Recording News

Trumpeter Sean Jones Releases "The Search Within" on Mack Avenue Records

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2009

Beginning with his Mack Avenue Records debut in 2004, Eternal Journey, trumpeter-bandleader Sean Jones has embarked on a series of quests, passionately plumbing the depths of different wellsprings of his life as a musician. Recorded when he was 24, Eternal Journey was his awakening, “my first step out into the recording world," Jones says. He has developed into one of jazz's top young trumpeters, known for both his lyrical fluidity and high-tier technical facility. “The idea of being on a ...

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Michael Chapman:time Past and Time Passing

Source: JamBase
March 27, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

While the name Michael Chapman may be unfamiliar to a mass audience, amongst serious guitar enthusiasts this Brit ranks right next to Richard Thompson, John Martyn and Davy Graham. But unlike his countrymen, Chapman has heaping helpings of John Fahey and even the pleasant aerial wisp of early Windham Hill players like Michael Hedges and Will Ackerman. His latest release in a long career stretching back to the 1960s is sonorous, end-to-end pleasure, mixing mesmerizing instrumentals with ...

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Tortoise: New Album

Source: JamBase
March 27, 2009

TORTOISE RELEASE BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP JUNE 23 ON THRILL JOCKEY FIRST FULL-LENGTH OF NEW MATERIAL IN FIVE YEARS

Tortoise The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitational pull of their predecessors, and the many masters and masterpieces that came before them. Rare indeed is the artist who outgrows their early influences, and instead become one of the markers by which other groups are measured. Almost alone ...

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Beastie Boys:Paul's Boutique: 20th Anniversary Ed.

Source: JamBase
March 27, 2009

By: Ron Hart

I'll never forget the moment I first heard Paul's Boutique . It was the fall of 1989 and my first semester as a high school sophomore. After English class one day, one of my friends produced a red cassette tape and declared it to be the best hip-hop album he had ever heard. That red tape was Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys. “These are the same guys who did that stupid 'Fight For Your Right To Party' ...

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Saltman Knowles Charts #8 on Jazz World Week with Upcoming CD Release Event

Source: Sound Visions Media
March 27, 2009

Saltman Knowles current release, Return Of The Composer hit #8 on the Jazz World Week and expected to go higher.

The information comes on the heels of their CD release event in Washington DC next weekend. The Quintet has been receiving excellent reviews, a current one out in JazzTimes this month, along with strong radio airplay.

Called “a brilliant example of all that is good in contemporary jazz” the Saltman Knowles Quintet, a Washington DC based band on the Pacific ...

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Bela Fleck's Africa Project Featured in RFT Story

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 27, 2009

Genre-busting banjo player Bela Fleck will be in St. Louis next Wednesday, April 1 for a performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall with his latest venture, the Africa Project. A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to talk with Fleck about the tour, which features performers that he first met in 2005 while traveling, recording, and making a documentary film in Africa. The conversation yielded a short feature story that appears in the print edition of ...

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Bob Albanese Trio with Ira Sullivan Releases One Way/Detour on Zoho Records

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 27, 2009

The Bob Albanese Trio with Ira Sullivan is ready to send lovers of jazz on a One Way/Detour. Their first release on Zoho Records (distributed by Allegro) is certain to satisfy the jazz purists and garner new listeners at the same time.

With a multitude of experience in jazz, classical, Latin, world, and theater, Albanese has few rivals when it comes to a well rounded career. He took his literal melting pot of piano experiences and wrapped it all into ...

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Cuban Rhythms Meet the African Skies

Source: All About Jazz
March 26, 2009

African Skies is the electric sophomore release from jazz piano prodigy Joel Holmes.

Mr. Holmes has been lighting up the Eastern United States for years and has recently been touring the world with Grammy-nominee Roy Hargrove & Nnenna Freelon. Somewhere in between touring and earning his jazz performance degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at John Hopkins, Mr. Holmes managed to create ten of the most inspirational songs you are likely to hear this year.

The album opens with ...

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