Recording News

Bobby Watson Set To Release Seven-Part, "The Gates BBQ Suite," on Lafiya Music - September 14

Source: DL Media
August 9, 2010

Self-Produced Album Celebrates Kansas City's Music, Most Famous Food—And a Watson Family Tradition “Kansas City is the Napa Valley of barbeque. Gates Barbeque stands alone as king of the valley!"—Bobby Watson Bobby Watson, famed Kansas City-area native, William and Mary Grant/Missouri Endowed Professor of Jazz and esteemed director of Jazz Studies at University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, and among the world's premier and most well-respected alto saxophonists, is set to release his long-awaited extended large ensemble ...

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Kermit Ruffins's "Happy Talk" Due Out October 26, 2010 on Basin Street Records

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2010

Tremé Star and New Orleans Icon Announces First Album of Big Band Music “An unabashed entertainer who plays trumpet with a bright, silvery tone." —The New York Times ..."the trumpeter who as been a leading light on the NOLA music scene for years now." —Relix There's a point in the first season of HBO's “Tremé" where Steve Zahn's character remarks “America needs it some Kermit." This fall, America will get it some Kermit Ruffins with the release of his latest ...

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NPR Music Advance Streams New Albums from Ray LaMontagne & Esperanza Spalding

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 9, 2010

NPR MUSIC STREAMS ENTIRE ALBUMS FROM RAY LAMONTAGNE AND ESPERANZA SPALDING: “FIRST LISTENS" AVAILABLE AT NPR.ORG/MUSIC

NPR Music offers advance album streams of new albums by Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs and Esperanza Spalding. Both are available for free, on-demand listening now until their release on August 17 at www.npr.org/music as part of the site's “First Listen" series.

Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs: The fourth album, God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise, from the Grammy nominated artist ...

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Kali. Z. Fasteau new CD: "Animal Grace" with Louis Moholo, Bobby Few & others on Flying Note (FNCD 9014)

Source: Kali. Z. Fasteau
August 9, 2010

“Live in Harlem" with Louis Moholo-Moholo & “Live in the Alps" with Bobby Few, Wayne Dockery & Steve McCraven FLYING NOTE Records proudly announces the release of Animal Grace (FNCD 9014). “Live in Harlem" was recorded at Big Apple Jazzspace on a warm Sunday, June 17, 2007. The synchronicity of Kali's duets with the great South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo is amazing. The last time they had played together was in the 70s with Don Rafael Garrett and others in ...

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Miles Davis - The Complete 'On the Corner' Sessions (2007)

Source: Something Else!
August 9, 2010

By PicoMiles Davis is takin' it to the streets.In late spring of 1972, Davis broke a two year hiatus from the studio to act upon his most daring idea of his 45 year recording history: to create music that finally is completely absent of any jazz aesthetic and replace it with “street" sensibilities. An idea to jettison most instrumental wankery in favor of moods and heavy grooves (a counter move in 1972 if there ever was ...

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1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die (691-700)

Source: Groove Notes
August 9, 2010

For those of you who have been following along with the list, you know that we add twenty albums each week. We are going to tweak things a bit for the remainder of the list, adding anywhere from 5 to ten albums at a time, but posting the lists a bit more frequently. Additionally, we will have links next to each album, so that if you find an album interesting, you can click on the link and buy it.

Here ...

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Recent Listening: Dana Hall

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 9, 2010

Dana Hall, Into The Light (Origin). Drummers who flaunt their technique can be enemies of music when their busyness becomes the center-ring distraction in a band. Dana Hall is a busy drummer, but in his case that's a compliment. He accompanies with waves of rhythmic patterns surging and swelling behind, under and around soloists. This 40-year-old Chicagoan—debuting here as a leader—manages to amalgamate his virtuosity so that he melds into the flow of the soloists' improvisations. That places him in ...

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The Claudia Quintet + Gary Versace - Royal Toast (2010)

Source: Something Else!
August 8, 2010

By PicoThe Claudia Quintet is an ensemble that goes by its own set of rules. With its slightly weird combination of vibes, accordion, sax, double-bass and drums, and songs that don't follow the script of how songs go (but avoids skronkery and dissonance), the five piece band is an anomaly of an anomaly. It all comes for the deviously clever composing mind of its drummer and leader, John Hollenbeck. Drummers from Art Blakey to Matt Wilson have led ...

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