Recording News

Mark Egan Trio Celebrate Release of "As We Speak" in Europe

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2006

The Mark Egan Trio featuring guitarist John Abercrombie and drummer Danny Gottlieb have just returned from a two week tour de force of Europe celebrating their new release As We Speak.

The eleven concert tour was non-stop through cities in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Prague, Czech Republic.

Highlights of the tour were two live radio broadcasts and recordings in Berlin at the Club Quasimodo and a concert in Weitz, Austria. Upon review, the group hopes to release music from these ...

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Thomas Dolby: The Silence is Over, the Science is Back

Source: conqueroo
October 23, 2006

Fall U.S. Tour with Electronic Music Pioneer BT Sets Stage for Live Indie CD & DVD The Sole Inhabitant

If you're wondering what Thomas Dolby has done in the two decades since he cunningly fused pop and electronic music, the answer is in the palm of your hand. Twelve years ago Dolby left music and proceeded to develop the Beatnik software technology used in two-thirds of the world's cell phones. Unlike many performers who return to the stage, he doesn't ...

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New Eleni Mandell CD Out February 6

Source: conqueroo
October 23, 2006

ELENI MANDELL READIES NEW CD 'MIRACLE OF FIVE' FOR FEBRUARY 6 RELEASE

Musicians include Nels Cline (Wilco), DJ Bonebrake (X), and longtime players Kevin Fitzgerald, Ryan Feves and Jeff Turmes; Andy Kaulkin produced; Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliot Smith) mixed

LOS ANGELES, CA - From her first album, 1999's Jon Brion-produced Wishbone, to her fifth, 2004's Afternoon (upon which Los Angeles magazine named her “best local singer"), LA-based singer / songwriter Eleni Mandell has been feeling the love from critics and ...

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Didier Verna "@-quartet": first album just released

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2006

After two years touring as a tenor with the Voice Messengers (a Paris vocal jazz big band), French guitarist, singer and composer Didier Verna comes back to his primary instrument, the guitar, leading a brand new group: the “@-quartet".

Accompanied by three of the most solicited sidemen from the Paris Jazz scene (Gilles Naturel on bass, Guillaume Naud on piano and David Georgelet on drums), Didier Verna offers a 100% original repertoire of contemporary, melodic jazz, in the vein of ...

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Eleni Mandell Readies New CD, 'Miracle of Five,' for February 6 Release

Source: conqueroo
October 20, 2006

Eleni Mandell Readies New CD, Miracle of Five, for February 6 Release

Musicians include Nels Cline (Wilco), DJ Bonebrake (X), and longtime players Kevin Fitzgerald, Ryan Feves and Jeff Turmes

From her first album, 1999's Jon Brion-produced Wishbone, to her fifth, 2004's Afternoon (upon which Los Angeles magazine named her “best local singer"), L.A.-based singer/songwriter Eleni Mandell has been feeling the love from critics and her fellow musicians, who have offered their respective kudos. Impressive to be sure, but her ...

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New CD "The Garden Above" from David Wells, Tony Gaboury, and Steve Grover

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2006

On October 20, 2006, Invisible Music Records will release the new CD of the jazz collective featuring saxophonist David Wells, guitarist Tony Gaboury, and drummer Steve Grover, entitled The Garden Above (IM-2037). This recording features original compositions, standards, and jazz compositions, including a unique interpretation of the Sonny Rollins extended piece “Freedom Suite". The music of this trio is at times spacious, swinging, free, textural, intimate and always melodic.

In a new review from UpBeat magazine, Steve Feeney writes, “This ...

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New CD From Geoffrey Armes Inspired by a Sufi Princess

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2006

London-born, New York-based world-fusion songwriter and composer Geoffrey Armes announced the release of his sixth solo CD, a suite of music inspired by the life and death of Noor Inayat Khan (1914-44). Noor, an accomplished musician and writer in her own right, was the daughter of well-known Sufi commentator and musician Hazrat Inyat Khan, and led an eventful, if short life, that ended in Dachau, September 1944.

Geoffrey says, “Discovering the life--and death--of Noor Inayat Khan, especially in the context ...

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Cooper Tisdale & Friends Live in Atlanta -- Available Now On Jammates Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2006

Cooper Tisdale & Friends Live in Atlanta (JAM-0627-CD) will hit the retail racks and digital download sites over the coming days and weeks. Tisdale's third project delivers a stellar live set of contemporary rock/jazz fusion. Cooper offers up all original material chocked full of thoughtful melodies and a powerful performance by his bandmates. In addition to Cooper Tisdale on guitar and select vocal tracks, this line-up of & Friends features David Savage (keys), Joe Reda (bass), Jason LaMarca (drums) and ...

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