Recording News

Interscope Records Presents the Knux's "Remind Me in 3 Days"

Source: Special Ops Media
October 13, 2008

"Their debut album sounds like Outkast, Juvenile, Tha Pharcyde, and The Strokes concurrently blasting, out of a drop-top Jag on Sunset Blvd. on a Saturday night in the summer." - L.A. Weekly Interscope Records is proud to present Remind Me In 3 Days the new album by The Knux out on October 28th. “Bang Bang“ audio stream. Hip hop used to be feeling, not form—A boom-bap rush that could, and would, be interpreted and articulated differently by it’s various creators. ...

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Tomoko Omura's Debut Album "Visions"

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2008

“Welcome to an incredible album by the extraordinary young jazz violinist and composer Tomoko Omura. “Visions" is a tribute to seven of the finest jazz violinists of all time. And in it, Tomoko does more than just honor these gentlemen... She really gets to the emotional core of what makes each of them tick as players. Her compositions are lovely, well-conceived tunes that are played blazingly by her crackerjack band, and especially by Tomoko herself. Her Playing here is uniformly ...

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Stax Records Presents Nikka Costa's "Pebble to a Pearl" Available Now!

Source: Special Ops Media
October 13, 2008

Nikka Costa has always seemed to thrive on a certain sense of freedom. It’s no wonder, that when Nikka set out to create a record on her own terms and as an independent artist finally free of major label confines, she has made her boldest and most passionate record yet. Over 14 days at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, Nikka created Pebble to a Pearl- a quintessential collection of soul, blues, funk & pop infused tracks which marks Nikka's ...

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Vocalist Patrick Rydman Releases Debut CD "I Will Do It"

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2008

Patrick Rydman is a rare occurrence on the Swedish music scene: A male jazz singer of the younger generation who furthermore writes his own material. His music sounds like “poetic singer/songwriter jazz with strong pop sentiments and a little bit of circus”, according to Patrick himself. Influenced by songwriters like Bacharach, Jobim, Paddy McAloon, Bill Withers and Joni Mitchell, raised on pop songs and tunes from the Great American Songbook, the resulting mix is Patrick’s own: melodic, personal, groovy, intimate ...

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Recent Listening: McCoy Tyner

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 13, 2008

McCoy Tyner, Guitars (Half-Note). This is one of the most engaging Tyner collaboration projects since he teamed with the late tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker to record Infinity in 1995 and with Wayne Shorter the following year in the session that produced Extensions. For this release, the pianist set up in a studio with stalwart rhythm companions, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Jack DeJohnette. He brought in four guitarists -- John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Derek Trucks, Mark Ribot -- and Bela ...

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New Toubab Krewe Live Album

Source: JamBase
October 13, 2008

MORE DETAILS SURFACE FOR LATEST OFFERING BY ASHEVILLE'S AFRO BLUES JAM JUGGERNAUT

Toubab Krewe's highly anticipated new release, Live at the Orange Peel will be released nationally on November 29 but the band is making a limited number of copies available at shows on their fall currently underway. The band plays next on Tuesday, October 14, in Columbus, Ohio at the Scarlet & Grey Cafe with special guest Rayna Gellert (Uncle Earl) on fiddle.

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Garaj Mahal:woot

Source: JamBase
October 13, 2008

By: Josh Potter

Ah, remember when funky, instrumental music wasn't simply lumped in with other bands that “jammed" and actually got the credit it deserved for all the crazy influences it drew upon? Garaj Mahal does. It's been no secret amongst Mahalics, either, that the San Francisco-Chicago quartet deals in some of the most perplexing arrangements and rubber-burning grooves of any band around. The band's first release since 2005's Blueberry Cave is proof positive.

Woot (released September 9 on Owl ...

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Rhino's Ry Cooder Anthology

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

RY COODER'S MUSICAL JOURNEY

Rhino's Double-CD The UFO Has Landed: The Ry Cooder Anthology Includes 34 Songs From The Virtuoso Guitarist's Eclectic Career

Available October 28 From Rhino Records

LOS ANGELES - Rhino takes a joy ride through Ry Cooder's prolific career with a two-CD collection of his work as a solo artist and soundtrack composer. On October 28, THE UFO HAS LANDED: THE RY COODER ANTHOLOGY will be available at all retail outlets, including rhino.com, for a suggested list ...

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