Recording News

John Mayall Live '69 Reissues

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

Two Vintage John Mayall Sets: Live at Marquee & The Masters Available June 3

Eagle Rock Entertainment will re-release two of British blues superstar John Mayall's vintage live albums on June 3.

The Masters is a two-disc set, originally released in 1999, culled from a British show 30 years earlier, that also features music from the original film soundtrack of The Turning Point, a “rockumentary" on Mayall which chronicles his adventurous decision to go acousticwithout drums!shortly after guitarist Mick Taylor ...

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BMOP/Sound Releases Its Fourth Album: Gunther Schuller's Journey into Jazz

Source: AMT Public Relations
June 17, 2008

BMOP/sound, the nation's foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music recordings, announces the release of its fourth CD Gunther Schuller: Journey Into Jazz. Representative of the “Third Stream" genre, a revolutionary style of music brought forth into the mainstream by Schuller in the 1950's, the three pieces on this album unite the structural complexities found in contemporary classical music with the improvisational elements of jazz. According to Schuller, “few people would've imagined jazz in the ...

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Eric Hofbauer & the Infrared Band's Myth Understanding Released Today

Source: Improvised Communications
June 17, 2008

A refreshingly original voice, Hofbauer reveals an affable yet mischievous sensibility in his writing and improvising. Aided by the superlative interpretive abilities of his sidemen, Eric Hofbauer and The Infrared Band make Myth Understanding a sterling debut. --Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz.com

Boston's Creative Nation Music is proud to announce the June 17th release of Myth Understanding (Creative Nation Music CNM 011), the debut release from guitarist/composer Eric Hofbauer's year- old working quartet, The Infrared Band. With the same signature ...

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Dolphy '64

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
June 16, 2008

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Tony Adamo's Straight Up Deal CD

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2008

Tony Adamo's “Straight up Deal" CD is Silky, Charismatic and Seductive

Jazz vocalist Tony Adamo struts back with his silky, charismatic, and, as I'm sure many ladies will confirm, seductive vocals on this clever new release Straight Up Deal. While I've classified this recording as smooth jazz, it really serves up equal doses of funk, smooth jazz, and R&B. There are also elements of island rhythms and cool, piano-bar jazz. A true cornucopia of coolness in each genre. I first ...

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Self-Absorption Making a Nation of Artists

Source: Michael Ricci
June 14, 2008

My Morning Jacket, Martha Wainwright benefit from oversharing Well-wrought self-absorption could be making us a nation of artists. Oversharing is the latest indulgence embraced by one generation and worrying another. Teens and twentysomethings raised by the Internet have no locks on their hearts and bedrooms. This drives baby boomers, who'd previously owned the market on narcissism, into a fitful frenzy. Kids dropping their own names instead of dropping acid? How wrong. One aspect of our national character might, ...

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Zappa Wazoo Live Album

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Previously Unreleased 2-CD Concert Album Wazoo Due May 27

Frank Zappa Vaulternative Records will release Frank Zappa's 2-CD concert recording Wazoo on May 27, 2008, marking the first 2008 anniversary release exclusively from the Zappa Family Trust. The Trust - headed by Zappa's widow Gail Zappa - celebrates the musical legacy of Frank Zappa with new albums, DVDs and AudioDocumentaries.

Wazoo is the third concert release from Vaulternative Records, which releases whole concert ...

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Dirk Quinn's Quinntet Release "Sunset"

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

Sunset is set to release Dirk Quinn's QuinnTet, a daring fresh CD from Philadelphia's finest jazz funk ensemble and the debut CD on Sunset Jazz Recordings, the newly created jazz label. Since starting his music career, guitarist Dirk Quinn has gained a name as one of the most intense jazz, soul -funk artists in the music scene, a work horse on the road playing live in places everywhere from small coffee houses to music festivals throughout the entire summer. When ...

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