Recording News

Create (!) Announce New LP, Remix Contest, Tour Dates

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2006

A Prospect of Freedom, Create (!)'s first full length album in five years is set for release on March 28th. And one of the album's most meditative tracks, “Six Dreams/Divided", is being made available track by track for a remix contest. The winner receives a $150 cash prize from Sounds Are Active and a free subscription to all the label's releases in 2006. A panel of guest judges including Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors and design wiz Jason Munn (Death ...

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Saxophonist Tom Tallitsch Releases Contemporary Instrumental Jazz CD "Duality"

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2006

Philadelphia, PA--Tom Tallitsch has released an inviting contemporary instrumental jazz CD titled Duality. This is music for relaxing. Picture yourself in front of warm fire emptying your mind and letting the soulfulness of each note permeating your being.

Tallitsch, referred to as one Philadelphia's musical gems, has lived in the Philadelphia area for nearly ten years. In that time span he has established himself as a major player on the Philadelphia jazz scene working in such top clubs as Ortlieb's, ...

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Free Tom Tallitsch MP3 Download at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2006

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Charley Harrison Releases new CD: Keeping My Composure

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2006

COMPOSER/ARRANGER/CONDUCTOR CHARLEY HARRISON, KEEPING MY COMPOSURE NEW CD RELEASE ON C3 RECORDS

West Hollywood, CA...Composer/arranger/conductor Charley Harrison and C3 Records are pleased to announce the release of Keeping My Composure, a new CD featuring the Chicago Jazz Orchestra with special guest artists Freddy Cole, Kurt Elling, Sara Gazarek, Cedar Walton and Bobby Broom, among others. Selections from the eleven-song CD will be presented at the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at Northwestern University in Chicago, at ...

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The Mary Lou Williams Collective - Zodiac Suite: Street Date February 7, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2006

Jazz Promo Services The Mary Lou Williams Collective - Zodiac Suite: Revisited Mary Records (M104) Geri Allen (piano & musical director); Buster Williams; Billy Hart; Andrew Cyrille. Street Date February 7, 2006 The Mary Lou Williams Collective, under the musical direction of pianist/arranger/composer Geri Allen, reexamines and revitalizes Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite - the first lady of instrumental jazz's landmark 1945 recording of her collection of twelve solo, duo and trio piano pieces named for the astrological signs of ...

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Paul Jackson Funks up Radio

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2006

Paul Jackson is now on 350 radio stations and climbing. Bassist Jackson was one of the founding members of the Headhunters and still tours and records with them on BasinStreet Records. He's put his new CD Funk on a Stick (BackDoor Records) in the ears of millions of radio listeners around the world. David Cintron of WPKR 91.5 said about Jackson's new CD, “I was stoked to get this CD. My favorite songs are “Everything You Got," “Pain," and “It's ...

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Lorraine Feather's New CD

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2006

Singer/lyricist Lorraine Feather will be recording her new album project Traffic and Weather in February and March of 2006.

Feather has received considerable critical acclaim over the past five years for her unusual releases, which have featured a combination of classic jazz instrumentals with her added lyrics (Fats Waller's music on New York City Drag, Rhombus; Duke Ellington's on Such Sweet Thunder, Sanctuary) and all-new songs. Her 2005 CD Dooji Wooji included original songs written with Russell Ferrante, Shelly Berg, ...

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Blossom Dearie & Bob Dorough LIVE CD!

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2006

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