Big O has a free download of a 1970 Davis concert at the Fillmore East that has never been commercially released.It features two sets from shows that Davis opened for singer/guitarist Neil Young (!) on March 6, 1970, after the initial release of the album Live/Evil but before the release of Jack Johnson.The personnel includes Davis on trumpet, plus Chick Corea (electric piano), Dave Holland (acoustic and electric bass), ...

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CD: Darcy James Argue

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
May 24, 2009

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam). Can generations nurtured on rock and roll learn to love music by a band configured like one out of the swing era? The answer delivered in this work of imagination, daring and resourcefulness is yes. Argue's textures, harmonies and uses of space and time place him alongside Maria Schneider, Ed Partyka and John Hollenbeck among intriguing young composer-leaders of the new century. His music incorporates funk, spunk and the brashness of ...

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CD: Bobby Sanabria

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
May 24, 2009

Bobby Sanabria, Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Kenya Revisited Live! (Jazzheads). Percussionist, leader and Latin music maven Sanabria puts the MSM band through the exhilirating paces of influential music recorded by Machito in 1957. Machito's Kenya is regarded as one of the milestones of Afro-Cuban music. Sanabria and company do it justice in this tribute concert before an enthusiastic audience. Candido Camero, who was on the 1957 album, is a guest on congas. On “Oyeme," alto saxophonist Vince ...

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CD: Bob Brookmeyer

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
May 24, 2009

Bob Brookmeyer, Music for String Quartet and Orchestra (Challenge). Brookmeyer long since worked himself out of the compulsion to write edgy electronic music and acoustic music that sounds electronic. This gorgeous four-part work finds him in the tonal center of his composer's art. He conducts the formidable Metropole Orchestra and the Gustav Klimt String Quartet in a suite that melds the rhythmic sensibility of Brookmeyer's jazz mastery with his uncommon depth of orchestral understanding. Its range runs from gravity to ...

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Levon Helm Reunites with Allen Toussaint

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2009

Levon Helm enlisted his old friend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Allen Toussaint to join the Levon Helm Band in arranging two covers - Randy Newman's “Kingfish" and Billy Taylor's “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" - for Helm's new album 'Electric Dirt, ' out June 30. Helm claims he has wanted to record the latter since hearing Nina Simone's version in 1967 - and he has known Toussaint for almost as long. ...

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Phish Releases Greening Manual

Source: JamBase
May 23, 2009

Phish Releases Greening Manual For Phans

Phish Before Phish split up in 2004, the band and many of their fans were certainly environmentally conscious in a friendly hippie sort of a way. But it wasn't always clear whether that concern by the band translated into any concrete actions, as those of us who remember the mess left after Coventry and other festivals can attest. In the intervening years, thankfully, the music scene has gotten a lot greener - putting out ...

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Occidental Brothers:Odo Sanbra

Source: JamBase
May 23, 2009

By: Nathan Rodriguez

Not gonna lie: first reaction - sounds like Kenny G sitting in with String Cheese.

After a few spins, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International's Odo Sanbra's lofty polyrhythmic harmonies insinuate themselves a bit more. What upon first blush sounded a little too easy began to sound effortless.

Opener “Nyenko!" is attention grabbing as the band slides into double-time toward the end of the tune, while the next two tracks are fairly innocuous. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, ...

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Oumou Sangare: New Album/Tour

Source: JamBase
May 22, 2009

OUMOU SANGARE'S SEYA TO BE RELEASED JUNE 9 ACCLAIMED MALIAN SINGER'S FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS

Oumou Sangare Malian singer Oumou Sangare's first album in six years, Seya, will be released by World Circuit/Nonesuch Records on June 9. This summer, Sangare tours major festivals in support of the new record.

Since her debut release Moussoulou rocketed her to national stardom in 1989, Sangare has retained her position as one of West Africa's most outspoken artists. Her trademark Wassoulou ...

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