Recording News

Guitar Maestro Lloyd Gregory's "Gentle Warrior" CD Is Slamming It Up The Jazz Radio Airplay Charts

Source: Diane Hadley
January 14, 2012

The New Year finds award winning jazz guitarist, composer Lloyd Gregory’s CD, Gentle Warrior, surging up the jazz indie and radio airplay charts with its first single “Haiti.” January 9, 2012, Gentle Warrior jumped from 79 to 46 on the “SmoothJazz.com Current Top 50 Indie Chart.” It moved from 23 to 18 on the “SmoothJazz.com Radar Chart.” The album is on jazz icon Stanley Clarke’s new label, Roxboro Entertainment Group, which is distributed by Bungalo Records division of Universal Music ...

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Sunjump Records Announces New CD Release By Sangeeta Michael Berardi

Source: John Esposito
January 12, 2012

SUNJUMP RECORDS ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASE FOR 2012 Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Calling Coltrane Sangeeta Michael Berardi, Guitar James Finn, Tenor Sax, Flute John Esposito, Piano Hilliard Greene, Bass Peter O'Brien, Drums The second part of the 1996 Studio session that yielded Sangeeta Michael Berardi's Earthship reveals more of this under-recorded, highly original guitarist. Recorded at Nevessa Studio, Woostock, NY by Ted Orr and remastered by Scott Petito at NRS Studio, Catskill, ...

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Liftoff to Release "Sunday Morning Airplay" January 17 on Fort Knox Recordings

Source: Press Junkie PR
January 12, 2012

Fort Knox Recordings presents Sunday Morning Airplay the debut album from Liftoff. On this new record, Liftoff takes flight on a blissed-out journey drenched in acid-soaked melodies and 808 beats. Escape into the void and join them on their infinite quest for endless summers and higher states. Featuring 13 songs for the new flower power generation, Liftoff invites you to sing along to their psychedelic campfire songs amidst strawberry fields and marshmeadows.

Guitar/Singer/Songwriter Steven Albert (Fort Knox Five and Thunderball ...

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New Jersey country artist Moot Davis Delivers Man About Town; enlists Grand Ole Opry star/Outlaw Country Sirius XM host Elizabeth Cook and Kenny Vaughan

Source: conqueroo
January 11, 2012

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—From Auckland to Austin to Nashville, New Jersey-based country musician Moot Davis took quite a journey to make his third CD, Man About Town, but it was certainly worth it. Davis describes his new release as the one he likes the most because “it wasn't altered to suit anybody's tastes but mine." Moot Davis burst onto the country music scene in the mid-2000s. With his self-titled debut, Davis delivered a set of timeless honky tonk that brought comparisons ...

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Soul-Jazz Saxophonist Reinhold Schwarzwald Rides "Sunset" onto the Wave

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
January 12, 2012

Single produced by Grammy nominee Patrice Rushen in rotation at influential Los Angeles radio station Pacific Palisades, CA: A collaboration with a pair of Grammy nominated artists ushered the amorous title track to soul-jazz saxophonist Reinhold Schwarzwald's Sunset album onto the radio waves of influential Los Angeles radio station 94.7 KTWV The Wave. The kissing on the beach or by the fireplace—ballad written by the international saxman was produced by keyboardist Patrice Rushen and includes fretwork from guitarist Doc Powell. ...

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Novalima's "Karimba" Out January 31 on ESL

Source: Press Junkie PR
January 11, 2012

ESL Music announced it would release the 3rd full-length album of Novalima, titled Karimba, on January 31, 2012. This collective based out of Lima Peru brings together Afro-Peruvian roots music with modern electronic, dub, and afro-beat. The founders of Novalima, Ramon Perez-Prieto, Grimaldo Del Solar, Rafael Morales, and Carlos Li Carrillo, became friends while in high school in Lima. Since that time they have created a recipe to take Peruvian roots music into the future. Karimba takes the listener on ...

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Joe Louis Walker's "Hellfire" Set for January 31 Release

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 11, 2012

On January 31, Alligator Records will release Joe Louis Walker's Hellfire. Hellfire was produced by songwriter/drummer Tom Hambridge (producer of Buddy Guy's two most recent Grammy-winning CDs, Skin Deep and Living Proof, as well as albums for Susan Tedeschi, George Thorogood and others), From the psychedelic overtones of the title track (a harrowing and personal tale of the struggle of good versus evil) to the slow, simmering and pleading “What's It Worth" to the Stones-y rocker “Ride All Night," Hellfire ...

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Spain's Progressive Rock Legends Kotebel To Release Highly Anticipated New CD 'Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble'

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 11, 2012

Madrid, Spain—With five albums released since 2000, including the highly acclaimed 'Omphalos' (nominated for 'Best Foreign Record' by ProgAwards in 2006) and 'Ouroboros' (Winner—'Best Foreign Record' by ProgAwards in 2009), Kotebel is one of the main progressive rock acts to emerge from Spain and Latin America. And now, much to the anticipation of prog fans across the globe, Kotebel is preparing to release their 6th album 'Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble.' “The main body of the album is formed ...

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