Recording News

Brian Haas Free Solo Album

Source: JamBase
March 25, 2009

Brian Haas Free Solo Album

Brian Haas (JFJO) has announced the release of his new solo album entitled Petting Sounds. The album is an improvised symphony for solo piano that he recorded in one continuous session. Petting Sounds was engineered and co-produced by Teddy Jack Russell (Leon Russell's son). The album was recorded in Ojai, California last year at the (now defunct) Institute for Universal Healing Arts with the same UA mixing board that was used for The Beach Boys ...

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New Brian Blade Album "Mama Rosa" Coming Soon

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2009

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Concord Releases "The Very Best of Prestige"

Source: On Target Media Group
March 24, 2009

The new 2-CD set The Very Best Of Prestige Records, hits stores this week (March 24, 2009) on CD & digitally. The new 'must have' compilation celebrates the 60th anniversary of Prestige Records. The track list features; John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, and more. The entire collection is available to stream in full at AOL Music. A great collection of 25 essential Prestige tracks, packed with classic photographs covering a 20-year span from ...

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Dead.net Releases: '68 And '86

Source: JamBase
March 24, 2009

Dead.net Releases Two Complete Shows from the Vaults: Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2: Carousel 2/14/68 and Pure Jerry: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 2/28/86

In the winter of 1968, the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service embarked on their first major tour of the Pacific Northwest. The Dead, in particular, were really spreading their creative wings, exploring and honing what were unquestionably the most ambitious original songs they'd written to date. While the Dead were on ...

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Brazilian Girls and David Byrne Join Forces

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2009

The Grammy-nominated Brazilian Girls have teamed-up with the legendary David Byrne to release an English-language version of the song “Losing Myself." Byrne duets with lead singer Sabina Sciubba on the new version of the song, available exclusively through iTunes on March 24. Sciubba explains that the song is “a journey through New York City's subway, streets, crowds, nights and clubs. Everywhere you go, you leave something behind: your scarf, a shoe, a ...

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David Byrne:Big Love: Hymnal

Source: JamBase
March 24, 2009

By: Greg Gargiulo

As it rolls and accelerates unflinchingly without any effort on anyone's part, seizing some and being seized by others, one thing this man doesn't do is watch time burn by while sitting alongside it idly. Not David Byrne. Even before Talking Heads disharmoniously disbanded in '91, Byrne had been getting his feet wet in as many projects as he could juggle, and that relentlessly curious spirit has only garnered more momentum as time's wick keeps burning and ...

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Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle:rock Star Bench Press

Source: JamBase
March 24, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

Weird don't usually swing this bloody hard! From the suited Yellow Submarine-like beastie throwing the horns on the cover to the electric vibraphone crunch inside (not to mention further subconscious stoking imagery from Thom Self) to the Butthole Surfers-esque, uh, singing, the latest from Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle is unabashedly “other." Dillon's jib is cut WAY different than the other monkeys brachiating around music, and we're goddamn lucky to have him - a flexed, unwavering warrior for ...

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Wynton Marsalis Releases "He and She"

Source: On Target Media Group
March 24, 2009

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