Recording News

Alicia Keys to Release "Songs In A Minor" 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 14, 2011

Singer, songwriter and producer, Alicia Keys will release a special 10th Anniversary Deluxe and Collector's edition on J Records / Legacy Recordings of her groundbreaking debut album songs in A minor on June 28th.

The original release of songs in A minor sold more than 12 million albums worldwide and garnered Keys with her first five, of 14 total, Grammy® Awards including Best New Artist, Best Song of the Year for “Fallin," and Best R&B Album. With the 10th Anniversary ...

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Tom Levin - Tooth and Claw (2011)

Source: Something Else!
April 14, 2011

We find no uncluttered answers on Tom Levin's sumptuous, vaguely fatalistic Tooth and Claw. In fact, oftentimes the questions themselves for this former New Music Weekly Awards AC male artist of the year are almost unbearable. Levin faces them all with a hard-bitten, desolate fortitude, occasionally descending into this abandoned whiskey-barrel voice that recalls a youthful Tom Waits, and he boasts just enough mainstream musical sensibility to reach a broader audience. This isn't an easy record to think about, but ...

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Stan Getz and Cal Tjader

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 14, 2011

In February 1954, Stan Getz and the George Shearing Quintet were booked on the same bill for a series of West Coast concerts produced by Gene Norman. On the bus trip from Portland to Seattle, Getz tried to kick his heroin habit. The tenor saxophonist intended to be clean before the likelihood of drawing jail time following a user conviction in Los Angeles. When the band bus arrived in Seattle, Getz attempted to hold up a drugstore for a morphine ...

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Unrestrained power highlights full-length album from jazz vocalist Leslie Casey

Source: Lauren Rogers
April 14, 2011

Jazz vocalist Leslie Casey was able to accomplish something on her debut album that many unsigned acts—of any genre—have never done: The Pittsburgh native received radio airplay in the Netherlands and in the U.K. “When I did my first CD I had it on MySpace, and it allowed me to meet people who wanted to play my music. So I was able to get my music played overseas," Casey explained. “It was a great feeling, especially with my debut CD." ...

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Lalo Schifrin to Release "Invocations: Jazz Meets The Symphony No. 7"

Source: CineMedia Promotions
April 13, 2011

Latest Entry In Lalo Schifrin's Multiple Grammy-Nominated Series Released April 12th (Los Angeles, CA) Aleph Records will release the latest title in the multiple Grammy©-nominated series, Jazz Meets the Symphony, on April 12, 2011. The seventh recording of the series, Invocations, features original compositions and arrangements by Lalo Schifrin, who earned his fifth Grammy Award this past fall at the Latin Grammy Awards. Invocations: Jazz Meets the Symphony #7 was recorded in Prague with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Ltd. ...

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Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys (ECM 1126)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
April 13, 2011

Art Ensemble of Chicago Nice Guys Lester Bowie trumpet, celeste, bass drum Joseph Jarman reeds, percussion, vocal Roscoe Mitchell reeds, percussion Malachi Favors Maghostus bass, percussion, melodica Famoudou Don Moye drums, percussion, vocal Recorded May 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg Engineer: Martin Wieland Produced by Manfred Eicher The legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago, currently in their fifth decade of activity, ended a five-year studio ...

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Jack DeJohnette: New Directions (ECM 1128)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
April 13, 2011

Jack DeJohnette New Directions

Jack DeJohnette drums, piano John Abercrombie guitar, mandolin Lester Bowie trumpet Eddie Gomez bass Recorded June 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher

This album was indeed a new direction for drummer Jack DeJohnette, by then an ECM mainstay who with this effort flirted with the free-flowing atmospheres then characteristic of the label's popular European projects. ...

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Pat Metheny: New Chautauqua (ECM 1131)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
April 13, 2011

Pat Metheny New Chautauqua

Pat Metheny electric 6- and 12-string guitars, acoustic guitar, 15-string harp guitar, electric bass Recorded August 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher

Pat Metheny is one of those rare artists whose virtuosity is so fluid that it is no longer a necessary lens through which to view his music. Despite the 43 strings at his disposal for this fourth ECM outing, ...

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