Recording News

"Meridies," 5th CD by Pianist/Composer Dan Cray, Due March 20 on Origin Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 5, 2012

Pianist/composer Dan Cray's first four CDs—trio recordings featuring his Chicago-based threesome of bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Greg Wyser-Pratte—built their repertoires around enticing cover versions of standards and jazz classics. Now with Cray's bold new disc, Meridies, due out March 20 on Origin Records, the Chicago-area native has expanded his trio—here with Sommers and drummer Mark Ferber—to a quartet that includes the well-regarded young tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger. And the program now spotlights mostly Cray originals, with only two covers. ...

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Brian Auger Releases Solo Album, "Language Of The Heart"

Source: Phil Bunch
March 5, 2012

Legendary British keyboardist Brian Auger has released one of the few solo albums of his distinguished career, which has spanned over fifty years. Language of the Heart (Ghostown Records) contains seven new original songs, with guest artists including guitarists Jeff “Skunk" Baxter and Julian Coryell. Produced by Tea, the album features Auger's vocals and lyrics, and as always, his prodigious keyboard talent. The famed Hammond B3 organist has created a distinct voice that combines jazz, rock, soul and funk, clearly ...

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New Hartmut Hillmann Band album rooted in both German folk and American jazz

Source: Lauren Rogers
March 5, 2012

At one point in time, the relentlessly percolating bass lines of Hartmut Hillmann defied categorization. So Hillmann started referring to it as “urban folk funk." It did not go over well. “That irritated critics and record companies so I stopped doing it," Hillmann revealed. An acclaimed six-string bass guitarist, Hillmann's distinct style is rooted both in German folk music and iconoclastic American jazz artists such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. That international and generational mishmash fuels the frenzied energy ...

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The dB's Set to Release First CD in 30 Years with Original Lineup

Source: conqueroo
March 5, 2012

Falling Off the Sky is the first new dB's album in a quarter-century. It's also the first in three decades to feature the band's original lineup of singer/songwriter/guitarists Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, bassist Gene Holder and drummer Will Rigby—the same lineup that recorded the beloved early-'80s classics Stands for deciBels and Repercussion. Street date is set for June 12, 2012 on Bar/None Records.

The North Carolina-via-New York foursome's vintage releases are now widely revered as alt-pop landmarks. Falling Off ...

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New Tab Benoit Compilation from Telarc/Concord Coming April 3

Source: conqueroo
March 4, 2012

In a career of more than two decades, blues guitarist/vocalist Tab Benoit has generated an impressive body of work—every note of it rooted in the rich and centuries-old musical and cultural traditions of his native Louisiana. While his earliest recordings and performances may have established him as a genuine blues musician, his ever-expanding body of work has become even more resonant in the years since Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath in 2005. Through his environmental advocacy work with Voice ...

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Award-Winning Janiva Magness to Release "Stronger For It" March 13

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 4, 2012

On March 13, Alligator Records will release Stronger For It, the powerful and stunning new release from award-winning vocalist (and songwriter) Janiva Magness. Magness is among the premier blues and R&B singers in the world today. Her voice possesses an earthy, raw honesty born from her life experience. Through her passionate vocals and, for the first time, through her own original songs, Magness, with Stronger For It, delivers the most moving and intimate album of her career.

Produced by Dave ...

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Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Source: Han-earl Park
March 2, 2012

Released by Creative Sources Recordings: Numbers (CS 201 CD), a duo album by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white- knuckle extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of "Poetry Of Earth" from Anne Mette Iversen

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
March 3, 2012

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of Poetry Of Earth from Anne Mette Iversen Poetry by Grøn, Keats, Housman, Hardy & others Poetry of Earth features: Anne Mette Iversen (acoustic bass, compositions), Maria Neckam, Christine Skou (vocals), Dan Tepfer (piano), John Ellis (ten. saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet & flute) CD Release Concerts for Poetry of Earth: March 15, 8:30 PM: The Cornelia Street Café, NYC March 17, 4:00 PM: Special concert & discussion with Ms. Iversen @ The Danish ...

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