Recording News

Cheryl Bentyne's "The Gershwin Songbook"

Source: Clay Wilson
November 22, 2010

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Unreleased Recordings from Maria Schneider

Source: Clay Wilson
November 21, 2010

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Masterworks Jazz Celebrates Dave Brubeck's 90th Birthday With Two New Releases

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
November 21, 2010

In celebration of jazz legend Dave Brubeck's 90th birthday on December 6, Masterworks Jazz released two new titles from the Original Album Classics series: Dave Brubeck and The Dave Brubeck Quartet—TIME, available November 2. Both releases are specially-priced 5-CD collections of Brubeck's classic albums. Each box set contains essential titles in their original album format, packaged in individual sleeves featuring the original album art.

The TIME box set includes the classic 1959 album Time Out (featuring the famous “Take Five") ...

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From the Stacks: Pico's 2010 Stacks, Volume 6

Source: Something Else!
November 21, 2010

By Pico Here we are at Volume 6, and while there's still a few dozen CD's that are worthy of mention sitting on my shelves or lying somewhere on the floor, this is likely going to be the last installment of “Pico's 2010 Stacks." A post-Thanksgiving version covering a few major 2010 jazz releases that we've missed here is possible, but aside from that, Volume 6 is my final Stab at the Stacks. As I was a little more biased ...

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One Track Mind: Billy Preston, "Outa-Space" (1972)

Source: Something Else!
November 21, 2010

By Nick DeRiso A massive reissue project from Apple Records had me digging back through the old Billy Preston sides. None is more titanically funky, and lastingly influential, than “Outa-Space," with its greasefire groove and afro-shaking new clavinet sound. “Outa-Space" is not to be confused with his similarly named No. 4 hit of a year later, “Space Race." (Dick Clark would subsequently use this tune during the mid-show break for the remainder of American Bandstand's run into the late 1980s.) ...

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jazzlotion releases direct to stereo EP by the Peter Edwards Trio

Source: Adam Sieff
November 21, 2010

jazzlotion is a new company dedicated to recording the finest young jazz musicians direct to stereo in a state-of-the-art environment. There are no drop-ins, mixdowns, effects or gadgetry of any kind—just great musicians performing live in the studio without a safety net and their performance going straight to a Studer half-inch tape machine. It's the closest you can get to the purity of a live show where all that matters is the performance and the music. jazzlotion will release this ...

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Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

Source: Peter Gordon
November 21, 2010

The blending of jazz and electronics has been one of the more difficult musical challenges, as it attempts to humanize the machine or mechanize the free spirit of improvisation. It's a very tricky balance to get right, as they can be on a collision course with each other. British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found ...

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Joe Morris and Luther Gray - Creatures (Nottwo, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
November 20, 2010

Guitarist (and occasional bassist) Joe Morris and drummer Luther Gray have collaborated in a number of settings before, notably in the company of Petr Cancura on saxophone, with whom they made a couple of excellent albums last year. On this occasion they are a duo, creating music which develops in slowly and with nimble interaction building in the duet setting. They are like minded colleagues who share a sense of musical adventure, probing an exploring the sonic thicket they develop. ...

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