Recording News

Starlicker - Double Demon (Delmark, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
May 17, 2011

Cornetist Rob Mazurek may live in Brazil now, but he retains deep ties to the Chicago jazz scene. Joining up with John Herndon on percussion and Jason Adasiewicz vibraphone they take us on a beautiful cosmic voyage, something akin to an updated Sun Ra small ensemble if there were such a thing.

They combine their sounds very well, sounding much bigger than three pieces, and supporting each other beautifully. “Double Demon" begins at a fast tempo with complex and dynamic ...

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Tunecore Explains Major Price Hike, CD Baby Responds with Discount

Source: HypeBot
May 17, 2011

Popular digital distributor TuneCore recently raised prices from $19.99 a year per album distributed to $49.99 per year.  While many users still find TuneCore a bargain, the reaction from others was vocal and negative. “Under the old pricing scheme my yearly costs for 4 albums would be $57.96," wrote one. “It is now $200. A ridiculous amount to increase costs for small time musicians. Still, businesses need to make money to innovate; and Tunecore shared reasons for more than doubling ...

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Pianist/Composer Larry Goldings Releases New Solo Piano Recording "In My Room" on BFM Jazz.

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 17, 2011

For more than two decades, Larry Goldings has been recognized as one of the most distinctive and versatile keyboardists in jazz, R&B and pop, with more than a dozen critically acclaimed recordings as a leader, and a diverse touring and recording résumé that includes Pat Metheny, Madeleine Peyroux, Maceo Parker and, James Taylor. Goldings' compositions have been recorded by Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Jim Hall, and Jane Monheit, among others. Although perhaps best known for his Hammond organ playing, Goldings ...

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Pianist Kerem Gorsev reaches creative high with mix of classical music and jazz on new CD

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 17, 2011

Don't believe the myth: Thirteen is not an unlucky number. For pianist Kerem Görsev, his 13th album, Therapy, may be his best, the high point of a musical career that stretches back nearly 20 years. In 1995, Görsev released his debut, Hands & Lips. Since then, Görsev has sharpened his hybrid of classical music and jazz, not to mention expanding the sonic range of his compositions. For Therapy, Görsev has the powerhouse backup of the London Philharmonia Orchestra as well ...

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New CD From Marilyn McLeod, An Artist With A Motown Legacy and Coltrane Connection

Source: Donna Caldwell
May 17, 2011

I Believe In Me, is the brand new Twinn Records CD by hit songwriter, Marilyn McLeod, sister of the late jazz pianist, Alice Coltrane. McLeod comes from a musical family that reads like recording Royalty. The late jazz pianist, Alice Coltrane her sister, and the legendary saxman, John Coltrane, was her brother-in-law. Her older brother Ernie Farrow played with jazz greats Yusef Lateff and Stan Getz, her nephews Oran & Ravi Coltrane have followed in their famous parents' footsteps, her ...

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Ran Blake Releases First-Ever Live Album

Source: Tompkins Square
May 17, 2011

In a career spanning six decades, pianist/composer, writer and educator Ran Blake has released 36 albums for such labels as ESP, RCA, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album for Tompkins Square, All That Is Tied, earned 4 stars in Downbeat and top honors in the Penguin Jazz Guide 2007. Driftwoods, released in 2009, was Ran's salute to some of his favorite singers, including Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson and others. The album was featured on NPR's All Things ...

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Forgotten Series: Pat Martino - El Hombre (1967)

Source: Something Else!
May 16, 2011

By Mark Saleski Given the fact that Pat Martino had played with some of the biggest B3 players in the business (including Jack McDuff and the great Jimmy Smith), it probably surprised no one that Martino's first solo release carried on in that blues and groove-based organ trio vein. What surprises me about this, decades later, is the level of maturity of Martino's playing. At the time, Pat Martino was only twenty-two years old. Part of a wave of Prestige/Rudy ...

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Guitarist Giovan Guido displays fingerpicking mastery on new album

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 16, 2011

Guitarist Giovan Guido can make you believe in the Land of Cargessol. The title of Guido's latest album, the Land of Cargessol is also a fairy-tale world created by singer Stephanie Petrequin, inspired by a tune they wrote together. In the Land of Cargessol, there lived a foolishly brave horseman named Elias, who confronted the unconquerable dragon Nesames and bragged that he could destroy him in battle. Nesames, finding the threat so imbecilic, let loose an uncontrollable fit of laughter. ...

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