Recording News

482 Music Releases Courage & Robert Creeley - "The Way Out Is Via The Door" On July 16

Source: All About Jazz

CHICAGO, IL -- 482 Music will release The Way Out Is Via the Door, a new disc by the trio Courage, who accompany poet Robert Creeley in readings of his verse.

Courage is drummer Chris Massey, sax / reed player John Mills and bassist Steve Swallow. The Way Out is Via The Door is a beautifully realized recording of intimate, creative jazz conversation.

Robert Creeley is one of America's greatest living poets; he was the link between the Beat poets ...

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Dreyfus Jazz Set to Release Birdology Collection

Source: All About Jazz

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Audubon Jazz Explosion Adds Heat to "Summertime" with New CD

Source: All About Jazz

Audubon, Pa., June 27, 2002 - “Summertime" sizzles with the release of the Audubon Jazz Explosion's second CD. Titled “Summertime," the CD features classic big band and jazz numbers originally performed by the Count Basie Orchestra, Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd and the Buddy Rich Orchestra.

The CD goes on sale at the AJE's July 3 concert in Southampton, Pa., and is available for purchase at all the band's summer concerts, and online at www.jazzexplosion.com). “Summertime" will also be ...

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Mosaic Records Set To Release The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Sessions

Source: All About Jazz

Mosaic Records is proud to announce the release of The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Sessions, the first collection in 40 years dedicated exclusively to these often overlooked pioneers. This outstanding 8-CD set sheds new light on violinist Venuti and guitarist Lang, two boyhood friends who became jazz' first full-fledged stars on their respective instruments.

In similar fashion to two other recent Mosaic sets The Complete Okeh & Brunswick Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and Jack Teagarden ...

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Indigo Invention Group Announces Debut CD and Release Party

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Groovewell Records Releases Ghetto Love Sugar's The Uncertainty Principle

Source: All About Jazz

This recording represents an uncharted journey, one that took six musicians into the nether regions that might, in retrospect, be defined as funk, art rock, electronica, psychedelia, the avant garde and jazz.

The circumstances: A collaboration between Florida-based Ghetto Love Sugar (bassist Philip Booth, guitarist Joel Lisi, drummer Jonathan Priest, and keyboardist Raulton Reichel) and two fast-rising New York musicians - trumpeter/sample master Jonathan Powell and saxophonist/clarinetist Jeremy Powell.

The setting: A beautiful wooden courtyard, inside a studio nestled among ...

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Celebrated Guitarist Bill Frisell to Release The Willies On Nonesuch Records June 11

Source: All About Jazz

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Justin Time Records Announces the Release of Spirituals & Dedications, a Collective Jazz Album in Celebration of the Traditional Hymn

Source: All About Jazz

Spirituals & Dedications reflects influences both temporal and cosmic. This leaderless, collective album unites the Toronto-based flutist-saxophonist, Jane Bunnett, with friends old and new: husband-producer Larry Cramer, on trumpet; the influential and underrated pianist Stanley Cowell; Dewey Redman, the legendary avant-garde saxophonist; the expressive vocalist Dean Bowman, who helped spark Bunnett's wonderful Ritmo + Soul album of 2000; Canadian bassist Kieran Owens, who has worked with Bunnett and Cramer off and on since 1990; and drummer Mark McLean, the newest ...

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