Recording News

3D launches its first Latin album "Ritmo de Vida"

Source: All About Jazz
September 9, 2005

September 9, 2005 – 3D launches its first complete Latin album titled RITMO DE VIDA. The album features singer Herman Olivera, trumpeter Ray Vega and Grammy Award winning pianist Oscar Hernandez. RITMO DE VIDA is a vibrant production with 10 songs balancing vocals and instrumentals with a refreshing and original sound, presenting salsa, boleros, socarengue, Latin jazz and frocuno. Drummer Michael Tate and guitarist Chris Amelar are the founding members of the band, and even though they are Americans, both ...

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Soma Records Launches Sci-Fi-Hi-Fi Series

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2005

SCOTLAND-BASED SOMA RECORDS UNVEILS NEW DJ MIX SERIES - SCI-FI-HI-FI. FIRST VOLUME MIXED BY EWAN PEARSON TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 4, 2005

The label that launched the careers of artists like Daft Punk and H-Foundation is set to launch Sci-Fi-Hi-Fi, a new series that brings together visionary producers and DJ's to present a sonic snapshot of their craft. The artists have no parameters to their selection and are free to represent themselves in any style they choose, portraying influences past, ...

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Abstracts, a new CD by Jacob Garchik

Source: All About Jazz
September 6, 2005

Announcing Abstracts, a new album on Yestereve Records by trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik. He is a member of the critically acclaimed Lee Konitz New Nonet, which recently recorded live at the Jazz Standard. He also plays with the Steve Swallow/Ohad Talmor sextet, the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Slavic Soul Party, and many others. He is as comfortable and experienced playing duets with Lee Konitz as he is freely improvising with Joe Maneri, working with ...

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Fantasy Jazz News - Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

Source: All About Jazz
September 6, 2005

By any measure, BILL EVANS’s Riverside albums Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby are two of the most significant and beloved jazz recordings of all time. Both were recorded at the New York club on a single day--June 25, 1961--and featured the superlative Evans trio of bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, which had met in the studio on two earlier occasions (December 1959, February ’61). The Vanguard dates were to be their last; LaFaro was ...

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Jazz Baby CDs: Star-studded Artist Lineup Retools Jazz Styles for Young Listeners

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2005

Don't Mean A Thing If Kids Don't Got That Swing

Assembling a top-drawer roster of artists from the worlds of music, film, television and theater, Casablanca Kids in conjunction with Flying South Productions (a California-based production company) is offering children an entertaining introduction to the sophisticated arrangements and advanced rhythmic concepts of jazz music in the new Jazz Baby series of compact discs. The first three volumes in the series are set for national release in the U.S. on September ...

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National Debut Release by Former ¡Cubanísmo! Bandleader and Pianist, Nachito Herrera, BEMBÉ EN MI CASA

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

“This album is a wonderland of musica cubana and a must if you love the piano stylings of Peruchin, Lili Martinez and Frank Emilio Flynn, other pianists with the candela (flame) to turn ice into water." - Jesse “Chuy" Varela, Latin Beat

In the past decade, Cuba reminded the world once again, as it has done frequently since the rumba rage of the 1930s and the mambo era of the post World War II years, that this small ...

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New Omar Sosa CD Release "Ballads"

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2005

We are pleased to announce the release of Omar Sosa's new CD Ballads on September 13, 2005, distributed in the United States by Harmonia Mundi. Please also see below for Omar's upcoming tour schedule.

Ballads is available now directly from Omar Sosa's website at www.melodia.com/order.php. And worldwide distribution information is available at www.melodia.com/dist.php.

While Omar Sosa is often lauded for his high-energy, percussive piano style, he has also a profound sense of expression in the delicate, lyrical realm. In this ...

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New CD From James Jabbo Ware and The Me We & Them Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

Media Contact: Scott Menhinick, Improvised Communications (617) 489-6561 [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 31, 2005

JAMES JABBO WARE AND THE ME WE & THEM ORCHESTRA TO RELEASE NEW CD NEW YORK -- Y'All of New York, Inc. is proud to announce the October 4th release of Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington (Y'All 005), the latest release from James Jabbo Ware and The Me We & Them Orchestra. Recorded in July 2001, ...

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