Recording News

Guitarist/Composer Sten Hostfalt Releases "Macroscope" on Sonus Rex

Source: All About Jazz
August 29, 2006

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Frank Sinatra - Vegas (5 Disc Boxed Set) Due 11/7 From Rhino

Source: All About Jazz
August 29, 2006

FRANK SINATRA...VEGAS

Five-Disc Boxed Set Features All Previously Unreleased Live Performances Of Ol' Blue Eyes In Vegas

Definitive Collection Due November 7 Spans Three Decades And Features The Chairman At His Best

LOS ANGELES - Sinatra, more than any other performer, turned Las Vegas into “The Entertainment Capital Of The World." Whether it's “Come Fly With Me," “Luck Be A Lady," or “My Way," Sinatra in VEGAS is the Sinatra of legend. On November 7, audiences can experience the Chairman ...

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ECM Releases Tomasz Stanko Quartet's "Lontano" on August 29, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2006

Tomasz Stanko: trumpet Marcin Wasilewski: piano Slawomir Kurkiewicz: double-bass Michal Miskiewicz: drums

The third ECM album by Tomasz Stanko's popular all-Polish group rings some changes. Where its predecessors, 2001's Soul of Things and 2004's Suspended Night were recorded in Oslo, Lontano shifts the recording locale to the South of France--Studios La Buisonne, near Avignon--and it opens up the group's concept to admit both freer playing and a new look at pieces of historical importance ...

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Peter Curtis' Debut Release "Swing State"

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2006

GUITARIST / COMPOSER PETER CURTIS SET TO RELEASE DEBUT CD SWING STATE ON AUGUST 29, 2006!

“This guitar-vibes-bass-drums quartet initially reminds one of the Red Norvo - Tal Farlow - Charles Mingus vibes-guitar-bass trio of 1950. However, Peter Curtis' group is more modern than that and not derivative of any past models...Highly recommended." - Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Though Peter Curtis' forthcoming album Swing State marks his debut, he comes to this point in his career already ...

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Arabesque Jazz Releases "The Steve Wiest Big Band: Excalibur"

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2006

Arabesque Jazz Releases The Steve Wiest Big Band's Excalibur

Arabesque Jazz announces the release of Excalibur, the debut album of trombonist Steve Wiest and The Steve Wiest Big Band.

Excalibur is a unique approach to the big band format. Steve Wiest has managed to walk a fine line with this album, tackling the big band format from a variety of angles. While approaching this project as a study of composition and arranging, he has at the same time managed to ...

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'Doug Sahm Band' and 'Sir Douglas Band' Albums to be Reissued on Collectors' Choice Music

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2006

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Collectors' Choice Music travels back in time to re-release recordings by two Texas artists linked by geography and era. Doug Sahm was the kingpin of the Sir Douglas Quintet plus two latter-day bands -- Sir Doug & Band and the Sir Douglas Band. fever tree, from Houston, was often mistaken for a Haight-Ashbury San Francisco band because their one big hit was titled “San Francisco Girls." By coincidence, both have albums that will be released on ...

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New Sten Hosfalt CD: Macroscope

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2006

Internationally Acclaimed NYC Guitarist/Composer STEN HOSTFALT's eagerly awaited follow-up to the celebrated, groundbreaking '03 release 29 Pieces For The Microtonal Guitar: Live at Knitting Factory New York is released.

Yet another solo recording, conceived in an attended session and titled Macroscope, administered by new creative improvised Brooklyn NY label Sonus Rex and mixed/mastered by award-winning engineer Doug Henderson, the album is available from amazon and iTunes and may be ordered by select music stores worldwide through phantom/ super D distribution. ...

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Jam Camp Live! Debuts at Dogstock Music Festival

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2006

Seattle, Washington-August 26, 2006-- Jam Camp is an accomplished jazz-rock-fusion band based in the Seattle area. After releasing two critically acclaimed studio albums, Jam Camp and Black Hills Jam-Preserves Volume 2, the band has selected 11 tracks from recent live performances for Jam Camp Live!, which will be a limited release Dogstock Special Edition.

The live recording will be available this upcoming Labor Day at the Dogstock Music Festival in Melvern, KS. The four-day festival is for the benefit of ...

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