Recording News

Spatial Music Pioneer Henry Brant Featured in New CD Series

Source: All About Jazz
January 11, 2006

Innova Recordings Releases Henry Brant: The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 3 St. Paul, MN -- America's senior experimental composer, 92-year old Henry Brant, heard Charles Ives's spatial work The Unanswered Question many decades ago. Brant has since composed over 100 pieces that similarly involve multiple groups of musicians spaced throughout the auditorium (or sometimes gym, park, church or canal). Innova Recordings has begun documenting some of these once-in-a-lifetime gargantuan works that often involve dozens of performers. The latest ...

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The Omer Avital Group "Asking No Permission" on Smalls Records

Source: All About Jazz
January 11, 2006

Bassist / Composer To Release First Of 4-Volume Set, Asking No Permission, February 14, 2006 On Smalls Records

Rare Live Recordings From 1996-1997 Document One Of The Most Acclaimed Jazz Groups In Decades

“(Avital's) idea of jazz includes old and new definitions of swing and temperament, as if the stylistic and generational divisions never existed. Ornette Coleman's country hymns get in there, as do Woody Herman's close-harmony writing for saxophones, Charles Mingus' tetchiness and ensemble friction, ...

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Faldo's Toy cooks up some "Twisted Pea Soup" with their new release.

Source: All About Jazz
January 11, 2006

The San Francisco Bay Area has long been known as a hotbed for great music, and holding true to it's history, 2006 is already shaping up to be a banner year for the area. Faldo's Toy has announced the release of their much anticipated CD Twisted Pea SoupFaldo's Toy was formed in 1995 in Oakland, California and has established themselves as one of the best instrumental jazz ensembles of our time. With their 1997 debut release Icon, the band stretched ...

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Herb Alpert Joins Cream Of Remixer Crop For Rewhipped; Cool Remix Disc Revisits Best-Selling 1965 Classic

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2006

On March 7th Shout! Factory Releases Reinvention of Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Featuring Ozomatli, Thievery Corporation, Medeski Martin & Wood, and New Trumpet Solos from Alpert

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Legendary trumpeter, arranger, recording artist and music-industry trailblazer Herb Alpert has connected with a stellar crew of visionary remixers on Rewhipped, due March 7th on Shout! Factory. The 12-song collection serves up groovalicious takes on every track from Whipped Cream & Other Delights, the landmark, 4X GRAMMY-winning 1965 LP ...

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Free Track from Dave Phillips' Freedance Available at AAJ Download Center

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2006

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Quango Records to Release Gecko Turner's "Guapapasea" on March 7

Source: All About Jazz
January 7, 2006

Los Angeles, CA - Spanish singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist and visionary Gecko Turner is part of a new generation of musicians whose imagination is unfettered by imaginary boundaries. His omnivorous appetite for the groove is evident on every track of Guapapasea!, his stunning debut album. His unique blend of jazz, blues, samba, reggae, hip hop, rock, Spanish and Arab music with songs in English and Spanish is unlike anything you've ever heard, and yet there's something strangely familiar about it ...

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Eyran Katsenelenbogen 2006 "Solotude" CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2006

Boston, MA - Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Eyran Katsenelenbogen releases his eight CD, Solotude. A pun on Ellington's Solitude, the CD's title combines the words Solo and Etud and reflect the idea of Eyran's entire career being a life-long extended musical study in playing solo. Eyran's sound is highly original and remains loyal to the rich tradition of American jazz piano. Solotude features 17 jazz standards with distinctive arrangements that range from romantic-rhapsodic to intellectual-Monk style while encompassing bebop, swing ...

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Ubiquity to release The Bamboos' "Step It Up" on March 7

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2006

UBIQUITY “STEP IT UP" WITH A BRAND-NEW ALBUM FROM AUSTRALIAN FUNK OUTFIT THE BAMBOOS OUT MARCH 7, 2006

Step It Up by The Bamboos is the latest full-length from Tru Thoughts Records (to be released simultaneously in the US / Canada on Ubiquity Records), the UK-based label home to Quantic, Nostalgia 77 and 2005 Label of the Year Winner at the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards. Step It Up features two new songs with Quantic vocalist Alice Russell, including a driving ...

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