Recording News

Rick Haydon, Reggie and Mardra Thomas Release Eastern Central Pacific

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 26, 2009

Guitarist Rick Haydon, keyboardist Reggie Thomas and singer Mardra Thomas have collaborated on a new CD released by the St. Louis-based Victoria Records label.Titled Eastern Central Pacific, the disc features jazz standards performed by Haydon and the Thomases with help from drummer Harold Jones, a jazz veteran who has played with stars including Count Basie, Eddie Harris and Tony Bennett, and bassist Jeff Campbell, a member of the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra and a faculty member at Eastman ...

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Bassist/Composer Aldemar Valentin Releases "Finding My Path"

Source: All About Jazz
February 26, 2009

Music by Aldemar Valentin Album Finding My Path Ricardo Pons - Baritone Sax/Flute Raul Romero - Guitar Efran Martnez - Drums Aldemar Valentin - bass guitar Compositions by Aldemar Valentin (BMI) Modern harmonies, Pan-American rhythms and improvisation. Live Recording. Recorded live at Araba Cafe Teatro in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2008) Produced by Aldemar Valentin and Raul Romero Aldemar Valentin Bassist and composer Aldemar Valentin has played with ...

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'Let Freedom Sing': 70 Years and 58 Songs of Civil Rights

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2009

Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement is a three-disc, 58-song collection.

When Barack Obama became the nation's first black president in January, many said he stood on the shoulders of those who fought for and sacrificed for civil rights.

Some of the most important music from the past 70 years of the movement is collected in Let Freedom Sing, a new three-disc, 58-song Time Life collection that cuts across genres with voices both famous and obscure. ...

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Jazz Ensemble Iron City Knows How to "Put the Flavor on It"

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
February 25, 2009

Boston, MA -- Amherst Massachusetts based Iron City is an instrumental jazz trio with their roots steeped in the past but a step ahead of everyone else with a leap into the future on their new release Put The Flavor On It. The band takes the cue from groove masters such as Grant Green, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Melvin Sparks, and James Brown to create their own special blend of jazz and blues. Iron City is Charlie Apicella (guitar), Beau Sasser ...

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Saxophonist/Super-Producer Darren Rahn is the "Talk of the Town"

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
February 25, 2009

nuGroove Records is proud to present the highly anticipated and innovative new release by saxophonist/super-producer Darren Rahn. Talk Of The Town, which is also the title track of the album, will be released nationwide on February 17, 2009. As one of the smooth jazz genres hottest producers, Darren has dominated the Billboard and Radio and Records (R&R) charts over the past few years. He recently had three consecutive #1 productions on the coveted R&R smooth jazz chart, holding the #1 ...

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Bump: New Album/Tour

Source: JamBase
February 25, 2009

Bump release second full-length release, Forward Embark on national tour

Bump Bump is proud to debut Forward, the band's first full-length effort in three years. Pollution, crime rates, and economic despair aren't the only effects of growing up in the outskirts of the Motor City. Within the gray solitude there is beauty, hope and a budding bouquet of creativity and invigorating new music. Bump leads the charge of exhilarating new music out of Detroit proving there is more ...

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The Rippingtons’ "Modern Art" Available for Pre-Order

Source: On Target Media Group
February 25, 2009

Smooth Jazz pioneers The Rippingtons new album, Modern Art, is available now for pre-order. The band’s 18th album is available March 10th via Peak Records (Concord Music Group), and features founder Russ Freeman alongside Dave Karasony, Bill Heller, Rico Belled and Jeff Kashiwa. Also featured is special guest trumpeter Rick Braun. Modern Art breaks new stylistic ground, incorporating exotic world music elements on the sensuously romantic, acoustic guitar driven “Paris Groove” and adds an Eastern authenticity to the hypnotic “Black ...

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Vocalist Halie Loren Releases "They Oughta Write a Song"

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2009

Jazz could be described as being the voice of “old souls" those who have already experienced life to its fullest and lived to sing about it. If that's the case, then Halie Loren, though young in years, must have already experienced many lives. From the first notes of the title song on her new jazz album, They Oughta Write a Song, Loren's voice leads the listener with lush, jazzy warmth to places both intimately alluring yet playfully enticing as she ...

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