Recording News

New Gary Lucas album/Live in Romania and Beyond

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 4, 2006

GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS NEW ALBUM “COMING CLEAN" Released October 4th in the UK by SIDE SALAD/UNIVERSAL, with licenses for the US, CANADA, JAPAN, FRANCE and BENELUX tba soon Featuring Ernie Brooks (bass), Billy Ficca and Jonathan Kane (drums), Jason Candler (alto sax), and Joe Hendel (trombone) plus special guests David Johansen, Elli Medeiros, and Richard Barone Mixed by Jerry Harrison and Harold Burgon “AN UNDERGROUND ROCK FAN'S DREAM TEAM"--THE NEW YORKER Just back from playing in India ...

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Combining Jazz And Blues, Singer Antoinette Montague's Debut CD, "Pretty Blues", Delivers Strong Interpretations Of A Dozen Standards

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2006

Singer Antoinette Montague from New York City combines jazz and blues on her debut album, Pretty Blues, and delivers strong interpretations of a dozen standards. The phrase “Pretty Blues" is simply another way of describing Antoinette's jazzy-blues. Her strength is combining the heartfelt passion of the blues with the sophistication of jazz. Her style can be powerful one moment and soft-and-delicate the next. Her lusty and soulful voice reaches right into the heart of the listener. “At times I have ...

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Jonny Lang to "Turn Around" with New Album Release

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2006

Jonny Lang has a message for you. Sure, he's been in touch before, speaking often with his guitar in the language of deep blues and searing rock & roll.

But Turn Around is different. The guitar is still there, whispering sometimes, occasionally even screaming. Now, though, it's just one voice in a chorus of sounds -- the tight band, the passionate singing, and lyrics that conjure beauty as well as pain and speak the truth, all at the same time. ...

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Tenor Saxophonist Anton Schwartz Celebrates The Release of "Radiant Blue"!

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2006

New CD Release from Tenor Saxophonist Anton Schwartz

Anton Schwartz (tenor saxophone), Peter Bernstein (guitar), Taylor Eigsti (piano), John Shifflett (bass), Tim Bulkley (drums)

Radiant Blue (Antonjazz AJ-1004) - Available on August 8!

“... an amazingly talented horn player with a great ear and oodles of stage presence." - Jim Harrington, The Oakland Tribune Anton Schwartz - Radiant Blue CD Release Concerts!:

Thursday, August 17 @ 7:00 PM, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz. For tkts and additional ...

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The Will Holshouser Trio Celebrates The Release of "Singing To a Bee" on Clean Feed Records

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2006

New CD Release from The Will Holshouser Trio Will Holshouser (accordion), Ron Horton (trumpet) & David Phillips (bass)

Singing To A Bee (Clean Feed CF054)

The Will Holshouser Trio CD Release Performances/Celebrations: Tues., September 19 at 10:00 PM - The Bowery Poetry Club - 308 Bowery

Thurs., September 21 - The Clean Feed Festival - Barbes, 376 9th St, Brooklyn

Clean Feed Records proudly announces the release of accordionist/composer and bandleader Will Holshouser's new live recording, Singing To ...

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Mike Stern's New CD "Who Let The Cats Out?"

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2006

MIKE STERN MAKES HIS HEADS UP DEBUT WITH THE AUGUST 15th RELEASE OF WHO LET THE CATS OUT?

Premier jazz guitarist joins forces with a string of stellar musicians

Mike Stern, one of the most recognized and celebrated guitarists of his generation, releases his Heads Up International worldwide debut album, Who Let the Cats Out? (HUCD 3115), on August 15, 2006. On Stern's thirteenth release as a leader, the award winning three-time Grammy nominee continues to blur the boundaries between ...

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Prestige Records to Release Saxophone Titan Sonny Stitt's "Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952"

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2006

Saxophone Titan Sonny Stitt's Major Contributions to the Jazz Legacy Are Spotlighted on Prestige Records' Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952 When referring to some of Jazz' most outstanding contributors, words like underrated, overlooked and underappreciated are as common as the 12-bar blues. Rarely are these words more appropriately applied than in the case of extraordinary multi-reedman Edward “Sonny" Stitt. Prestige Records has taken a major step in correcting that particular oversight with its remarkable boxed set, Stitt's Bits: The ...

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Blue Note Records Proudly Presents Joe Lovano's "Streams of Expression"

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2006

Featuring Joe Lovano's Streams of Expression suite & Gunther Schuller's Birth of the Cool Suite, a rearrangement of movements from the Miles Davis classic for an expanded version of Lovano's Grammy-winning Nonet. The album also marks the debut of the Aulochrome, a new instrument created for Lovano that combines two soprano saxophones & opens up new sonic possibilities.

“All jazz musicians carry a burden of history, but Joe Lovano gives the impression that it's carrying him... He has found different ...

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