Recording News

Avishai Cohen Joins Blue Note

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2008

Blue Note has announced that it has signed a worldwide deal with bassist/composer/singer and bandleader Avishai Cohen. Cohen's debut release for Blue Note--his 11th album as an ensemble leader--will be recorded in December in Paris with the release scheduled for spring '09.

Born April 20, 1970, in Israel, the eclectic artist is considered to be one of the biggest new stars on the international jazz scene, reaching out to a broad audience around the world and becoming a much in ...

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Roxy Music Members Issue Solo Projects

Source: Billboard Magazine
November 22, 2008

As work continues on a new studio album by Roxy Music, various members of the pioneering British rock band are pursuing solo ventures. Roxy saxophonist and oboe player Andy Mackay launched his new band, the Metaphors, with a London performance at the Pigalle Club on Tuesday (18), with another show booked for Nov. 25. Featuring Roxy drummer Paul Thompson and former bassist Gary Tibbs with vocalist Hazel Mills, among others, the band played tracks from its instrumental album “London! Paris! ...

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Wu Fei new Release "Yuan" out November 25th

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2008

Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film and chamber ensembles. Performing on guzheng since the age of six, she studied composition at the China Conservatory and with Fred Frith at Mills College. She has since collaborated with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Joelle Leandre, Meredith Monk, Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Kazue Sawai, Elliott Sharp, Cecil Taylor and many others. Her first CD for Tzadik presents a variety of pieces ...

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New Linn Records Jazz Artists for 2009

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2008

2009 is set to start with a bang as Linn Records announces the signing of two world class jazz artists, Gareth Williams Power Trio and Gill Manly. Gareth Williams Power Trio will release their debut album “Shock!" on Linn Records in February 2009. It showcases Williams' skills as an outstanding composer, pianist and improviser. The trio itself features Laurence Cottle (electric bass) and Ian Thomas (drums). From melancholy ballads to biting funk, the band never loses its ethos: never compromising ...

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Neil Young Opens up the Vaults with Crazy Horse Disc Box Set

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2008

When Young left the Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he hit the road for a series of intimate acoustic gigs. This disc, recorded in a coffeehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the third in his Archives series of material related to the box set.

I'm spending about half my time on music and family," Neil Young says from a stop on his current arena tour. The rest is devoted to converting a 1959 Lincoln Continental into an experimental superefficient car but ...

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J.J. Cale to Release Roll on First Solo Album in 5 Yrs

Source: JamBase
November 21, 2008

J.J. CALE - “ONE OF THE MASTERS" - READIES ROLL ON HIS ROUNDER RECORDS DEBUT AND FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN NEARLY FIVE YEARS, FOR FEB 24 RELEASE

J.J. Cale On February 24, Rounder Records will release J.J. Cale's Roll On, the legendary songwriter and guitarist's first solo album in nearly five years, and his debut for the label. Roll On follows Cale's Grammy-winning, gold-certified 2006 album with Eric Clapton Road to Escondido.

Cale wrote and produced all twelve ...

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Recent Listening: Jordan, Longo, Garrett

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 21, 2008

The Rifftides staff is still catching up with recent CDs, some more recent than others.

Sheila Jordan, Winter Sunshine (Justin Time). The first word in the CD's title may refer to Jordan's age, the second to the quality of her singing. She is seventy-nine and sounds thirty. Part of her schtick in this live recording at Montreal's Upstairs club is to tell the audience how tired she is, but she doesn't sound tired. She sounds like a young bebop and ...

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Medeski, Martin and Wood Still Recording Their Own Way

Source: Michael Ricci
November 21, 2008

TRIO: John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood flesh out new material during concerts, not during rehearsal. The improv devotees have changed the way they record, fleshing out new material in concerts rather than the rehearsal studio.

After 17 years, nine studio albums and countless tours, Medeski, Martin and Wood are, in a sense, a band without a country. And they couldn't be happier.

Dedicated to what keyboardist John Medeski calls “the spirit of jazz" through a fierce devotion to ...

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