Recording News

Recent Listening: Tom Harrell

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 31, 2009

CD: Tom Harrell, Prana Dance (High Note) The economy, lyricism and ingenuity in Tom Harrell's writing and his trumpet and flugelhorn playing make him one of the most admired musicians in jazz. Not only his contemporaries, but also musicians of younger and older generations are in awe of Harrell's musicianship. When he was a member of Phil Woods' quintet In the 1980s, Woods made the frequently-quoted statement that he had never played with a better musician. With two decades ...

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Grady Nichols Releases "Take Me with You"

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2009

Contemporary jazz saxophonist Grady Nichols released his fifth CD, Take Me With You. Produced by Zac Maloy (founder and front man of the MCA Records' modern rock band, The Nixons), the CD features 13 songs including 4 vocal tunes. Leigh Nash of Sixpence None The Richer added her vocals on a cover of “Every Kind of People." Nichols also covered “Can't Get You Out Of My Head," a song made famous by Kylie Minogue. For a fun twist, Grady recruited ...

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Michael Wolff' Joe's Strut Has Feel of Radio Hit, out 2/10

Source: Seth Cohen PR
January 30, 2009

Joe's Strut Recalls Instrumental Jazz/Pop Radio Hits of Decades Past Audio Sample Pianist Michael Wolff's upcoming Joe's Strut; features a catchy title track with a jazz/pop sensibility that recalls radio hits of decades past' Wolffs original, instrumental song recalls an era when Chuck Mangione, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderley, Les McCann and Eddie Harris, Ahmad Jamal, Ramsey Lewis and others found popularity with songs that reached beyond straight-ahead jazz to embrace an expansive range of listeners. Wrong Records' February 10th release ...

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Derek Trucks Band: Grindin' Toward Freedom

Source: JamBase
January 30, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

The Derek Trucks Band These days The Derek Trucks Band is getting known for what they do that's unique to them, and not just their bandleader's associations with the Allman Brothers or Eric Clapton.

“It definitely feels like there's a little shift going on," says Derek Trucks. “For the last few years, with the Clapton tour and everything else, I think our music is finally lining ...

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"Mama Rosa" Brian Blade Coming in April

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2009

BRIAN BLADE * MAMA ROSA * The debut singer/songwriter recording On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Brian Blade will release Mama Rosa, his first recording as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. The album is a revealing journey through a thirteen-song cycle about family, loved ones, travels and a sense that these things have to be shared with others.

Blade is already widely respected in the jazz world as drummer/composer/leader of Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band and is also ...

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The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die Release Date March 3

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2009

Its easy to forget that not only have the Prodigy given us some of the greatest hits of the rave era and beyond with “Outer Space," “Everybody In the Place," “Charley Says," “Firestarter," and “Smack My Bitch Up," they also gave a face to rave and to the rest of us donated the whole idea of selling a credible, uncompromising dance music album with the personality and punk panache of a rock artist and sold 16 million albums in the ...

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MONO: Album/Orchestra Show

Source: JamBase
January 30, 2009

MONO RETURN WITH THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM, THE ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE HYMN TO THE IMMORTAL WIND CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A SPECIAL CONCERT BACKED BY A 22-PIECE ORCHESTRA ON MAY 8

MONO After touring almost non-stop for five years, MONO hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn To The Immortal Wind. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (JFJO) Offers New Studio Album for Free

Source: Calabro Music
January 29, 2009

Following a year that found the band winning a Guinness Cork Award and playing at Newport Jazz Festival & Lincoln Center, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is excited to announce a special gift for their fans to kick off 2009 & their 15th anniversary. As a thank you to all of the music lovers who have helped make the odyssey possible, JFJO is offering up a FREE DOWNLOAD of their new studio album entitled Winterwood. The album marks Reed Mathis' last ...

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