Recording News

Rich Halley Quartet - Requiem for a Pit Viper (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 1, 2011

Last year we introduced a really good avanteer to this site in Rich Halley, a lively and imaginative saxophonist and composer who would probably be more of a household name if he were in Chicago or New York instead of Portland, Oregon. Or played in a world-renowned venue like the Village Vanguard instead of Potter Valley, California. But Halley lives where he wants to live and plays what he wants to play, which is out jazz. And thankfully so, because ...

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Armen Nalbandian to release new trio album with Nasheet Waits and Eric Revis, and duet album with Han Bennink on August 23rd

Source: Blacksmith Brother
August 1, 2011

On August 23rd, pianist/composer Armen Nalbandian will release two new recordings via his label Blacksmith Brother Music. The first being a live recording with drummer Han Bennink from January 2008 entitled Coup de Grace. The second being a follow-up to his 2007 trio recording Manchester Born, features Nalbandian on the fender rhodes and in a trio setting featuring bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits. The album comprises of all original compositions by Nalbandian and is entitled “Quiet, as it's ...

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Stronghold Sound Presents - The Audio Refugee Compilation

Source: Press Junkie PR
July 31, 2011

Encompassing a wide variety of sounds including traditional African and Arab folk, reggae and dub-step, hip-hop and new cumbia, the SF-based Stronghold Sound presents its first in a line of releases, The Audio Refuge Compilation. Each track is both experiment and firm step in a direction that this group of global artists is putting forth to lovers of tradition and the dance floor.

Among the tracks on the release are a handful featuring the talented Alpha Oumar 'Bongo' Sidibe [Guinea] ...

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George Danquah African Funk Reissue Out August 9 on Secret Stash

Source: Press Junkie PR
July 31, 2011

Secret Stash Records is pleased to announce our next release: George Danquah's Hot & Jumpy. It will be available August 9th, 2011. See below for details regarding our plans for limited edition pre-orders!

Hot and Jumpy is one of the funkiest gems to come out of the incredible 1970's Ghanaian music scene. It is the only known album by this New Edubiase (3 hours NW of Accra) native. He appears to have arrived out of thin air, recorded one of ...

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Marquis Hill - New Gospel (2011)

Source: Something Else!
July 31, 2011

Taking in the first solo steps by a budding jazz talent is usually an excursion into a fresh new discovery. Most of time, these performances are polished and if there's originals, they can be surprisingly well developed. Maybe this shouldn't be all that surprising, because before a jazz musician makes that big step into leading a date for the first time, he (or she) has already devoted most of his life getting to that point, through study, rehearsing and gigging ...

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Asylum Street Spankers - Mercurial (2004)

Source: Something Else!
July 31, 2011

By Tom Johnson Spinning up Mercurial was like jumping in a time machine set for somewhere around 60-75 years ago. The Asylum Street Spankers bravely blazed their own trail far outside of mainstream music, offering pre-Charlie Parker swing jazz and jump-blues that once kept the flappers cavorting across dancefloors all night long. And they were churning them out out at an amazing rate; eight albums in as many years, to this point. They may play like it's the '30s, but ...

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First LP Release from a Paris Based Band: Urbs

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2011

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"From California with Love" CD to Benefit Japanese Earthquake-Tsunami Victims

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
July 31, 2011

July 13, 2011 Release Features Vocal Tracks by Sue Raney, Johnny Holiday, Leslie Lewis/Gerard Hagen, Kurt Reichenbach, Diane Hubka, Tierney Sutton, Dick Noel, Frankie Randall, Pinky Winters, and Chris Connor Includes Solo Piano Performances by Alan Broadbent, Christian Jacob, and Jim Cox All tracks are new and/or previously unreleased The story behind this project is a very simple one. The Sunday morning after the disaster, I phoned SSJ artist Diane Hubka to ask about the well-being of some of our ...

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