Recording News

Breifly Reviewed: Grex - Live at Home

Source: Ni Kantu by Clifford Allen
September 21, 2010

GREXLive at Home(SUA) The second part of the AACM dictum of “Great Black Music—Ancient to the Future" surprisingly holds little cross-genre sway. Though groups of many stripes can lay claim to a broad range of influences and an output to match, a true understanding of those forebears is extremely rare, especially when those influences are both within and without from the “jazz" spectrum. Grex is a thankful anomaly in contemporary music, merging not only an affinity, but a true love ...

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Gimme Five: Rock Classics That You Don't Have to Love

Source: Something Else!
September 21, 2010

By Nick Deriso Spend enough time around rock music—or, at least, rock critics—and you'll be convinced that any number of Seminal Works, Forgotten Gems and Timeless Standards are must-have items for your record collection. Even if they turn out to be, you know, retreads dressed up as brilliant pop redux (Gene Clark's post-Byrds catalogue, most of Syd Barrett's sides, all but a handful of things on the Rhino Records imprint), important-sounding yet all-but-unlistenable vanity projects (anything by Richard Thompson, a ...

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Pianist Benito Gonzalez Releases His Sophmore Album, Circles, on Furthermore Recordings

Source: CHC Network
September 21, 2010

Circles, the new recording by Venezuelan pianist Benito González, his second as a leader, speaks of an artist taking stock—as he moves forward. “This album for me marks a cycle that ends and another that begins," says González. “All my experiences are portrayed in this album." And what a remarkable journey it's been.

“Circles reflects everything I had been living in this cycle in my life." If the recording has a classic, 1960s sound, “it wasn't premeditated, but a reflection ...

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John Evans & Dream release "Postcard from the Moon" on Studio Records

Source: John Evans
September 21, 2010

Studio Records LLC takes great pride in announcing the release of the latest offering from John Evans & Dream. Postcard from the Moon is an eclectic mix of Evans' instrumental compositions and songs, with lyrics by Sandy Evans. From jazz/fusion through tropical to the classic jazz ballad, this album shows Evans and his group, Dream, in a glowing new light. The latest addition the group is Andy Timmons, who's fiery and expressive guitar playing is well known throughout the world. ...

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Poet E.J. Antonio Releases Debut CD, Featuring Christian McBride, Rituals in the marrow: Recipe for a jam session

Source: Sound Visions Media
September 20, 2010

Poet E.J. Antonio, a 2009 fellow in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Cave Canem Foundation, envisioned her debut CD, Rituals in the marrow: Recipe for a jam session, as an “in-the-moment jam session." This recording is a unique blend of spoken words that dance with the sonic diversity of instruments as they wind their way through the genres of jazz, blues, gospel, r&b, and Afro-Latin ...

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Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion (2010)

Source: Something Else!
September 20, 2010

By Pico When I heard at the beginning of this year that Joe Bonamassa had formed a supergroup with some other heavy hitters and that these guys were in the studio making a record, I gotta admit, I was pretty excited. Bonamassa has pretty much reached the pinnacle and done it all as a solo blues-rock musician; joining a band as a peer seemed to be the logical new frontier for a former prodigy who has done nothing but fulfill ...

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Erik Friedlander - Fifty: 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (2010)

Source: Something Else!
September 19, 2010

By Pico Cello virtuoso Erik Friedlander must have found a second wind at 50 years old because yesterday he released his second album of all new material as many months. The album, incidentally, is called Fifty: 50 Miniatures For Improvising Quintet and in Friedlander's typically atypical fashion, it introduces a concept he hadn't tried on any album he has recorded before. Friedlander was commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2008 to compose a music collection of pieces ...

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In Studio with Kyle Eastwood

Source: Groove Notes
September 19, 2010

As the son of actor/director/jazz fan, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood grew up listening to jazz. In this performance-interview hosted by Abe Beeson, Kyle talks a childhood trip to The Monterey Jazz Festival and how hearing the Count Basie Big Band that day inspired him to become a bassist. For the past few years, Eastwood's home base has been in France. He and Abe discuss the differences between European and America music listeners...and how living in Europe has influenced Kyle's music ...

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