Recording News

CD: Dena Derose

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 7, 2009

Dena DeRose: Live At Jazz Standard, Volume Two (MaxJazz). Spontaneity and a sense of discovery continue in this second set by DeRose and her trio at the New York club. She, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson connect with one another and with an enthusiastic audience. The connection comes by way of taste, musicianship and a sense of shared enjoyment -- outright fun, in fact. As in volume one, she concentrates on standard songs, but this time she includes ...

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Pianist Bob McHugh Releases New CD "Summer Stride"

Source: All About Jazz
January 7, 2009

Summer Stride is a collection of stride piano music performed by Bob McHugh containing great classics from the 1920's,30's and 40's. There are two new original compositions that also reflect the sounds of this golden age of jazz.

About Bob McHugh Bob McHugh has been playing jazz clubs,festivals,halls,private parties, and restaurants in the NY metro area for over forty years. Be it solo,duo,trio or big band Bob has done it. His styles include, but are not limited to ...

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Janet Robbins Releases Third & Final Volume of the - Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Interpreting the Birth of Stars

Source: Teresa Conboy PR
January 7, 2009

When Janet Robbins started working on what became Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Interpreting the Birth of Stars she was in a period of much transition and exploration in Woodstock, New York.

Inspired by the deep timelessness of the area she created a variety of musical parts, ideas and sections that were later completed in Asheville, North Carolina, where she now resides. The pieces all reflected a sort of soul retrieval nature, journeying through various realms of timeless states/consciousness to ...

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Happy 70th Birthday, Blue Note Records

Source: On Target Media Group
January 6, 2009

Today Blue Note Records celebrates its 70th birthday. The label was born on January 6, 1939 when a young jazz fan named Alfred Lion recorded two of his favorite boogie-woogie pianists at a New York studio. That first session (Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis - The First Day) proved to be the start of an illustrious history that continues to this day. Over the course of its seven decades in business, Blue Note has recorded virtually every major figure ...

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Music Production in Action

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

UK Jazz trumpet player Adam Linsley has recorded a new CD to raise money for Lindsey Lodge Hospice in North Lincolnshire. “The hospice is an amazing place, they cared for my Mother in her later stages of secondary breast cancer offering both day care and then full time care in the last week of her life. They also provided amazing care for my family & friends." The recording is due to be released in January & will be available direct ...

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Enchanting Cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper Releases Jazz Album

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

Stone and Steel Combines Ancient and Modern For Unique New Sound New York, NY - The enchanting cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper recently launched her latest CD, Stone and Steel, a scintillating combination of the ancient and the modern. Cooper, a resident of New York City and Tel Aviv, is well-known for her adventurousness and her passion for new, popular and contemporary works. In her newest release, she takes some old classics Gregorian chants, songs of the ever-popular Elizabethan composer John ...

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Reopening a Pianists Treasury of Chopin

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

Nadia Reisenberg: A Chopin Treasury Classical music has always produced superstar performers who thrill the public and claim widespread attention. But there have also always been dedicated artists with lower profiles who influence the field from within and enjoy productive and important careers. The pianist Nadia Reisenberg is a good example. When Reisenberg died at 78 in 1983, she was best known as a respected teacher at the Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music (now Mannes College ...

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U2 in Studio/ No Line on the Horizon

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

In early December, Rolling Stone traveled to London to visit U2 in the studio as Bono and Co. worked on the upcoming No Line on the Horizon.

The journey was as spellbinding and energizing as you might imagine, and you'll be able to read all about it when our new issue hits newsstands on Wednesday, January 7th. To tide you over, here's a track-by-track preview of 10 choice songs (and you can dig deeper into all our U2 ...

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