Recording News

Cathy Rocco Releases "You're Gonna Hear from Me" on Resonance Records

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2008

On Cathy Rocco's latest release for Resonance Records, You're Gonna Hear From Me, this dynamic jazz vocalist packs more than a tune's worth of warmth and power into every song she sings. Whether the tune in question is a heavy-swinging rendition of a jazz standard, a belting R&B ballad by Aretha Franklin, or a wistful melody from traditional pop, Rocco asserts each lyric, each note with the confidence of an experienced and knowing performer. You're Gonna Hear From Me features ...

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10 Latin Jazz Perspectives on Charlie Parker

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
August 8, 2008

Bebop produced many strong personalities, but one artistic innovator remains the iconic symbol of the bebop era, saxophonist Charlie Parker. His fearless improvisational style blended blues notes, chord alterations, and awe-inspiring dexterity; he shocked the world and laid the foundation for the modern jazz language. Record producers captured Parkers constant ingenuity several times, creating a volume of recordings that read like a bebop textbook. His passion for music can only be matched by his tragic story of addiction and loss, ...

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Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2008

By: Trevor Pour

This is a free jazz album. Still reading? Congratulations. A few short years ago, I would have already hit the 'back' button and moved onto show reviews. Those two words in succession - free and jazz - have the power to make even experienced listener turn a cold shoulder. But, like great poetry, blue cheese and Flemish sour ales, free jazz is an acquired taste with potentially vast rewards. Before listening to this album, however, I had ...

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The Band of Heathens:the Band of Heathens

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

There's just nothing to dislike about roots rockers The Band of Heathens - dead sturdy, salt o' the earth songwriting delivered with strong, clear voices, lively picking and jubilant spirit. If early Jayhawks or Steve Earle knocks your dick in the dirt then you're gonna love you some Heathens, the winners of the 2007 “Best New Band of the Year" at the Austin Music Awards. And kids, if they like 'em in Austin - a town with ...

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South Austin Jug Band:strange Invitation

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

It's the fab cover of Beck's “Jackass" that's likely to garner some attention for under-sung acoustic gems South Austin Jug Band's latest, Strange Invitation (self-released), but there's nary a dud amongst these eleven tracks. In spirit, the SAJB is as much a “jug band" as Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, i.e. a free-floating ass grab of America's musical strains, pulling in hot jazz, concert classical, bluegrass, coffehouse folk, truckin' country and long haired rock in their tales ...

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Meridian Art's Ensemble's "Timbrando" Due Out In August on Channel Classics

Source: Teresa Conboy PR
August 7, 2008

The Meridian Arts Ensemble's appropriately titled Timbrando CD (Portuguese for “making a tone" or “sounding," related to the word “timbre") is a cross cultural “travelogue" of music the group collected while on tour in Latin and South America and the U.S. Several pieces were commissioned for their visit to the 1997 Subtropics Festival in Miami, including “Timbrando" by Hermeto Pascoal, “En par de los levantes de la aurora" by Ana Lara, and “Sako" by Tania Leon. Other pieces were “collected ...

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Montreal Company Premier Muzik Buys Beatles Recording at Internet Auction

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2008

Montreal, August 8, 2008 -- Gino Olivieri, founder of Premier Muzik International Corporation, a Montreal company that administers and redistributes royalties to such artists as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Bob Sinclar and Andrea Bocelli, has realized one of his fondest dreams by becoming the winning bidder for an unreleased recording by The Beatles, in an Internet auction by Cameo Auctions on August 5, 2008. The newly discovered 30-minute recording is without doubt every collectors dream for music Memorabilia. It ...

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Susan Tedeschi Album

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2008

NEW ALBUM BY GRAMMY NOMINATED VOCALIST & GUITARIST SUSAN TEDESCHI OUT THIS FALL HEADLINING TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Susan Tedeschi This fall, Verve Records will release the new album by four-time Grammy nominated roots rock singer/songwriter/guitarist Susan Tedeschi. The as-yet-untitled release is the follow up to 2005's acclaimed Hope & Desire. The album was produced by George Drakoulias at legendary Sunset Sound Studios, in Hollywood, CA. It features special guests Gary Louris of the Jayhawks, Derek ...

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