Recording News

Albert Beger Releases His Ninth Album 'Peacemaker' in September

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2010

Peacemaker is the name of Albert Beger's new creation. It is also a way of life for the experienced, innovative, free-jazz cult hero. The new album is an open invitation, a possibility for an individual to take a deep, thorough look inside and have a self examination. It is an opportunity to restart, and make the little amendments in the world, using the big values of men. 51 Years old Beger, is conceived as one of the most respected and ...

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Download a Free MP3 from Mike Metheny's Latest Release "60.1"

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2010

An All About Jazz exclusive!

Download “Syncomation" (7:39) By Mike Metheny From 60.1

About Mike Metheny

Trumpet/flugelhorn soloist Mike Metheny is a native of Lee's Summit, Missouri and has degrees from the University of Missouri/Columbia (B.S. in Music Education) and Northeast Missouri State University (Masters in Music Education). His teachers included Keith House and John Alexander.

From 1971 to 1974, he was a trumpeter in the U.S. Army Field Band in Washington D.C., and in 1976 ...

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Jandek - Chair Beside a Window (1982)

Source: Something Else!
August 16, 2010

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James Moody - 4B (2010)

Source: Something Else!
August 16, 2010

By Pico Like the proverbial fine wine, James Moody only gets mellower and better with age. A seasoned saxophone and flute veteran who was in Dizzy Gillespie's original big band of the later 1940's and most famously the author of everyone's favorite vocalese jazz tune “Moody's Mood For Love," (with the lyrics later added by Eddie Jefferson), Moody is one of the flame keepers of old school jazz. It's a flame he has been actively keeping alive even today as ...

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1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die (701-710)

Source: Groove Notes
August 16, 2010

Here is another 10 to add to the list.

Remember that there is no ranking system here, and if you don't see your favorite jazz album yet, it doesn't mean it won't show up.

Hopefully these lists will inspire you to seek some of these albums out that perhaps you haven't heard before, or revisit an old favorite. And as always, we want your thoughts on any or all of these albums. Either way, let's get started with this week, ...

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Esperanza Spaulding Releases Chamber Music Society CD

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
August 16, 2010

Esperanza Spalding is releasing her second album on the Heads Up label, Chamber Music Society , on August 17th. Chamber Music Society is Spalding's follow up to the 2008 release, Esperanza, which sat atop Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart for over 70 weeks. About the CD: On the opening track of her much-lauded, self-titled major label debut, Esperanza (Heads Up, 2008 ), bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding covered Milton Nascimento's timeless gem, “Ponta de Areia." Rather than covering another of the singer/composer's tunes ...

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Abbey Lincoln-"Throw It Away"

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
August 15, 2010

I've been a real intellectual yente for the last several posts. I hope those posts have not been without emotional weight, but the death of Abbey Lincoln makes me want to write a piece where emotion leads and analysis creeps along far behind. In the late 1960's, I went to the old WGBH studios to see her then-husband Max Roach record a TV show. I didn't think twice about the fact that she was also performing. I was dazzled initially ...

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One Track Mind: Miles Davis with Mike Stern, "Fat Time" (1981)

Source: Something Else!
August 14, 2010

By Pico Like many of the greatest American musicians, Miles Davis has had a comeback—-he's had four or five of them, actually—-but only one where he came back from not playing at all. It was also his least successful one in the short run. The 1975-1981 retirement was a period where Miles watched a lot of TV, and just not being very productive. The years of touring, recording, drug abuse and the whole music business thing finally wore him down ...

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