Recording News

Delmark Records New Fall Releases

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2006

DELMARK FALL RELEASES COMING MID-OCTOBER

Exciting Fall Releases, including Live Junior Wells

Snatch It Back and Hold It!! Yeah, baby! Hope you are as excited as I am about this upcoming fall batch of new (and old) jazz and blues from Delmark. We have the pleasure of releasing more live blues from the funky 70's--this time from one of the most charismatic performers of all, the Godfather of the Blues, Junior Wells, the late playboy himself. Bob Koester gives us ...

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Previously Unreleased Abdullah Ibrahim Performance to be Featured on Upcoming Album

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2006

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ABDULLAH IBRAHIM PERFORMANCE TO APPEAR ON SINGER SATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN'S UPCOMING SONGSPIRIT SongSpirit, To Be Released October 17, 2006, Features Abdullah Ibrahim and Sathima Bea Benjamin in Duet of It Never Entered My Mind Album Release Celebrates Ms. Benjamin's 70th Birthday ekapa records is proud to announce the release of SongSpirit, an album that celebrates South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin's 70th birthday with a compilation of 11 of her greatest recorded tracks, plus one previously unreleased ...

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Ray Charles & Count Basie Orchestra Release Ray Sings, Basie Swings CD

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2006

NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED RAY CHARLES TAPES DISCOVERED; RESULTING CONCORD/STARBUCKS HEAR MUSIC'S ALBUM IS A GROUND-BREAKING HYBRID OF ARCHIVAL TRACKS AND EXCLUSIVE NEW PERFORMANCES New CD Pairs Ray Charles's Stellar Vocals With New Recordings by The Count Basie Orchestra, Mixing Creative Musicianship and State-of-the-Art Technology

Concord Records and Starbucks Hear Music, the two Companies that co-released Genius Loves Company, announced today that they will partner again to co-release and co-market Ray Sings, Basie Swings, which marries archival, never-before-released Ray Charles recordings with brand-new ...

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New CD from JD Parran and Mark Deutsch Coming November 7th

Source: Improvised Communications
September 15, 2006

Y'All of New York, Inc. is proud to announce the November 7th release of Omegathorp: Living City (Y'All 008), a new CD documenting a September 2002 Merkin Hall performance co-led by multi-reedist/composer JD Parran and string player/composer Mark Deutsch. Thomas Buckner (voice), David Darling (cello, electronics, electro-vocals), Joseph Kubera (piano) and Kevin Norton (percussion) round out the ensemble on Omegathorp: Living City, which features Parran's four-part title composition (a setting of poetry by the late Glenn Spearman), as well as ...

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Ubiquity to Release Spanky Wilson & QSO's Debut Oct. 10

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2006

AT LONG LAST, SPANKY WILSON & THE QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA'S FULL-LENGTH COLLABORATION, I'M THANKFUL*, WILL BE RELEASED OCTOBER 10, 2006 ON UBIQUITY

Since she burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, Spanky Wilson has performed and recorded with the likes of Marvin Gaye, Sammy Davis Jr., Lalo Schifrin, Jimmy Smith, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Pretty Purdie and Willie Bobo. Renowned as a soul, blues and jazz singer on both sides of the Atlantic, she has consistently released quality music ...

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Ubiquity to Release TM Juke's Forward on October 24

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2006

UBIQUITY TO RELEASE TM JUKE'S FORWARD* ON OCTOBER 24, 2006, THE SOPHOMORE SOLO EFFORT FROM TRU THOUGHTS RECORDING ARTIST & ALICE RUSSELL CO-CONSPIRER

Stepping out with the album he's always wanted to make 27 year old Al Cowan, aka TM Juke, is firmly pushing Forward. It's his first released domestically by Ubiquity, and second as TM Juke for Tru Thoughts. He has also produced the Alice Russell albums and more remixes than you can shake a stick at. This album ...

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ECM Releases Keith Jarrett's "The Carnegie Hall Concert " on September 26, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2006

Keith Jarrett: piano ECM 2-CD set: B0007362-02 The Carnegie Hall Concert was Keith Jarrett's first North American solo concert in a decade and perhaps one of the most wide-ranging of all his performances. The album almost amounts to an autobiographical portrait of the great improviser. Each of his two sets takes the form of a suite of songs, some intensely lyrical, others angular, turbulent, or probing. And the encores--no less than five of them--touch upon the blues and ...

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Jason Lindner to Release Ab Aeterno January 9, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2006

“Jason Lindner is a musical universe!"--Chick Corea

“Lindner ranks among the finest all-around pianist-composers of his generation"--Time Out New York

On January 9, 2007, keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer Jason Lindner will release Ab Aeterno (Fresh Sound Records), featuring Latin percussionist Luisito Quintero and Omer Avital on bass and oud--an important album revealing the timeless threads connecting three musicians of different cultures in beautiful harmony. Unique and intimate, the instrumentation draws the listener in.

The seed of Ab Aeterno was ...

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