Recording News

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid Collaborate on 2-Part Release

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2006

KIERAN HEBDEN OF FOUR TET COLLABORATES WITH LEGENDARY JAZZ DRUMMER STEVE REID; TWO-PART SERIES ON DOMINO TO BE RELEASED

“My life changed the day we recorded the Exchange sessions. I couldn't believe I was involved in making this music. It was such a revelation to be able to create improvised music with this epitome of African-American rhythmic drum tradition." - Kieran Hebden

Kieran Hebden is a name you most likely already recognize via his groundbreaking work ...

Continue Reading...

New Releases from HatHut: Prognostication / We Concentrate

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2006

Prognostication Noriko Hisada (hat(now)ART 163 - 1963) Performed by Ensemble Fuer Neue Musik Zuerich

“I'm Japanese and write music the same way other people do!" she disarmingly remarks as we talk about any possible connections to the Japanese music tradition... Noriko Hisada does not let herself be pinned down as to whether or not Japanese tradition clashes with the Western dominance of the music establishment. Only the first impression of her music sounds like Western European New Music ...

Continue Reading...

Blue Note Set To Release Cassandra Wilson's Stunning New CD "Thunderbird" On April 4th

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2006

Collaboration With Producer T Bone Burnett Delivers Post Modern Interpretation On Delta Roots Music Cassandra Wilson never fails to surprise and inspire. Sexy, honey-velvet vocals wrapped around her own jazzy blue compositions or inventive interpretations of others' material led TIME magazine to name her “America's Best Singer" in recent years. On her new CD thunderbird, which Blue Note Records will release on April 4, 2006, she has collaborated with red hot producer T Bone Burnett to surprise, yet ...

Continue Reading...

Powder Blues - Canada's Blues Legends Release New CD

Source: All About Jazz
January 28, 2006

Powder Blues New CD: Blues + Jazz = BLAZZ! January 15, 2006 - Vancouver, B.C. - It's been three years since their last release, but legendary blues rockers, Powder Blues have come back with the real thing. Their new CD Blues + Jazz = BLAZZ! is high energy big band swing tunes. Known for three decades of radio friendly rocking blues tunes Blues + Jazz = BLAZZ! carries on the tradition in style. “Swing revivals have introduced a new generation ...

Continue Reading...

Raquel Bitton's new CD release "Paris Blues"

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2006

"Oh, what a magnificent CD! Raquel Bitton's new CD Paris Blues is evocative of great romance and great heartache, a lost and soulful era, a thousand broken dreams. Put on your satin gown and bring out the gardenias for a night of sweet nostalgia in the mists of Paris past"--Kathleen Lawton, KCSM-FM 91

About Paris Blues, in stores or available at ITunes February 21:

Paris Blues is the musical story--sometimes joyful, often melancholy, and always hopeful--of a beautiful city in ...

Continue Reading...

Ictus Records' 30th Anniversary Collection

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2006

ICTUS' 12-CD Box Set is scheduled for the release in March/April of 2006 from newly resurrected ICTUS label. This most important collection of music in the history of ICTUS Records, is a celebration for the 30th anniversary of the birth of one of the first independent labels of the 70's, a tribute to all great artists that made ICTUS exist, just for the love of music. The set could be pre-ordered at ICTUS website. ICTUS' extremely ...

Continue Reading...

New Omar Sosa CD Release - "Mulatos Remix"

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2006

Following the success of his recent recording Mulatos (OTA1015), which received a 2006 GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album, a 2006 BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music nomination, and which features the artistry of legendary Cuban reedman Paquito D'Rivera, Ot Records is pleased to announce the release of an Omar Sosa remix album of material from the award-winning CD. Entitled Mulatos Remix (OTA1016), the album features fresh and funky contributions by Paris-based drummer / producer Doctor L; Brooklyn- ...

Continue Reading...

Mike Reed Duos With Jim Baker, Nicole Mitchell and Jeff Parker on 482 Music

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2006

AVON, CT -- Drummer Mike Reed joins forces with three fellow mainstays of the Chicago improvised music scene, Jim Baker (ARP synthesizer), Nicole Mitchell (flute) and Jeff Parker (guitar), for his first release under his own name, In The Context Of (482-1047), coming March 14th on 482 Music. This collection of eight improvised duets finds Reed performing with Parker on two tracks and Baker and Mitchell on three tracks each. Reed has worked extensively with all three players around Chicago ...

Continue Reading...