Recording News

Denny Zeitlin: Columbia Sessions

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 27, 2009

Up until now, listening to pianist Denny Zeitlin has been for me like wandering around inside a giant acrylic crystal. No transparent surface in there travels in a straight line, so it's easy to slip off the wall and onto your back, unsure if you're looking up or down. For many years I avoided Zeitlin's recordings, either because the commitment needed to find cohesion was too great or because I just assumed that much of what I heard from one ...

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Julian Marley: New Album

Source: JamBase
April 27, 2009

JULIAN MARLEY ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF AWAKE ON MAY 26, 2009 First Single “Boom Draw" Available Exclusively on iTunes

“JuJu" Marley Julian Marley is excited to announce the release of his highly anticipated record, Awake, on May 26 via Ghetto Youths/Universal. Recorded at the Lion's Den in Miami, Florida, and Tuff Gong in Kingston, Jamaica, the music and message presented throughout Awake is rife with the inspiration of all the family who have come before. This set of ...

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Time Magazine Reviews Hanjin Tan's "Raw Jazz"

Source: All About Jazz
April 27, 2009

Tan's swinging debut brings together some of the best names in the Hong Kong jazz scene Hong Kong isn't known as a city of swingin' hepcats, but it does play host to a small, surprisingly busy jazz scene and a newly launched international jazz festival. It's against this homespun backdrop that the album Raw Jazz emerges, with a kind of indomitable energy that's entirely fitting for the place in which it was born. Introducing Singaporean vocalist Hanjin Tan, a producer ...

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Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Release New CD, "Book One"

Source: All About Jazz
April 27, 2009

IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA RELEASE NEW CD, “BOOK ONE” DURING JAZZ FEST! Book One will be available at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Music Tent, LA Music Factory and Peaches Records. New Orleans -- Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) announced today that they are issuing a limited local release of their new CD, Book One during The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell April 24 - May 3, 2009. ...

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In a Digital Age, Vinyl Albums Are Making a Comeback

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2009

Origami Vinyl is one of three new vinyl-only record stores opening next month in Los Angeles. Sales of such albums were up 89% in 2008, which has fueled a mini-boom in neighborhood record stores in L.A.

At least one member of the Who seems to approve. Neil Schield knows the grim state of the music business as well as anyone; last May, he was laid off from a company at the vanguard of digital music distribution.

But this ...

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Monks 'Black Monk Time' Reissued Just in Time

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2009

The joyously hostile songs on the Monks 1966 album, Black Monk Time newly reissued on the Light in the Attic label would be essential, strange 1960s artifacts even without the bands back story.

The Monks were American G.I.s stationed in Frankfurt who after their discharge in 1964 stayed there, put on robes and shaved their hair into tonsures to play songs expatriated not just from the United States but from anything approaching sanity.

With instruments including a typical cheap electric ...

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XV III - Xing Paths the CD

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2009

“Sophisticated pop that fuses Eastern and Western music influences into a seamless whole that only an exceptional talent can pull off!" - Evolution of Media USA


Created in 2003, Xenovibes [foreign+expressions] began as the sonic melange of “Singapore's 1st and only diva of the theremin" Shueh-li Ong. Conjoining her Australian- Asian heritage with her classical-music technology training, the sound is also the ‘stage’ on which Ong, a female in the male-dominated progressive music world, lets down her ...

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New Release by Tom Hamilton/Bruce Eisenbeil

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2009

SHADOW MACHINE April 2009 Release

SHADOW MACHINE is the first CD by Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil, whobegan playing music together in 2007. Coherence without predictability,speed without tempo, direction without a roadmap - an unlikely foray intothe world of out-jazz and free improvisation.

It's a duo that thwarts expectations of its specific instrumentation. The artists hybridize the language of electronic sound through Eisenbeil's guitar and Hamilton's virtual analog synthesizer, and the live-in-the-studio tracks insure that the performances impart maximum physicality ...

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