Recording News

Music Fans Need "A Lot of" Charmaine Clamor Listeners Around the World Enjoy Free Download Offer

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 7, 2007

Listeners around the world enjoy free download offer To celebrate the release of her new album, Flippin' Out (FreeHam0705) -- last week's #1 most added recording to World Music radio playlists -- Filipina vocalist Charmaine Clamor has shared one popular track for free, and fans around the world have responded enthusiastically. The song, “I Need a Lot of Love," a light-hearted romp with a Latin feel, features Ms. Clamor and the song's composer, Zaxariades ("Mr. Z"), in a spirited scat ...

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Terence Blanchard's "A Tale of God's Will" on Blue Note Records

Source: Miles High Productions
September 7, 2007

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW CD FROM GRAMMY-WINNING COMPOSER/TRUMPET PLAYER TERENCE BLANCHARD, A TALE OF GOD'S WILL (A REQUIEM FOR KATRINA), SET FOR RELEASE ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS AUGUST 14TH CD Features Music From and Inspired By the HBO/Spike Lee Documentary “When The Levees Broke" New Orleans, Louisiana. Terence Blanchard's A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina), a beautifully haunting and impassioned song-cycle about the physical and emotional ravages incurred upon the City of New Orleans and its residents as ...

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Drummer William Hooker Releases "The Season's Fire" on Important Records

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2007

Featuring Eyvind Kang and Bill Horist Dharma on Kmbjazz Featuring Sabir Mateen

William Hooker is an artistic whole, a vast circle of vision and execution. A body of uninterrupted work beginning in the mid-seventies defines him as one of the most important composers and players in jazz. As bandleader, Hooker has fielded ensembles in an incredibly diverse array of configurations. Each collaboration has brought a serious investigation of his compositional agenda and the science of the ...

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"Strange News from Mars" - Jon Larsen's Zappa Tribute!

Source: All About Jazz
September 6, 2007

Norwegian guitarist, composer, painter and surrealist Jon Larsen has recorded a concept album with some of the musicians from Frank Zappa's famed band The Mothers of Invention. Strange News from Mars tells the story of the spacecraft Big Ear III's voyage to the red planet.

Underway captain Zurcon and his crew are about to solve three of the greatest mysteries to mankind. Only hearing the record itself will reveal what these are, but needless to say, extra terrestrial intelligence is ...

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Ubiquity / Luv N' Haight to Release Eugene Blacknell "We Can't Life for Granted"

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2007

Oakland guitar ace Eugene Blacknell released multiple singles that ranged in style from raw R&B to power house funk. His musical career stretched from the early 1960s when as a talented and sharp dressed kid, he would become the youngest musician from the Bay Area to play the Apollo in New York, to the end of the 1980s when he died too young.

During that time he established himself as an East Bay original, an entrepreneur, and an activist. His ...

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Long out-of-Print Duke Ellington Recording to be Re-Issued

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2007

The long-out-of print album A Morning in Paris, by Sathima Bea Benjamin, featuring Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Abdullah Ibrahim as pianists, will finally be re-issued, first digitally on October 16, 2007; then in CD format in late January 2008.

Originally recorded in 1963 and produced by Duke Ellington for Frank Sinatra's Reprise label, A Morning in Paris was ultimately not released, and ultimately the tapes were believed to be lost. However, the session's engineer, Gerhard Lehner, had made his ...

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Ubiquity / Luv N' Haight to Release "V/A: Gilles Peterson Digs America 2"

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2007

This is the second in the Digs series of compilations and, like Volume I, this album was curated by DJ Gilles Peterson. We'd initially thought Digs would be a series involving different collectors but by popular demand (and because he has more than his fair share of wax) volume two is another collection from the world renowned tastemaker, DJ, and BBC radio host.

Digs America II was compiled with tracks from the famous Brownswood Basement (a version of his radio ...

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"Folk Music": New CD from Chicago's Deep Blue Organ Trio

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 5, 2007

Chicago's Deep Blue Organ Trio Readies Folk Music for October 16 Release

Trio's 3rd CD - and 1st for Origin Label - Produced by Guitarist Bobby Broom

September 5, 2007 - The members of the Deep Blue Organ Trio - organist Chris Foreman, guitarist Bobby Broom, and drummer Greg Rockingham - cultivate a deep love and respect for the jazz-organ tradition and, since the 1990s, have been exploring their own singular take on it. Their two previous Delmark releases - ...

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