Recording News

Billy White releases debut album "First Things First" on Porto Franco records

Source: Billy White
August 26, 2010

Pianist Billy White's debut recording, First Things First, is a glimpse into a musically omnivorous world reminiscent of a young Herbie Hancock. The San Francisco-born and New York-based 27-year old has already packed a panoply of experience into his young career: a degree in ethnomusicology from UCLA, a stint with French jazz/hip-hoppers Heezbus while living in Paris, scoring films, and studying Gnawa trance music in Morocco, to name a few. But First Things First is his crowning achievement so far. ...

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Concord Issues Five New Original Jazz Classics Titles: Miles Davis/Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Wes Montgomery, Chet Baker and Bill Evans Trio

Source: conqueroo
August 27, 2010

Remastered recordings set for release on September 28, 2010 Concord Music Group is scheduled to reissue five new titles in the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on September 28, 2010. Originally launched in March 2010—and enhanced with 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, along with insightful new liner notes — the series showcases some of the most pivotal recordings of the past several decades by artists whose influence on the jazz tradition is beyond measure. The five new titles in the ...

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Jazz Vocalist Rob Keiter Offers Hope and Healing in "The Glory of Love"

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
August 27, 2010

His debut collection of classic love songs is due October 26th Oklahoma City, OK: As Rob Keiter stood at the microphone to record his vocals for This Nearly Was Mine, the opening track of his The Glory of Love album, a torrential flood of tears burst forth unexpectedly. Although he could not contain his raw emotions while singing the heartfelt words about love lost, he sang anyway. What was captured on the recording was something special and it established the ...

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"Alive" By Phronesis Released in USA and Canada

Source: Jazz Services UK
August 27, 2010

Phronesis have the ability to excite, inspire and move people in a way that few bands are able to do. Since the release of their second album Green Delay in 2009, Phronesis, led by Danish doublebassist Jasper Høiby, have captured the hearts and minds of British audiences and have developed a fierce reputation as one of the most formidable trios in the UK. With recent acclaimed performances at the Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris and the North Sea Jazz Festival ...

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Ran Blake with Ricky Ford & Steve Lacy: That Certain Feeling (George Gershwin Songbook), available September 2010

Source: Werner Uehlinger
August 27, 2010

Songs—with or without lyrics—being no less than stories, and the best songs of George (and frequently Ira) Gershwin being stories of the first order, any number of these exhilarating moments are to be heard on this disc, a result of the material (Gershwin's) inspiring the imagination of the improviser, Ran Blake. Blake's art is wholly a product of his acute attention (to the stories, images, and utterances of his imagination) and integrity (in the formal process of making music, spontaneously). ...

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ICP Orchestra: "Jubilee Varia" on Hatology 667, Available September 2010

Source: Werner Uehlinger
August 27, 2010

On first hearing this CD may sound to you like an ill-programmed mess, with the improvisations up front and the catchy numbers buried deep. But with ICP, over the long haul or short, the more you hear it, the more apparent its trajec tory becomes, the more orderly and less chaotic it sounds. Or, the more you hear ICP's improvised “instant compositions" and their instant demolitions of Misha's highly whistleable tunes, the less clear it becomes what's order and what's ...

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Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music: The Newport Field Recordings

Source: JamBase
August 26, 2010

TWENTY SEVEN TRACK ALBUM FEATURES FIELD RECORDINGS MADE BETWEEN 1964-1967 Rounder Records has announced the release of Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music: The Newport Field Recordings. Due September 28, this CD release encompasses 27 tracks on one disc, and is comprised of recordings made over the years 1964-67 by Ralph Rinzler, working under the auspices of the Newport Folk Foundation and at the suggestion of board member Alan Lomax. Rinzler, who later came to head the Festival of American Folklife ...

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Afronauts of the Caribbean, Systema Solar Break Loose

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 25, 2010

A new craft is winging its way through the sonic solar system, built from creaky amps and sleek laptops, powered by dayglo Caribbean sun and the brilliant pulse of street parties, and steered by hip-hop Afronauts from one of the globe's new music hotspots.

Welcome aboard Colombia's Systema Solar, the funkiest Technocolor hip-hop and DJ crew/Latin sound system ever to be pulled by donkey or graced with slammin' beats. Uniting Afro-Colombian roots with rap, scratching with Afro-Latin percussion, and unstoppable ...

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