Recording News

Todd Clouser's "A Love Electric" Available Now on Ropeadope Records

Source: Michael Ricci
February 14, 2011

On Monday, February 14th 2011 Ropeadope Records is very pleased to announce their first release with guitarist/composer Todd Clouser entitled A Love Electric. Joined with a bevy of talented musicians including Greg Schutte, Bryan Nichols and Steven Bernstein from Sex Mob, “A Love Electric" is a throw-back to 1970's electric jazz. Also included in the release is a unique take on Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah" and Harry Nilsson's “One." Ripe with groove and piano balladry, A Love Electric encompasses an era ...

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Drive-by Truckers - Go-Go Boots (2011)

Source: Something Else!
February 13, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron You might have noticed by now I've been following the Drive-By Truckers pretty closely lately: 2008's Brighter Than Creation's Dark got a fairly detailed evaluation when it first came out, and it hadn't been for The Black Keys' Brothers, The Big To-Do most likely would have been my favorite rock record of last year. The band has really come together in recent years as a cohesive group. The stabilized lineup of Patterson Hood (guitars), Mike Cooley ...

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Alvin Batiste - Marsalis Music Honors Series (2007)

Source: Something Else!
February 13, 2011

By Nick DeRiso People think of clarinets as this sound from a different era, and the guys who play them as having done so in black and white. The late Alvin Batiste, who initially found his muse in Charlie Parker's “Now's the Time," was never that way. His isn't a same-ole, same-ole southland sound so much as a retro-fitted bebop update, with period instruments. Later, he dove into Sonny Stitt—and Batiste told me, a few years before his untimely passing, ...

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Places (ECM 1118)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
February 12, 2011

Jan Garbarek Places Jan Garbarek saxophones Bill Connors guitar John Taylor organ, piano Jack DeJohnette drums Recorded December 1977 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher Places brings together another congregation of musicians that could only come from ECM. Drummer Jack DeJohnette lassoes his scurrying loops to the acoustic hooks of guitarist Bill Connors, while John Taylor supplements most of the ...

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December Poems (ECM 1119)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
February 12, 2011

Gary Peacock December Poems Gary Peacock double-bass Jan Garbarek tenor and soprano saxophones Recorded December 1977 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher From the start of Gary Peacock's December Poems, one revels in the sound of his instrument, the buzzing, raw quality of which comes to listeners at last relatively unmitigated. After a languid intro, “Snow Dance" lays down an unsinkable bass line, over ...

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Of Mist and Melting (ECM 1120)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
February 12, 2011

Bill Connors Of Mist And Melting Bill Connors guitar Jan Garbarek saxophones Gary Peacock bass Jack DeJohnette drums Recorded December 1977, Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher Three years after his astonishing acoustic turn on Theme To The Guardian and fresh from Jan Garbarek's Places session, guitarist Bill Connors returned as leader for this moody quartet, for which one could hardly ...

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Joe Lovano Soars on the Wings of Bird With His Jazz Sax Tribute

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
February 12, 2011

The legacy of Charlie Parker is something that every jazz musician has to contend with. As a co-creator of bebop up at Minton's with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and others, Parker has assured his legacy by the time he died at age 34 in 1956. He was more than just a landmark innovator, as Bird's outsized playing and personality in a community known for great playing and colorful characters makes him legend. The classic trajectory of his life ...

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Columbia/Legacy Honors The 50th Anniversary Of Aretha Franklin's Pop Recording Career With A Deluxe Box Set

Source: Michael Ricci
February 12, 2011

TAKE A LOOK: ARETHA FRANKLIN COMPLETE ON COLUMBIA CELEBRATES THE QUEEN OF SOUL'S GROUNDBREAKING WORKS FROM 1960-1965 IN A 12-DISC BOX SET A golden anniversary collection containing original LPs with original album art, bonus tracks, mono mixes, alternate takes, studio conversations, newly-compiled sessions with legendary producers, and a DVD of rare televised performances from The Steve Allen Show TAKE A LOOK features:

Aretha (With The Ray Bryant Combo) (Her debut on Columbia, produced by John Hammond, released Feb. 27, 1961) ...

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