Recording News

Truth and Reconciliation: New Music from Darrell Grant

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2007

The Big Picture

I choose to believe in the power of humans to change the world. Art is the substance of our dreams and the medium through which resonates our most fervent hopes, highest aspirations, deepest truths, and most profound experiences. Those who create art possess a consequent extraordinary power to communicate, inspire, provoke, inform and to move others to transform society and themselves, and we bear the responsibility to use this power to affect positive change in our communities ...

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Art Pepper's "Last Concert" Due May 30 from Widow's Taste Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 2, 2007

Art Pepper's stunning last concert--of his last tour--took place on May 30, 1982 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as part of the Kool Jazz Festival. Ten days later, back home in Los Angeles, Pepper was hospitalized for what turned out to be a cerebral hemorrhage. He died on June 15 at the age of 56.

The Kennedy Center performance will be released later this month, on the 25th anniversary of the concert, by Laurie Pepper and her Widow's ...

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Waverly Seven Reinterprets Darin on Recording Debut

Source: Shore Fire Media
May 2, 2007

Waverly Seven, the ensemble of New York's finest young jazz players, makes their recording debut with the double CD Yo! Bobby, out June 26th on Anzic Records. The septet of saxophonists Anat Cohen and Joel Frahm, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, keyboardists Jason Lindner and Manuel Valera, bassist Barak Mori, and drummer Daniel Freedman reinterpret signature tunes popularized by crooner Bobby Darin, who would have been 71 years old this May.

With their collective spirit of improvisation and impeccable talent, Waverly Seven ...

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Pink Martini Announces Major U.S. Tour, First Ever Carnegie Hall Headlining Show and Appearance on Letterman in June

Source: Shore Fire Media
May 1, 2007

Hey Eugene! Out May 15th Pink Martini just announced a North American tour to commence this summer in support of their upcoming release, 'Hey Eugene!' (Heinz Records) out May 15th. Included in this tour is their first ever headlining performance at Carnegie Hall on June 13th and an inaugural appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. In celebration of Hey Eugene! Pink Martini will perform two record release concerts in their hometown of Portland, OR at the Arlene Schnitzer ...

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"Jazz My Soul" by the Jazz Explorers Now Available at iTunes

Source: All About Jazz
May 1, 2007

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John Prine and Mac Wiseman's "Standard Songs for Average People"

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2007

Listening to John Prine and Mac Wiseman's new album Standard Songs for Average People (released April 24th on Oh Boy Records), it's nearly impossible to believe that these two giants of American music had never met before these historic recording sessions.

Prine is a songwriting legend from the suburbs of Chicago and a star of counter-culture country and Americana. Mac Wiseman, raised on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, is one of the framers of the bluegrass constitution and one ...

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Marco Benevento 'Live at Tonic' 3-CD Set on Ropeadope Coming This Summer

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2007

MARCO BENEVENTO - LIVE AT TONIC A Three CD Set Documenting A Month Long Residency At The Late Great NYC Music Mecca

Featuring MIKE GORDON (Phish); DAVE DREIWITZ (Ween); CLAUDE COLEMAN (Ween); STEVEN BERNSTEIN (Sex Mob); MATT CHAMBERLAIN (Tori Amos); REED MATHIS (JFJO); JOE RUSSO (Benevento/Russo Duo); BOBBY PREVITE (COTW); MIKE DILLON (Les Claypool); BRAD BARR (The Slip) and SCOTT METZGER (Rana)

Available August 7 on Ropeadope

Marco Benevento is best known as one half of the Benevento/Russo ...

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Ginger Commodore & GCQ CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2007

GINGER COMMODORE & GCQ LIVE!!! At Hot Summer Jazz GinSing Music LISTEN AND BUY AT CD BABY. Ginger Commodore (GinSing Music) is happy to announce the release of a compilation of some of her most requested songs captured from a live performance at the 2006 Hot Summer Jazz Festival. Three bonus tracks are also included from a prior year's performance at HSJ (including her often requested version of Fever). The song selections present a capsulated image ...

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