Recording News

Kathy Brown Completes Album Mission: A Musical Journey

Source: All About Jazz
October 10, 2007

Pianist Kathy Brown's debut album Mission: A Musical Journey is appropriately entitled in more ways than one. For one, it captures many of the influences on her personal musical journey from the classical and folk music she heard at home in Mandeville through to the African and Latin rhythms which reached out and grabbed her from record stores in the United States.

And, making the nine-track instrumental album was a journey in itself, a voyage into production waters which she ...

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Delta Groove Records Signs up and Coming Bluesman Sean Costello

Source: Just Roots PR
October 9, 2007

Delta Groove Records is very pleased to announce the signing of singer/guitarist Sean Costello. One of the most exciting and talented of the 'new school' of young blues players, the 28 year old has already logged over a decade of touring and recording experience, including a stint in Susan Tedeschi's band while he was still in high school, which resulted in Tedeschi's certified-Gold Record “Just Won't Burn".

“I love playing the guitar," Sean Costello says. “As a kid I was ...

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Heuristic Music Offers 20% Discount to All About Jazz Readers During October

Source: All About Jazz
October 9, 2007

For the month of October, AllAboutJazz.com readers can purchase Sheila Winter Wallace's Quieting The Busy Mind on CD for only $12. That's a savings of 20% off the regular price! This special offer is available exclusively from the Heuristic Music website. About Quieting The Busy Mind Quieting The Busy Mind is an audio program designed to help you understand why meditation works and how you can integrate it into your daily life with ease. The accompanying music has been developed ...

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Pianist Kerry Politzer Expands into the Singer-Songwriter Realm with 4th Album, "You Took Me In"

Source: Cyber PR
October 9, 2007

For years, pianist Kerry Politzer's soothing voice has been hidden behind ivory keys. Previously, she released several instrumental jazz albums, but it wasn't until she participated in a Songwriter's Hall of Fame songwriting workshop that she discovered a new level of creative release from her music. In the workshop environment criticism is easy to come by, but Kerry's talent as a songsmith quickly turned a circle of aspiring musicians into encouraging fans. Now, her latest album, You Took Me In, ...

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Leni Stern's "Africa" out October 30th, to be Featured on CNN Radio

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 9, 2007

"One of the Most Respectable and Moving Collaborations Between Musical Styles, Instruments, Ideas and Cultures" Leni Stern's Africa to be Featured on CNN Radio A recent CD Baby Editor's Pick said that Leni Stern's upcoming Africa “embodies not just the rich, harmonic and percussive sounds of the region but its spirit, its people, its beauty, its pace of life..." Two years in the making, 'Africa' integrates African and Western music forms with such authenticity that it may come to be ...

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The Rempis Percussion Quartet's Hunter-Gatherers Available Now on 482 Music

Source: Improvised Communications
October 9, 2007

Hunter-Gatherers (482-1056), the new two-disc live set from Chicago's The Rempis Percussion Quartet, featuring saxophonist Dave Rempis, bassist Anton Hatwich and drummers Frank Rosaly and Tim Daisy, is now available on 482 Music. This is the band's third release and the 13th entry in label's ongoing Document Chicago series. Named after the Columbia, South Carolina venue where it was recorded in April 2006, Hunter-Gatherers hits the streets amidst the band's early October tour of the Southeast and Midwest.

Critics called ...

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The Isley Brothers Release First Christmas Album October 9

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2007

New York, NY - I'll Be Home for Christmas, the first holiday album ever recorded by the Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley, will arrive in stores October 9th on Def Soul Classics, a division of the Island Def Jam Music Group. The new album was executive produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc., with all tracks recorded and mixed at Flyte Tyme Studios in Santa Monica.

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees the Isley ...

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Austin's Seth Walker Signs with Hyena Records

Source: Calabro Music
October 7, 2007

Seth Walker swings, rocks, boogies, and plays low down blues all in one set, all on one record. He's a great singer, and authentic performer of real American music, and he's writing new classics. Don't miss a chance to hear Seth. In person or on record, he's the real deal." - Marcia Ball

“This young man is pure talent, a masterful blues guitarist, a singer with swing in his voice and a writer whose originals such as “Gone ...

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