Recording News

Brian Adler's Helium Project - "Phase 1"

Source: Brian Shankar Adler
May 25, 2011

By Richard B. Kamins For a fairly young man, drummer-composer Brian Adler has had a busy life. He's studied with such modern “masters" as Billy Hart, John Hollenbeck, Billy Higgins, Bob Moses, Joe Morris and Cecil McBee as well as sharing the stage with Pablo Aslan, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, Marilyn Crispell, Mark Helias, Erik Lawrence, Kate McGarry, Ben Monder, and Ray Vega. He's the leader of The Prana Trio, is a member of bassist Aslan's Trio and several other ...

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Favorite Bond

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
May 25, 2011

I spend a lot of time watching and listening to James Bond, always returning to certain favorites. Despite a series overflowing with interesting music—some of the best of its kind—these are a few of the songs that have always rocked my world. I have neither a special favorite among all these I've identified here, a sort of top ten, if you will, nor did I include everything worth noting. First of all, I don't have every Bond soundtrack. These are ...

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Matt Lavelle - Goodbye New York, Hello World (Musicnow, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
May 25, 2011

Trumpeter and bass clarinetist Matt Lavelle was once a prolific and thoughtful contributor to the Brilliant Corners jazz blog, along with the man who helped bring the nearly forgotten free jazz legend Giuseppi Logan back into the limelight. He has been quiet of late, but whatever he has been doing, it's done wonders and allowed him to produce an excellent album.

Lavelle plays quite an arsenal of instruments: bass and alto clarinets, cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn and is joined by Francois ...

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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Rocket Science (2011)

Source: Something Else!
May 25, 2011

By Tom Johnson Sometimes old really is new again. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones existed as a trio for a handful of years after harmonica/pianist Howard Levy left, only to ask consistent fill-in saxophonist Jeff Coffin to join their ranks. Being a talented guy, he gets around, and when Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore tragically died a few years ago, Coffin, who had been filling in for him while they were on the road, was asked to join the ...

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Gerry Mulligan Plays Mulligan

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 25, 2011

When most jazz fans think about Gerry Mulligan in the early 1950s, two recordings come to mind: his March 1950 session with the Miles Davis Nonet (later coined Birth of the Cool) and his influential August 1952 pianoless quartet date in Los Angeles with Chet Baker, Bob Whitlock and Chico Hamilton. The California session would mark the birth of a more laid-back West Coast sound. But nestled in between the two was an equally important recording session in New York ...

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Trumpeter/Composer Alex Sipiagin Releases New CD on Criss Cross Jazz Titled "Destinations Unknown"

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 25, 2011

Alex Sipiagin's inspired ensemble writing on the seven tracks that comprise Destinations Unknown makes it clear that the 43-year-old trumpet master had ample time to infuse the process with tender loving care. Sipiagin recounts that Gerry Teekens notified him of the January 2011 recording date the previous July. First, he reached out to first-callers Chris Potter, David Binney, Craig Taborn, Boris Kozlov, and Eric Harland. He commenced to write sketches on sojourns to Spain, France, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, and Holland. ...

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Vocalist Ed Reed to Release His Third Album, "Born to be Blue," June 21

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 25, 2011

Ed Reed has pursued a most unconventional path to his present-day career as a highly regarded jazz singer. It was only four years ago that he released his recording debut, Ed Reed Sings Love Stories, when he was 78. The following year came The Song Is You, along with expanded touring opportunities, a guest spot on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, and a Wall Street Journal profile by Nat Hentoff. Reed also placed in the “Male Vocals, Rising Star" category of ...

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Buell Neidlinger Quartet LIve at Ravenna Jazz '87 With Special Guest Steve Lacy

Source: Marty Krystall
May 25, 2011

K2B2 Records (k2b2.com) has just released a new CD—Buell Neidlinger Quartet Live at Ravenna Jazz '87 With Special Guest Steve Lacy (K2B2 3969). This live concert was the first time since 1959 that Neidlinger and Steve Lacy would play music together. They last played together at the NYC Cecil Taylor sessions for Candid Records. Supported by tenor saxophonist Marty Krystall, pianist Brenton Banks and drummer Billy Osborne, this quintet burns through five Thelonious Monk compositions: Skippy; Epistrophy; Reflections; Little Rootie ...

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