Recording News

Charlie Haden returns to his roots for his latest album

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

He changed the shape of jazz playing with the original Ornette Coleman Quartet in the late 1950s, and went on to record some of the most seminal albums in music with artists like John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny, as well as his own provocative Liberation Music Orchestra and noir-tinged Quartet West, garnering over 15 Grammy nominations, four Grammys, and accolades worldwide. Haden began his musical career when he was just two years old, singing on the radio with ...

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Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

Review Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance

Today, most listeners think of Cecil Taylor as an awesome enigma. After all, it was more than 40 years ago that the American pianist started playing music in which it was tough to discern a tune unless you had a brain that could slow down a red-hot rush of notes to a stroll. But Taylor was a postbopper, and a fan of Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell and Duke Ellington once - and, on ...

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Rapper Nas on Dylan, Jazz and Why He Changed

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

Name Dropper The Title of His Controversial New Album

THE RAPPER NAS got people talking about his new album months before its release by announcing it would be titled with a racial epithet. However, he eventually backed away from the plan after some major retailers said they wouldn't stock an album bearing the n-word; it will be released without a title Tuesday. Born Nasir Jones, the New York rapper cemented his place in the genre with a widely ...

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The Hot Club of Detroit CD Night Town

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The Hot Club of Detroit has always walked a delicate tightrope, honoring its commitment to the nostalgia of Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz with the recognition that jazz and American culture didn't stop evolving in 1944.

If the band looks too far into the past, it becomes simply an exercise in musical dress-up. If it looks too far into the future, the music turns into awkward pastiche. On Night Town, the Detroit quintet's sophomore album for Mack Avenue Records, the band ...

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Old 97's Murry Hammond's First Solo Album Due August 18

Source: conqueroo
July 10, 2008

On August 18, 2008, Old 97's bass player and co-frontman Murry Hammond will celebrate the national release of his first full-length album outside of the Old 97's.

For two months prior to this street date, the album - I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way - was made available exclusively at Old 97's shows and through special mail- order. Hammond wished to capitalize on fan anticipation of the album's release in order to raise funds for ...

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S. Machines to Self-Release Album

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The Secret Machines Announce Self-Release Through World's Fair

The Secret Machines Having recently freed themselves from major label obligations and now working in collaboration with World's Fair Label Group, The Secret Machines, a staple in contemporary psychedelic rock, have announced plans to self-release a full-length in the fall of 2008. World's Fair will administer complete day-to-day label services for the release, which is the band's third album.

Having recently performed at Rothbury (read the review here), the band, long heralded ...

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Grandvista Makes Grand Entrance to American Standards

Source: MusicDish Network
July 9, 2008

GrandVista Music, Nashville, Tennessee is pleased to introduce SWINGIN' ON THE MOON from Perry Danos. Perry Danos, who hails from Chicago, where an array of sounds echo through the streets of the City (from Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country and the Symphony), is an accomplished, versatile, live performer who is set to make his national debut with SWINGIN' ON THE MOON not based on corporate directive, but out of sheer personal, artistic preference. Having become a “voice in demand," Danos has ...

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Charlie Haden: Family & Friends

Source: Shore Fire Media
July 9, 2008

Jazz legend Charlie Haden returns to his roots for his latest album, Ocean of Diamonds. He changed the shape of jazz playing with the original Ornette Coleman Quartet in the late 1950s, and went on to record some of the most seminal albums in music with artists like John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny, as well as his own provocative Liberation Music Orchestra and noir-tinged Quartet West, garnering over 15 Grammy nominations, four Grammys, and accolades worldwide. Haden began ...

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