Home » Jazz News
Recording News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Clarinettist Luca Luciano's new album "Partenope" is now out!
Source:
Chang Management
The new album , contemporary music for solo clarinet, by the Italian clarinettist/composer Luca Luciano is now out (“Masterful Clarinet!" by Musician Magazine). Continuing the journey started with the album “Neapolis" (Red Kite Records, 2005) and “Clarinet" (MCPS, 2008-2010), the compositions (all Luciano's) included in this release are also part of an on-going academic research that focuses on extended techniques for the contemporary repertoire and new music for solo clarinet that Luciano has also presented during the masterclasses and workshops ...
Continue
Reading...
Inner Circle Music Releases Petros Klampanis's Debut Album "Contextual"
Source:
Michael Ricci
Petros Klampanis draws a sonic portrait of the double bass in his debut album Contextual set to be released on April 18th, 2011 by Inner Circle Music. Much like an impressionist painter alters his color palette depending on how light falls upon his subject, bassist and composer Petros Klampanis alters the musical context in every track of his album in order to point out different characteristics of the double bass. Adding to the album's aural and textural smorgasbord is an ...
Continue
Reading...
Holly Golightly & Brokeoffs' New Adventures in Lo-Fi on "No Help Coming"
Source:
conqueroo
Now based in Georgia backwoods, duo keeps it gritty and lo-fi even 20 years into Holly's career. Album due April 26 on Transdreamer Records. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—No Help Coming is the fourth full-length release by Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, and the latest of nearly 30 albums on which the veteran indie icon is featured. But she's quick to dismiss any suggestion that she's refined her approach during her 20 years as a recording artist. “I'm proud to say that ...
Continue
Reading...
Two New Albums: Dave Douglas and Curtis Macdonald on Greenleaf Music
Source:
Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
Two new albums available now for preorder at greenleafmusic.com Dave Douglas | United Front: Brass Ecstasy at Newport Originally recorded by WBGO Jazz 88 and presented as part of NPR's live concert series, this remastered album captures the group's spectacular performance during the 2010 Carefusion Newport Jazz Festival. “There was a special feeling for us on taking the drive out to the festival grounds at Fort Adams State Park. On the day of the gig, each of us was flying ...
Continue
Reading...
Swing Revival Chicago-Style: John Burnett Orchestra
Source:
Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
John Burnett's Orchestra (big band) has been holding forth in and around Chicago for a number of years. Their new, third album Down For Double (Delmark 596) comes out of two live and one studio session from 2000 through 2010. It's subtitled “Saluting the Best Bandleaders of Swing" and that's what it does. That doesn't mean that every important bandleader is represented, but Miller, Duke, Count, Goodman, Rich, Krupa and Slide Hampton (?) are each honored by one or more ...
Continue
Reading...
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Live Forever (2011)
Source:
Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso The aptly titled Live Forever, a newly released concert set by Bob Marley and the Wailers, doesn't sound anything like a man just moments away from the end. Instead, it underscores the indominable spirit of the singer and his song. Marley had collapsed while jogging in New York just two days before, on Sept. 21, 1980, but appeared for this sold-out date at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Penn., anyway. Though it would become Marley's last concert ...
Continue
Reading...
Fred Hersch - Alone at the Vanguard (2011)
Source:
Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron When reviewing Vijay Iyer's sublime piano-only disc Solo last year, I tossed out my personal maxim that “when a great, small combo jazz pianist makes a solo record, it usually doesn't signal that pianist's arrival, it means he's solidifying his legacy." Well, Alone at the Vanguard is Fred Hersch's fourth solo piano release and for someone who has steadily built up his reputation for more than a quarter century, Hersch's legacy has long been established; he's ...
Continue
Reading...
Flogging Molly: Speed of Darkness
Source:
JamBase
NEW ALBUM OUT MAY 31; WRITTEN IN DETROIT—ALBUM INSPIRED BY COLLAPSE OF THE US ECONOMY AND THE RESILIENCE OF MANKIND Speed of Darkness, the new album from celebrated Celtic punk ensemble Flogging Molly, is set for a May 31 release on the group's newly founded Borstal Beat Records. Speed of Darkness is Flogging Molly's fifth album. In the words of lead singer and songwriter Dave King, “It wasn't the album we set out to write. It became the album we ...
Continue
Reading...
Trending
Recording
Bassist And Composer Adam Chilenski Returns To His...
Recording
Saxophonist David Ehrlin And Guitarist Neff Irizarry...
Recording
John Korbel Releases 'Johnny Still Got Game,' A...
Recording
Now Available: Ryan Keberle's Collectiv Do Brasil's...
Radio
JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 26, 2026
Recording
Blue Bottle Coffee Debuts Notes In Repose, A...
TV / Film
Mark Isham: The Voice Within Premieres October 11 On...
Featured Video
VOTE!
