Recording News

The Gabe Dixon Band:the Gabe Dixon Band

Source: JamBase
September 2, 2008

By: Bill Clifford

If you've not yet caught the buzz surrounding The Gabe Dixon Band, allow me to introduce the trio and add to the critical acclaim. After the band independently released More Than It Would Seem in 1999, Dixon was invited to play keyboards on Paul McCartney's 2001 album, Driving Rain, and performed with McCartney's band during the internationally broadcast 9/11 tribute Concert For New York City. Asked by the ex-Beatle to join his touring band, Dixon declined in ...

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Fight the Big Bull - Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed, 2008)

Source: RVAjazz
September 2, 2008

by Dean ChristesenFight the Big Bull's debut record begins darkly, with a fear brooding in the growl of a distorted trombone, unsettling bass and haunting shakers. It ends in a similar yet tweaked tone with an epic chorus making way for one last statement of defeat (or is it victory?). Amidst the rest of the work emerges a big band heavy on the slop--like jazz found in the back woods, blues from dirt road nomads, hymns from the ...

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Michael Feinstein's Fresh Take On Classic Sinatra

Source: Michael Ricci
September 1, 2008

Ol' Blue eyes did it his way -- and so now has Michael Feinstein. Feinstein takes Ol' Blue Eyes' 1940s hits and gives them 1950s Nelson Riddle-style arrangements.

When he began kicking around ideas recently for a new album, the singer and recording artist who carries a torch for the Great American Songbook initially dismissed a suggestion that he do a Frank Sinatra tribute. There were too many on the market already, he thought, and most simply copied ...

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Reboot Stereophone Re-Issues the Legendary Barry Sisters

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2008

Since 2005, the non-profit record label Reboot Stereophonic has dedicated itself to rescuing lost treasures of Jewish-American music. They did it with Irving Fields' Bagels and Bongos. They did it with Fred Katz's Folk Songs for Far Out Folk. They did it with the way-out Moog experiments of Beastie Boys hero Gershon Kingsley and they did it, most notoriously, with the outrageous vaudeville cylinders of Jewface.

Now it's time for the incomparable Barry Sisters, the original swinging queens of Jewish ...

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Lafayette Gilchrist to Release "Soul Progressin,'" Announces East Coast Shows

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2008

LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST & THE NEW VOLCANOES New Album SOUL PROGRESSIN' Available September 9 East Coast Shows To Follow

“...the heir to Thelonious Monk." - Entertainment Weekly

“Imagine pianist Billy Preston in the FBI witness protection program; he hides out in the Washington, DC, go-go scene and then the jazz underground; he invents an unlikely pseudonym to go with his new style: a sort of twisted, funky, neo-juke-joint avant-gut-bucket." - Detroit Metro Times

“...it's Gilchrist's ...

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Donna Lee Saxophone Quartet "Mellow" CD

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2008

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Bobby Charles Releases Long Awaited CD: "Homemade Songs"

Source: KJPR Publicity and Artist Relations
September 1, 2008

From Rice 'N' Gravy Records “Pick Of The Week" --USA Today “15 Swampy Soulful Tracks" --Rolling Stone “My old buddy, Robert Charles Guidry, was better known as Bobby Charles, and he was more successful as a songwriter than a singer, and it's a sin 'cause he's a hell of a singer. He's got one of the most melodious voices ever transferred to a piece of vinyl. The boy could sing like a bird. He still does as a matter of ...

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Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2008

Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock, an essential collection of tracks from multi-Grammy Award-winning artist Herbie Hancock, will be released September 23rd on Verve Records. A first-ever career retrospective of the jazz visionary's unparalleled work, the 12-track CD chronicles five decades, featuring music spanning Hancock's illustrious career from Blue Note, Warner Brothers and Sony, to his present days with Verve. The only truly comprehensive collection of Hancock's work covers the genre-stretching musician's expansive repertoire, from his best-known solo works ...

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