Recording News

Marsalis Music Launches Honors Series: Jimmy Cobb & Michael Carvin

Source: All About Jazz
November 18, 2005

MARSALIS MUSIC LAUNCHES HONORS SERIES WITH TWO LEGENDARY DRUMMERS

Jimmy Cobb and Michael Carvin are featured in Quartet Recording

Having established a commitment to documenting the music of emerging jazz artists, Marsalis Music now directs its focus to established, if often underappreciated, giants with a new Honors Series of recordings. Drummers Jimmy Cobb and Michael Carvin launch this ongoing project on March 7, 2006 with quartet discs produced by label head Branford Marsalis.

“We want to put the spotlight on ...

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Marley's Ghost taps Van Dyke Parks, R. Crumb on new album 'Spooked' out Feb. 21

Source: All About Jazz
November 18, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Since forming 20 years ago, Marley's Ghost has built a singular reputation among discerning roots-music lovers for its ultra-tight four-part harmonies, instrumental virtuosity and animated live performances. On Spooked, the band's eighth album, yet its first to receive a full-fledged national release (on Sage Arts Records through Ryko Distribution), Marley's Ghost creates a musically sophisticated, thematically rich piece of work that serves as a belated coming-out party for a band that deserves to be more widely ...

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Miles Davis - "The Cellar Door Sessions 1970" Release Date Set For December 27

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2005

LEGACY MEDIA RELATIONS Upcoming Releases December 27 Miles Davis The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Columbia/Legacy Jazz

Here is the Miles Davis collection that fans have most eagerly awaited. Previously available as a fraction of the music herein and only initially issued domestically (in edited form on the two-LP set, “Live Evil," “The Cellar Door Sessions 1970" was recorded December 16-19, 1970 at a club in Washington, D.C., where the great trumpeter-bandleader Davis ...

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CD Release: David Aaron's Short Memory-"Cynical Rat Bastard"

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2005

New Release David Aaron's Short Memory - Cynical Rat Bastard A decade after the release of his first album David Aaron presents Cynical Rat Bastard, the sixth in a cycle of eclectic jazz recordings that have tracked the saxophonist's progression from sonic experimentalist to singular composer and player. This latest album presents the most complete picture of the musician to date. As in the past the listener is invited to press an ear to the keyhole for a heavy dose ...

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Gemini Soul: Their first cyber-jazz CD titled, "A Cyber Jazz Holiday" will be released November 15, 2005 on the Pearl Jazz Recording Label.

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, 2005 - PEARL JAZZ Newswire Look for Gemini Soul's first cyber-jazz CD titled, “A Cyber Jazz Holiday" to be available via Internet and major retailers November 15, 2005. Ajamu Akinyele and Jon O'Bergh produced the entire CD. “A Cyber Jazz Holiday" captures the true essence of smooth jazz combining elements of jazz-fusion to put you in the holiday spirit all year round! GEMINI SOUL is a Cyber-Jazz group consisting mainly of recording artists Ajamu Akinyele, (Ah-jah-moo ...

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Jon Robert Quinn's JeRQ THIS! Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2005

Jon Robert Quinn's fourth CD Release is outstanding, providing intense, in-your-face instrumental rock. This CD provides 13 high-energy tracks that redefines Jon Robert Quinn's sound and abilities. “The Intimidator" provides 7 minutes of mayhem with a musical portrait of one of his heros, Dale Earnhardt Sr. This song provides the listener with glory, pride, pain, and victory, yet leaves more to brandish with the rest of the cd. “Believe" slows things down a bit with a sound from another galaxy. ...

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Free Download from Mel Bay Records & All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
November 14, 2005

The title track from Awakening, the first release from the Corey Christiansen Quartet and Mel Bay Records, is available as a free download through AllAboutJazz.com.

St. Louis, Missouri -- Awakening, the title track of the first CD from jazz-guitarist Corey Christiansen, is available as a free download at AllAboutJazz.com:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/jazzdownload.php?id=1055

The first release on Mel Bay Records, Awakening spent 12 weeks on the JazzWeek chart, reaching #16 on March 2, 2005. Corey composed the title track, which consistently receives the ...

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Blue Note To Release Hurricane Benefit CD From New Orleans Native & Icon Dr. John

Source: All About Jazz
November 8, 2005

Sippiana Hericane To Hit Stores November 22, 2005

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the storm passed but the situation worsened, Dr. John, the New Orleans native & musical icon, responded in the way he knows best: musically.

Dr. John and his band headed into a studio in upstate New York to record a seven-track EP dedicated to the Crescent City. Sippiana Hericane will be released by Blue Note Records on November 22nd, and all the proceeds from the ...

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