Home » Jazz News

Recording News

Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.

Recording

Rush: Live CD/DVD

Source: JamBase
September 24, 2011

TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND OUT ON CD AND DVD/BLU-RAY NOVEMBER 8 Legendary rock band Rush have announced details for the first offerings through their recently announced partnership with Roadrunner Records. On November 8, Anthem/Roadrunner will simultaneously release a two-disc live album entitled Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland. Captured in April at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena during the renowned trio's extensive Time Machine World Tour, Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland marks the band's first live album recorded ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

UK Composer Marvin Ayres Celebrates New Release "Harmogram Suite"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
September 23, 2011

London, UK—'Harmogram Suite' the major new work from composer, cellist, pianist and violinist Marvin Ayres is to be released on November 14, 2011 on the UK independent 'Burning Shed.' He will be performing Oct 1st 2011 at the Curve in Norwich UK as part of their 'Sound and Vision' Festival. With 'Harmogram Suite' Marvin takes his listeners on a hugely emotional and dramatic journey in a musical piece written in six movements. The groundbreaking conceptual work has been recorded as ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

Jeff Marx's Tenor and Jeff "Siege" Siegel's Drums in Duo "Dreamstuff"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
September 23, 2011

Jeff Marx plays a solid Post-Trane tenor in ways not entirely typical of some of the players out there. There is the passionate sound but there are lines he comes up with that aren't stock-in-trade contemporary tenorizing. “Siege" Siegel is a drummer that you can hear swinging along on a lot of sessions. Their duo disk Dreamstuff (Ayler Download Series aylDL-070) has been out a few years but is no less interesting for it. One invariably thinks of the Trane-Ali ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

Yellow Dubmarine - Abbey Dub (2011)

Source: Something Else!
September 23, 2011

When I first got a hold of this CD I gotta admit, I greeted it with a lot of skepticism. Another Beatles covers project? I mean, I think every single Beatles song short of “Revolution No. 9" has been covered at least once, if not a million times. But wait, one might say, “these are all reggae covers." No, that's been done before, too. Probably since the dawn of reggae itself. “Yeah, but this is also dedicated to covering only ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

Tony Levin, David Torn and Alan White - Levin Torn White (2011)

Source: Something Else!
September 23, 2011

By Tom Johnson Something keeps pulling guitarist David Torn and bassist Tony Levin together. It's a partnership that blossomed with 1987's Cloud About Mercury, with drummer Bill Bruford and trumpeter Mark Isham, and, for what seemed like an eternity to fans, felt as if it might be a one-off project. In a way, it was. The two would return together in the late 1990s, along with Bruford, with Chris Botti taking Isham's place, this time as Bruford Levin Upper Extremities. ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

Mocean Worker: New Album, Free MP3

Source: JamBase
September 23, 2011

NEW ALBUM CANDYGRAM FOR MOWO! OUT SEPT 27 Candygram For Mowo!, the sixth studio album by Mocean Worker spills over with 13 irresistible electro funk jams. Songwriter, producer, bassist and re-mixer Adam Dorn, the mind behind Mocean Worker, invited a handful of his friends into the studio to record over a collection of breaks and beats he'd compiled. With blowing sessions in hand from the likes of Lyrics Born, Steven Bernstein, Bill Frisell, Mindi Abair, Charlie Hunter, John Ellis and ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

Willie Nile's "The Innocent Ones" Will Finally See Light of Day in U.S.

Source: conqueroo
September 22, 2011

The album, widely acclaimed in Europe, was co-produced by Nile, collaborator Frankie Lee, noted producer Stewart Lerman and Eagles/Rosanne Cash guitarist Steuart Smith. NEW YORK, N.Y.—"This is as good a record as I've ever made," Willie Nile says of his new release The Innocent Ones. That's saying a lot, considering the amount of indispensable music that the tenacious New Yorker has produced over his long and eventful career. The CD, which long eluded the American market except as an import ...

Continue Reading...

Recording

Lonely Crow Records presents: Jon Crowley's "At the Edge"

Source: Jon Crowley
September 22, 2011

Lonely Crow Records is proud to announce its first release: forward-thinking trumpeter Jon Crowley's second album, At the Edge. This recording establishes Crowley not only as an artistic force on the rise, but one who is constantly looking to evolve, explore and innovate. While his first release, Connections, was a modern jazz straight-ahead album, At the Edge sees Crowley experimenting more, combining elements of classical minimalism ( la Steve Reich) and indie rock rhythms with jazz improvisation. Crowley never loses ...

Continue Reading...