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.
Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: "Year of the Tiger" a Reason to Celebrate
Source:
Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Fred Ho's Green Monster Big Band is something else, no doubt about it. Take some of the hottest players around (Bobby Zankel, Salim Washington, Stanton Davis, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and on from there), put together wacky but convincing big band charts covering everything from “The Johnny Quest Theme," Michael Jackson, Hendrix, interesting original charts, what sounds like Chinese social realism, all with a seriousness that at the same time has a kind of irony that typically is part ...
Continue
Reading...
Nick Hempton - The Business (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Source:
Music and More by Tim Niland
Nick Hempton is a straight-up mainstream saxophonist and leader who plays in a very confident manner and has a very appealing musical tone. On this album, he is joined by Art Hirahara on piano, Marco Panascia on bass, and Dan Aran on drums. Yotam Silberstein sits in on guitar for a few tracks. The group plays an appealing mix of standards and originals beginning with the medium up-tempo “Flapjacks In Belo" featuring some strong and assured saxophone leading the way, ...
Continue
Reading...
John Martyn Tribute Album: David Gray, Beck, Phil Collins
Source:
JamBase
THE CURE'S ROBERT SMITH, VETIVER, SNOW PATROL, BETH ORTON, MORCHEEBA, AND MORE ALSO FEATURED In the late '60s, the late British guitarist and songwriter John Martyn broke ground by leaping from acoustic folk into highly successful experiments with tape delay, wild recording scenarios, and jazz-inspired arrangements. He became a cult figure among British musicians. A list of his admirers reads like a who's-who of rock, pop, and even trip hop: Eric Clapton, The Band's Levon Helm, Lee “Scratch" Perry, The ...
Continue
Reading...
John Daversa: Junk Wagon
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
You know how I'm always carping that jazz doesn't push hard enough to get to the next level? And you know how you email me to ask what exactly I have in mind to illustrate my point? Two words: John Daversa. His first studio CD, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album is positively fascinating. Unlike many big band outings today that tend to be experimental and tough to chew on for the non-musician, Daversa's new album is an ambitious merging ...
Continue
Reading...
Boston-Based Trumpeter/Composer Daniel Rosenthal Debuts with "Lines," Sept. 13
Source:
Terri Hinte Publicity
Boston-based trumpeter and composer Daniel Rosenthal is a fresh, imaginative new name on the contemporary acoustic jazz scene. His debut CD, Lines, is set for September 13 release on his American Melody Records label. Rosenthal was mentored by legendary saxophonist Steve Lacy while studying at the New England Conservatory of Music, and is the son of acclaimed bluegrass singer/songwriter and string player Phil Rosenthal. He is an artist with a unique, engaging vision and is the latest rising jazz star ...
Continue
Reading...
CIRCA: Featuring Former YES Members Tony Kaye and Billy Sherwood Release New CD "And So On"
Source:
Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA—Prog fans across the globe are buzzing with excitement about the new CD release by CIRCA: featuring former YES members Tony Kaye and Billy Sherwood. 'And So On' is the 4th release from the innovative progressive rock ensemble and currently available at the band's official website www.circahq.com Along with veteran YES rockers Tony Kaye (keyboards) and Billy Sherwood (guitar, vocals), CIRCA: features Johnny Bruhns on guitar and Ronnie Ciago on drums. “Although the album was not written as ...
Continue
Reading...
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond (Blue Note, 1963)
Source:
Music and More by Tim Niland
During the mid-to-late 1960's, alto saxophonist and composer Jackie McLean cut a number of recordings with a rotating cast of fellow instrumentalists that had one foot squarely in the bebop and hard-bop camp, and and the other foot searching and probing for what lay with the freedom expressed by the likes of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. What is so fascinating about this music, and McLean's music to follow during the next few years is that he is pioneering “Free-Bop" ...
Continue
Reading...
Dar Williams - The Beauty of the Rain (2003)
Source:
Something Else!
By Mark Saleski One day back in 1996, I was on my way to work and heard this terrific song ... about a kid playing in the backyard? Refusing to wear a shirt? Huh?! It's a girl? What the hell?! This turned out to be “When I Was A Boy" from Dar Williams' The Honestly Room. The song was played at the beginning of a set on a local college radio station (thank you WERS) ... so after arriving at ...
Continue
Reading...
Trending
Award / Grant
How Can Album Notes Compete For A Grammy Nomination?
Recording
Saxophonist David Ehrlin And Guitarist Neff Irizarry...
Recording
Jelly Roll Morton - 'New Orleans Joys: The Earliest...
Recording
Blue Bottle Coffee Debuts Notes In Repose, A...
TV / Film
Mark Isham: The Voice Within Premieres October 11 On...
Recording
Blind Blues Guitarist Joey Stuckey Readies 'King Of...
Recording
What Happened To The American Dream?
VOTE!
