Recording News

Rob Mullins 17th CD Hits Amazon Store Today

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

17th Rob Mullins CD Debuts at Amazon today Rob Mullins Entertainment online at Planetmullins.com LOS ANGELES, Calif. (May 14, 2008) -- Rob Mullins' 17th CD as a recording artist hits the Amazon MP3 store today marking the first original music CD by Rob in nine years. Titled “Storyteller", the new CD features ten original compositions and one reworking of a standard. “People have been asking me for years, why haven't you made another CD of original ...

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Neil Diamond Tops the Charts

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Famed singer scores first No. 1 album in U.S.

Neil Diamond scored his first No. 1 album in the U.S. this week as his Columbia disc Home Before Dark sold 146,000 in its debutframe. Album is Diamond's 15th to land in the top 10 and 46th to hit the top 200. Diamond promoted the disc with a mentoring appearance and performance on “American Idol" and a surprise show at the Bitter End in New York that was streamed on a ...

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Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Volume III, Croydon

Source: Michael Ricci
May 14, 2008

Laurie Pepper's Widow's Taste label has just released Volume III in the series of Art Pepper performances. VOLUME III is a TWO DISC SET, a (nearly) complete concert performed in Croydon, England at the acoustically admirable Fairfield Hall. Art was, at this time, almost continually touring with the first of his comeback bands, and this band was TIGHT. They knew and understood the tunes and communicated as only true jazz people can in performance, like a team of rhythmic, lyric, ...

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Verve Unmixed 4 | Various Artists | Album

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Tracks 1. Cry Me A River 2. Gimme Some 3. There Was A Time 4. California Soul 5. Take Care Of Business 6. Bim Bom 7. Tenderly 8. Tea For Two 9. Dilo Como Yo 10. Evil Ways 11. Everybody Loves The Sunshine 12. I Get A Kick Out Of You

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Dizzy Gillespie's Career CD

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Dizzy Gillespie is the greatest post-war musician never to make a truly great album. Career: 1937-1992 (2 Disc Set)

Before bebop, of course, musicians did not make “albums", but merely 78 RPM singles. They recorded these “sides" in batches certainly, but they were not conceived of as groups of songs, and so the great recordings of Armstrong, Ellington, and Hawkins were released piecemeal and today are collected in anthologies that we think of as “great albums." But Dizzy ...

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David Sanchez "Cultural Survival" Released Next Week

Source: On Target Media Group
May 13, 2008

The new culturally inspired album from from 4-time Grammy Award winning Jazz sax master David Sanchez is now in stores.

Released next week (5.20.08) on Concord Picante, the album draws heavily on classic Jazz influences such as Miles Davis & John Coltrane, while fused with David's own distinct variety of Afro-Caribbean and Latin influences.

Cultural Survival features 8 straight ahead jazz tracks that showcase a new direction for Sanchez as he debuts a piano-less quartet on all but three of ...

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Free MP3 Download: Christoph Irniger's "Mania" from Chat Noir

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Download “Mania," a free MP3 from Christoph Irniger's latest release Chat Noir.

Download: Mania Christoph Irniger Quartet 5:43 From: Chat Noir

About Christoph Irniger Christoph Irniger, born in 1979, began his musical career with the age of 11. From 2000 till 2004 he studied at the Jazzschool of Zurich with Christoph Grab, Thomas Grnewald and Rtus Flisch, as if from 2004 till 2006 at the Jazzschool of Lucerne with Nat Su, John ...

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Hacienda Brothers Release Final Album in Memorial to Member Chris Gaffney on June 24

Source: conqueroo
May 13, 2008

Album, with five tracks produced by Dan Penn, represents the last work of singer Chris Gaffney, who passed away on April 17

TUCSON, Ariz. --The Hacienda Brothers, whose Western soul sound received worldwide acclaim in the course of the band's five-year history, will release their final album, Arizona Motel, on June 24, 2008, distributed by Proper Records. It's an unexpected memorial to the band's lead singer and original member Chris Gaffney, who tragically passed away on April 17th after a ...

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