Recording News

Ubiquity to Release Orgone - The Killion Floor LP

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2007

Worldwide Release on October 25, 2007

Orgone first appeared on Ubiquity with their cover of “Funky Nassau" (on Rewind Vol. 4), which became a ubiquitous DJ fave worldwide. Their debut album The Killion Floor backs this up by taking the listener on a musical journey from the sound of Los Angeles to horn and percussion driven Lagos, and from a New York club to the raw sounds of New Orleans.

The Los-Angeles-based band's reputation amongst the funk and soul fraternity ...

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People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938--Box Set Out Sept. 25

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2007

Tompkins Square to release Landmark 3CD box set September 25th, 2007.

“In the late 1920's and early 1930's, the Depression gripped the Nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds." - Tom Waits, from the Introduction

Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white ...

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Rob Reddy's New CD Released Today

Source: Improvised Communications
September 18, 2007

Reddy Music is proud to announce the September 18th release of The Book of the Storm (RED-002), a live concert recording documenting the March 2007 world premiere of saxophonist/composer Rob Reddy's hour-long piece of the same name at New York's Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

The four-movement work was performed by a 19-piece ensemble called Rob Reddy's Small Town, which featured some of the most respected performer/improvisers in New York, including Pheeroan akLaff, Guillermo E. Brown, Charles Burnham, Curtis Hasselbring, Oscar ...

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At Long Last, Monterey Jazz Festival's Archives Show Up on CD

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2007

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) is the most famous musician in jazz history, so it's not surprising that he has a lot of CDs out. Most of the dozens released in the past several years, however, are either of the barrel-scraping variety - endless repackagings of the same classics - or obscure dates released on even more obscure foreign labels. Imagine, then, something different. A live concert from right here in the Bay Area, performed in 1958, recorded with crystal clarity and ...

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Willie Williams "Comet Ride" on Miles High Productions

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2007

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Bootsy Stretches out with Collectors' Choice -- Four Reissues Planned

Source: conqueroo
September 14, 2007

Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band; The Boot Is Made for Fonk-N; Ultra Wave; and The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away on boards for October 16 street date

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On October 16, Collectors' Choice will reflect on Bootsy Collins' evolution as funk's clown prince. In the 1980s, funk stretched its boundaries under the stewardship of George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic and Bootsy Collins' Rubber Band. Collins, a veteran of James Brown's J.B.'s, learned from the best, fusing the ...

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Legendary Recordings of Creative Music Studio to be Preserved

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 14, 2007

More than 400 performances by ground-breaking composer/performers of the World Jazz and New Music genre (1972-1986). INNOVATIVE PROJECT WITH PLANET ARTS IGNITES NEW PHASE OF KARL BERGER'S CREATIVE MUSIC FOUNDATION (WOODSTOCK, NY) The Creative Music Foundation (CMF), in collaboration with Planet Arts, has launched a new project to preserve the recorded archive of the legendary Creative Music Studio (CMS). The CMS Archive contains more than 400 audio and video tapes of live performances by some of the world's ...

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Floratone Featured on NPR "All Things Considered

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2007

Critics are raving about FLORATONE, a unique collaboration between Matt Chamberlain, Bill Frisell, Tucker Martine & Lee Townsend that is one of the most provocative musical statements of the year. Check out Tom Moon's rave review from NPR All Things Considered. “Floratone is a modern masterpiece... The greatest success is how organic, how natural the music sounds... a distinctive, extremely appealing and visual collection of sonic landscapes." --ALL ABOUT JAZZ “Floratone [is] some of the most riveting instrumental music to ...

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