Recording News

CD: Miles from India

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 15, 2008

Miles From India (Times Square). Producer Bob Belden wound up a monumental series of Miles Davis reissue box sets for Sony/Columbia, then he and fellow arranger Louiz Banks turned to interpreting the trumpeter's immense output of recordings after 1959. This two-CD set considers the intersection of Indian music with Davis's adventures in scales and modes from Kind of Blue forward. Belden laid down the initial tracks in India, later adding soloists in New York. Among the players are sidemen from ...

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Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra at "Ten": New CD + Yoshi's Show

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 15, 2008

Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra will celebrate their ten-year history with the release of a new commemorative CD entitled “Ten" on Tuesday, August 26, and with a performance at Yoshi's San Francisco on Thursday, September 11. The Yoshi's event, which inaugurates the innovative orchestra's annual home season, takes as its theme “Bridging Japantown and the Fillmore." “We are mounting an outreach campaign in neighborhood schools and centers on both sides of the Geary Street divide," says Brown, himself of African-American ...

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Airborne Ushers in Winds of Change with New CD

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
August 14, 2008

Airborne has just released another CD “Winds of Change" on Tilt Records. The band is still riding high on the wonderful success of the 2007 release of Turbulence. The new CD, Winds of Change, was created by the band in response to the current state of global affairs. The band explains that the title, compositions, and even the emotion of this new project was inspired by their concern for world events. In essence, they are proclaiming, “We are musicians, but ...

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Rare "Patti Lupone at les Mouches" Set for Novemeber 11th on Ghostlight

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 14, 2008

“Patti LuPone at Les Mouches" Features Rare, Live, Digitally Restored Recordings of LuPone's Eclectic Nightclub Act

The year was 1980, and Patti LuPone was starring as “Evita" on Broadway. She was en route to winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and cementing her status as a Broadway star. But there was another Patti LuPone performance taking place -- one that only a comparative handful of people were aware of: Every Saturday night at midnight, for 27 ...

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Kate Schutt's Latest Album to be Released Next Month

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2008

Singer/songwriter Kate Schutt (pronounced as “shut") is releasing her new album The Telephone Game through ArtistShare in September. Some songs on this album are inspired by real love stories submitted by the participants of the former project, No Love Lost. Kate was interested in how stories intentionally and unintentionally change by being passed on from one person to the next. That is why the title for this album is called The Telephone Game. By purchasing the album, you can have ...

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New Mario Pavone CD Coming in November

Source: Improvised Communications
August 14, 2008

On November 4th, Playscape Recordings will release acclaimed bassist/composer Mario Pavone's latest CD, Ancestors (PSR#011508), the recorded debut of newest working ensemble, the Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet. This recording features eight original Pavone compositions written specifically for this group and its all-star line-up of Tony Malaby (tenor and soprano saxophones), Jimmy Greene (tenor and soprano saxophones), Peter Madsen (piano) and Gerald Cleaver (drums). The band will preview this music, which Pavone has dedicated to Dewey Redman and Andrew Hill, ...

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Pianist Wayne Gallops Releases "Jazzicale" on DocG Records

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2008

DocG Records latest release - JAZZICALE - features the stunning improv and technique of WAYNE GALLOPS. The album is an eclectic blend of Piano Jazz improvisation on jazz standards, classical Gershwin, and Piazzolla. JAZZICALE is an effort to infuse the artistic ideal of Jazz improvisation - music created in the moment by the performer - into works that are rooted in the traditional classical artistic ideal. For the listener of “classical" music, this album may serve as a bridge into ...

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Canadian Jazz Guitarist Shan Arsenault Releases "Below Sea Level"

Source: All About Jazz
August 13, 2008

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to “The Jazz Beat Sessions" is here! Shan is proud to announce the release of his second recording; “Below Sea Level." “Below Sea Level" is now available at CDBaby.com, Amazon.com as well as iTunes and many other digital distributors. Samples of “Below Sea Level" can be found at CD Baby. Please stay tuned in to AllAboutJazz.com for your free MP3 download from “Below Sea Level." “Below Sea Level" is ten of Shan's original compositions for jazz ...

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