Recording News

"Re-Bop: The Savoy Remixes" in Stores on May 9

Source: All About Jazz
April 22, 2006

Stellar Cast of Contemporary Hip Hop & Dance Producers Rework Peerless Catalog of Postwar Jazz

April 17, 2006 - Duke Jordan meets Jazzy Jeff? Cal Tjader meets Large Professor? Curtis Fuller meets A Tribe Called Quest? Absolutely! Although it's been half a century since the heyday of Savoy Records - the celebrated home of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cannonball Adderley, among many other giants of modern jazz - those recordings not only remain potent on their own terms, they ...

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Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa Team Up as Raw Materials on Savoy Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
April 22, 2006

New Album set for May 2006

Santa Monica, CA--Savoy Jazz is proud to announce the debut CD release of RAW MATERIALS, a duo project featuring pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. Long time musical co-conspirators, Iyer and Mahanthappa have created Raw Materials as a showcase for their strong creative connection. The sons of immigrants from India, they draw from Asian, African, and European traditions to create original music that is beyond category. The duo's intelligent melodies and harmonies ...

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ZOHO Label to Release "Standards Rican-ditioned," Ray Barretto's Last CD Recording

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2006

ZOHO Label set to release “Standards Rican-ditioned", Ray Barretto's Last CD Recording

Latin jazz indie label ZOHO Music L.L.C. announces the release of Standards Rican-ditioned, the last recording by the legendary percussionist Ray Barretto--who passed away unexpectedly on February 17, 2006, at the age of 76. The planned release date is August 14, 2006.

In the summer of 2005, Ray Barretto met with Jochen Becker from ZOHO in New York City to discuss plans for his next recording. Ray wanted ...

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Castle Music to Release First Ever Comprehensive Alexis Korner Anthology May 1

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2006

Castle Music to release first wholly comprehensive anthology album of the late Godfather of British Blues - Alexis Korner

Kornerstoned: The Alexis Korner Anthology - 1954 - 1983 Released May 1st, 2006

Castle Music is delighted to announce the May 1st, 2006 double disc album release of Kornerstoned: The Alexis Korner Anthology - 1954 - 1983, a deluxe slip cased set laced with copious rarities and material which debuts on CD for the very first time.

Alexis Korner's ...

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WE JAM ECONO: The Story of The Minutemen on DVD June 27th

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2006

THE ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ON THE MINUTEMEN AVAILABLE ON 2xDVD JUNE 27th!

Two-Disc DVD Set includes over 5 hours of interviews, live performances, music videos, archival footage and more.

“Their idealism, their humor and decency is spellbinding." - Sarah Vowell, The New York Times

“THE MINUTEMEN were influential then and now, and WE JAM ECONO is a valentine to the band and D. Boon's memory. They're immortal now...that's as it should be." - Seattle Times

WE JAM ...

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Tony Bennett Celebrates Career and 80th Birthday with Two Albums on Starbucks Hear Music

Source: All About Jazz
April 17, 2006

Starbucks Hear Music™ Opus Collection Through The Years To Be Released On April 4, Available Exclusively At Starbucks Locations In The U.S. And Canada

New Tony Bennett Duets Album On Columbia/RPM Will Be Available At Starbucks Locations As Well As Traditional Retail Later This Year

Tony Bennett is unquestionably one of the foremost icons of American music. A singer's singer, Bennett is one of the rare recording artists to have new albums chart in five different decades. Over the course ...

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The Hacienda Brothers and Dan Penn Expand Definition of "Western " on Second Album

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2006

What's Wrong With Right, due for June 27 release, is band's debut for Proper American Recordings

TUCSON, Ariz. -- With last year's self-titled debut album, the Hacienda Brothers -- the band led by singers/songwriters Chris Gaffney and Dave Gonzalez -- won accolades for melding stone country and old-school R&B, a mix that has been described as “Western soul." The soul derived not only from Gonzalez's and Gaffney's deep R&B influences, but also from the enlistment of legendary writer/producer Dan Penn. ...

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Polwechsel: "Archives Of The North" on hatOLOGY 633

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2006

Polwechsel Archives Of The North hatOLOGY 633 Total time 51:35

Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker & Michael Moser. 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 frequently book-ended trends and ...

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