Recording News

The Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman's New CD/DVD Set Released Today

Source: Improvised Communications
September 25, 2007

The Treatment (Playscape Recordings) finds Musillami's longstanding trio, featuring Joe Fonda and George Schuller, expanding its sonic palette to include the distinctive voice of violinist Mark Feldman, a 25-year veteran of the creative music scene who has recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Tim Berne, Thomas Chapin, Dave Douglas, Lee Konitz and John Zorn among many others.

This two-disc set features a new studio CD with five brand new Musillami originals and a high-def concert DVD documenting one of this quartet's ...

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Juan Oskar is a Superhero on New Indie Release

Source: All About Jazz
September 24, 2007

Phoenix, Arizona-September 24, 2007- Juan Oskar is back after two years of preparation for the release of his new concept album Superhero. This time around each track and its music is designed to represent a different comic book character. This recording is a departure from Christmas Is For Grownups Too, where Oskar explored his many influences and geared it towards the Holidays. On this release he cuts loose with his jazz and rock foundations as a springboard for his fusion ...

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Pam Tillis' Christmas Album Scheduled for September 13, Blends Mistletoe, Torch and Twang

Source: conqueroo
September 24, 2007

On heels of critically hailed Rhinestoned album, Christmas disc streets on November 13

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- With influences as diverse as Willie Nelson and Nancy Wilson, Pam Tillis' first holiday release, Just in Time for Christmas, walks the a fine line between down home country and uptown torch. “I just wanted to make a Christmas album as comfortable and familiar as your favorite winter sweater," she says.

The album will be released on the Tillis' own Stellar Cat label, marketed ...

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Gene Clark (Byrds) & Carla Olson (Textones) Get 2-CD Reissue on Collectors' Choice

Source: conqueroo
September 24, 2007

Two CD set, due October 30, includes previously unreleased Gene Clark performance for Mountain Stage, bonus tracks from duo's Rhino album, and a live recording from McCabe's Guitar Shop never previously released in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Gene Clark's post-Byrds solo career did not soar to the heights attained by bandmates Roger McGuinn, David Crosby or Gram Parsons. Yet, he was widely regarded as the heart and soul of the original Byrds and a songwriter of affecting minor- ...

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Reverend Zen Receives 2 Finalist Awards in the 2007 Unisong International Song Contest

Source: All About Jazz
September 24, 2007

Katonah, NY -- The New York rock/jazz/R&B group Reverend Zen has just received two Finalist Awards in the 2007 Unisong International Song Contest for their songs “Magdalena" (Lyric Category) and “Bad Attitude" (Blues Category).

Both “Magdalena" and “Bad Attitude" are from Reverend Zen's debut CD Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon. The album has brought the band twenty nine song writing and performance awards from the Unisong Contest, the Billboard World Song Contest, the Mid Atlantic Song Contest and the ...

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Al "Coffee" McDaniel Releases First Modern Day Urban Blues Opera

Source: All About Jazz
September 24, 2007

Al “Coffee" McDaniel may be a new voice to the blues, but he is not new to the world of music. He has been performing professionally since he was five years old. It was then that he fronted a gospel band. Granted, this band was comprised of his siblings, but he knew even then what course his life would take, and the direction he would pursue.

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Oliver Lake Trio : Zaki on Hatology 639

Source: All About Jazz
September 24, 2007

Oliver Lake Trio : Zaki on HatOlogy 639

Reissue of the live perfomance of September 1st, 1979 at Jazzfestival, Willisau by Oliver Lake, saxophones; Michael Gregory Jackson, guitar; Pheeroan akLaff, drums

Total Time 56:34

“I'm not the boss. One of our concepts is that we try to have an interplay. It's not me being accompanied by the others. Pheeroan may start something that I'll pick up on. From that Michael may add something, and then it will just ...

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75-Year-Old Blues Veteran Big George Brock Releases First Live Album

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2007

After a summer of festival dates and overseas touring, 75-year-old bluesman Big George Brock has released his first live album ever. Entitled Live At Seventy Five it marks Brock's fourth release on the Cat Head Presents label.

“Yeah, I guess you could call it seventy-five years in the making," said Brock from his current home in St. Louis. “I put everything I have into this recording. Everything I've been through. Man, you just don't know. I was ready to make ...

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