Recording News

Mike Renzi & Blossom Dearie Tweedledum & Tweedledee On CD and On Sale!

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2006

Mike Renzi and Blossom Dearie recorded a special album: Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Two People Who Resemble Each Other, In This Case Musically) . For its 15th anniversary we have updated it and released it at a special sale price.

Mike Renzi (Tweedledum) served as the musical director and created the elegant orchestrations, and Blossom Dearie (Tweedledee) played her special style of piano coupled with her vocals. Songs include: “I Don't Remember," “Ev'rybody Loves Jobim," “I Did It All For You," ...

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Blossom Dearie & Johnny Mercer's My New Celebrity Is You Finally Out on CD

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2006

Blossom Dearie's most requested recording on her label Daffodil Records, My New Celebrity is You, has been remastered and is available on CD for the first time ever!

The title track “My New Celebrity Is You" was Johnny Mercer's final composition and a gift to Blossom. Other songs that round out this fantastic set are: “Moonlight Saving Time," “Pretty People," “Killing Me Softly," “A Song For You," “A Paris," “Spring In Manhattan" and others.

The finest musicians: Blossom Dearie(arranger/keyboards) with ...

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Los Angeles Trumpeter Brian Swartz releases latest CD on Summit Records

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2006

Los Angeles based trumpeter Brian Swartz has released his latest CD, Three, on Summit Records.

Simplicity. The word expresses what this recording is all about. Three is an homage to the great trumpeter Chet Baker and his trio from the late 1970s, which included Doug Raney on guitar and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass. By channeling the power of simplicity from those landmark recordings, Brian Swartz's trio infuses life into the concept of interpreting standards.

For his trio, the Los ...

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Anne Kerry Ford's "Weill"

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2006

Actress/singer Anne Kerry Ford has been passionate about Kurt Weill's music since appearing with Sting in “The Threepenny Opera" on Broadway, so performing with the famed WDR Big Band in Cologne,Germany's Philharmonic Hall under the musical direction of legendary arranger/musician Roger Kellaway was a dream-come-true. In Weill, she presents fifteen songs from Kurt Weill's German and American songbooks (as well as the French “Youkali", sung here in rarely-heard English translation), holding her own in front of the mighty sound of ...

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Pat Martino "East!" Now Available on SACD From Mobile Fidelity

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2006

One of Pat Martino's guitar masterpieces. Martino's long, seamless lines are absolutely extraordinary. Most importantly, he knew how to make the music swing! This is truly one of the most essential jazz guitar albums of all time. Martino's lines, phrasing and tone are so unique to the language of jazz that one is left absolutely speechless--some listening experiences defy the parameters of existing vocabulary. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's GAIN 2 mastering is a serious sonic enhancement of this magnificent album. ...

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Katie Bull "Love Spook" Free Download at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2006

The following track, Katie Bull “Love Spook" is now being featured as a Download of the Day at All About Jazz.

Click here for free download.

CATCH KATIE BULL LIVE Thursday June 22 @ 7:00 p.m. at the 55 BAR 55 Christopher Street NYC, NY www.55bar.com No Cover Charge KATIE BULL - vocals DAVID PHELPS - guitar JOE FONDA - ...

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Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees on hatOLOGY 632

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees, hatOLOGY 632

Nate Wooley - trumpet Matt Moran - vibes Daniel Levin - cello Joe Morris - double bass

Performing “Out To Lunch" by Eric Dolphy, “Wickets" by Steve Lacy, “Morning Song" by Ornette Coleman and compositions by Daniel Levin.

“It's obvious this is not an ordinary jazz quartet. Paul Bley once suggested to me that “one of the ways to get out of a particular ...

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Cecil Taylor Unit : The Eighth on hatOLOGY 622

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Cecil Taylor Unit: The Eighth, hatOLOGY 612

Cecil Taylor - Boesendorfer piano Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone William Parker - double bass Rashid Bakr - drums

Recorded November 8th, 1981 at Freiburger Jazztage Freiburg, Germany; CEDAR processing and new CD master by Peter Pfister, January 2006.

“Taylor's art confronts nature so organically because it embraces the same attitudes, makes the same demands. Rejecting frivolous entertainment, it is ritual--a rite of creation that ...

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