Recording News

Jefferson Airplane: Four Live Albums out 10/26

Source: JamBase
August 7, 2010

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF

Jefferson Airplane The argument rages on, but for many music fans in the '60s, the best live band from the Bay Area was Jefferson Airplane. The Airplane featured three master instrumentalists (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden) and three vocalists: Grace Slick (replacing original singer Signe Anderson in 1966), Marty Balin and Paul Kantner. The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductees made a total of eight studio albums and released a smattering of live ...

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Spotlight: No Limits, Pedro Bermudez

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
August 8, 2010

No Limits Pedro Bermudez Luizama Music

Recording an albums allows a band leader to include a wide array of musicians and pursue several different musical directions. Most band leaders spend their daily life working with a number of different musicians, and the recording serves as a document of these various relationships. They may also have their mind on an artist that can't work with them on a regular basis but would be available for short term engagement. The ...

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AUM Fidelity to Release Mike Pride's from Bacteria to Boys' Betweenwhile October 12th

Source: Improvised Communications
August 8, 2010

AUM Fidelity is proud to announce the October 12th release of Betweenwhile (AUM065), the label debut of prolific New York drummer/composer/artist Mike Pride and his working quartet, From Bacteria To Boys. The group, which performs a distinctive amalgam of groove-based modern jazz, R&B, contemporary classical and chant works, features Darius Jones (alto saxophone), Alexis Marcelo (piano) and Peter Bitenc (bass). This release, the band's first with its current personnel, is named after part of a line from integral influence R. ...

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Kurt Rosenwinkel Partners With Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos for "Our Secret World" Releasing on WOM Music - September 7, 2010

Source: DL Media
August 7, 2010

An Ambitious Big-Band Reworking of Seven Rosenwinkel Compositions Kurt Rosenwinkel has always given us music that has conveyed a sense of masterful story-telling & breathtaking imaginative reach. His significance to the ever-evolving jazz tradition in fact transcends the oft-cited lineage of jazz guitar in much the same way that Thelonious Monk and Wayne Shorter both impacted colleagues much beyond the scope of their respective instruments. For what has perhaps distinguished Kurt more than anything is his one-of-a-kind compositional voice—full of ...

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The Bad Plus Marks A Decade At The Forefront Of Progressive Music

Source: Michael Ricci
August 7, 2010

Never Stop, the trio's first album of all originals, Set for release on September 14, 2010 E1 Music is excited to announce the release of The Bad Plus's new album, Never Stop, on September 14, 2010. It is the band's first album of all originals, and it's eighth release overall. Recorded in Minnesota, Never Stop does just what the title says. It's a rapid-fire succession of engaging performances by three musical explorers operating as highly skilled individuals—bassist Reid Anderson, pianist ...

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Marshall Chapman's "Big Lonesome" Album Due October 26 with Guests Will Kimbrough and Others

Source: conqueroo
August 7, 2010

Release is dedicated to the late Tim Krekel. Co-produced with Michael Utley, accompanists include Will Kimbrough, Casey Wood, and Jim Mayer.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Marshall Chapman's life, as author/friend William Gay puts it, “is like five or six lives shoehorned into one. It's like a movie or a good book." Speaking of books, the multifaceted singer-songwriter has written two, and the newest (They Came to Nashville) is being released the same day as Big Lonesome, her sixth release on Tallgirl Records and ...

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Download Charts From The Clayton Brother's "The New Song and Dance"!

Source: Brian Camelio
August 7, 2010

Available now as a part The Clayton Brothers “The New Song and Dance" CD participant offer is a download-able folder containing charts for John's arrangement of “They Won't Go When I Go" from “The New Song and Dance" as well as an audio file of John and Jeff discussing their musical influences and the compositional process behind the tunes on “The New Song and Dance." To access this exclusive interview as well as audio clips from the record, video interviews, ...

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James Moody "4B" Street Date August 25, 2010

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 7, 2010

James Moody 4B James Moody—tenor saxophone Kenny Barron—piano Todd Coolman—bass Lewis Nash—drums (IPOC1017) Street Date August 25, 2010 NEA Jazz Master James Moody returns to the recording scene with his sixth appearance on IPO, Moody 4B, the swinging sequel to last year's critically acclaimed Moody 4A. Made in New York City in July of 2008 the disc marks Moody's 60th year as a recording artist. Of the many great records that he's made during those ...

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