Recording News

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2008

The event was simply billed as “Willie Nelson Sings the Blues," but the historic two-night stand on January 12 and 13, 2007 at Jazz at Lincoln Center was far more than that. Call it a summit meeting between two American icons, Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, two of the most significant figures in modern-day country and jazz, who discovered common ground in their love for jazz standards and the blues. Their performance stirred the sounds of New Orleans, Nashville, Austin ...

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Mosaic Records Releases Two New Mosaic Singles: George Wein's "Alive and Well in Mexico" and Jonah Jones's "At the Embers"

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

George Wein Is Alive And Well in Mexico MCD-1018

In 1967, George Wein took his passion, the Newport All-Stars, on a tour of Mexico. He assembled Ruby Braff, Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell, each one the leading exponent of mainstream jazz on his instrument and fueled the fire with bassist Jack Lesberg and drummer Don Lamond. The result was a loose, jaunty band that played its ass off. In preparation for reissuing the album, we ...

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NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton Releases Double EP 4/29

Source: AMT Public Relations
April 29, 2008

Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues Blazing a Trail with the Release of Two New EPs New York City - NEA Jazz Master Foreststorn “Chico" Hamilton explores colorful facets of contemporary sound while maintaining his signature drumming style in two new varying EPs- It's About Time! and The Alternate Dimensions of El Chico. Slated to be released April 29th on the JoyousShout! label, both recordings feature original, remixed, and rediscovered works while providing different and singular perspectives of Chico's 86-year old ...

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Rebecca Jenkins, One of Canada's Most Beloved Film and Television Stars, Returns to Her Jazz Roots with the Release of the Highly Anticipated Blue Skies.

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

Vancouver, B.C. - Maximum Jazz together with EMI Music Canada is proud to announce the release of “Blue Skies" the highly anticipated new recording by Rebecca Jenkins. Rebecca Jenkins, one of Canada's most beloved film and television stars, returns to her jazz roots with the release of Blue Skies. Co-produced by Jenkins with Joel Bakan (writer of The Corporation book and film) Blue Skies features Jenkins pure and soulful voice, and her original phrasing and interpretations, on some of the ...

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Interest Soars in Alison Burns as Sky Previews the New Album "1:AM"

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Recording has been completed for the highly anticipated album from Grammy Award winning guitarist Martin Taylor and rising star, Scottish singer, Alison Burns. The album, entitled 1:AM, is strongly influenced in concept by the legendary Joe Pass/Ella Fitzgerald albums of the 70s. Alison and Martin have been recording in Scotland and sources close to the project have revealed that one of the songs is the first collaboration in writing by the two artists and is a tribute to Alison's brother ...

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Six Degrees Announces New Niyaz Album

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Six Degrees Records is proud to announce the new album from Niyaz, entitled Nine Heavens. Nine Heavens will be released as a double CD (featuring one disc of electronic and one disc of acoustic versions of the tracks) on June 24, 2008. Niyaz consists of three prominent artists, Azam Ali, best known as the vocalist of the successful world music group Vas, Loga Ramin Torkian, the multi-instrumentalist and composer for the critically acclaimed group Axiom of Choice, and Carmen Rizzo, ...

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New Release! Thom Keith/Larry Gelberg - Discussions: Live at Lotus Moon

Source: Avant Coast
April 28, 2008

Larry Gelberg and Thom Keith met through the world-wide web. Initially, they were trying to form a saxophone quartet, but the collaboration was to happen in other settings later on. This marks the first time the two have appeared in public with a live band, after collaborating on numerous recordings over the past half decade. Digging a little deeper, it was Larry who informed Thom of the Craigslist ad that eventually led to the formation of Trio Encompas, and by ...

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Soundtrack | Album

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

“The latest movie Produced by hit film maker Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad). Starring Jason Segal (How I Met Your Mother) and Kristin Bell (Veronica Mars) the screenplay (by Segal) tells the tale of a love sick composer of TV scores (Peter Bretter) who is dumped by his TV actress girlfriend. Peter retreats to Hawaii only to find that his ex and her rock star boyfriend (Aldous Snow, lead singer of the ...

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