Recording News

Trumpeter Kelly Rossum Releases New CD - "Family"

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2009

Announcing the release of a new jazz CD by trumpeter Kelly Rossum, Family. The album features regional musicians: Bryan Nichols, Chris Bates and JT Bates. “If you are looking to see what kind of jazz music Minnesota can produce, look no further than Kelly Rossum" --Rift Magazine. About Kelly Rossum “Rossum is gifted to a philosophical level of musical understanding" --Jazz Improv Magazine. Kelly Rossum is gaining a regional reputation as a creative force in the definition of modern jazz. ...

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Groove Armada and Bacardi Team up for Unique Album

Source: JamBase
February 3, 2009

Groove Armada to Release Mini-Album with BACARDI B-LIVE Announces upcoming date for revealing new music sharing mechanic

BACARDI, the world's favorite rum, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the eagerly awaited Mini-Album from international music superstar act Groove Armada and a creative new way adult music fans may receive and share the new tracks, released with BACARDI B-LIVE.

The four track EP finds the band moving into exciting new musical pastures, with some of the material ...

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Recent Listening: Aaron Irwin

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 3, 2009

Aaron Irwin Group, Blood and Thunder (Fresh Sound New Talent). In a tray card photograph, we see the 30-year-old alto saxophonist drinking a glass of milk and looking about eighteen. Irwin's compositions and arrangements have a concomitant freshness about them, and resourcefulness. His writing tends to make his quintet sound bigger. There is no piano; Ben Monder's guitar has the chording assignment. Chris Cheek's tenor sax adds a third melody voice. Both solo with economy and plenty of unexpected turns, ...

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Chick Corea Collaborates with Japanese Pianist Hiromi on Duet

Source: On Target Media Group
February 3, 2009

Grammy-award winning pianist Chick Corea released Duet, a 2- CD live performance with up-and-coming virtuosic Japanese pianist Hiromi, this week via Concord Records. Originally released in Japan in 2007 on Universal, Duet became the top-selling jazz album of the year. The 12-track, 2-CD release marks Chick Corea’s first recorded piano duet album since 1978’s An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert. The first CD features an original by each ...

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Greg Reitan Releases 'Some Other Time' on Sunnyside Records

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2009

“An old-school trio record of the highest order, Greg Reitan's Some Other Time harkens back to the day when great tunes played by a swinging band were reason enough to make an album." - Keyboard Magazine, February 2009 The modern jazz pianist not only has to master the voluminous contributions of the idiom's giants: He must also be conversant with every musical tradition that has crossed the eighty-eight keys. Sunnyside ...

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Singer Songwriter Tells the Tale of Great Depression Two

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 2, 2009

February 2, 2009 - Chapel Hill, NC - Picture it's 2040 and a young kid is asking an old geezer, “What happened back in '09 when you lost your house and job and why?" That's what Tokyo Rosenthal's new single “Mister Tell Me 'Bout The Great Depression" is all about. “We spent it all on war and oil, put our heads in the mortgaged soil" Rock & Sock Records recording artist Tokyo Rosenthal, fresh off the critical acclaim of his ...

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Petr Cancura's New Album - "PeopleMusic"

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2009

Recorded in Brooklyn, NY, the new record celebrates the sounds of Brazil, Africa, the Balkans and Americana. All for the fun, sadness and hope of life through music.

The album PeopleMusic is a collection of fables told with the help of masterful music makers. With a soft spot for music that makes people cry, dance and sing, we recorded this album to tell our own stories. The music is inspired by rhythms and melodies of the Balkans, Brazil, Africa and ...

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Marco Benevento:Me Not Me

Source: JamBase
February 1, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

Me Not Me (arriving February 3 on Royal Potato Family Records) begins like a rusty spigot twisting loose. Then, a crystalline flow rushes forth - mineral rich, cool, cleansing. For all his crazy technique and inherent skill, Marco Benevento is above all a fantastically emotional player, and never more so than this set, which begins with his found-sound sprinkled, wonderfully bent take on My Morning Jacket's “Golden," which foams up to an Aphex Twin-like percussion froth, hissing ...

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