Recording News

Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance Featuring Eddie Henderson

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2008

The new album by Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance has been receiving rave reviews across the UK press. “Accident and Insurgency" was launched via a tour including dates at the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. Comments include: “That unlikely mix of gentle attentiveness between musicians, a caring, unfussy, love of detail and a capacity to laugh and robustly stretch out makes this a joyous recording indeed." --Jazzwise “The result is a dynamic set that's full of surprises, tumbling chord and ...

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Barb Jungr's Hymn to Nina Simone

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2008

"Just Like a Woman" is Barb Jungr's hymn to the late, legendary Nina Simone. This beautiful, haunting and reflective album comprises eleven songs famously interpreted by the great singer - a voice with whom she has often been compared. Like her mentor, Jungr is truly a singer who lives life through her work. This release is backed by an extensive UK tour - see attached sheet for details. She has just returned from New York where she collected the Nitelife ...

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Michael Wolff CD is "Inventive...Transcendent"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
March 4, 2008

"The Playing is Inventive, Playful, and Occasionally Even Transcendent" “His Spacious Music Moves in Unpredictable Ways and Makes You Lean Forward and Listen" Wolff Planning New CD Acclaimed pianist Michael Wolff continues to ride a wave of critical acclaim for his standards CD 'jazz, JAZZ, jazz.' Recent tour dates prompted respected media outlets to weigh in on the recording, and their in-depth coverage follows below. SF WEEKLY praised: “the playing is inventive, playful, and occasionally even transcendent - as on ...

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Ian Shaw Releases Self-Penned Album "Lifejacket"

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2008

Ian Shaw fulfils a life ambition to release an album of originals. “Lifejacket" includes a collection of highly personal stories and observations and is so-called because of all the pressures to stay afloat in life. On it Shaw questions the unsteady passage from young man to middle-aged child. Produced by Calum Malcolm and worked on together with co-writer David Preston, Shaw explores with humour the themes of drinking, growing older, love and, with poignancy, the heartache of war. Songs include ...

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Bringing Back the Funk | Brian Culbertson | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2008

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Delmark Records New Spring Releases: Dave Specter, Mississippi Heat, Jason Ajemian, Wally Rose

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2008

Delmark New Releases Street Date: April 22, 2008

DAVE SPECTER Live In Chicago (Delmark DVD 1794 / CD DE 794)

Blues guitarist Dave Specter is never prone to grandstanding. He communicates an inherent sense of style and form, subtlety and swing, keeping his magnetic needle always fixed on a steady, unalterable course. Recorded live at Buddy Guy's Legends and Rosa's Blues Lounge, Live In Chicago features special guests Jimmy Johnson, Tad Robinson ...

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Mike McCarroll Releases Debut Indie Release at the Crossroads

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2008

Atlanta, GA--Mike McCarroll has spent the better part of his life working hard every day to raise a family and become a successful independent business owner. Along the way, he picked up a guitar, started writing songs, and eventually when the kids left the nest and he was comfortable enough financially, he headed to the studio with a band to fulfill a lifetime dream.

A lifetime of ambitions, feelings and emotion reached its fruition for Mike McCarroll when he completed ...

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Pure Bossa Nova | Carlos Lyra | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2008

Carlos Lyra is part of the first generation of Bossa Nova songwriters. After writing hits for the first albums of Joo Gilberto, he soon released his first solo album as a singer on Philips (1959). His greatest hits were written in the '60s and many of them are considered to be immortal all-time classics of Brazilian popular music, going from romantic to “swing Bossa," with some doses of protest and nonconformity usual in Brazil at that ...

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