Recording News

Legend Von Freeman Played with Bird, Pres & Hawk: NEW CD withJimmy Cobb July 13

Source: All About Jazz
June 24, 2004

Saxophonist VON FREEMAN Honors Three Greats He Played With - Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young & Charlie Parker - on The Great Divide (July 13, 2004) Third for Premonition Records Continues 81-year-old's Streak of Terrific CDs & Reunites Him After 30 Years with First Drummer He Recorded With, Jimmy Cobb Debuts New CD at New Apartment Lounge, July 13 The saga of Von Freeman is an implausible story. An iconic Chicago saxophonist, Freeman has played with the greats including Lester Young, ...

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Just Jazz launches debut album

Source: All About Jazz
June 24, 2004

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L'Esprit Manouche 2003 CD Due to be Released Shortly

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2004

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Introducing Jazz Moods: Sony Legacy's New Lifestyle Music Line

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

Jazz is hot. Jazz is cool. And jazz perfectly captures the mood at midnight.

Now, Legacy Recordings has captured all three dominant feelings of jazz in a new series, Jazz Moods, in stores June 15th, featuring 12 of the most important improvising artists of the past half century.

Under the banner of Cool there are the great trumpeter-innovator Miles Davis, the time-juggling pianist-composer Dave Brubeck, the superb multi-saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. and the tenor saxophone giant Stan Getz.

Representing jazz's ...

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Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordins Of Miles Davis 1963-1964

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

Miles Davis And The Coming Of The Second Great Quintet

Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 Traces Creation Of His '60s Group With Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, And Tony Williams

7-CD Box Set Includes Entire Seven Steps To Heaven Sessions And Unedited Miles Davis In Europe Antibes Fest Date

Plus: NY Philharmonic Hall Concert Restored To Original Sequence; Full Miles In Tokyo And Miles In Berlin Dates, Never Available In U.S. Catalog Until Now ...

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Composer Aaron Zigman Adds Another Credit to his "Notebook"

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2004

(Hollywood, CA) Film music composer / producer / arranger Aaron Zigman scores New Line Cinema's romantic drama The Notebook [film release date June 25th, 2004. Soundtrack available on New Line Records]. The film is Zigman's second project with the director Nick Cassavettes. He previously worked with the director on the critically acclaimed drama John Q, starring Denzel Washington. Aaron Zigman is rapidly establishing a glowing reputation for his exquisite, lyrical and highly evocative scores.

Zigman's score contain the classical elements ...

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e.s.t. -- 'Seven Days of Falling' to be Released August 24 on 215 Records

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2004

"No other group in the world have such a commanding interaction between the grooves of 21st-Century dance and the acoustic jazz-piano tradition." -- The London Times

With a cult reputation now firmly secured, e.s.t. have established themselves as one of the most exciting jazz trios in the world. Seven Days Of Falling, their eagerly anticipated new album, will now finally get its stateside release August 24th on 215 Records. And at a time when the jazz piano trio ...

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Vocalist Jackie Allen's 'Love Is Blue' Now Available on A440 Music Group

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2004

Love is Blue is Jackie Allen's follow-up recording to her critically acclaimed A440 Music Group debut The Men In My Life and further captures the vibe and mood which only Jackie Allen is capable of evoking. For this project, Allen has chosen to focus on the darker side of that most powerful of human relations, love. Hence the project's title, Love Is Blue, an evocative statement that implies as many yearnings and questions as love itself. An appropriate proclamation for ...

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