Recording News

Blind Arvella Gray's Only Album to Be Reissued on CD with Bonus Cuts to Inaugurate New Conjuroo Recordings Label

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

BLIND ARVELLA GRAY’S ONLY ALBUM TO BE REISSUED ON CD WITH BONUS TRACKS, UNSEEN PHOTOS AND DELUXE PACKAGING, WILL KICK OFF NEW CONJUROO RECORDINGS LABEL

National Steel Guitar-Playing Chicago Street Singer Was Urban Link to Field Hollers and Folk Blues

SHERMAN OAKS, CA — The only album by Blind Arvella Gray, a nearly forgotten street singer who spent the latter part of his life performing folk, blues and gospel music at Chicago’s Maxwell Street flea market and at rapid-transit depots, ...

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Umbrella Recordings Releases Carrie Shull/Tara Flandreau/Reuben Radding – "The Branch Will Not Break"

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

New York bassist Reuben Radding who made a critical splash in 2003 with the gorgeous and haunting Luminesence, on AUM Fidelity (a collection of duets with altoist Daniel Carter), is back with a new CD, The Branch Will Not Break (UMR030), with Carrie Shull on oboe and English horn, and violist Tara Flandreau, now available on Umbrella Recordings. This collection of eleven chamber improvisations is stunningly evocative, and inventive, inhabiting a unique space somewhere between contemporary classical music and free ...

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Jazz Vocalist Robin Aleman To Release Debut CD August 8th

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

August 8, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] JAZZ VOCALIST ROBIN ALEMAN TO RELEASE DEBUT CD AUGUST 8TH NYC based vocal jazz artist Robin Aleman will release her debut CD on Monday, August 8th, 2005. The CD, entitled Tonight, features some of the best young talent in the scene today: David Epstein on piano, Bob Sabin on bass and Peter Retzlaff on drums. Also playing is guitarist Pete Smith, featured on 2 of the ...

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Blossom Dearie Opening the Vaults of Daffodil Records!

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2005

Cabaret/Vocal/Piano Jazz Fans will be pleased to hear that Blossom Dearie has begun to reissue her back catalog produced on her label Daffodil Records. Starting with “Blossom's Own Treasures" a two disc, 33 song compilation of every song she has written followed by “Blossom Dearie 1975" her most requested album(vinyl copies routinely sold for upwards of $250.00 in second hand stores)and “Winchester In Apple Blossom time her vocal/piano only album. For more information or to take advantage of sale prices ...

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Ulf Wakenius new ACT recording artist

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2005

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Grammy-Nominated Jazz Vocalist Nnenna Freelon releases tribute to Lady Day” on her 6th Concord release

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

Blueprint of a Lady – Sketches of Billie Holiday in stores August 23 “No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way with music, or it’s not music.” — Billie Holiday Traditional tribute albums normally feature one artist paying tribute to another in an attempt to evoke their legendary forebear. But when Nnenna Freelon set her vocal sights on songs associated with Billie Holiday, she determined that she wanted to emulate the spirit, rather than ...

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George Russell to Release New 2-CD Set of Live Music

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2005

Media Contact: Scott Menhinick, Improvised Communications (617) 489-6561 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 4, 2005 BOSTON, MA -- Legendary composer/bandleader and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master George Russell is proud to announce the October 18th release of his new live concert recording, The 80th Birthday Concert (Concept Publishing). This 2-CD set, recorded in June 2003, documents the highlights of his 80th birthday performances ...

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13 Year Old Jazz Pianist, Kne-O’chaw Hampton Is Releasing Her New CD “From Deep In My Soul” On Sale on Cdbaby.com

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2005

13 year old jazz pianist, Kne-O’chaw Hampton is releasing her new cd “From Deep In My Soul”, on sale now on Cdbaby.com. She is releasing the cd on her own label “Kne-O' Sound Production. This will be Kne-O’chaw’s second full-length cd. The first one ““The Other Side of Town”, is available for sale at Tower Records, Borders and The Music Factory. (PRWEB) June 15, 2005 -- Kne-O'Chaw is a female jazz pianist and student attending the Levitt Visual and Performing ...

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