Recording News

Out Of Sight Music Is Very Proud To Present ' There Will Never Be Another You' An Historical, Never-Released CD/DVD Set By Lionel Hampton Featuring Sylvia Bennett

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
October 29, 2006

OUT OF SIGHT MUSIC is very proud to present THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU an historical, never-released CD/DVD set by LIONEL HAMPTON featuring SYLVIA BENNETT

“This recording is a gem as well as having monumental historical significance"--John Gilbert, eJazznews.com

Lionel Hampton was one of the great masters of American music, a true national treasure, reinventing the vibraphone and combining dazzling musicality with good old-fashioned showmanship. Today a household name, ...

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Ellery Eskelin Releases "Quiet Music" on Prime Source Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 28, 2006

Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone Jessica Constable - voice Andrea Parkins - accordion, piano and sampler Jim Black - drums and percussion With special guest Philippe Gelda - piano, organ and voice (on selected tracks) Quiet Music is a double CD release recorded in May 2006 during the band's European tour at “Studios La Buissonne" in France, one of the finest recording facilities in the world. The sound achieved on ...

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John Carter-Bobby Bradford Quartet: "Seeking" on hatOLOGY 620

Source: All About Jazz
October 28, 2006

John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Tom Williamson & Bruz Freeman recorded January 16th, 1969 in Los Angeles. (reissue, remastered)

This was the debut on disc of the John Carter - Bobby Bradford Quartet (then under the cooperative name New Art Jazz Ensemble), and captures their marvelous cohesiveness, moral vibrancy, and quiet determination in equal measure.

Subsequent recordings (and there were precious few of them) may have widened our view of their talents slightly, but didn't necessarily alter any early assessment of ...

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Bill Kirchen's 'Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods' Finds the Dieselbilly King and Telecaster Titan Focused on Songwriting

Source: conqueroo
October 27, 2006

Nick Lowe, Geraint Watkins, Robert Trehern and Austin DeLone flesh out band on Proper American Recordings label debut by the man who gave us “Hot Rod Lincoln"

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- From his twanging tribute to the Fender Telecaster guitar that he plays (and which he notes “was born at the junction of form and function") to the soulful closing of Arthur Alexander's “If It's Really Got To Be This Way," Bill Kirchen covers a wide swatch of musical terrain on ...

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Christian Weber : 3 Suits & A Violin on hatOLOGY 634

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

Christian Weber's electro-acoustic improvisation ensembles with Hans Koch, Michael Moser, Martin Siewert & Christian Wolfarth. (Michael Moser and Martin Siewert are members of Polwechsel.)

What Christian Weber and Co. have achieved on 3 Suits & A Violin is a music that eschews formulaic approaches and instead tempers their group sound in dense laminations of texture and sonic residue.

The result is an arresting music which combines elements of group-improvised minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation and avant-garde chamber music into a texturally rich ...

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Three Free MP3s from Abstract Logix: Scott Kinsey, Alex Machacek & Terry Bozzio, and Project Z

Source: All About Jazz
October 25, 2006

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George Benson & Al Jarreau - "Givin it Up" OUT NOW!

Source: On Target Media Group
October 24, 2006

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Mary Foster Conklin Releases "Blues for Breakfast" on Rhombus Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 24, 2006

"If a singer is very lucky, she finds a songwriter with whom her voice and manner are a neat click. Both thrush and tunesmith benefit. For this intelligent jazz interpreter, it's Matt Dennis. She's always been top-notch, but with Dennis, she outdoes herself." THE VILLAGE VOICE Mary Foster Conklin can be heard in clubs nationwide, both as a soloist and with Art Lillard's Heavenly Band. Praised by the Washington Post as “a sensitive artist (but not frail) with a wide-ranging ...

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