Recording News

Beta Monkey Music Releases Jazz Essentials: Acoustic Drum Loops and Samples for Traditional Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jazz Essentials: Acoustic Drum Loops and Samples for Traditional Jazz It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing! As the first release in Beta Monkey Music's Signature Series, the new Jazz Essentials offers authentic and expressive drum loops for traditional jazz. The royalty-free collection features more than 400 loops in pure and true detail, covering authentic jazz phrasing from a cool and relaxed 100 bpm, a blistering bop at 325 bpm and all points ...

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Guitarist Gene Ess "Sandbox and Sanctum" New album release.

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

“Sandbox and Sanctum” is Ess’s latest work. It is a series of eight (8) original compositions tied together into a song cycle for quartet. The music takes us through an audio journey of all things innocently joyful and sacred in our lives. The performance on this album is filled with individual fire and collective coherence. The album features master bassist Harvie S, along with expressive drummer Gene Jackson and Grammy nominated, Donny McCaslin. Both McCaslin and Jackson add their prodigious ...

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Karmyn Tyler now on i tunes

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

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Lafayette Gilchrist Heads 'Towards the Shining Path' on HYENA Records

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

"Imagine pianist Billy Preston in the FBI witness protection program; he hides out in the Washington, D.C. go-go scene and then the jazz underground; he invents an unlikely pseudonym to go with his new style: a sort of twisted, funky, neo-juke-joint avant-gut-bucket." - W. Kim Heron, Detroit Metro Times

“This Baltimore jazz pianist is young enough to root his improvisations in funk rhythms rather than swing, but he's smart enough to give those muscular grooves real melodies and ...

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Blossom Dearie's Winchester In Apple Blossom Time is now available for pre-order

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

"Winchester In Apple Blossom Time" the sought after 1977 recording from Blossom Dearie's label Daffodil Records will be available in two weeks. www.DaffodilRecords.comnow has the album available for pre-ordering. Special sale prices on all CDs are in effect(including this one) Through the first week of September! Songs include: winchester in apple blossom time spring can really hang you up the most a wonderful guy touch the hand of love a jazz musician surrey with the fringe on top love is ...

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New compositions from Marco Esu...

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

New compositions from Marco Esu... In this 2005 Marco Esu (www.marcoesu.com) presenter his new compositions, the style is different in every composition and you can listen classic music as jazz or others styles like Flamenco and rock. The site that publish the mp3s are www.vitaminic.it (www.vitaminic.com etc... etc...) and any person can have a different link or page for his nation, exsample: http://stage.vitaminic.co.uk/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.it/marco_esu/ http://stage.vitaminic.de/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.nl/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.dk/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.com/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.ie/marco_esu/ If you will make a download or listen the songs, it ...

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Music for the Soul raises money for Susan G Komen breast cancer research

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

Music for the Soul Cd can be purchased at www.gmgstudios.com Producer harpist Gloria Galante has been on this crusade to fight breast cancer since 1998. Her dearest friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and is now a cancer survivor of 7 years. Today, Gloria is the harp teacher for her friend's therapeutic recovery. This cd features the professional harp pioneers of the therapeutic harp field. It has raised awareness and money for breast cancer research. To find out more about ...

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Deborah Weisz Quintet's Grace Coming September 27th

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2005

NEW YORK, NY -- On September 27th, the Deborah Weisz Quintet will release its second CD, Grace (Va Wah 002), featuring special guest, chromatic harmonica player/composer Olivier Ker Ourio. Led by veteran trombonist/composer Deborah Weisz, this longstanding New York-based ensemble includes tenor saxophonist/flautist Andrew Sterman, guitarist Sheryl Bailey, bassist Nicki Parrott and drummer Eric Halvorson. Grace, the long-awaited follow-up to 1997's Breaking Up, Breaking Out (Va Wah 001), is dedicated to Ms. Weisz's late brother Will, and features her original ...

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