Recording News

Music Of The Jazz Masters And Classic Herman Leonard Photos Combine For A Can't Miss Double Disc Musical Anthology

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2003

The unparalleled art form of jazz is best defined by the musical legacies of its master artists. But a small handful of individuals have made their own meaningful contributions by capturing its essence in photographs, providing a visual accompaniment to jazz' amazing historical soundtrack.

No photographer has better captured the music's creators than the brilliant Herman Leonard, whose breathtaking portraits make the extraordinary Gravity Limited/Innerhythmic collection Jazz Memories, an absolute essential for collectors and newcomers alike. This deluxe companion package ...

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Luv N' Haight to Release

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2003

November 2, 2003

On this first volume of Bay Area Funk (Luv N' Haight), 16 tracks represent the best of the infamous Bay Area scene, ranging from the boogaloo and shing-a-ling sound of Marvin Holmes and the Uptights to the psychedelic funk-jazz of P-I-R-Square. The compilation covers the period from 1967 to 1976 and is packed with music from the key originators and characters including a 12-year-old Little Denice produced by blues legend Jimmy McCracklin, rhythm and blues hero Rodger ...

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Saxophonist Miguel Zen

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2003

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Bassist Michael Henderson and other Miles Davis Alumni Join Forces in Children on the Corner - Their Debut Live Recording 'Rebirth' on Sonance Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2003

Following a rash of acclaimed digitally re-mastered reissues on the Columbia/Legacy label, a new wave of interest has been sparked in Miles Davis' most volatile and controversial period, the electrified '70s. Now -- 30 or so years after the fact -- a number of respected Miles alumni have joined forces to recreate and reinterpret this intensely visceral and highly provocative groove-oriented, rock-tinged jazz. Billed as Children On The Corner (a sly reference to Miles' groundbreaking 1972 studio recording, On The ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel's Latest 'Heartcore' on Verve Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2003

Kurt Rosenwinkel could be forgiven for sticking to straight jazz. After all, since vibraphonist Gary Burton plucked him out of the Berklee School of Music in 1991, the 32-year-old guitarist has toured and recorded with some of the great names in the field, including Joe Henderson, Paul Motian and Joe Lovano. He has appeared on over fifty records with dozens of artists, and is mentioned in the same breath as groundbreaking guitarists Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell and John Scofield. 

But ...

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Ram

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2003

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The Origin of Jaco Pastorius and His Music Revealed in Landmark Release

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2003

Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S. -- Holiday Park Records announces the long-awaited release of a two-CD boxed set of early recordings by legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius titled Portrait of Jaco - The Early Years. Over ten years in the making and against all odds, a teenage friend of Jaco's from their early years together on the South Florida music scene has transformed his personal collection of raw, live recordings of Jaco into a comprehensive “audio biography." This exclusive early years anthology ...

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Ian Shaw releases A World Still Turning on 441 Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2003

441 Records are both pleased and honored to present to you the new release by IAN SHAW, A World Still Turning.

Shaw is a soul singer in the best sense of that term. There is truth and life in his voice, and he conveys the emotional resonance of a song every bit as well as he shapes and contours the original melodies with his personal brand of phrasing. Shaw possesses the musicality, articulation, harmonic sophistication and supple sense of rhythm ...

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