Recording News

Album of the Week: Marooned/Aislado, Papo Vazquez and the Mighty Pirates

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

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CTA Records Announces Release Of "The Hours", New Album By Extraordinary Vocalist And Songwriter Alma Micic

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

New York, NY, April 23, 2008 CTA Records has released The Hours, new album by extraordinary vocalist and songwriter Alma Micic. This is Almas second album on the CTA Records, following her critically acclaimed debut Introducing Alma. The Hours is much more then just a showcase for Almas rich, lush voice--its a deeply personal story that delivers both subtle and intricate versions of beautiful Montenegrin melodies, traditional gospel and American Songbook songs, as well as Almas original compositions. Her writing ...

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Carole King's "Tapestry: Legacy Edition"

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

The 1971 album is paired with a series of live recordings for a full appreciation of the groundbreaking project.

Carole King's “Tapestry," which has been re-released in a deluxe CD package, is one of the biggest-selling and most honored albums of all time, but it's 37 years old, so a few words of reintroduction may be necessary.

Indeed, a recent, mostly glowing consumer review of the album on a major commercial website begins, “You probably haven't heard the name before, ...

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Guitar Legend John McLaughlin to Release New CD and DVD

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

2008 release from guitar legend John McLaughlin. John has already said Floating Point, his brand new CD, “May be the best record I ever made." That's really saying something when you consider McLaughlin's prolific and trailblazing career. The guitarist and composer has appeared on some of the most important jazz-rock and world music albums in the last 40 years. For Floating Point, which was recorded in India, McLaughlin used several of the best Indian musicians in the world. McLaughlin calls ...

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Bassist Tony Grey to Release His Sophomore Record on Abstract Logix

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Surrounding himself with a stellar cast of improvisers and fellow virtuosos, including drummers Ronald Bruner Jr and Chris Dave, harmonica ace Gregoire Maret, guitarist Lionel Loueke, bass trumpeter and trombonist Elliot Mason, current collaborator and former Berklee classmate Oli Rockberger, the astounding Holdsworthian guitarist Tim Miller and pianist Hiromi, Grey acquits himself as a remarkably fluent player with a strong melodic penchant on pieces like the beautiful ballad “Don't Look For Love," the breezy “Walking In Walking Out" and the ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio: "The Multiplication Table" on Hatology 656

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Matthew Shipp Trio: The Multiplication Table on Hatology 656 Matthew Shipp -piano, William Parker -double bass and Susie Ibarra -drums

Shipp's music displays his own thought processes, and in trio lays out a physical trail reflecting the way the three players think along with each other. Following those thoughts leads us deep into a new jazz style that has sprung, like Athena from the brow of Zeus, out of the body of jazz preceding it. The new relative in the ...

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David Liebman-Ellery Eskelin Quartet: "Renewal" on Hatology 654

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin -tenor saxophones,Tony Marino -double bass and Jim Black -drums: Renewal on Hatology 654 Also available Hatology 615: Different But The Same There is a common understanding that we all share of freedom and spontaneity framed within underlying structures accompanied by a loving nod to the jazz legacy. The compositions heard on this CD evidence a diversity of idioms and styles unified by a common aesthetical approach. This is a group where straight ahead and free ...

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The 21 Hits of the Browns -- Pioneers of the Nashville Sound -- Are Compiled on Collectors' Choice Music

Source: conqueroo
April 22, 2008

Jim Ed, Maxine and Bonnie Brown helped turn Nashville into Music City. 21-song compilation contains their early sides on Fabor Records and their later smashes on RCA

The Browns were a sibling vocal trio comprised of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters Maxine and Bonnie. Their ascent from small-town Arkansas to the top of not only the country charts but the pop charts of the late '50s and early '60s is one of the unlikeliest stories in country history. Tracing ...

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