Recording News

Terry Adams Ushers in New Era of NRBQ with New CD, 'Keep This Love Goin''

Source: conqueroo
June 1, 2011

“NRBQ is a living, breathing, ongoing sound," says Adams as he begins historic band's next chapter. NEW YORK, N.Y.—Terry Adams, visionary, driving force, and “untamed genius of the keyboards" for the great American band NRBQ since its inception more than 40 years ago, resumes his life's work with the release of a new studio album, Keep This Love Goin' by NRBQ, due out July 19, 2011. Recorded with the band he formed in 2007—Scott Ligon on guitar and vocals, Pete ...

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Italy's finest jazz players unite in Domenico Sanna Trio's debut album

Source: Lauren Rogers
June 1, 2011

Take three of Italy's finest jazz players and combine them in the same band. The result? It's Too Marvelous for Words. Featuring pianist Domenico Sanna, bassist Giorgio Rosciglione, and drummer Marco Valeri, the group has the distinction of being the first jazz band signed to Rome, Italy's Tosky Records label. Naming themselves the Domenico Sanna Trio, their debut album Too Marvelous for Words provides credibility to the swagger behind the record's name. The group isn't boasting, at least not in ...

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Terakaft & the Desert Blues

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
May 31, 2011

Old-school rock rebels and musical elders from the desert. Terakaft brings together the raw sounds of minimal indie guitar rock and the swaying pulse of Saharan journeys. They harness the energy of flirtatious midnight songs and the gravitas of respected advisors calling for peace and unity. Tuareg guitar warriors, Terakaft keeps alive the musical spirit honed by decades of oppression, rebellion, and exile on Aratan N Azawad (Children of the Azawad, World Village; June 14). Drawing on traditional forms of ...

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Reza Khan & Painted Diaries New Recording, "A Simple Plan"

Source: Kl Ma
May 31, 2011

REZA KHAN AND PAINTED DIARIES ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF THEIR NEW STUDIO RECORDING, A SIMPLE PLAN, AVAILABLE NOW ON THE PAINTED MEDIA LABEL Features Andy Snitzer, Graham Hawthorne and Grammy Nominee Fabrice Dupont “It's like a nice walk on the beach with your family," says Reza Khan, speaking about his latest CD, A Simple Plan (on the Painted Media label). Following the 2009 release of Painted Diaries, a paean to the affecting stories of everyday life that “mostly disappear in ...

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See-I Prepares Debut on Fort Knox Recordings

Source: Press Junkie PR
May 31, 2011

Fort Knox Recordings presents the debut album from See-I entitled See-I. Long time Fort Knox collaborators Arthur “Rootz" Steele and Archie “Zeebo" Steele bring their band's unique brand of Reggae—injected with heavy doses of Funk, Soul, Dub and Rock—to the Fort Knox vault. We are proud and excited to be releasing their debut album. The story begins with two brothers, Rootz and Zeebo, who found their way from college in North Carolina via the Caribbean only to end up in ...

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Nicholas Urie's "My Garden:" Composer's Big Band Music Based on Charles Bukowski

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
May 31, 2011

Without a great deal of build up and/or suspense I'll say right off the bat that I like what Nicholas Urie is up to on My Garden (Red Piano Records [RPR] 14599-4405-2). It's very modern big-band music, well played, with the moderately acerbic and melancholic poetry of Charles Bukowski as the unifying theme. Christine Correa handles the vocals. She's pretty much perfect for the texts. Sometimes I am reminded of the Steve Lacy-Irene Aebi collaborations in terms of the jagged ...

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Christine Jensen - Treelines (Justin Time Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
May 31, 2011

Composer and arranger Christine Jensen (Jazz Session interview) has assembled an eighteen musician big band to realize her musical ideas on this well done large ensemble album.

The music is deeply textured and exists in a multi-layered state emphasizing certain characters in the music especially trumpeter Ingrid Jensen while keeping the music focused on the ensemble as a whole. “Arbutus" has the group together as a unit with their shine building to an interior crescendo, before throttling back to a ...

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Master of the Half Valved Harmonica Releases Dazzling New CD

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2011

2 Days Out, marks yet another milestone in harmonica maestro PT Gazell's musical journey. Perhaps the most musically daring of all his recordings, 2 Days Out explores dynamic sonic combinations that are superbly refreshing, spirited and profound. PT's half-valved diatonic harmonicas are paired with a couple of heavyweights from the brass section—trombone and flugelhorn. PT's impeccable phrasing and undeniable expressive shadings blend seamlessly with these horns to create something extraordinary and distinct. On songs as varied as the swing standard, ...

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