Recording News

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Releases Made in New Orleans CD/DVD Collection!

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2007

Preservation Hall Recordings is proud to announce the upcoming national release of Made in New Orleans: The Hurricane Sessions (MINO), featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. The Collector's Edition, limited to 504 signed and numbered copies, includes The Hurricane Sessions CD and a DVD, which contains rare and previously unviewed footage dating back to its first national TV appearance on the Brinkley News Hour in 1961. The Collector's Edition also includes original press photographs, archival ...

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Solo Bass Music from Kadima Collective Recordings 08

Source: All About Jazz
July 24, 2007

J.C. Jones (electro acoustic bass & live electronics)

This solo bass album is a distillation of my language, the articulation of my voice on my instrument. It is free improvised music, focused on energy and the moment. This project incorporates electro-acoustic sounds and noises, groovy rhythmical games and sporadic forays into melody. There are no overdubs. My Lexicon machine is an inseparable companion, allowing me to freely experiment with electronic delays ranging from 0.5 second to 30 seconds.

“Your solo ...

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Circus Boy CD by Donald Rubinstein: Imagining the Inner Life of a 1940s Jewish Circus-Boy-Poet-Pianist

Source: Mantra Public Relations
July 24, 2007

For composer, musician and artist Donald Rubinstein, imagining the persona of a 1940s' pianist named Jeremy Bonafide, the hero of Rubinstein's latest CD, Circus Boy, was to come to grips with his own sympathy with the outsiders in society, the discarded and misfits.

Loosely based on the real life of turn-of-the-century jazz innovator and trumpeter Billy Bolden, who was never recorded yet widely admired, Jeremy Bonafide could have been real. Rubinstein says, “Circus Boy is about someone who was brilliant ...

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Saxophonist Sam Newsome Releases New Solo Saxophone CD

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2007

Saxophonist Expanding The Role Of The Instrument (Brooklyn, NY) -- Saxophonist Sam Newsome, best known for his work with his cross-cultural ensemble Global Unity, has now embarked upon a new direction in his career with the release of his debut solo saxophone recording Monk Abstractions. Several years in the making, this CD is the culmination of Mr. Newsome's work highlighting multi-phonics (playing two or more notes simultaneously) and various extended saxophone techniques that far exceed the expectations of the instrument. ...

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Legendary Saxophonist Kirk Whalum to Release Round Trip on August 28th

Source: Inque Public Relations
July 23, 2007

In a career spanning three decades, 7 GRAMMY nominations, numerous #1 albums, such as 2005's The Babyface Songbook, and countless hit songs, including last year's #1 smash, “Give Me The Reason," saxophonist Kirk Whalum is unquestionably one of the finest and most widely acclaimed jazz artists of the modern era.

On August 28, 2007, Whalum will deliver his eighteenth album to date. Taking a unique look at the past with an eye toward the future, his new album, Roundtrip, is ...

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Verve Music Group Proudly Announces the August 28th Release of "Lost & Found" from Critically-Acclaimed Soul Vocalist Ledisi

Source: Inque Public Relations
July 23, 2007

On Tuesday August 28th 2007, The Verve Music Group will release Lost & Found, a stellar 16-track body of work from Ledisi, the critically-acclaimed soul vocalist who first came to attention of the music-loving public with her two self-produced and independently released CDs -2000's Soulsinger and 2003's Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue.

Ledisi (whose name means “to bring forth" in the Yoruba language of Nigeria) has been known for delivering electrifying and memorable live performances, and over the course of ...

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Tony Adamo's Music Added to soulradioonline.com

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2007

Station Updates For July 20th, 2007

This weeks Update includes songs from two recently released CD's.

The first is Tony Adamo's “Straight Up Deal". This new CD contains five songs whose horn arrangements were written by Tower of Power alumni Mic Gillette, who also performs on the CD. Tony also has former Tower members Skip Mesquite, and current member Doc Kupka. Additonally, Tony has added the talents of Paul van Wageningen, Eddie Henderson, Paul Jackson, and Rodney Franklin among others ...

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Mosaic Records Releases Select Onzy Matthews

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2007

The brilliant West Coast arranger Onzy Matthews was a master of the blues in many hues. He contributed to important recordings by Lou Rawls, Ray Charles and Esther Phillips, but his career never caught fire and, after working for the Duke Ellington orchestra as both a pianist (when Duke was ill) and an arranger, he spent much of his later years in Europe. Onzy made two albums for Capitol, the first of which “Blues With A Touch Of Elegance" is ...

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