Recording News

Ingrid Sertso / Karl Berger: New Recording Studio and CD

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2006

Ingrid Sertso / Karl Berger: New Recording Studio and CD

Vocalist Ingrid Sertso and pianist Karl Berger are announcing two major events in their careers:

1) The opening of “Sertso Studio,"a full-professional studio for recording, mixing, mastering in Woodstock NY with Ted Orr as chief engineer. While the studio will mostly serve productions by Berger and Sertso, it will be open for independent productions in all genres. Karl Berger, noted arranger/composer, will be available for co-production input. Sertso Studio will ...

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The Brown Indian Band launches Fusion Lounge

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2006

The Brown Indian Band, formed by bass,player Colin D'Cruz, features accomplished Indian classical musicians in concert with jazz virtuosos. Indian classical music can be compared to jazz as both are forms of improvised music. Indian classical music is linear and uses just one scale (raga) to improvise within a composition whereas jazz has a much broader palette for improvisation where multiple scales can be used to improvise through harmonic changes (chords). Indian classical music however, has some of the world's ...

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Ondrej Pivec's Organic Quartet Releases "Don't Get Ideas" on Cube-Metier

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2006

Cube-Metier introduces a bright new jazz talent: the debut album from Ondrej Pivec's Organic Quartet

Don't Get Ideas

Ondrej Pivec hammond organ Libor Smoldas guitar Jakub Dolezal sax Toms Hobzek drums

In less than a year, this talented group of young Prague musicians-- Ondrej Pivec is just twenty-one--the Organic Quartet have not only bowled over both local and national critics but have been hailed as the Best Talent of the Year and Pivec himself ...

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Washington DC area's Satin Doll Trio releases third CD

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2006

Silver Spring, MD June 15, 2006 - The Satin Doll Trio is pleased to announce the release of their long awaited third CD titled In the Middle of a Kiss on the independent SD Music label. The album's title track is a rarely-recorded, yet haunting and bitterly romantic gem written in 1935 by Academy Award-winning producer and songwriter Sam Coslow. The trio's sincere performance and minimalist arrangement of the song is a gleaming example of the groups intimate supper-club jazz ...

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First CD From Carnival Skin Out Now--Release Celebration June 18 in Brooklyn

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2006

Carnival Skin have released their first CD on Nemu Records, a new European label. The CD is distributed by Qualiton Imports in US. On June 18th the band will celebrate the release at Marc Lambrechts Studio in Brooklyn, NY (158 South Oxford Street) at 2 pm - open air in the garden, rain or shine, but free admission, complimentary buffet.

Producing a cutting edge, high energy art form, Carnival Skin explores original melodic themes and rhythms found not only in ...

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Chris Smither's 'Leave The Light On' Draws from Blues, Folk, Poets and Philosophers

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2006

BOSTON, MA -- Chris Smither, whose songs have been covered by Diana Krall, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, to name a few, is one of a handful of musicians active today who were on the scene during the folk / blues renaissance of the '60s. Born in Miami and raised in New Orleans - where he first heard the blues - before heading on to Boston at the onset of that city's late '60s musical greening, Smither has carved a ...

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Bassist Reuben Rogers releases his Debut CD "The Things I Am"

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2006

Bassist Reuben Rogers releases his Debut CD The Things I Am On June 15th, 2006

“Reubens impeccable musicianship and fresh approach to each performance keeps me perpetually inspired. His consummate playing allows him to rise comfortably in most any musical situation. ~ Dianne Reeves, Grammy award winning jazz vocalist

The Things I Am, is a brilliant testimonial from the creative, young bassist/composer Reuben Rogers. On his debut recording as a leader, Rogers takes the listener through a time line of ...

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Pianist Meddy Gerville Releases "Jazz Amwin" with Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Dominique Di-Piazza, and Jean-Marie Ecay

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2006

Reunion Island pianist Meddy Gerville is pleased to announce the release of his new album Jazz Amwin featuring Grammy award winner Horacio El Negro Hernandez on drums, French bass player Dominique Di-Piazza, Jean-Marie Ecay on guitar and Meddy Gerville (piano, vocal).

This album perfectly illustrates Gerville's artistic quest of a fusion between jazz, its sophisticated harmonies, creative freedom and the swing and complex rhythms of Maloya, the “blues made in Reunion."

Performer Bios

Born on Reunion Island in 1972, Meddy ...

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