Recording News

Historic Recordings by French Jazz Trio Alien Featuring Magma Legend Christian Vander Sees CD Release

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
March 21, 2011

Paris, France—Much to the elation of Magma/Christian Vander fans worldwide, a rare recording of jazz trio Alien live in Antibes, France in 1983 has been released on CD. Part of Seventh Records AKT collection (AKT XVI), Alien features Christian Vander on drums Michel Graillier on piano and Alby Cullaz on bass. The CD is also highlighted with long extracts from fully unreleased studio sessions. In February 1988 the trio entered the studio to work on an album, but the project ...

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Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette: S/T (ECM 1125)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
March 21, 2011

Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette

Terje Rypdal guitar, guitar synthesizer, organ Miroslav Vitous double-bass, electric piano Jack DeJohnette drums Recorded June 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher

Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette joins its eponymous crew in a one-off trio date for the ages. Although billed as something of a Rypdal venture, the album is primarily a canvas for Vitous, who bubbles forth ...

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Bill Laswell "Aspiration"

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
March 21, 2011

Spiritualism has long been a significant characteristic of Bill Laswell's work, particularly as the moniker applies to jazz. Laswell has not only worked with many of the avatars of Spiritual Jazz over the years, he has often reflected on this music and its largely unheralded influence in his many guises as bassist, producer, re-mixer, musical conceptualist and, for lack of a more appropriate appellation suitable to the range of work he's been responsible for over the years, master of ceremonies. ...

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Vijay Iyer, Prasanna and Nitin Mitta - Tirtha (ACT Music, 2011)

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

The interaction between jazz and the music of the Indian sub-continent has been percolating for some time now, since John Coltrane's professed admiration for the music of Ravi Shankar and Miles Davis incorporation of Indian instruments into his 1970's electric fusion bands. This group brings together three of the most talented Indian-American musicians on the contemporary music scene, with Vijay Iyer on piano, Prasanna on guitar and Nitin Mitta on tablas. The music that they combine to make is deeply ...

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Tony Adamo's "What Is Hip"

Source: Metropolis Media
March 21, 2011

The recording of the song “What is Hip" on singer/songwriter, Tony Adamo's new CD What is Hip came from a suggestion made by the legendary horn player and Tower of Power co-founder, Stephen “Doc" Kupka. During a recording session with Adamo and producer/guitarist, Jerry Stucker, “Doc" suggested several T.O.P. songs Adamo might want to cover. Adamo chose “What is Hip" and “This Time it's Real." Kupka, along with jazz great, Eddie Henderson hold up the horn section on “Hip." In ...

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Ghostlight to Release 'Sister Act' Original London Cast Recording 3/22

Source: Seth Cohen PR
March 20, 2011

Ghostlight To Release Sister Act Original London Cast Recording Featuring Olivier Award Nominee Patina Miller, Currently Reprising Her Acclaimed Performance on Broadway U.S. Release of CD is March 22nd Digital, March 29th Brick-and-Mortar Features Original Score With Music by Eight-time Oscar and Ten-Time Grammy Award Winner Alan Menken and Lyrics by Tony and Academy Award-Nominee Glenn Slater London Musical Sensation Hits Broadway March 24th, Directed by Four-Time Tony Winner Jerry Zaks Ghostlight Records will release the Original London Cast Recording ...

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Gene Ludwig: "Love Notes Of Cole Porter"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 20, 2011

As one of the early adopters of the Hammond organ in jazz after Jimmy Smith revolutionized the instrument in the late 1950s, Gene Ludwig enjoyed the massive popularity of organ-based soul jazz during the 1960s. In those days, “organ rooms" popped up all along the East coast and Midwest, especially in the inner working-class cities like Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, and Gene's stomping grounds of Pittsburgh. Gene worked them all, bringing his swinging style to audiences far and wide. His ...

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Coltrane's Poor Cousin

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
March 20, 2011

John Coltrane's 1960 Album Coltrane Plays the Blues is often overshadowed by its more famous companion LP, Coltrane's Sound. This is unfortunate, because Plays the Blues is a consistently strong album from Coltrane and even contains a few surprises for listeners.

All the songs on the original releases were recorded over two days, October 24 and 26, 1960. The tunes used on Coltrane's Sound have a darker hue to them, particularly “Liberia" and “Equinox," with its dirge-like rhythmic underpinning beneath ...

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