Recording News

Dave Allen's 'Untold Stories", new on Fresh Sound New Talent

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2005

Press release: Dave Allen “Untold Stories” Fresh Sound New Talent Contact: [email protected] The Dave Allen Quartet brings together some of the best young talent that New York City has to offer. Their debut recording, Untold Stories, documents a well-crafted group sound rarely found in music today. These compositions are brought to life by the musician’s subtlety and virtuosity. Saxophonist Seamus Blake is one of the most respected players of his generation and brings a vibrant and poetic sensibility to the ...

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New Dave Douglas Website up and running: WWW.GREENLEAFMUSIC.COM

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2005

KEYSTONE – DAVE DOUGLAS’ DualDisc HOMAGE TO ROSCOE ARBUCKLE TO BE RELEASED BY GREENLEAF MUSIC ***NEW WWW.GREENLEAFMUSIC.COM SITE IS UP AND RUNNING!!!*** ***Available exclusively at www.greenleafmusic.com on September 20, 2005*** ***Dave Douglas and Keystone will embark on an international tour on Saturday, October 1, 2005 at the Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Greenleaf Music proudly announces the September 20, 2005 release of trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas’ new studio recording, Keystone, the follow up recording to the ...

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Michaël Attias' Renku Coming Aug. 30th on Playscape

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2005

LONGMEADOW, MA -- On August 30th, Playscape Recordings will release Renku (PSR#080504), the debut recording from New York-based saxophonist/composer Michaël Attias' two-year old working trio of the same name, featuring bassist John Hebert and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. Named after a style of Japanese linked poetry, this trio documents an intense but intricate and diversely cultivated sound befitting both its name and the eclectic background of its leader, an Israeli-born son of Moroccan parents who was raised in Paris and the ...

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Grammy-Nominated Jazz Vocalist Nnenna Freelon releases tribute to

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2005

GRAMMY®-Nominated Jazz Vocalist Nnenna Freelon Pays Tribute to “Lady Day" on her 6th Concord release 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 ...

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Praise for LaGringa's U.S.D.A.*Blues

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2005

LaGringa from Weather Outpost 12 has been hearing some incredible feedback on her latest release “U.S.D.A.*Blues - it don't smell funny yet!" The lastest comes from BARRY MANILOW's drummer and percussionist, DAVID ROZENBLATT... “...will, on every level, stupefy any living breathing musician." Step aside Ewa Podels with your 5 octave range and make room for one of the most unique voices and remarkably captivating story tellers I have heard for a long, long time. Her feats of vocal virtuosity and ...

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Jazz Vocalist Robin Aleman To Release Debut CD August 8th

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

August 1, 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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"Village The Unfretted" : Fretless Guitar Double Disc On-Sale NOW

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

Unfretted Records presents the definitive Fretless Guitar Double CD Compilation entitled “Village Of The Unfretted" from The World’s Fretless Guitarists, on sale Summer 2005 at www.unfretted.com & www.cdbaby.com . “Village of the Unfretted” firmly puts the Fretless Guitar on the map and the following artists, from 16 countries, have contributed; Tim Donahue, Dave FUZE Fiuczynski, Yan Vagh, Ned Evett, Bumblefoot (Ron Thal), Elliot Sharp, Franck Vigroux, Andrzej Izdebski, Tom Baker, Yannick Robert, Ratko Zjaca, Michael ATONAL Vick, Sándor Szabó, Erik ...

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Linn Records Announce New Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett Album

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

Linn Records are delighted to announce the release of CLAIRE MARTIN and RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT When Lights Are Low Linn AKD 260: Hybrid Super Audio multichannel CD Produced by Richard Cottle Release date, Monday September 5th, 2005

Tracklisting: • My One And Only • I Was a Little Too Lonely • My Mood Is You • World Weary • When Lights Are Low • Fools Fall In Love ...

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