Recording News

Bakithi Kumalo to Release His Debut CD "Transmigration" July 11

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

South African Bassist Bakithi Kumalo To Release His Debut CD, Transmigration, for Guru Project on July 11

Catch Bakithi on the Surprise Tour this Summer with Paul Simon

A native of Soweto Township outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Bakithi Kumalo's musical career has been characterized by a series of serendipitous events, ranging from his debut gig as a precocious 7- year-old filling in for the bassist in his uncle's band to his enlistment into Paul Simon's group during the recording sessions ...

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Let It Ride, Debut CD from Jazz Saxophonist Rob White, In Stores May 30th

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Rob White's Local Buzz Continues with Featured Performances at Madam Walker Theater Center, The New Conrad Indianapolis, and Rick's Cafe Boat Yard

Nestle Coffee-mate “Flavor the Day" Appreciation Breakfast Tour Rounds Out Summer Album Launch Schedule

Let It Ride, the OrpheusMusic/E2 Entertainment/Hush debut album from saxophonist Rob White, advanced by the first single “Fin De Semana"--which is in its sixth week of chart climbing and national spins, just jumped eleven spots on the Smoothjazz.com Top 50 to come in at ...

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Pauline Oliveros : The Roots Of The Moment on hatOLOGY 591

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

New CD: The Roots of the Moment

Pauline Oliveros : accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward.

For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: “... to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels ...

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Steve Lacy - Brion Gysin : Songs on hatOLOGY 625

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

New CD: Songs, featuring Steve Lacy, Steve Potts, Bobby Few, Irene Aebi, Jean-Jaques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and Brion Gysin.

“Doubtless, Steve Lacy is one of contemporary music's most prolific practitioners - and certainly one of the most recorded. But even within a catalogue as bulging and varied as his, this sequence of Songs is a singular experience...Throughout these remarkable Songs the music is inseparable from the words. Extramusical echoes may occur - for example, the melismatic winding of themes in ...

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Russ Lossing : All Things Arise on hatOLOGY 629

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Russ Lossing : piano solo : All Things Arise

performing “Alabama Song" by Kurt Weil, “Azure" by Duke Ellington, “Kathelin Gray" by Ornette Coleman, “Pent-Up House" by Sonny Rollins and his own compositions.

For Lossing, improvisation is clearly a special act, a study in transparence and transformation, a creative exchange amongthe elements. One hears fresh relations of time and space. His acute sense of time connects inevitably to its absence. Space is heard in his sense of density, the room ...

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Stevie Holland Releases "More Than Words Can Say" on 150 Music

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

More Than Words Can Say is Stevie Holland's most soulful, swinging and bold CD to date. Arranged and orchestrated by award winning composer Gary William Friedman, More Than Words Can Say explores classic jazz standards, songs from the 50's and 70's and some original material with exciting, innovative and haunting approaches. Stevie is backed by a string orchestra on several selections and by some of today's hottest jazz musicians led by pianists Martin Bejerano and Kris Davis.

Stevie's repertoire, phrasing ...

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Polwechsel Releases "Archives of the North" on hatOLOGY

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker & Michael Moser. Barcode 752156063322 Our 3rd release of Polwechsel. Also available: Polwechsel on hat(now)ART 112 & Polwechsel 2 on hat(now)ART 119. The Polwechsel project has been exponential in defining new approaches to the composition/ improvisation paradigm and in doing so have created a music that defined, examined and radically reassessed its own genre. Each phase of Polwechsel has been marked by a defining document and the releases of their recordings have ...

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Gary Lucas & Gods And Monsters New Album "Coming Clean" Released September 4th In The UK Through Side Salad/Universal

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2006

GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS NEW ALBUM 'COMING CLEAN' RELEASED SEPTEMBER 4TH IN THE UK THROUGH SIDE SALAD/UNIVERSAL Just back from successful dates in Russia, guitaristextraordinaire/ Grammy-nominated songwriter GARY LUCAS announces a new album with his longtime band GODS AND MONSTERS (Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jonathan Kane, Jason Candler and Joe Hendel). The new album features special guests David Johansen, Elli Medeiros, Richard Barone, and Michael Schoen. Mixed by Jerry Harrison and Harold Burgon, it will be released in ...

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