Recording News

Hitmaker Paul Brown Signs With GRP Records

Source: All About Jazz
October 9, 2003

Peerless smooth jazz producer to make debut recording under his own name in February

Hitmaker Paul Brown has signed to GRP Records, the leading contemporary jazz label for over twenty years. Brown, who has produced 38 #1 hits on Radio & Records' Smooth Jazz chart, has never before put out a recording under his own name. He will release Up Front, his GRP Records debut, in February 2004.

Ron Goldstein, President & CEO of The Verve Music Group, commented on ...

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Mark A. Walker Releases "Forever Yours"

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Mark A. Walker, whose artistry on bass has been heard on the Grammy, Stellar, and Dove award winning recordings of master pianist/composer Richard Smallwood, Shirley Caesar, Vickie Winans, and Yolanda Adams, stepped out of the background with the release of his debut CD “Forever Yours". At Washington, DCs trendy Zanzibar On the Waterfront, patrons had the pleasure of celebrating with Mark at a pre-release concert on July 28. Co-produced by Los Angeles based keyboardist/writer Tim Carmon (who includes Eric Clapton ...

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Blue Note Records To Issue Never-Before Released Andrew Hill Session

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Blue Note Records To Issue Never-Before Released 1969 Nonet Session From Composer-Pianist Andrew Hill As Part Of Their Ongoing Connoisseur Series

Other titles to be released on October 7th include lesser-known gems from Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Sam Rivers, Charlie Rouse and Larry Young

As evidence that great music doesn't get stale but instead improves with age, the Blue Note Connoisseur Series releases Passing Ships, a never-before issued little-big band album by composer-pianist Andrew Hill, along with five restorations of ...

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Tony Malaby's 'Apparitions' on Songlines Set for October 14th Release

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Tony Malaby, tenor & soprano saxophone Tom Rainey, drums Michael Sarin, drums & percussion Drew Gress, acoustic bass

New York saxophonist Tony Malaby's Mexican-American background and experience playing both inside and outside bring a subtly different flavor to his second record as leader. Apparitions is even more open and exploratory than his debut, Sabino (which made the NY Times' and Philadelphia City Paper's top ten jazz lists for 2000). The process began a couple ...

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Blue Note Records Inks Deal with Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Al Green

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2003

On November 18, 2003, Blue Note Records will release I Can't Stop, the new album by Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and towering soul music figure Al Green. The album was recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, TN, the same studio that gave birth to Green's unprecedented string of hits in the 1970's; a string that earned Green worldwide acclaim, and record sales in excess of 20 million copies.

I Can't Stop marks both a new chapter and an ...

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Burt Bacharach And Ron Isley Pair For CD Out November 11th

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2003

LOS ANGELES, CA - Legendary R&B vocalist Ronald Isley and distinguished producer songwriter Burt Bacharach and have teamed to create an impeccably recorded landmark collection due for release on DreamWorks Records on November 11th.

Produced by Bacharach and co-produced by Isley, the as-yet-untitled album was recorded in Hollywood in July of this year, with Isley singing before a 40+piece orchestra conducted by Bacharach during three extraordinary sessions in Capitol Records Studios A and B, the very rooms where historic albums ...

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Ellis Hooks To Release

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2003

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Garrison Fewell's 'Red Door Number 11' Hits the Streets Today!

Source: All About Jazz
October 7, 2003

Garrison Fewell Quartet Red Door Number 11 Splasc(H) Records H857.2 North American Street Date: October 7th, 2003 Distributed in North America by NorthCountry Distributors

Garrison Fewell :: guitar/composer George Cables :: piano/composer Attilio Zanchi :: bass/composer Gianni Cazzola :: drums

Guitarist/composer Garrison Fewell's sixth recording utilizes the warm analog sound of the legendary Barigozzi Studio in Milan, Italy, where many of the classic Black Saint and ...

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