Recording News

NEA Jazz Masters Chico Hamilton and Andrew Hill Come Together on "Dreams Come True" Album

Source: AMT Public Relations
September 30, 2008

Jazz legend Foreststorn Chico Hamilton adds two new previously recorded albums to his extensive discography: Dreams Come True featuring Chico (drums/tambourine) alongside NEA Jazz Master Andrew Hill (piano); and Trio! Live @ Artpark, the live recording of Chico's Trio debut concert with Cary DeNigris (guitar) and Matthew Garrison (bass). Slated for a September 30th release on the Joyous Shout! label, both records exemplify Chico's inherent timeliness and adventurous spirit, and the powerful synergy amongst his jazz consociates. Dreams Come True ...

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The Generations Ensemble, Featuring Jimmy Cobb, Releases "Tough Guys"

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2008

Eric Alexander, tenor sax; Andrew Speight, alto sax; Marcus Belgrave, trumpet; Ronnie Mathews, piano; Jimmy Cobb, drums; Ray Drummond, bass. San Francisco, CA -- Tough Guys is the swinging and expressive first CD by the Generations Ensemble, a multi-generational, all-star band featuring Jimmy Cobb, Ray Drummond, Ronnie Mathews, Marcus Belgrave, Eric Alexander and Andrew Speight. You’d expect a band with such a lineup to be a mainstream locomotive. On Tough Guys, those expectations are fulfilled. After all, Jimmy Cobb’s career ...

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Americana Songwriter Tokyo Rosenthal Sets Sights on New CD and Tour

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
September 30, 2008

Chapel Hill, NC - North Carolina-based Americana songwriter, performer and former boxer Tokyo Rosenthal, who in fact isn't Japanese but as American as you can get, is gearing up for the release of his latest CD Love Won Out. Produced by Tokyo with additional production by indie music legend Chris Stamey, Rosenthal's new CD, featuring the single “St. Patrick's Day" and the title track “Love Won Out", is scheduled for release on Sept. 30, 2008. Recorded at Stamey's Modern Recording ...

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CD: Louis Armstrong

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 30, 2008

Louis Armstrong, Fleischmann's Yeast Show & Louis' Home-Recorded Tapes (Jazz Society). If Armstrong's big band of the late 1930s had been this supercharged on its commercial recordings, critics might not have written all those disparaging things about it. These air checks tell the real story of what Armstrong was capable of in fronting Luis Russell's band. Here is the fountainhead of jazz inspiration in full flight. The companion CD is a generous sampling of Louis reminiscing, singing, playing and joking ...

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CD: Javon Jackson

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 30, 2008

Once Upon A Melody (Palmetto). Whether as the result of marketing gambits or of press stereotyping, Jackson's name rarely appears without the word “funk" nearby. In truth, from the time of his early beginnings with Art Blakey, his tenor saxophone playing has had fuller stylistic and emotional range that of a funkmeister. This CD is satisfying evidence of Jackson's breadth, from the sensitivity of his respectful treatment of the melody of “My One and Only Love" to the engaging energy ...

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CD: Alan Broadbent

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 30, 2008

Moment's Notice (Chilly Bin). In heavy demand as arranger, conductor and accompanist, Broadbent's schedule leaves him too few opportunities to work with his longtime sidemen, bassist Putter Smith and drummer Kendall Kay. In this welcome set, Broadbent plays with his customary blend of power, relaxation and inventiveness on tunes by Charlie Parker, Mal Waldron, John Coltrane and Benny Golson, among others. There is riveting interaction between Broadbent and Smith on Parker's “Chi Chi." Broadbent's “Lady Love" has the makings of ...

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Carrie Rodriguez:she Ain't Me

Source: JamBase
September 30, 2008

By: David Higdon

The lyric “Drug lords, crooked cops and thieves/ preying on the poor and on the weak" from “Infinite Night" open Carrie Rodriguez's album, She Ain't Me (released August 5 on Manhattan Records), and usher the listener into the darkness that has crept into the doe-eyed songstress' outlook.

She Ain't Me is by no means an overwhelmingly heavyweight of emotion that will bring the listener down, but it does embody a deeper understanding of the human heart than ...

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Zune Marketplace Introduces Exclusive Fania Records Digital Store

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

Today Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end-to-end music and entertainment service, announced jointly with Fania Records the availability of a custom collection of Fania albums consisting of never-before-digitally-released productions. For the first time, the Fania collection will be digitally remastered and available exclusively on Zune Marketplace. The collection will include legendary artists such as the Fania All-Stars, Hector Lavoe, La Lupe, Celia Cruz, Ricardo Ray and Bobby Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Mongo Santamaria, Bobby Valentin, and many more. During the 1960s and 1970s ...

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