Recording News

Adventure Music To Release New Moacir Santos Recording On October 18

Source: All About Jazz
September 13, 2005

Choros & Alegria Features Guest Appearance By Wynton Marsalis

A highlight of Adventure Music’s fall release schedule will be the newly recorded Moacir Santos: Choros & Alegria, which features Wynton Marsalis, along with many of Brazil’s most respected instrumentalists performing twelve never-before recorded compositions from Santos, one of the country’s most influential composers and arrangers. Recorded this year in Rio and Sao Paulo, and produced under Santos’ direct supervision by Mario Adnet and Ze’ Nogueira, who last collaborated with Santos ...

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BET Jazz and Concord Music Group Partner on New Projects

Source: All About Jazz
September 13, 2005

BET Jazz and Concord Music Group Partner on Projects Featuring Vocalist Nnenna Freelon and the Label's “Next Generation" of Jazz Artists - Erin Boheme, Christian Scott and Taylor Eigsti

BET Jazz and the Concord Music Group announce programming and promotional plans for five-time Grammy® nominee Nnenna Freelon and three of the label's newly signed jazz artists, Erin Boheme, Christian Scott and Taylor Eigsti.

Ms. Freelon will be the subject of a 30-minute special to debut on Tuesday, September 20 (1:30PM, ...

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The Katrina Disaster Relief by Michael White & Leisei Chen

Source: All About Jazz
September 13, 2005

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Buy the Jazz Boxx CD from Susan Getz and 100% Susan's sales go to The American Red Cross

Source: All About Jazz
September 13, 2005

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Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson, Daniel Humair-"Jazz Trio" Art of Life Records AL1017-2 CD Reissue

Source: All About Jazz
September 12, 2005

Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson, Daniel Humair-"Jazz Trio" Art of Life Records AL1017-2 CD Originally recorded at Fontana Studios in Milan, Italy in January 1972 and subsequently released on the Italian Dire label on LP the same year. Art of Life Records is proud to make this long out-of-print recording available on CD for the first time ever! The 8-page CD booklet includes the original album cover artwork, photos and liner notes exactly as they appear on the original ...

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Vandermark 5 new double-CD The Color of Memory out 9/13

Source: All About Jazz
September 11, 2005

---> The Vandermark 5 ---> “The Color of Memory" Double-CD (Atavistic) ---> Release Date: September 13, 2005

On this, their first studio double-album (released on Chicago's stalwart Atavistic label), the band once again raises the bar for improvised and exploratory musics. Continuing to abandon tradition, The Vandermark 5 unleash an album which truly sets them apart from any other working band today, jazz or otherwise.

“The Color of Memory" is comprised of material developed ...

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New Africa Suite now at iTunes

Source: All About Jazz
September 11, 2005

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Jack DeJohnette Does Electronica: 'Hybrids' by The Ripple Effect

Source: All About Jazz
September 9, 2005

Jack DeJohnette’s imprint Golden Beams Productions Goes Electronic with the introduction of A new group — The Ripple Effect — and the group’s debut album Hybrids

Master Drummer Jack DeJohnette Breaks Ground with Jazz-inspired Electronica

With 50 years of drumming behind him, innovative jazz pioneer Jack DeJohnette introduces Hybrids, the debut album by The Ripple Effect, his latest collaborative project to be released on his own Golden Beams Productions on October 4, 2005. Featuring seven interpretations of previously recorded material ...

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