Recording News

Dennen Gets Kuti on Album

Source: JamBase
August 23, 2008

BRETT DENNEN TO RELEASE HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS OCTOBER 21, 2008 FIRST SINGLE, “MAKE YOU CRAZY," FEATURES AFROBEAT KING FEMI KUTI

Brett Dennen Singer/Songwriter Brett Dennen will release HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS on October 21, 2008 with Dualtone Music Group/Downtown Music. The follow-up to his 2006 break-through album features an electric take on the established touring musician's narrative-rich writing and pop, folk, rock and Afro-Caribbean sounds. With his rapid success, Dennen has evolved into one of today's most ...

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"Leucocyte" the Last Album from Beloved International Jazz Trio E.S.T. in Stores This September

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2008

Live In Hamburg Released Digitally Only On September 30th The new album from the international jazz trio e.s.t (the Esbjorn Svensson Trio) serves as their ultimate legacy after the sudden accidental death of the Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjörn Svensson while scuba diving near Stockholm at the age of 44. Leucocyte pays tribute and carries on the memory of one of the most innovative jazz trios of our times. The album will be in stores September 30th on Emarcy. ...

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Emory Joseph:fennario: Songs by Garcia/Hunter

Source: JamBase
August 22, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

The songs of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter are a prickly briar patch - full of berries but watch where you grab. Many think any ol' fool high on cocaine can dig around in their subtly knotted gardens but one swiftly discovers there's way more to them than meets the eye. Northern California's Emory Joseph seems to understand what he's gotten himself into on this collection of smartly assembled interpretations. Played with a '70s style vigor by ...

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Otis Redding "Live in London & Paris" Album Due on Stax Records

Source: conqueroo
August 22, 2008

Redding is backed by Booker T. & the MGs featuring Steve Cropper and the Mar-Keys. Tom Dowd supervised the recording.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Otis Redding was at the peak of his stardom in March, 1967 when he crossed the Atlantic to perform for his growing European fan base. As part of the traveling Stax/Volt Revue that is credited with spreading the sound of Memphis across the world, Redding played two exemplary shows in London and Paris. These performances have ...

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Bob Gluck Trio Releases "Sideways" on FMR Records

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2008

Sideways is the debut recording by the Bob Gluck Trio, displaying the group's uniquely creative yet disciplined edge to jazz performance. The trio's watchwords are collaboration, listening and response, and collective dynamism. Structured tunes flow in and out of free improvisation, taking the performers and listeners alike to unexpected imaginative places. Gluck's piano sounds subtly range between the purely acoustic and digitally transformed, joined by Sharp's broadly ranging sonic array of percussion and Bisio's distinctly physical approach to the string ...

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Paul Flaherty Solo LP to be Released in September

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2008

Family Vineyard is proud to announce the Sept. 23 release of Paul Flaherty's solo vinyl LP (and downloadable album) Aria Nativa.

Aria Nativa is more than Flaherty's third solo saxophone album; it merges rhapsodic avant garde music, patriotic dream verse, and mortality into a frighteningly pure work of audio, visual and literary sledge. Recorded during a pair of 2007 performances, its four pieces capture lifeblood in stunning detail from foot stomps to gut hollers and crowd roars as Flaherty's free ...

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Jason Roebke's Solo Bass Debut Reissued Digitally

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2008

Jason Roebke's solo bass debut is being reissued digitally by Family Vineyard. This rare recording will now be available worldwide in the MP3 format September 23 via digital sellers like iTunes, eMusic, Other Music Digital, and many more.

Solo is Jason Roebke's only solo acoustic bass album, originally self-released in 2000. Across twelve pieces he bows, plucks and thrashes the bass to explore its wooden body, string harmonics and conjure pure clusters of sound. Snatches of walking, be-bop lines appear ...

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USA Today Picks Ari Hest's "Simple, Poignant Reverie"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 21, 2008

Hest to Perform at Democratic National Convention Ari Hest's song “The Weight" appeared as a LISTEN UP MUSIC PICK in Tuesday's edition of USA TODAY. Hest's home-studio-recorded, indie track was in impressive company...other Picks included superstars Peter Gabriel, Louis Armstrong, Joan Osborne, Fleetwood Mac and Isaac Hayes, among others. “The Weight" is one of many highlights of Hest's ambitious “52" project, during which he is writing, recording, producing and releasing 52 songs in 52 weeks. USA TODAY writer Elysa Gardner ...

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