Recording News

Nick Halley Releases Debut Recording

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2008

Jazz drummer and world percussionist Nick Halley recently released his debut recording, Barnum Hill. Showcasing the talents of rising jazz stars Matt Brewer (bass) and Adam Niewood (saxophones), the traditional jazz framework is expanded in this album to encompass the wild sounds of percussion from around the world, 20th century classical music, and the great pipe organ played by Paul Halley.

Nick Halley spent a year in Brazil studying percussion with masters Marcio Bahia, Oscar Bolao and Pedro Lima as ...

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Airborne Gives Away Free Holiday Downloads

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
November 15, 2008

Following the recent release of their Winds of Change album on Tilt Records, Airborne is giving away free holiday downloads on their site. Fans can download “Every Year at Christmas Time," “Silent Night," “What Child is This" and the “Little Drummer Boy." Currently, none of these holiday songs available on CD and can only be downloaded by visiting: http://www.airbornejazz.com/Christmasmusicdownloads.htm More About Airborne and Winds of Change: Winds of Change is the 6th CD from Airborne, the multi-cultural contemporary jazz group ...

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Sheila Jordan: Winter Sunshine Review

Source: Sound Visions Media
November 15, 2008

Sheila Jordan/Winter Sunshine-Live at Upstairs: Reprising her 76th birthday recording with a set for her 80th birthday, this grande dame of jazz vocal shows about as much signs of slowing down as Marian McPartland. Certainly a survivor with a rich jazz history under her belt, she didnt think shed live to make this recording as the last birthday recording was done the night before surgery to fix a 99% blocked artery. None of that has slowed her down showing her ...

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Recent Listening: Rollins, Melvoin-Park, Harper, Gonzalez

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 15, 2008

The Rifftides staff is attempting to keep ahead of the CD tsunami described in this recent post. It's an impossible assignment, but they're a game bunch. Herewith, brief reviews of approximately 0.06% of the accumulated mass of discs.

Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 1 (Doxy/Emarcy). In some of these previously unreleased concert performances, the tenor saxophonist reaches peaks of the intensity, drive, inventiveness and whimsy that have kept him inimitable for nearly six decades. His “Tenor Madness" solo from Japan in 2000 is ...

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Randy Weeks Readies 'Going My Way,' Produced by Will Sexton with Tony Gilkyson, Eliza Gilkyson, More

Source: conqueroo
November 14, 2008

New release from the writer of Lucinda Williams’ “Can’t Let Go” was produced by Will Sexton and features Tony Gilkyson, Eliza Gilkyson and Cindy Cashdollar

AUSTIN, Texas — Randy Weeks will follow his 2006 album Sugarfinger (which included the radio hit “Transistor Radio” and was called “one of the finest albums released [that] year” by the Dallas Observer) with a new album titled Going My Way on Certifiable Records on February 17, 2009. Reflecting his recent move from his long-time ...

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Candoli and Holman: 1955

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 14, 2008

As laid back as West Coast jazz sounds, the genre wasn't a static art form. While cool jazz was predominantly linear in structure, with melody lines offset by contrapuntal harmony, the music continued to evolve during the early 1950s. Among the big influences shaping the scene were rising East Coast jazz stars and the advent of the 10-inch LP. Longer-playing records created new opportunities for smaller groups, and the growing popularity of artists like Clifford Brown and Miles Davis left ...

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Derek Trucks Band: Already Free

Source: JamBase
November 14, 2008

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND SET TO RELEASE ALREADY FREE ON JANUARY 13, 2009

Listen to “Down In The Flood".

“Three things worth knowing about Derek Trucks: He is young, he is a veteran, and he is the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today." -Ashley Kahn, Wall Street Journal

“One of the best guitar players out there." -Willie Nelson

Derek Trucks Band One of the most critically acclaimed guitarists and the youngest musician to be named in Rolling Stone's ...

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M.A.P. Trio - Richmond (Slang Sanctuary, 2008)

Source: RVAjazz
November 14, 2008

by Dean ChristesenBrightly dodging around the melody of “Jelly Roll," the M.A.P. Trio abandons the original harmony of the first few lines, instead stating the melody in unison. And so goes the challenge of performing Charles Mingus' music with a trio: sacrifices of the original composition must be made, but the ways that those sacrifices are made give the group its identity. Drummer Brian Jones, tenor saxophonist J.C. Kuhl, and bassist Cameron Ralston maintain the soul of Mingus' ...

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