Recording News

The Bird You Never Heard

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2005

July 31, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Uptown Jazz Records is pleased to announce….New! Rare!...Never-Before-Heard-Rare Recording… Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (UPCD 27.51) http://uptownjazz.net/ This previously unknown concert recording from 1945 of one of the greatest groups in jazz history, the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Charlie Parker, exceeds the listener's lofty expectations. First, the quality of the music is at the highest level of inspiration, ...

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Love the Islands? You'll love this song by Sally Borzillo

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2005

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American Trombonist/Composer Darran Kramer records with Jazz Saxophone Legend Michael Brecker

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2005

“IN THE NOW” - The highly anticipated, 3rd CD release from Darren Kramer is available now and features world-renowned saxophonists MICHAEL BRECKER, RICK MARGITZA and ERIC MARIENTHAL. This stunning new recording presents Kramer performing 70+min of spectacular Funk, R&B, Jazz, Fusion, Latin & World Music…a “must have" for any trombone fan! All music and lyrics are written and arranged by award-winning composer/trombonist Darren Kramer. This exciting CD actually begins with a slow crescendo of Kramer's trombone enhanced by his innovative ...

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Blue Note to Release Newly-Discovered Recording of Monk & Coltrane in 1957 Concert at Carnegie Hall

Source: All About Jazz
July 26, 2005

On September 27th, Blue Note Records, in conjunction with Thelonious Records, will release Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, a never-before-heard jazz classic that documents one of the most historically important working bands in the history of the music, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of ...

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New CD Release from John Beasley: One Live Night

Source: All About Jazz
July 26, 2005

What happens when Ralph Moore (tenor sax), Dave Carpenter (electric bass), Gary Novak (drums), Carlos Del Puerto (acoustic bass), Kevin Richard (chekere, tambourine) and John Beasley (Fender Rhodes, CPU) get together in L.A.'s Baked Potato? One Live Night of on-the-spot jazz that dares the listener's boundaries and borders. From Wayne Shorter's “Parapheralia" to Beasley's own compositions such as You Should Know, Galaha and the groovy Less Mister Yes. And it doesn't really hit ya until you realize there's no guitar ...

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Anthony Braxton (+ Duke Ellington) Concept Of Freedom, hatOLOGY 614

Source: All About Jazz
July 26, 2005

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Brian Mulholland Releases New CD, Touring w/Ferguson in September

Source: All About Jazz
July 24, 2005

Independent artist and electric bassist, Brian Mulholland, has released his first full-length CD entitled Deco on the McKinley Records label.

Mulholland, originally from Anderson, South Carolina, will be bassist for jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and Big Bop Nouveau for their fall national tour. The tour will begin on September 23 in Stillwater, OK, at the Seretean Center.

A graduate of the University of North Texas (M.M., 2005), Mulholland was the Jazz Bass and Jazz Theory Teaching Fellow in 2004, teaching ...

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CD Release Party at Mutual Musicians Foundation

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “New Africa Suite might be his most focused and passionate musical statement yet. All the music is original: The writing, ranging from the deep ballad “Salaam, Shalom, Peace” to the funky “Beneath Where Rivers Flow,” is consistently good, and the playing is even better... The last tune, “The Jannah Now,” is perhaps the most memorable thing that Alaadeen has written yet. The title refers to building a little bit of heaven on earth, ...

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