Recording News

Pianist Ricardo Gallo's Tierra de Nadie: The Great Fine Line

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
April 22, 2011

Some free improv dates are neither here nor there. Ricardo Gallo's The Great Fine Line (Clean Feed 209) manages to avoid that. It's here. By that I mean it has an immediacy. The composed sections structure the freedom in ways that bop heads frame the improvisations. Only this is not bop derived in any palpable way. But like for example one of those Sonny Simmons ESP dates from the '60s, there is the framework of the melodic head routines and ...

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Two for Tain!: Jeff "Tain" Watts - Family and Laura Kahle - Circular (2011)

Source: Something Else!
April 22, 2011

It's been a couple of years since we last heard from pre-eminent jazz rhythmist Jeff “Tain" Watts, when his star-studded engagement Watts was introduced. This past April 19, Watts' own Dark Key Music label trotted out two new records, one by the thirty-year vet Watts, and the first one by an Australian-born pocket trumpet player by the name of Laura Kahle. There’s more that brings these two records together than the simple fact that they are coming from the same ...

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Honey Ear Trio - Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven Records, 2011) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
April 22, 2011

By Paul Acquaro The Steampunk literary genre essentially imagines a present informed by Victorian sensibilities and driven by steam technology. Imagine though, just for a moment, another alternate present in which popular music is not shaped by lowest common denominator tastes and gobs of derivative schmear. What do you hear? For me, the top forty slots are pretty much dominated by groups like the Honey Ear Trio. The trio, sax, drum and bass, with some electronics and effects for added ...

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Paul Weston: Mood for 12/Solo Mood

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 22, 2011

Every so often I receive an email from a reader asking whether I really dig easy listening music. My answer is this: Yes, selectively. So do all writers, secretly. Easy listening is the equivalent of a mental rubdown. While I spend most of my days writing and listening to jazz, rock and r&b recordings, there are times when I need to write and decompress at the same time. Or the weather is so miserable that a tranquil recording is what's ...

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Dazzle Recordings to release "Static Line" by Tyler Gilmore's Ninth and Lincoln with Cuong Vu

Source: Tyler Gilmore
April 21, 2011

DAZZLE RECORDINGS PRESENTS “STATIC LINE" BY TYLER GILMORE'S NINTH AND LINCOLN WITH CUONG VU When: June 14th (National Release) Sound Sample Dazzle Recordings is proud to present Static Line, a recording that fuses jazz and experimental influences; all the while exploring the theme of World War II era music and it's role in morale and propaganda of the time. Inspired by his family background and his love of American history, composer/band-leader Tyler Gilmore has constructed a new kind of ...

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Impulse Records

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
April 21, 2011

Legendary producer Creed Taylor launched the legendary Impulse label 50 years ago, wrapping his roster in a definitive look and an instantly iconic logo. First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection, an exciting 4-disc collection from Verve Select, includes all six albums produced by Taylor for the label that proudly wore its signature colors of orange and black on its spines—plus rare tracks including unreleased John Coltrane rehearsals. The included 84-page hardbound book features essays by Mr. Taylor and associate producer ...

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A Capella Choral Works by Messiaen and His Students Stockhausen and Xenakis

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
April 21, 2011

The high-modernists did not typically work within an a capella choral framework. In fact the heyday of such a grouping belongs to the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance. After that there is a precipitous decline, except in religious-based music where of course liturgical traditions help encourage the continued emergence of new compositions for vocal groupings. Given that, todays CD (Chandos 9663) (which has been around for several years) of unaccompanied choral music by Messiaen and his pupils Stockhausen and Xenakis ...

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Potsa Lotsa - The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
April 21, 2011

Multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy was primarily known as a virtuoso musician and improviser during his brief life, playing with the likes of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and making records on his own. But as this two-disc set shows, he was quite a prolific composer as well.

Potsa Lotsa is a collective band featuring Silke Eberhard on alto saxophone, Patrick Braun on tenor saxophone, Nikolaus Nueser on trumpet and Gerhard Gschlobl on trombone. On this album they play the entire composed output ...

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