Recording News

Andrew Sterman's Album "Wet Paint:" Tenor and Ensemble in a Post-Trane Present

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
September 1, 2011

Tenor jazzman Andrew Sterman, judging from his pleasingly melifluous album Wet Paint (Innova 771), works out of a post-Coltrane, Ornette-Coleman-via-Dewey-Redman, Jan Garbarek (more in the lower register though) inspiration to a music that is well balanced, lyrical and a leap into a place within that stylistic world. This has a sort of ECM-extroverted feel to it. The band is good: Sterman on tenor and a little alto flute plus Nick Rossi, piano, Kermit Driscoll, contrabass, and Tim Horner, drums. They ...

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George Lernis Jazz Quartet - Shapes of Nature (2011)

Source: Something Else!
September 1, 2011

An ambitious debut featuring seven original titles, George Lernis' Shapes of Nature is a great new example of how Tony Williams' legacy continues to play out in jazz. The former Miles Davis band prodigy spent his career exploring the rhythmic complexities first hinted at by bebop, and that journey continues here. Lernis, a Cyprus-born and Boston-based percussionist and composer, is joined by bassist Mark Zaleski, pianist Lefteris Kordis and saxophonist Scott Boni. Together, they begin—appropriately—with a stunning, form-shifting rewrite of ...

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Okkyung Lee - Noisy Love Songs (Tzadik, 2011) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
September 1, 2011

Korean cellist Okkyung Lee is one of those musicians who is not only comfortable in any genre—modern jazz, rock or classical—but in her own compositions she even goes beyond genres, not blending them, but defying them. The musicians who accompany her on this album attest to that: Cornelius Dufallo on violin, Peter Evans on trumpet, Craig Taborn on piano, Satoshi Takeishi on percussion and electronics, and Christopher Tordini on bass. Ikue Mori and John Hollenbeck join on one track—"Steely Morning"—on ...

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Cecilia Wennerstrom releases CD in her new band Explicity

Source: Cecilia Wennerstrom
September 1, 2011

Cecilia Wennerstrom has started the free jazz project Wennerström Larsson Explicity together with her husband Sven Larsson. Sven played with Rolf Ericson in the 60s and 70s, with Sender Freies Berlin Big Band in the 70s and then as a regular member of the Swedish Radio Jazz Group until the mid-80s. He has been the first-call bass trombonist in Sweden for nearly forty years. Both Sven and Cecilia have been recording for Four Leaf Clover but now have their own ...

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SFJAZZ Announces Release of "SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011" - Season 8

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
August 31, 2011

SFJAZZ today announced the release of the SFJAZZ Collective's eight limited-edition set, SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011 — Season 8, of which a maximum of 5,000 copies will be produced. Available exclusively from SFJAZZ—presenter of this year's 29th San Francisco Jazz Festival, running September 15 through December 18—the deluxe, hand-numbered 3-CD set is the definitive recording of this all-star jazz ensemble's eighth year. Recorded live April 30-May 3, 2011 at famed ...

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GPS2: "Orange Afternoons" - Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, Marcus Gilmore

Source: Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
August 31, 2011

New music for a special quintet, GPS2: Orange Afternoons with Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, and Marcus Gilmore. Tracklist:

The Gulf 9:01Valori Bollati 7:22Solato 8:18Orologi 11:38Orange Afternoons 8:24Frontier Justice 4:13

Orange Afternoons is the second volume in the Greenleaf Portable Series. The GPS is a nod to the shorter, more informal sessions that were for many years the backbone of jazz recording. The series also explores new formats for music to be released and distributed, as well ...

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Gaby Moreno "Illustrated Songs"

Source: Samuel Karr
August 31, 2011

This Guatemalan-Born/Los Angeles-based artist Is already a winner of the John Lennon Songwriting contest and has toured with Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, Nouvelle Vague and Van Dyke Parks. She Has Had Songs Featured On TV Shows Such as MTV's “The Hills," CBS' “The Ghost Whisperer" And Received An EMMY NOMINATION As Co-Composer of The Theme For NBC's “Parks & Recreation." Now, Gaby Moreno is Winning Strong Praise From NPR, iTunes, Rhapsody & Many More For Her Just Released Bilingual Album ...

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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues - Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

Source: 1888 Media
August 31, 2011

Reprise Records Presents Highlights From The Duo's Unprecedented, Sold-Out Jazz at Lincoln Center Performances; Also Features Special Guest Appearance By Taj Mahal Available September 13 On CD And CD/DVD LOS ANGELES—New York City's premier jazz venue got the blues last April when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collaboration, billed as Wynton Marsalis & Eric ...

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