Recording News

Mosaic Select 20: Charles Tolliver on Mosaic Records

Source: All About Jazz
November 4, 2005

“Musically, the question on the table for Tolliver's generation at the dawn of Strata-East's inception was deciding what parts of bebop tradition remained visible in an age set on fire by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra. As can be heard on this and his other Strata-East releases, Tolliver's Music Inc group proposed clear answers to such questions, with meaty and melodious playing that celebrated the classical virtues of swing, virtuosity and the unbridled expressionism and spontaneity ...

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Mosaic Select 19: Pacific Jazz Piano Trios on Mosaic Records

Source: All About Jazz
November 4, 2005

Featuring Russ Freeman, Richard Twardzick, Jimmy Rowles and Clare Fischer

“I think you will find it advantageous to give these performances repeated listening. His facile imagination demands close attention. Dick Twardzik said of his own playing: 'Development is not my primary consideration. The ability to project ever-changing emotions or moods, plus rhythmic freedom, is far more important to me.' - Russ Freeman, 1956, original liner notes"

This set reinstates a number of important piano recordings made for Pacific Jazz (and ...

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New CD Release "No Soap Radio" from Barry Romberg's Random Access

Source: All About Jazz
November 4, 2005

Romhog Records is proud to bring you its 8th release, “NO SOAP RADIO", Barry Romberg's Random Access, Part 4. This is the latest installment & fourth in the Random Access series from the man who brought you The MRC Trio & Inside Out. The Random Access project 2005 National Jazz Award Nominee for Best Electric Group has evolved from a studio experiment into a killer live band. This latest cd features some of Canada's finest musicians: Hugh Marsh (violin), Kevin ...

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Keith Javors Joins ArtistShare For His Latest Recording, "Free"

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

November 3, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Keith Javors Joins ArtistShare For His Latest Recording, “Free" Philadelphia, PA. (October 31, 2005) - Having recently joined the Philadelphia music community, acclaimed jazz pianist/composer/ educator Keith Javors has recently joined artists Maria Schneider, Jim Hall, Jane Ira Bloom, Billy Childs, and others on the ArtistShare roster (www.artistshare.net) for the creation of his latest recording entitled “Free". The project, which can ...

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TONIC Vintage Vocals Releases Christmas CD "It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Man Swings"

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

PREMIERE VOCAL JAZZ QUARTET RELEASES CHRISTMAS CD November 3, 2005 (Chicago, IL) -- TONIC Vintage Vocals, Chicago's premiere vintage vocal jazz quartet, have released their second CD “It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Man Swings". The highly anticipated new album is a Christmas swingfest dedicated to the Jolly Old Elf himself. “It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Man Swings" is 12 swank cuts of hip holiday fun. Solid 4-part jazz vocals blend a new brand of yuletide cheer on snazzy ...

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Michel Lambert's Le Passant Coming December 6th

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) -- Jazz from Rant is proud to announce the December 6th release of drummer/composer Michel Lambert's latest recording, Le Passant (rant 0529). Funded in part by the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, Le Passant introduces Lambert's five-movement work of the same name, which features saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, violinist Malcolm Goldstein and bassist Dominic Duval improvising with Lambert and a 10-piece orchestra led by conductor Dave Martin. The orchestra ...

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Miss Max Records Announces New PT Gazell CD, "Swingin' Easy... Hittin' Hard"

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

Kingston Springs, TN PT Gazell has created a stunning new disc, Swingin Easy...Hittin Hard, that mixes elements of Jazz, Western Swing and Standard American Popular Music into a captivating collection of pure joy. From the first note, PT announces his intention to keep your toes tapping, your head boppin and your smile firmly in place. He achieves these lofty goals on the most common of instruments, the diatonic harmonica. He explores places with this deceptively difficult little instrument in ways ...

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Jazz Flutist - Bill McBirnie - New CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
October 30, 2005

- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact Information: Bill McBirnie (416) 652-1541 [email protected] The Bill McBirnie Duo/Quartet (Featuring Bernie Senensky, Neil Swainson & John Sumner) Paco Paco After contributing as a sideman to a wide range of recordings (including works by Junior Mance, Memo Acevedo, Irakere, Cache as well as his own earlier Extreme Flute projects), flutist Bill McBirnie swings and sparkles once again in a straight-ahead acoustic jazz setting. This recording sets Bill alongside one of Canada’s foremost jazz pianists, ...

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