Recording News

David Sanchez Tenor Sax Solo on "Home Cookin'"

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
July 4, 2008

Over the past couple of decades, David Sanchez has built a reputation as a modern giant of improvisation in both straight-ahead and Latin Jazz worlds. He built his jazz chops with a number of legendary straight-ahead innovators, including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath, and Elvin Jones. These experiences gave him a creative melodic sensibility and a keen ability to respond to spontaneous musical events. Sanchez spent the beginning of his musical career studying percussion, and that knowledge informs his work in ...

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Joel Holmes' New CD, "African Skies," Featuring Gary Thomas

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2008

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B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2008

In the Studio: B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style Set

When producer T Bone Burnett first met with B.B. King, he presented the blues legend with a simple mission statement: “I'd like for you to go back to the Fifties and do some of the stuff as you did it then." At 82, King wondered whether he could really re-create what he calls “the B.B. King that was" on a new album. “My voice is nothing like it was, and maybe my ...

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Jimmy Herring Solo Album

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2008

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World Renown Jazz Vocalist Jamie Davis Releases New CD Vibe over Perfection on Unity Music

Source: Groshelle Communications
July 3, 2008

The Chocolate Baritone Debuts At the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival 2008 is a defining year for Unity Music and jazz vocalist Jamie Davis as he confirms his position in the pantheon of great male vocalists on VIBE OVER PERFECTION, his new CD, scheduled for release July 15, 2008. Mr. Davis, who debuts at the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21st, 2008, has been compared to Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, and Lou Rawls, with a truly unique sound and style. ...

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Darrell Scott New Album

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2008

Darrell Scott Celebrates His Heroes On Modern Hymns Grammy Nominated Songwriter Tackles Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen Del McCoury, Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Mary Gauthier, Tim O'Brien Lend a Hand

Darrell Scott Darrell Scott is a successful and acclaimed songwriter, but on his new album the gifted musician turns to his heroes to find inspiration of his own. Out August 19 on Appleseed Recordings, Modern Hymns is Scott's honest, imaginative take on 12 songs from ...

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Red Sparrows Album/Tour

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2008

Red Sparowes Post New Song from Forthcoming EP, Launch European & UK tour in July

Red Sparowes It's the hypnotic, addictive state of zen they inject into every one of their songs that makes it listenable. Recommended. -KKKK Kerrang

Majestic, monolithically heavy yet full of light and air and structure, Red Sparowes' music may have been informed by metal and hardcore, but it has ended up somewhere else entirely, exploring new territories of shifting dynamics and cinematic scope. - Popmatters.com ...

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Singer/Songwriter Erin Bode's New CD, the Little Garden,

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
July 2, 2008

Making her Native Language recording debut, vocalist Erin Bode stakes a claim as one of her generation's most imaginative and melodically inspired singer/songwriters with The Little Garden. Bode produced the session herself, working closely with her band (drummer Derrick Phillips; bassist (and husband) Syd Rodway; and songwriting partner Adam Maness on piano, guitar, Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer), to give each song a subtly calibrated instrumental setting. With the cohesiveness of a jazz combo, her band gracefully delineates each tune's narrative ...

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