Recording News

One Track Mind: Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, "Losing Hand" (2011)

Source: Something Else!
April 21, 2011

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis continue a stirringly offbeat musical dialogue begun with their 2008 release Two Men with the Blues, this time focusing on the music of Ray Charles. Here We Go Again, issued last month by Blue Note, also includes several turns by Norah Jones—not to mention some tasty asides by saxophonist Walter Blanding and Nelson's harmonica player Mickey Raphael. But it's the interplay between Nelson and Marsalis, idiosyncratic and quintessentially American, that again provides the most intriguing ...

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Brian Eno: New Album out 7.5

Source: JamBase
April 21, 2011

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Spotlight: Sounds of Brasil, Ark Ovrutski Quintet

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
April 21, 2011

The Spotlight Series highlights upcoming Latin Jazz musicians that have yet to reach national recognition. Many of these musicians thrive in local scenes and some tour in support of releases. All these musicians contribute greatly to the overall Latin Jazz scene, and they deserve our “spotlighted" attention. Sounds of Brasil Ark Ovrutski Quintet The world is filled with cultural connections; sometimes they simply need a little urging to become obvious. History is filled with exchanges between different countries ...

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Vocalist Roseanna Vitro Debuts on Motema Music with "The Music of Randy Newman" May 17

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 20, 2011

With the release on May 17 of The Music of Randy Newman, her debut CD for Motema Music, Roseanna Vitro stakes a claim as the first jazz vocalist to explore the richly melodic, sharply observant Randy Newman songbook. Having previously covered the music of American icons Ray Charles and Bill Evans in acclaimed album-length projects, Vitro relished the challenge of selecting material from Newman's vast catalog. “What I love about Randy Newman is his ability to tell a story, and ...

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Youssou Ndour Album Release & Tour

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 20, 2011

In Marley's Footsteps: Youssou Ndour Discovers the African Heart of Reggae on Dakar-Kingston

Youssou Ndour's journey to Kingston began with the music pulsing from the Dakar market stalls of his childhood. It began during long hours of listening to reggae LPs from his uncle's record store. It continued decades later, long after Ndour became one of the world's best known and best loved African singers, as circumstances conspired and he found himself at Tuff Gong studios, walking in Bob Marley's ...

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Song of Delight, Maeve Gilchrist's Adventure Music America Debut, To Be Released on May 17

Source: GoMedia PR
April 20, 2011

Boston-Based Singer/Songwriter and Harpist Offers Distinctive Fusion of Folk and Jazz Even as the boundaries that separate the age-old and emerging cultures of our world seem to meld and coalesce, there are musicians who rely on what has gone before them to craft entirely new styles of music that are much more than hybrids, that are, in essence, newly created genres which raise the bar for generations of artists to come. Maeve Gilchrist is such an artist. A harpist, vocalist, ...

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Paul Lieberman's new 2011 CD "ibeji" released!

Source: Paul Lieberman
April 20, 2011

ibeji features a number of legendary musicians: Rufus Reid & Nilson Matta on bass, Duduka da Fonseca, Tim Horner, and Allman Brothers co-founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jaimoe on drums, Joel A. Martin on piano, and Eugene Friesen on cello. The CD looks at Brazilian music and American jazz as twin children of Mother Africa separated at birth, raised in distant parts of the world, and now reunited, and showcases Paul's playing, composition and arranging. Paul Lieberman ...

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Tea Leaf Green Turns Triumph into Redemption with New CD 'Radio Tragedy!", Due out June 7 on Thirty Tigers

Source: conqueroo
April 20, 2011

Summer tour kicks off in NYC at Le Poisson Rouge June 17; San Francisco band offers fans chance to win handwritten lyrics SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—It ain't easy being gypsies, especially ones who sing for their supper. San Francisco Bay Area troubadours Tea Leaf Green are newfangled Lost Boys, a traveling gang dedicated to seeking wisdom and experience in places both glorious and seedy. The band's seventh studio album, Radio Tragedy!, will be released through Thirty Tigers available worldwide on June ...

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