Recording News

efzeg, krom on hatOLOGY 623

Source: All About Jazz
August 11, 2006

Boris Hauf, Billy Roisz, Martin Siewert, Burkhard Stangl & dieb 13. A co-production with SWR Baden-Baden.

“efzeg" is one of the most important electro-acoustic improvisation ensembles from Vienna.

Many facets blending in a unique sound: if one had to give the recipe for the success of this Vienna band, one would probably have to point to the great variety of the musical perspectives which converge in “efzeg"; and which, according to founder member Boris Hauf, are a major ...

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David Murray, 3 D Family on hatOLOGY 608

Source: All About Jazz
August 11, 2006

David Murray, Johnny Mbizo Dyani & Andrew Cyrille recorded live at Jazzfestival Willisau, Switzerland 1978. (reissue, remastered)

It's been 28 years since David Murray, along with Andrew Cyrille and Johnny Mbizo Dyani, played at the festival in Willisau. After listening for the first time after a quarter of a century, it brings memories--a flashback to the '70s. It shows us an effervescent world that easily sinks into a melancholic veil of nostalgia. Wasn't it exciting back then, when those who ...

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CD Release: Lucky 7s - Farragut

Source: All About Jazz
August 11, 2006

CD Release Lucky 7s - Farragut Available on Lakefront Digital (www.lakefrontdigital.com)

Contact Jeff Albert (225-303-6226 or [email protected]) or Jeb Bishop (773-988-1447 or [email protected])

Band website: http://lucky7s.org

Lakefront Digital is proud to announce the release of Farragut by the Lucky 7s. Farragut was recorded live at The Hungry Brain, and Enemy, in Chicago in March of 2006, and features original compositions by Jeb Bishop, Jeff Albert, and Matthew Golombisky.

Lucky 7s is the brainchild of Jeb Bishop ...

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Jazz Chanteuse Mellani Day Releases Genre-Breaking CD 'Mostly True'

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2006

Colorado-based jazz chanteuse Mellani Day has announced the release of her first full-length, genre-breaking album

Mostly True, co-produced by renowned jazz pianist Eric Gunnison. The original vocal jazz-centric tunes feature a rich mix of genres from smooth jazz & blues to reggae & calypso, as well as a bluesy version of Huey Lewis' hit, “I Want a New Drug!" In addition, the songs “True Love" and “Progress" received Billboard Song Competition Honorable Mentions.

Mellani and her band Dazed will be ...

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Ubiquity to Release "Living with Owusu & Hannibal" in October 2006

Source: All About Jazz
August 10, 2006

UBIQUITY TO RELEASE LIVING WITH OWUSU & HANNIBAL, THE DENMARK-BASED PRODUCTION DUO'S FULL-LENGTH DEBUT, ON OCTOBER 10, 2006

Packed with street smarts, a cheeky sense of humor and forward thinking production this soul-tinged debut is made up of (mostly) down tempo songs. Juxtaposing glitchy digital beats, fat bottom end, and shiny synths with acoustic guitars and lush strings they retain their warmth and organic vibe but have been given a thorough roughing-up around the edges. The group's debut follows the ...

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Madeleine Peyroux: New Album to be released Sept 12th

Source: Gina Vodegel Writing Affairs
August 9, 2006

Half the Perfect World, Rounders Records (America's Premier Independent Label)

Madeleine Peyroux is either an old soul or was “born with it" (depending on one's theory about the flashpoint of artistry); that became apparent in 1996, with the release of her debut album, Dreamland, a remarkably knowing work in which the then-22-year-old singer brought commensurate insightfulness to material associated with Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and Patsy Cline. Her decision to cover Edith Piaf's “La Vie en Rose" reflected the decade ...

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Janet Robbins Releases Second Volume In Ambient/Instrumental Series, "Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Interpreting the Birth of Stars, Vol. II" CD

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2006

"The music on Volume II is a continuation of music I began to write after my move to Woodstock. There is something in that area for me (for a lot of people) of a deep timelessness, where all is not comfortable, but rich in experience all the same. I was frequently moved to write songs that made me feel as if I was on a train in the middle of the night not knowing where I was being taken, or ...

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Two More Contemporary Classics Recordings from John Klemmer Released for Digital Download Only!

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2006

John Klemmer “RIO" [VOL. I] & “RIO" VOL. II, Touch Records These release's are from “THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS RECORDINGS SERIES", for Digital Download only, available at iTUNES & other prominant Digital Music websites, is in the tradition of John Klemmer's now classic “BRAZILIA" & “ARABESQUE", on Klemmer's own TOUCH RECORDS “Vanity" Label for “special release's only". These two, never before released fantastic recordings, chronicling John's journey into his exploring what he calls “the consciouness of Brazillian Music", in his own ...

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