Recording News

Sunnyside Releases Roswell Rudd's & Toumani Diabate's MALIcool

Source: All About Jazz

In the late 20th century, jazz artists like Herbie Hancock, Jean-Luc Ponty, Hank Jones and Randy Weston have performed and recorded with West African musicians. Now, at the dawn of the 21st century, the legendary jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd joins forces with the great Malian kora master, Toumani Diabate on their groundbreaking new CD, MALIcool.

The project was recorded in Mali's bustling, Afro-Islamic capital, Bamako in 2001, after a successful concert in the city's French Cultural Center. Rudd's robust trombone ...

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Capitol Records, Jazz & Classics 2003 Release Schedule

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Electronica Pioneer Jean Michel Jarre Returns With "Sessions 2000," His First North American Release In Five Years

Source: All About Jazz

To anyone with more than a passing interest in the history of popular music, Jean Michel Jarre is one of the pioneering musical greats. With his 1976 album, the groundbreaking Oxygene, he took popular music into an entirely new realm, one that hadn't existed before his arrival. Using the studio as an instrument an 8-track tape machine, a Mellotron, a home organ, crude home-made sequencers and a range of analogue synthesizers Jarre created the first truly commercial, mass-market album of ...

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DJ Spooky's DUBTOMETRY set for March 18, 2003

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Bermejo Joins Other Prominent Female Artists on Respond II Compilation

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Eighty-Eight's/Columbia Release 4 New CDs!

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Prominent Canadian Jazz Flutist Has New Release

Source: All About Jazz

Bill McBirnie (Featuring Mark Eisenman & The Trio) “Nature Boy"

After contributing as a sideman to a wide range of recordings (including works by Junior Mance, Memo Acevedo, Irakere and Da) and, in addition, after producing his own more recent Extreme Flute projects, the illustrious Canadian flutist, Bill McBirnie, is now cast in a straight-ahead acoustic jazz setting.

This first recording under his own name teams Bill up with one of the most formidable rhythm sections in Canada--if not the ...

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WINTER: An Origin Records Holiday Collection (Origin 82408)

Source: All About Jazz

Some of the top jazz artists in the Northwest (and prominent voices in the Origin Records catalog), gathered together in early November to record music in celebration of the season. Combining old holiday favorites like “Let it Snow," “Greensleeves," and “O' Christmas Tree" with more reflective, ancient pieces such as “Coventry Carol," and “Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming," and modern originals by guitarist Dave Peterson, “Winter" is a contemplative, lively, smooth-flowing mix for year 'round listening. Featuring Han Teuber ...

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