Recording News

Dave Bass Quartet Featuring Ernie Watts, Babatunde Lea, Mary Stallings, and Gary Brown Release "Gone"

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2010

David Bass on Gone

The word Gone has several meanings for me...

There's the 20-plus years I was away from the music scene, then there's the feeling when your lover leaves and your heart breaks... alone and empty, and finally, the beatnik/hipster notion of an irrevocably cool person.

I have returned to music and am proud to present these original compositions brought wonderfully alive by the musicianship of Ernie Watts, Babatunde Lea, Gary Brown, Harold Muniz, and especially Mary Stallings ...

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Joan Jeanrenaud, PC Munoz - Pop-Pop (2010)

Source: Something Else!
September 2, 2010

By Mark Saleski If you want to really scare yourself, wait until everybody else in the house has gone to bed, turn out all of the lights, and put the Kronos Quartet's Black Angels on the stereo. You will be assaulted with George Crumb's terrifying “Black Angels (Images I)," a piece so full of tension and release (or maybe just tension...it's been a while and honestly, just the thought of it is making me nervous) that you will feel like ...

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Deep Cuts: Chicago Transit Authority "Free Form Guitar" (1969)

Source: Something Else!
September 2, 2010

By Pico We all know this, but sometimes we need to be reminded that Chicago is a mainstream rock band that was once a rock/jazz/blues/R&B/whack jazz masquerading as a mainstream rock band. Wait a minute, you say, “whack jazz"??? Not just whack jazz, but the extreme kind of whack jazz. If you still have a worn-out vinyl copy of the band's spectacular debut album Chicago Transit Authority, chances are that the black band between “Poem 58" and “South California Purples" ...

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Scott Amendola: Lift

Source: JamBase
September 2, 2010

DRUMMER SELF-RELEASES FIRST ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS The painting by Mexican artist Victor Zubeldia that serves as the cover of Lift is entitled “The Angel" and has hung in Scott Amendola's living room for years, but it could have been created with his music in mind. Depicting an androgynous figure being raised into the night sky by a host of blackbirds via long, ropelike strands of hair, the image echoes the buoyant freedom, transcendent collaboration, and rich depth that characterize ...

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Collard Greens & Gravy to Release "Juke Joint Boogie!", September 13th 2010

Source: Just Roots PR
September 1, 2010

Melbourne, Australia based act, Collard Greens & Gravy are releasing their 5th album on Monday, September 13th 2010. The album title is “Juke Joint Boogie!" (BMM 357.2) and is a combination of original and cover tunes The album's direction is based upon the early Sun Record's Blues recordings, of such artists as Howling Wolf, Junior Parker and Doctor Ross. “The music of those artists had a raw, primal, rough and tumble, which despite being record in the 1950's, sounds more ...

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New Cassandra Wilson Album, "Silver Pony," Set For Release November 9 On Blue Note Records

Source: Muse Media
September 2, 2010

NEW CASSANDRA WILSON ALBUM, “SILVER PONY," SET FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 9 ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS; FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS RAVI COLTRANE & JOHN LEGEND Silver Pony, the stunning new album from multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz-pop chanteuse Cassandra Wilson, will be released by EMI's Blue Note Records on November 9. Wilson, whose remarkable, husky-tinged vibrato has created a trademark sound for her as an artist, will be touring worldwide in support of the release which features special guests, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane ("Silver ...

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Pianist Mike Jones Releases "Chicago Trio 2010" For Free Unlimited Download

Source: Bruce Eaton
September 2, 2010

Pianist Mike Jones has released Chicago Trio 2010—his first new recording in five years. Recorded live in July at Chicago's legendary Green Mill Jazz Club during a rare break from Jones' appearances with Penn and Teller in Las Vegas, the full- length recording is available for unlimited free download exclusively at jonesjazz.com Chicago Trio 2010 offers ample proof why Mike Jones has been hailed as the “great living Mainstream Monster of jazz piano" (Jeff Simon / The Buffalo News) with ...

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Putamayo to Release "Yoga" Music September 14

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
September 1, 2010

Yoga, scheduled to be released on September 14th, is Putumayo's first CD release featuring songs selected to accompany yoga practice and serve as a relaxing soundtrack for daily life.

Yoga features renowned musicians from around the world. British-born, South Indian artist Susheela Raman duets with Kenyan singer Ayub Ogada on the harmonious “O Rama." Krishna Das, who is the best-known US performer of traditional Indian kirtan-style music, demonstrates call-and-response chanting on “Hanuman Baba (Dub Farm Remix)." Costa Rican group Amounsulu ...

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