Recording News

Eric Astor Releases Debut Jazz Album "Coolfire"

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based guitarist Eric Astor is making his mark on the jazz scene with his debut CD, Coolfire. Featuring driving guitars and Latin rhythms, this album has a style like no other. From the country rock vibe of “Route 74" to the driving Latin beat of “Brooklyn", and the touching acoustic performance of “Forever", Coolfire spans genres with something for every listener. “I've been planning, writing and dreaming about putting out an album for as long as I can remember," ...

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Peak Records Set to Release New Paul Brown & Marc Antoine Album

Source: On Target Media Group
April 1, 2009

Peak label-mates and superstar guitarists Paul Brown and Marc Antoine are set to release Foreign Exchange – a stylistically diverse collaboration album, available next week (4.7) on CD and digitally via Peak Records (Concord Music Group). Having performed together at ‘Paul Brown’s Guitar Night’ in 2008, two-time GRAMMY® Award winner Brown, who was in the early stages of producing a follow-up to his smash 2007 disc White Sand, invited Marc Antoine to play on one of his new songs. This ...

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Hank Garland: Jazz Winds

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 1, 2009

Country musicians have a long history of teaming with jazz  and blues artists to produce hip music. Western swing was an outgrowth of jazz. The same goes for rockabilly and the early Sun Records' sound. One of the finest examples of this twang-and-hang hybrid is Jazz Winds from a New Direction. Recorded in August 1960, the session was led by Hank Garland, one of Nashville's top country studio musicians at the time who recorded with Elvis Presley and other country-rock ...

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Bela Fleck: Deep in the Heart

Source: JamBase
April 1, 2009

By: Court Scott

Bela Fleck by Frank W. Ockenfels It's late on a Sunday afternoon and I've just stubbed the hell out of the two outermost toes when the phone rings. On the other end of the line is banjo player extraordinaire Bela Fleck. He's called to tell me about his beautiful new acoustic album, Throw Down Your Heart (released March 3 on Rounder) and the documentary film of ...

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Delmark Records New Releases for April and May, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2009

Delmark CD Re-issues - end of April, 2009 (all previously released material, now back in print) Eric Alexander - Mode For Mabes (Delmark DE 500) Jazz tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander firmly established himself as a mature voice even though he was only 27 years of age when he recorded Mode For Mabes in 1997. It was his fourth Delmark CD and critics were already comparing him to the mightiest and most soulful of classic tenor players like Dexter Gordon and ...

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Julio Santillan Releases Argentinean Jazz in NY, Featuring Marta Gomez

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2009

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Protest from the Right Side of Country

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2009

There’s no screaming on the first great song of the bailout era. No audible rage. No tears. Instead, on “Shuttin’ Detroit Down,” the country star John Rich, singing evenly, sounds perfectly levelheaded, as if he’d thought through his position thoroughly and acquired the peace of the righteous

I see all these big shots whining on my evening news About how they’re losing billions and it’s up to me and you To come running to ...

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Radam Schwartz Features the Hammond B3 on New Release Blues Citizens

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
April 1, 2009

Radam Schwartz his many talents are completely engaged on the new release Blues Citizens.

Radam's prolific career has led to many successful recordings. His own Organized (Muse Records) was mentioned in the B3 Bible as one of the essential organ records of all time. He also has been featured on Cecil Brooks III and the CBIII band, For Those Who Love to Groove (Savant Records).

Now with several decades behind him playing with greats like David Fathead Newman, Eddie Lockjaw ...

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