Recording News

Top Jazzmen Join Singer/Songwriter Marilyn Harris on New CD for Wrightwood Records

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2004

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Oliver Lake Steel Quartet Revisits Funky Island Groove with May 4th Release of "Dat Love"

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2004

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DJ Spooky 'Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix' June 22, 2004

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

To commemorate the thirtieth entry into the Blue Series catalogue, DJ Spooky has cooked up a very special new album. With the entire Blue Series spread out before him, Spooky has expertly sorted, sifted, chopped and recombined this vast amount of music into a shining new work that teases out the lines between jazz and hip-hop, and then obliterates those lines.

The result is “Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix," a no-holds-barred re-envisioning of some of the most visionary jazz ...

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New Releases From hatOLOGY

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2004

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hat(now)ART 147: BLOCK BEUYS RICHARD RIJNVOS (1964) Total time 77:30, DDD, Barcode: 752156014720. Ives Ensemble, Amsterdam In 1990 Richard Rijnvos was invited to the German city of Darmstadt to be a guest composer at the new music summer courses held there every two years. During a free moment he escaped from the courses and discovered one of Darmstadt's greatest treasures, the installation in the Hessisches Landesmuseum known as the 'Block ...

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Lafayette Gilchrist Signs With HYENA / Debut Album Available June 29th

Source: All About Jazz
April 8, 2004

His Debut Album, THE MUSIC ACCORDING TO LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST Set For Release on June 29th, 2004

New York, NY - The American jazz tradition has produced an array of legendary pianists/composers over the years whose larger-than-life names are perfectly suited for their superior talents: Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Bud Powell, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Horace Tapscott, to name but a few. Add to that list, Lafayette Gilchrist, the Baltimore-based artist who will make his national recording debut on ...

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David Becker Tribune Stretches In The Studio on 'Where

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2004

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Tucker Martine's Mount Analog Releases 'New Skin'

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2004

New Skin is the second full - length album from Seattle-based musician/producer Tucker Martine's Mount Analog collective. The first album was released in 1997 by the Bay Area's Pehr Label, and was compiled mostly of compositions Martine had made for a slow, dark Japanese dance form called Butoh. In the years since this first effort, Martine has become a highly sought-after producer and musician, and has worked on records by artists as accomplished and diverse as Jim White, Keith Lowe, ...

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Bassist-Composer Charnett Moffett Releases 'For the Love of Peace' on Piadrum Records

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2004

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