Recording News

Spring LLC Releases Compilation CD Featuring Mike Phillips and Jill Scott in New Version of "Street Life"

Source: Susan Blond, Inc.
July 11, 2007

Putting the cool back into jazz... Pop-Jazz Volume 1 Spring LLC Releases Compilation CD Featuring Mike Phillips and Jill Scott in New Version of “Street Life" September 2007 Tour Confirmed New York, NY -- Spring LLC, a New York based music company, has released Pop-Jazz Volume 1. Featuring a brand new rendition of “Street Life" by Mike Phillips and Jill Scott, the 15-track compilation contains music from current artists that epitomize the Pop-Jazz movement ...

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5th Dimension Soul City/Bell LP's Reissued on Collectors' Choice Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2007

Seven-CD Rollout Sparks New Appreciation of Late '60s Pop Group Featuring Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The year 1967 marked the Summer of Love, when the initial strains of psychedelia shared the pop charts with the Tijuana Brass, the Monkees, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Sinatra and a harmonizing quintet who managed to combine sophisticated pop and soul with a touch of hippie aesthetic, the 5th Dimension. One of the great hit-making groups of the time, the ...

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Tony Adamo's Straight up Deal

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2007

Artist: Tony Adamo Title: Straight Up Deal Genre: Jazz-Pop-Funk-R & B Label: Urban Zone Records It has been four years since I heard from Tony Adamo and the last time he was Up In It (2004 EP). However, this time out there is a long player to check out. The soul brother of jazz, the one who epitomizes the word cool, is back with his groove on again. He is laying down those smooth ...

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Montreal, New Piano Suite by Claude Marc Bourget

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2007

Available online in its entirety Canadian pianist Claude Marc Bourget offers, on his web site, his latest improvisations, inspired by a Montreal theme (Festival necessity!) Jazz and Free improvisational pianist with some classic as well as modern and current inspiration, Bourget possesses a palette of the richest association with a beautiful virtuosity, supported by an extremely interesting philosophy of improvisation. His music, often very personal in the long sequences of rhythmic sounds and in the always surprising harmonies, cannot leave ...

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Jazz Trumpeter Christian Scott Releases Daring Sophomore CD, "Anthem"

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2007

When 24-year-old Christian Scott released his first album last year, he was hailed as “the new voice in jazz trumpet." It earned a Grammy nomination, and by Scott's own admission, completely changed his life. VOA's Doug Levine brings us up-to-date with Scott, who hopes to keep the momentum going with his latest effort, Anthem. With the eyes and ears of the jazz world upon him, eagerly awaiting the young jazz artist's next move, Christian Scott delivers a powerful follow-up to ...

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Mike Westbrook Orchestra: "On Duke's Birthday" (Hatology 635)

Source: All About Jazz
July 4, 2007

Mike Westbrook Orchestra, On Duke's Birthday Recorded live May 12th, 1984 Le Grand Theatre, Maison de la Culture, Amiens/France Hatology 635 (reissue, remastered) What's most remarkable about the music's resultant structural integrity and intricacy is that it all flows so seamlessly, sounds so spontaneous and organic, without artifice or contrivance. Mike Westbrook seems to share similarities with Gil Evans in this regard - long, slowly evolving pieces built upon a few seemingly static chords ...

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Hans Kennel Mytha "How It All Started" (Hatology 648)

Source: All About Jazz
July 3, 2007

Hans Kennel Mytha: How It All Started Alphorn Quartet & Orchestra Hatology 648 (remastered, compilation of 2 out of print hatART CDs)

Mytha in this sense attempted the opposite of a reconstruction of Alpine roots. The energy of the music of this (at times extended) alphorn quartet hasn't diminished since its first CD was released in 1991.

Hans Kennel is a leading expert on folk tradition, in particular on that of Central Switzerland. His interest, however, ...

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Saxophonist Mel Martin's New CD, with Benny Carter, out July 10

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 29, 2007

New CD from the Mel Martin / Benny Carter Quintet, Just Friends, Celebrates Carter's Centennial

Recorded at Yoshi's in Oakland in 1994, CD Due July 10 on Jazzed Media Label

June 25, 2007 - Bay Area saxophonist Mel Martin honors his longtime musical partnership with the late alto saxophonist and composer Benny Carter - and Carter's birth centennial in August 2007 - with the release of Just Friends, a new CD by the band he co-led with Carter in the ...

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