Recording News

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Bluesology: The Atlantic Years 1956-1988 (Warner Archives, 2009)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
February 20, 2011

The Modern Jazz Quartet had a lengthy run of successful albums and concerts and their most well known work was done for the Atlantic Records label during the 1950's and 1960's. At this time, the core members of the group had solidified: Milt Jackson on vibraphone, John Lewis on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Connie Kay on drums, and became a very popular recording and touring unit that mixed the Holy Trinity of Jazz: bebop, blues and ballads with ...

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Dr. John, with the Meters - Desitively Bonnaroo (1974)

Source: Something Else!
February 20, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Dr. John further defines an ass-shaking new synthesis on Desitively Bonnaroo. Even today, there's really no roadmap for the crazy-eyed co-mingling of R&B, jazz, island beats, blues, boogie funk and hoodoo whackadoo splashed across this LP, recorded alongside fellow New Orleans legends Allen Toussaint and the Meters more than 35 years ago. At the same time, the grooves here are so sleekly ingratiating as to be therapeutic. Bonnaroo doesn't aspire to the brash, edgy soul of contemporaries ...

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Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011)

Source: Something Else!
February 20, 2011

By Tom Johnson Just a week ago, we were expecting nothing more than the usual—just distant wondering of when there might be a new Radiohead. It had to be coming soon, right? It's been more than three years since they surprised us with In Rainbows and then only cryptic messages about embracing new formats. Were we to ever see a Radiohead album again? And then, Monday, came the message, “thank you for waiting." And it started all over again. How ...

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Forgotten Series: Nat 'King" Cole - Welcome to the Club (1959)

Source: Something Else!
February 20, 2011

By Nick DeRiso The King has been dead for nearly a half century. Not that you'd know it with all the reissues, television specials and creepy rip offs from Nat Cole's daughter over the last pair of decades. He's funny that way. Cole has had more output over that period than many living jazzers, and he's brought more surprises—this album (since reissued under the new title Big Band Cole) not least among them. Two of only a few recordings by ...

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Gutbucket - Flock (2011)

Source: Something Else!
February 20, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron According to Wikipedia, a gutbucket is “a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator." There was even a “gutbucket blues" style of music that was played by those jug bands of long ago. And so since we're here to talk about a band called “Gutbucket," this is a band of hillbillies in overalls sporting a washtub bass, banjo and mouth harp playing mid-20th century Appalachian music, right? Couldn't ...

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Multi-talented Trombonist Ernest Stuart Releases First CD "Solitary Walker" March 15

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 19, 2011

From humble beginnings to headlining Philadelphia and New York City clubs, Ernest Stuart is a multi-talented trombonist who's played alongside The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Branford Marsalis, Billy Paul, The O'Jays, Charles Tolliver Big Band and Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, among others. Stuart's heavily awaited debut CD, Solitary Walker, rolls out nationally on March 15, 2011 at a SRP of $15.00 and is also available as a digital download at www.erneststuart.com.

With an explosion of hard-bop jazz and soul compositions, ...

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Louis Hayes Jazz Communicators - Lou's Ideas (American Showplace, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
February 19, 2011

Drummer Louis Hayes has one of the strongest hard-bop pedigrees in the music, with lengthy stints in the Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver bands during the 1950's and 60's before striking out to form his own groups. Recently he has been leading the successful Cannonball Legacy Band in addition to his own group which is featured on this album with a nice group of modern mainstream players: Mulgrew Miller on piano, Steve Nelson on vibraphone, Abraham Burton on saxophone and ...

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Loudon Wainwright III: Five-Disc Box Set

Source: JamBase
February 19, 2011

SHOUT! FACTORY TO CELEBRATE LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III WITH CAREER-SPANNING BOX SET 40 ODD YEARS OUT MAY 3 40 Odd Years into an exceptionally prolific and storied career, Loudon Wainwright III is being celebrated with an aptly named career-spanning 4-CD/1-DVD box set, including a 40-page book, with an essay by renowned journalist/author David Wild and an introduction by filmmaker and box set co-producer Judd Apatow, to be released by Shout! Factory on May 3, 2011. The first 200 to pre-order from ...

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