Recording News

Rocco Ventrella Releases "Give Me the Groove"

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
June 12, 2007

A native of the South of Italy, Rocco Ventrella grew up in Bari, on the Adriatic coast. Rocco began playing saxophone at age fourteen, inspired by jazz records his father had given him; for over twenty years, Rocco honed his chops by playing with the Big Band “J.S.O." of his hometown Bari where he appeared with an impressive list of artists such as: Lee Konitz, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Benny Bailey, Chet Baker, Ernie Wilkins, Art Farmer, Tony Scott, Dizzy Gillespie, ...

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Billy Joe Shaver Taps John Carter Cash on New Spiritual Album 'Everybody's Brother'

Source: conqueroo
June 12, 2007

Billy Joe Shaver's been thinking about making a spiritual album for a long time, but like everything in his life, he approaches spirituality on his own terms. “Somebody called this album 'honky tonk gospel,'" Shaver says chuckling. “I kinda like that." Shaver is describing Everybody's Brother, his August 7, 2007 release on Compadre Records, a division of Mathew Knowles' Music World Entertainment.

Producer John Carter Cash, son of Shaver's pal Johnny Cash, added his own studio polish to the project, ...

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Jay Leach is Cleared for Takeoff

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
June 11, 2007

After years of session work in Los Angeles, Guitar Books with Mel Bay, and now with the new release of his 7th album ( with notable guests such as Kirk Whalum, Alex Acuna, Abe Laboriel, and Chester Thompson ), Jay Leach is defintely Cleared for Takeoff.

Episodes of American Idol including Kenny Rogers, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Pickler, and Martina McBride, this years TV Land Awards, notable motion picture soundtracks such as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Six Days and ...

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Shout! Factory Prepares Vee-Jay Records Box Set

Source: conqueroo
June 9, 2007

Deluxe four-CD box set with extensive liner notes features such Vee-Jay Records hitmakers as Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, The Four Seasons, Jerry Butler & the Impressions, The Staple Singers, Betty Everett, Little Richard, Billy Preston, Gene Chandler, Rosco Gordon, J.B. Lenoir, Joe Simon, The El Dorados, The Dells, Jimmy Hughes, The Spaniels and more

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Vee-Jay Records was the first successful African-American-owned record company. At various times in its 13-year tenure, it was bigger than Motown ...

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Blue Note Set to Release "Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy" on July 17, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2007

Imagine the excitement that would be generated by the discovery of previously unknown masterpieces--an Orson Welles film, a Shakespeare tragedy, a Van Gogh landscape or Beethoven's Tenth Symphony. For those who hold the Jazz Art in equal esteem, Blue Note's Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964, a truly spectacular never-before-released performance by one of the composer/bassist/visionary's most outstanding ensembles, should provoke that same kind of exhilaration. Losing a giant like Mingus at the young age of 56 in ...

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Blue Note Set to Release "Floratone" on August 14, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2007

A studio collaboration between drummer Matt Chamberlain, guitarist Bill Frisell, and producers Tucker Martine & Lee Townsend

While collaborative improvisation serves as the ethos of the jazz idiom, the projects that soar beyond the tradition--where the end product is monumentally greater than the sum of the parts--are rare indeed. They are even rarer when an artist gives creative reign to a producer to imagine and construct evocative soundscapes from source material. The first and inarguably the most potent artist-producer team ...

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Trombonist Deborah Weisz Announces the Release of Trio

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2007

Trombonist-composer-arranger Deborah Weisz announces the release of her new CD TRIO, with a street date set for June 12, 2007. The project, featuring Weisz on trombone, Sheryl Bailey on guitar and Nicki Parrott on bass, is a lively mix of original compositions, and classics by Monk and Dameron. Weisz notes that much of the music is from her “Garage" years--named for the Greenwich Village club of the same name--where the trio often performed, while the remainder of the cuts were ...

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Holy Grail of Unreleased Wishbone Ash Recordings Sees 'First Light'

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 8, 2007

Stamford, CT - What can only be described as the 'holy grail' of unreleased recordings by classic rock legends Wishbone Ash sees its light of day with the CD release of First Light on UK's Talking Elephant Records. Founded in 1969, Wishbone Ash has released over 30 albums to date, and has been touted as one of the first dual-guitar rock bands. Back in early 1970 a very young Wishbone Ash, which featured Andy Powell, Ted Turner, Martin Turner and ...

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