Recording News

Maria Muldaur - Peggy Lee Tribute: "A Woman Alone with the Blues"

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2003

Maria Muldaur pays respect to the great Peggy Lee, with an album devoted to 12 of her great songs, most of which were written by Lee herself. For the last forty years, Maria has been performing Peggy Lee's classic, “Fever" and with her fourth solo album on Telarc, A Woman Alone with the Blues, Maria delves into Ms. Lee's catalogue with A Woman Alone With The Blues.

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Concord Records Releases "Peter Cincotti" On March 11, 2003

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2003

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Palmetto Releases Imaginative Drummer MATT WILSON

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2003

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Latin Cool Records: On the Move

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2003

Latin Cool Records is fast becoming the hottest new Latin label of the year.

Just a few months old, Latin Cool has distinguished itself by throwing a highly successful record release party at the world-famous Birdland night club, featuring Larry Harlow and his Latin Jazz Encounter.

Harlow's Live At Birdland has just been released and is selling very well. Demetrios Kastaris' Latin Jazz Coalition CD also doing very nicely for the label.

February release includes Andrea Brachfeld's Phoenix Rising. Also, ...

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Songlines Releases "Alight" by Safa

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2003

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Saxophonist Stefano Di Battista Salutes Rome in His Latest Blue Note Effort: "'Round About Roma"

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2003

For many jazz fans, Stefano Di Battista will always be associated with the city of Paris, where he became a regular performer at The Sunset in the mid-1990s. From there, the alto and soprano saxophonist became a valuable sideman (to the late piano great Michel Petrucciani and later, drummer Elvin Jones) before launching his own solo career. On Round About Roma, his third date for Blue Note, Di Battista keeps the lush romance of the City of Lights alive and ...

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Ubiquity Records to Release the Sophomore Effort of Chris Brann's P'taah Project, "Staring at the Sun" on March 18, 2003

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2003

“Ideally the music can be a source of transformation that can convert the mundane to the spiritual." - Chris Brann

Ubiquity Recordings is proud to release Staring at The Sun - the sophomore release from Chris Brann's P'taah collective which follows the critically acclaimed debut 'Compressed Light' and remix set 'Decompressed Light'.

Featuring the appropriately dazzling breakout single (and title track) Staring At The Sun, P'Taah's sophomore release soars beyond the densely theoretical convolutions of 'Compressed Light', creating delicious soundscapes ...

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Blue Note Records Announces the February 11, 2003 Release of "The Grand Unification Theory"

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2003

A monumental new work from vibraphonist/composer Stefon Harris

The Grand Unification Theory is a 12-movement concert-length jazz suite composed and arranged by Stefon Harris and performed by a 12-piece ensemble, which swings and sobs while it tells an epic story of life and death.

“...the progress in Harris' work and ideas that has taken place over the last few years simply affirms the original view of him as one of the significant jazz players (and, now, composers) of the new ...

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