Recording News

Mark Sholtez releases debut album

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2006

Ever since Rob Mounsey mentioned he worked with a talented young Australian singer/songwriter named Mark Sholtez who was about to launch a debut album on Verve, we've been waiting in a healthy dosage of curiosity for news on this release.

Well, it's time now!

The album is due for release in April and Mark then will also join Jamie Cullum for a series of concerts in Australia. You can read more about his background and music on Mark's website where ...

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Dom Minasi's "The Vampire's Revenge" Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2006

Dom Minasi's new CD The Vampire's Revenge is out and availble at different outlets.

Dom Minasi is a rare figure in today's world of jazz--a virtuoso guitarist who rejected commercial success in order to pursue his own creative impulses. Even rarer is Minasi's penchant as a leader for subsuming his own individual voice to enhance a group sound. The Vampire's Revenge is a landmark recording in an illustrious, multifaceted career and should do much to bring greatly deserved recognition to ...

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Free Dave Stryker Track at the AAJ Download Center

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2006

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John Ellis Ascends "By A Thread" -- May 9th on Hyena Records

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2006

A bright, darting melody springs from John Ellis' soprano saxophone and before the phrase reaches its natural conclusion, his band enters with a circular double-time groove. It's an invigorating excursion fueled by compelling harmonic counterpoint and shifting rhythmic textures. The song is “Ferris Wheel" and it opens By A Thread, the brand new album from one of jazz music's most prolific young voices, John Ellis. To be released May 9th on HYENA Records, Ellis is joined on the recording by ...

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Theo Bleckman + Winter and Winter Records Present: Las Vegas Rhapsody (The Night They Invented Champagne)

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2006

Many have managed to gain eternal fame in Nevada's Sin City, amongst some of the greatest--Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Wayne Newton, Liberace, Siegfried and Roy, and even mafia boss Bugsy Siegel--they all owe their incomparable careers to Las Vegas. No other place has laid the groundwork for the world of entertainment as rigorously as this appallingly kitschy, gloriously neon-lit palace--the greatest show stage and most notorious gambling den in the world!

Las Vegas ...

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Eddie Gomez & Mark Kramer's "Art of the Heart" on Art of Life Records

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2006

Art of Life Records is proud to announce our latest CD release Eddie Gomez & Mark Kramer's Art of the Heart AL1019-2

Recorded on February 14, 2004 at Platinum Seven Studios in Pennsylvania, Art of the Heart features music popularized by Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole performed and arranged by the legendary bassist Eddie Gomez and the brilliant pianist Mark Kramer. Best known for his work with pianist Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez's performance throughout this ...

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Ubiquity to release NOMO's "New Tones" on May 9

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

UBIQUITY TO RELEASE NOMO'S NEW TONES ON MAY 9, THE BRAND-NEW ALBUM FROM DETROIT'S EIGHT MEMBER RIOTOUS JAZZ AND FUNK BAND; NOMO TO PERFORM AT SXSW AAM SHOWCASE ON THURSDAY MARCH 16 (HABANA CALLE 6)

NOMO's roots are firmly planted in the fertile soil of African polyrhythm and American free jazz, and bandleader Elliot Bergman's tracks draw inspiration from cultures and generations wildly different than his home setting. Detroit producer Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) was charged with capturing ...

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Jeannette Lambert's "Sand Underfoot" Out Today

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2006

MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) -- On February 28th, Jazz From Rant will release Montreal- based poet/jazz vocalist Jeannette Lambert's seventh recording as a leader, Sand Underfoot (rant 0631), featuring longtime collaborators, bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Michel Lambert, and special guest, pianist Paul Bley. Funded in part by the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, her follow- up to 2003's Lone Jack Pine (rant 2027), which Cadence called “an absorbing round of music ...

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