Recording News

British Jazz Singer & Songwriter, Juliet Kelly, Returns With A Luscious New Album

Source: All About Jazz
October 30, 2005

"Soulful, dignified, somewhat Cleo Laine-like..." THE GUARDIAN (UK)

“a real jazz sensibility, depth in the writing, a band that doesn't mind stretching out and a little intensity; rare and welcome weapons in today's jazz vocalists' often limited armoury."JAZZ AT RONNIE SCOTT'S MAGAZINE (UK)

“A young Londoner with film star looks, Juliet Kelly serves up a good first recording that begs for listening by adherents of jazz and pop-jazz." DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE (US)

Dan Papirany - New live video clips

Source: All About Jazz
October 29, 2005

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Hank Jones Joins John Patitucci and Jack DeJohnette for ‘S Wonderful on 441 Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 28, 2005

441 RECORDS announces the release of ‘S WONDERFUL by The Great Jazz Trio on October 25, 2005. The Great Jazz Trio is pianist Hank Jones, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The album is a nine-track suite of jazz standards and songbook repertoire recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City in June 2004. The session was recorded live to 2-track in Direct Stream Digital format to yield the highest quality recording possible. ‘S WONDERFUL is the 28th release ...

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Jazz Vocalist Allan Harris' Cross That River Experience on ArtistShare

Source: All About Jazz
October 28, 2005

Love Productions 700 Riverside Dr., #6C New York, NY 10031 Jazz Vocalist Allan Harris Announces The Launch of the Cross That River Experience on ArtistShare: Jazz Meets Country Jazz vocalist Allan Harris has recently completed the first ten songs in a musical trilogy entitled “Cross That River." It features songs he's written that are at times poignant reflections on life as a slave and other times joyful expressions of freedom and compassion. Harris takes his listeners on a musical journey ...

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Coltrane Still Has Steam: New Live Set Storms Jazz Chart

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2005

By Chris Morris Hollywood Reporter

In a surprising development, saxophone trailblazer John Coltrane accounted for two of the top three jazz albums last week, 38 years after his death.

The two-CD Impulse! set One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note entered at No. 3 on Billboard's top jazz albums chart for the week of Oct. 29. Sitting at No. 2 was Blue Note's recently released album by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with Coltrane, At ...

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Gerry Mulligan: The Complete Verve Gerry Mulligan Concert Band

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

Gerry Mulligan searched a dozen years to find this sound, and finally achieved it: The Verve Concert Jazz Band Sessions.

In many ways, Mulligan’s “Concert Jazz Band” recordings from 1960 to 1962 were the culmination of ideas that began forming in the late 1940s when he was writing for big bands, and for the Birth of the Cool sessions led by Miles Davis. He loved the richness of big band instrumentation. But not the heaviness. He liked the fleeter feel ...

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Manuel Mengis : Into The Barn on Hatology 627

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 · Into The Barn Manuel Mengis–trumpet, Achim Escher–alto saxophone Christoph Erb–tenor saxophone, Flo Stoffner–electric quitar Marcel Stalder–electric bass and Linonel Friedli–drums New release on Hatology 627

Born in the Swiss canton Wallis in 1972, trumpeter and part-time mountain guide Mengis probably is virtually unknown to most people. It thus comesas a surprise that his first release is for a label that has not pledgeditself to promote and encourage ...

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David Liebman : The Distance Runner on Hatology 628

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

David Liebman : The Distance Runner David Liebman solo live Willisau Festival 2004 New release on Hatology 628

Here’s Dave Liebman with his saxophones and a wooden flute in his very first concert of unaccompanied solos. It didn’t happen until his fourth decade as a working jazz artist, even though he had recorded four solo albums down through theyears. Once again we hear his brilliant sound and technique, and there are his devotion to spontaneity combined ...

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