Recording News

Guitarist Dan Adler's Debut Release "All Things Familiar"

Source: Lisa Reedy Promotions
March 19, 2009

All Things Familiar is guitarist Dan Adler’s first CD as a leader. Born and raised in Israel, Dan Adler studied music and composition privately while learning the craft of Jazz by playing with some of Israel’s best known musicians while he was still a teenager.

After moving to the US in 1986, Dan Adler has made New York City his home base. He has studied and played with guitarists Peter Sprague, Jack Wilkins, Vic Juris, Rick Stone, Joshua Breakstone, Satoshi ...

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Trumpeter Vinnie Cutro & New York City Soundscape Release "Sakura"

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2009

On Sakura, his 4th album as a leader, trumpeter Vinnie Cutro presents a set of straight ahead mainstream jazz that extends the legacy of such hard-driving bands as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and the 1950s quintets led by Horace Silver and Miles Davis. Cutro contributes 6 originals and a haunting arrangement of the familiar traditional Japanese melody “Sakura," the CD's title track. The band--including master drummer Billy Hart and the acclaimed saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi--also delivers a suitably wistful ...

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Seamus Blake Quartet Release Double CD Set Live in Italy

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 18, 2009

Hailing from the hotbed of New York City’s jazz scene can never hurt the chances of a musician getting some attention, especially if that musician plays like Seamus Blake. Blake is recognized as one of the finest and most creative young players in jazz and with the release of the double album set Live in Italy, Blake and his quartet are positioned to stake a claim to their own slice of jazz history.

John Scofield calls him “extraordinary, a total ...

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Recent Listening in Brief: Tolliver, Blake, Byard

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 18, 2009

Charles Tolliver, Emperor March (Half Note). Tolliver received considerable attention for his part in the recent observance of the 50th anniversary of Thelonious Monk's Town Hall concert. Here, we have Tolliver's big band playing his own music. As in the 2007 With Love CD that announced the trumpeter and composer's resurgence, Tolliver melds new departures with traditional values that include dynamite writing for brass. His solos and those by veterans Stanley Cowell, piano, and Billy Harper, tenor saxophone, are superb. ...

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Recent Listening: Keezer, Fat Cat, Temperley, Henderson

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 18, 2009

The recession seems to be doing little to stem the flood of CDs. This posting and others to follow constitute one man's attempt to deal with the rising tide. The quick hits below are not full-fledged reviews, far from it. They are acknowledgements of a few releases worth investigating. Many of them, no doubt, deserve full analysis. The Rifftides staff regrets that we cannot provide deep consideration of all recordings of merit--or demerit. Listening and writing are linear activities, and ...

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Bob Dylan: New Album

Source: JamBase
March 18, 2009

Bob Dylan: Together Through Life Set For April 28 Release on Columbia

Columbia Records announced today the title and release date for Bob Dylan's 46th album. Set to hit ears on April 28, Together Through Life is the follow-up to 2006's Grammy winning, platinum-selling Modern Times.

The album was produced by Jack Frost and is said to have been sparked by the creation of “Life Is Hard" which Dylan wrote for an upcoming film by French director Oliver Dahan.

For ...

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The Trombones Inc.: 1958

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 18, 2009

If you're as nuts for trombone as I am, The Trombones Inc. is an absolute dream album. Recorded in New York and Los Angeles over several sessions in December 1958, the concept was staggeringly ambitious: Twenty-seven leading trombonists of the day were assembled on two coasts. And like many record company gimmicks back in the 1950s, this album was packaged as a shoot out between East Coast and West Coast bonemen--10 on each coast, with 7 more substituting on different ...

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Prince Goes Direct to Fans

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

Prince will once again be selling direct to his fans with a new subscription site lotusflow3r. The current placeholder site is scheduled to go live March 24th according to Newsweek. For $77 fans will get downloads of the new three albums that will be available in as CD's from Target on March 29th, as well as, a robust selection of exclusive videos, behind the scenes action, news and concert info.

The new site and Target release are just the latest ...

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