Recording News

Pat Metheny - What's It All About (2011)

Source: Something Else!
June 15, 2011

If you were tasked with listing the influences of JazzGuitaristPatMetheny, some good entries might be Four and More (Miles Davis), Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!! (Sorry, couldn't resist), and Smokin' At The Half Note by the Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery. Ah, but people often forget that influence can come from many directions. Pat has stated that he's drawn inspiration from sources as disparate as the street sounds of Miami to the paintings of Paul Klee, so it should come ...

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Ry Cooder: New Album in August

Source: JamBase
June 15, 2011

RY COODER'S PULL UP SOME DUST AND SIT DOWN; SIMPLE TOOLS FOR CITIZENS UNDER SIEGE! Ry Cooder will release his new album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down on August 30 on Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records. Preorder the album here to receive a free instant download of “No Banker Left Behind." A statement released with the track listing reads: “There's you, the citizen, running in circles like a headless chicken. And there they are, there they all are, herding you ...

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Candye Kane's "Sister Vagabond" Album, Due August 16 on Delta Groove, Rings Triumphant in Challenging Year

Source: conqueroo
June 15, 2011

Winning first battle over cancer, Kane celebrates 11th long-player, a set co-produced by guitarist Laura Chavez. Its predecessor, Superhero, was nominated for Blues Music Award. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Candye Kane has been called a survivor, a superhero and the toughest girl alive. (All are also titles of her self-penned songs.) Her eleventh CD release, Sister Vagabond, will hit the streets on August 16, 2011 on Delta Groove Records. Produced by Kane and her noted guitarist Laura Chavez, Sister Vagabond is a ...

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Dancing With The Stars Singer Carmen Carter Shines On Her Solo CD "Can I Be With You Tonight?"

Source: Creativity in Music
June 14, 2011

Sensual ballads and infectious dance grooves highlight this incredible singer's release! Many of you know Carmen Carter as the singer who wears the dazzling headpieces on the Emmy nominated hit TV show, Dancing With The Stars! Or by the dynamic vocal performances that Carter has delivered while accompanying Dancing With The Stars celebrity dancers Hines Ward, Kirstie Alley, Wendy Williams, Emmit Smith, Brooke Burke, and many more! Whatever the case, Carter has provided mesmerizing vocals for the hit shows 30 ...

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Brain Landrus Wields the Baritone with Dexterity on "Traverse"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
June 14, 2011

Brian Landrus is a new-ish voice on the baritone. He has one album out on Cadence Jazz. The new one Traverse is on his own BlueLand Records (2011A). It's a quartet date with the potent lineup of Lonnie Plaxico on bass, Michael Cain, piano, and the always swinging Billy Hart on the drums. It's a contemporary date with good blowing vehicles devised by Landrus himself or in collaboration with Michale Cain. The “Body and Soul" perennial rounds out the set. ...

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Demetria Taylor - Bad Girl (Delmark, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
June 14, 2011

If there was ever anyone born with the blues in their blood, it would certainly be singer Demetria Taylor, daughter of blues legend Eddie Taylor and part of a large musical family in the blues nurturing city of Chicago.

Ms. Taylor has a strong voice, and likes to takes blues standards and transform them to a woman's point of view. It takes her a little while to get going, but when she moves into the depth of the material, she ...

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Alon Nechushtan -- Words Beyond (Buckyball Records, 2011) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
June 14, 2011

By Paul Acquaro I seem to like a piano trio that is well marinated in rhythm. No matter how lush—both hands on the keyboard and the sustain pedal pressed—or how spare, if served with that extra dash of flavor, I'm hooked. Alon Nechushtan's 'Words Beyond' hits the spot. From the opening moments of the jaunty 'Muppet Shock,' the bass, drum and piano are perfectly immersed and proportioned. Nechushtan works with the klezmer influenced group Talat, but the straight ahead “Words ...

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Art Pepper: Blues for the Fisherman

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 14, 2011

Laurie Pepper, Art Pepper's widow, has just released a four-CD set of Pepper performing in London at Ronnie's Scott's on June 27 and 28, 1980, two years before the alto saxophonist's death. It may well be the finest recording of late Pepper released on Laurie Pepper's Widow's Taste label. There are two reasons for this: First, despite Pepper's history of frayed nerves on stage, he was remarkably at ease in front of this British audience, which is reflected in the ...

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