Recording News

Bobby Selvaggio's Unspoken Dialogue (Playscape) Released Today

Source: Improvised Communications
August 28, 2007

"Is Selvaggio a better player, composer, or arranger? The answer to all three is yes, as this is a near-perfect recording." --Mark Corroto, AllAboutJazz.com (8/21/07)

Playscape Recordings officially welcomes Cleveland-based saxophonist/composer Bobby Selvaggio to its roster with the August 28th release of his fourth CD as a leader, Unspoken Dialogue (PSR#080806). Selvaggio, who like fellow saxophonist and former teacher Joe Lovano is the son of a Cleveland jazz legend (pianist/accordionist Pete Selvaggio), is joined on this recording by ...

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Dia DiCristino Free Downloads of "Let's Do It" and "Whatever Lola Wants" at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2007

A lot of exciting things to see and hear on Dia DiCristino's All About Jazz Profile page. Take advantage of the free downloads of “Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" and “Whatever Lola Wants"! Also, there is the Moon River video which was shot in the beautiful Emberton Park in England. Look out for all of those lovely willow trees. As some of you may have heard, Dia's battle with Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome continues, and she has recently ...

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Raul Midon Digs Deeper and Finds 'A World Within a World'

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2007

Raul Midon is known for creating his own unique musical world where soul, pop and latin music converge, and his “percussive guitar syncopations and supple, high-flying tenor" (NY Times) run free. On September 25, he'll reveal A World Within A World with his second album for Manhattan/EMI.

A World Within A World features ten new songs, all written or co-written by Midon. Midon announces his new intentions within the first few bars of the album opener “Pick Somebody Up," adding ...

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New Quartet S.F. CD Highlights the Music of Raymond Scott

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 27, 2007

August 27 - Quartet San Francisco's 2006 release Latigo, which gave passionate expression to the group's devotion to tango, was honored last December with two Grammy nominations in the Classical Crossover field, including “Best Album."

Their audacious new ViolinJazz Recordings CD Whirled Chamber Music ups the ante, presenting what violinist Jeremy Cohen calls “crossover music in its purest form." Due for release September 25, the new disc draws from a wide variety of indigenous American forms - jazz, funk, rock, ...

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Audio Documentary of Africa, by Leni Stern, Ingegrates African and Western Music Forms

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 27, 2007

"I Want People to Hear What Africa Sounds Like. Africa Deserves Our Respect, Not Just Our Mercy"

Leni Stern's 'AFRICA,' two years in the making, integrates African and Western music forms with such authenticity that it may come to be regarded as an 'Audio Documentary' of African musical life. Recorded in Africa, playing with local musicians at the pace of life in Africa, Stern invites listeners to immerse themselves in African culture as she experienced it, first-hand. She comments: “I ...

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Billie Holiday: At Monterey/1958 CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2007

This year Black-Hawk Records, Inc. is very excited to announce the inaugural CD release of Billie Holiday Live at Monterey 1958. This is more than a great recording. The fact that it lay undiscovered for 20 years, took place at the most prestigious Jazz Festival on the West Coast, and is among just five of Holiday's live concert recordings, makes Billie Holiday Live at Monterey 1958 a rare jewel among the archives.

“...just her charismatic presence and stylistic connection with ...

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Kendrick Scott's World Culture Music Proudly Releases "The Wish" from Vocalist/Composer Julie Hardy

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
August 26, 2007

Kendrick Scott's World Culture Music Proudly Releases THE WISH from Vocalist/Composer JULIE HARDY - Available on SEPTEMBER 12 World Culture Music presents: Julie Hardy, LIVE AT THE JAZZ STANDARD, OCTOBER 16, celebrating the release THE WISH, featuring WCM artists guitarist Mike Moreno and label founder, drummer Kendrick Scott. Boston CD release party/performance: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 at RYLES! “On her new album, “The Wish" (World Culture Music), Ms. Hardy burnishes her growing reputation as a musically astute and thoughtfully modern jazz ...

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Still Busy, Still Cookin' - Dr. Billy Taylor Begins His 87th Year

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 24, 2007

Dr.Taylor presents his Suite for Jazz Piano and Orchestra on his personal website. The new release entitled Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan Live drops 8/28.

billytaylorjazz.com is now featuring Billy's first extended work, Suite for Jazz Piano and Orchestra. Dr. Taylor was commissioned to write the Suite for the Utah Symphony by conductor Maurice Abravanel, back in the 70s, when both men were on the board of the National Endowment for the Arts. After its premiere, with Abravanel conducting, Billy ...

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