Recording News

Alaadeen's "New Africa Suite" CD Now Available at CD Baby

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KANSAS CITY USA -- The brand new release by Alaadeen, titled: “New Africa Suite", is now available for preview and secure online purchase of the manufactured product at his CD Baby store site. Alaadeen's CD Baby Artist Page contains sample clips of each selection from the CD, a convenient ordering interface, and there is a 10% discount on orders of 2 or more copies of “New Africa Suite". Below are some of the ...

Continue Reading...

Jazz guitarist Ken Wessel on new Donald Fagen album

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2005

Randy from the Music History Site:

“A few weeks back, I posted that a friend of a friend -- who happens to be a jazz guitarist -- was invited to participate in the sessions for the new Donald Fagen album. As promised, here are the sordid details:

My friend Steve (who among other things, works for WFMU / 91.1FM here in the tri-state area) was in NYC visiting his friends, Kenny Wessel and his wife Diana. Wessel is a jazz ...

Continue Reading...

Billy Martin of Medeski Martin and Wood Releases Socket on Amulet Records ; Live Collaboration Featuring Eyvind Kang, Min Xiao Fen, Cyro Baptista +

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2005

New York, NY: With raging distortion, polyphonic-cacophony and speaking in tongues, NYCs downtown luminaries lead by Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin and Wood) channel the mad spirits in front of a live audience. Two nights distilled and concentrated into one seriously potent mix of heaven and hell. May these sonic witchdoctors cure what ails, chase the dragons and cast spells on your world. Socket, produced by Billy Martin, was recorded live to 2 track at Tonic (NYC), January 14-15, 2005. Released ...

Continue Reading...

Alto Saxophonist Sherman Irby Shows His Faith in Music On His Second Release For Black Warrior Records

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2005

Alto saxophonist / composer Sherman Irby not only adheres to the grand tradition of Jazz but also provides a means to understanding, healing and the spirit of hope and optimism that are essential to human potential. Sherman's new album, Faith (to be released on July 12), places this message in the forefront. In his own words, “Faith is my personal testament to the things I love about great music. Challenging music, passion, compassion, experience and daring are all rolled up ...

Continue Reading...

Tim Ries & Famous Friends Jazz Up Hits on "The Rolling Stones Project"

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2005

Stones Members Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ron Wood Lend Support to New Recording

In Stores August 9, CD Also Features Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Brian Blade, Bill Frisell, John Patitucci, John Scofield, & Luciana Souza, Among Others

“I thought what Tim recorded was amazing, and I'm sort of jealous of him. When we wrote those songs, there was a lot of pressure on us to keep them as short as possible for the singles market. With what Tim does, ...

Continue Reading...

Sarah Manning On Artist Share

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

July 8, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Sarah Manning On Artist Share July 8th, 2005: While all eyes are on New York, Bay Area jazz artist Sarah Manning has been quietly emerging on the national jazz scene - with a sound all her own. According to Nat Hentoff, the twenty something alto saxophonist and composer “can swing as naturally as she breathes…an enlivening presence in the new generation of jazz makers. Manning plays ...

Continue Reading...

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra New Album Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

Not In Our Name, stands as a musical manifesto for the disaffection many people in America and all over the world feel about the manner in which the present administration is conducting its affairs both at home and in the global arena. The material on Not In Our Name comes strictly from American composers. As Haden explained, “There was a necessity that I felt to play music from American composers in protest to what’s going on, to make a statement ...

Continue Reading...

Blue Note to Release Newly-Discovered Monk & Coltrane Recording

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2005

On September 27th, Blue Note Records will release Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall, a never-before-heard jazz classic that documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of jazz history, 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 America for a later radio ...

Continue Reading...