Recording News

A Cure for the Long-Gone Lonesome Blues

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Jett Williams never met her father, Hank. Then she came across his lost recordings, and she heard him laugh at last.According to Hank Williams, Mother's Best Flour makes “the best biscuit you ever hung a tooth in," and “On Top of Old Smokey" sounds best when sung the Appalachian way, “like Grandma taught it."

Now unless you happened to tune into Nashville's WSM radio during one of Williams's daily shows in 1951, you likely missed these pearls of wisdom from ...

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David Cook Wants LP to "Kick You in the Teeth" !

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

David Cook Crafts Heaviest “American Idol" Album Yet

During the show, I enjoyed messing with people's expectations. I'm not trying to surprise people now: I'm putting out a rock record. I just want the songs to kick you in the teeth or make you want to cry or do something drastic, like jump off a building. I want somebody to be exhausted when they're done listening. David Cook-American Idol Winner

Making an album like that is a tall ...

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Shout! Factory to Release 5-CD Set of Hunter S. Thompson's Previously Unreleased Recordings

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

The Gonzo Tapes: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Featuring original cover artwork by Ralph Steadman, an introduction by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, an essay by Loren Jenkins, and notes and production by Don Fleming In Stores October 28 Los Angeles, CA – On October 28 Shout! Factory will make available the previously unreleased Gonzo Tapes in a newly produced collection titled The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, in concurrence ...

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Tony Malaby Cello Trio - Warblepeck (Songlines, 2008)

Source: RVAjazz
October 27, 2008

By Roberto CurtisSaxophonist Tony Malaby--known for his ominously playful composition style--has teamed up with New York contemporary drummer John Hollenbeck and avant garde cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm to create Warblepeck, an album that is as experimental as it is fun.Billed as the Tony Malaby Cello Trio, the group's virtuosity creeps up behind the obvious ingenuity and body slams you with sonic indulgence. With Lonberg-Holm's berimbau-hammering techniques on the cello strings and Hollenbeck's eerie children's polyrhythmic marimba, title ...

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Sunday Spin: Manfred Mann

Source: JamBase
October 27, 2008

OUR WEEKLY SHOWCASE FOR GREAT ALBUMS GETS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

Manfred Mann's Earth Band doesn't get a lot of props. While not often cited as an influence on the jam scene, his prog-rock-jazz outfit was capable of adapting Holtz and Tchaikovsky as well as covering Bruce Springsteen in a chart topping way. In between those strange extremes lays burbling synths, nasty guitars, winding, unpredictable compositions and an exuberance for ear-snagging sonics, boffo playing and in-the-moment creative ...

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Pnuma Trio:Character

Source: JamBase
October 26, 2008

By: Greg Gargiulo

Character. Pnuma Trio is soaked in it. Miles from your average rank and file electronica, Pnuma has been gradually carving their niche in the scene in a fashion that's fresh and crisp, their own aggressive game plan devoid of any pigeonholing constrictions. On Character (1320 Records), their studio debut, the Trio has successfully parlayed their live act into a record with an accessible amalgamation of drum & bass, glitch, hip-hop, dubstep and breakbeat, touched with organic instrumentation ...

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Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band

Source: All About Jazz
October 25, 2008

One Of The Most Exciting & Original Big Bands In Jazz “Greatness is greatness, whether on the East Coast, the West Coast, in Tokyo, or anywhere else in the world. I think you will find it in this magnificently variegated, consistently exciting example of one of outstanding jazz orchestras of our time." --Leonard Feather, original liner notes In 1965, pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi returned to New York after three years in Japan. Soon thereafter, she formed an alliance with saxophonist Lew ...

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Ljova and the Kontraband Release Their Debut CD, "Mnemosyne"

Source: All About Jazz
October 25, 2008

MNEMOSYNE is the debut release of LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, a new ensemble project dedicated to original music that washes away distinguishing lines between chamber music, jazz, contemporary global folk music. The ensemble was founded by violist and composer, Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin, an active collaborator of Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, composer Osvaldo Golijov, as well as a growing list of independent filmmakers. (Among them, Francis Ford Coppola, who used Ljova's composition “Middle Village” in ...

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