Recording News

Harold Rayford Opens Up about Private Moments

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2010

The world is getting ready to see a whole new side to Tyscot Records' gospel jazz artist, Harold Rayford. With the release of his brand new CD, I am the Instrument on August 3rd, longtime fans and even newcomers will not only notice a higher level of musicianship but they'll get to learn more about the man behind the music. In his candid EPK video, which is available now on youtube.com (and can be viewed below), the gospel jazz veteran ...

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Erik Friedlander's Digital CD, "Alchemy," Will Be Released on August 11 on Skipstone Records

Source: GoMedia PR
August 4, 2010

Acclaimed Cellist Continues to Celebrate his 50th Birthday With Strong, Eclectic Series of Single, Digital and Album Releases Alchemy is an ancient process of protochemistry and witchcraft which attempted to turn base metals to gold. Alchemy, Erik Friedlander's latest digital release, reverses the process, grabbing the cello roughly and breaking it down to its most basic elements-the scratching rough sound of a cross-cut saw, or the wispy scattering of pitchless pizzicato notes, and its singing, melodic tone. In this, his ...

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Three New Releases from Tigerasylum Records

Source: Tigerasylum Records
August 4, 2010

Tigerasylum Records is pleased to introduce 3 new releases. All can be purchased online @ tigerasylum.com for $6 Rusted Rainbow—Machine Translations of Texts Machine Translation of Texts—the by-product of two people of two nations. Aaron Hemphill (of Liars) along with Francesco Calandrino (of Oper'azione Nafta) together combine both mind, body, and machine to create what is at once a pure organism of life while simultaneously exposing itself as an autopsy of deconstructed ...

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Talking Drum Master, Ghana School Builder, Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 4, 2010

Mohammed Alidu has ways of making drums talk. Centuries-old ways passed down through dozens of generations of Bizungs, the hereditary talking drum masters of Northern Ghana. These ways turn drum strokes into speech, transmit instructive proverbs and ancient histories, and spark new exuberantly danceable songs.

Alidu takes the talking drums of his past into new territory with his American band, the Bizung Family, on Land of Fire (self-release; September 16, 2010). Recorded from Madagascar to the Rockies, the album marks ...

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Mike Mainieri - Crescent (NYC)

Source: Master of a Small House
August 4, 2010

Trane tributes remain a reliable if sometimes rote jazz tributary. Vibraphonist Mike Mainieri seems to recognize their resilient ubiquity on this outing, tweaking the formula in a number of intriguing ways and coming up with a program both familiar and singular in the execution. The success is due in no small part to his sidemen, both of whom easily sidestep the strictures of that largely outmoded signifier. Altoist Charlie Mariano was at the end of a long and fulfilling road ...

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Out Today: Vox Arcana's Aerial Age (Allos Documents)

Source: Improvised Communications
August 4, 2010

Today is the official street date for Aerial Age (Allos Documents), the latest release from Chicago-based drummer/composer Tim Daisy's unusual working trio, Vox Arcana.

Joined by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and clarinetist James Falzone, his collaborators in such other renowned ensembles as KLANG and the Vandermark 5, Daisy showcases his own original compositions, which juxtapose the structure of contemporary chamber music with the highly attuned, open-ended improvisation that distinguishes Chicago's storied jazz scene.

Among Daisy's diverse inspirations for this project are ...

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Jefferson Airplane Never-Released Live Albums to be Issued on Collectors' Choice, October 26

Source: conqueroo
August 3, 2010

Four live albums include original vocalist Signe Anderson's farewell show and Grace Slick's first show, both at the Fillmore in 1966

LOS ANGELES, Calif.--The argument rages on, but for many music fans in the '60s, the best live band from the Bay Area was Jefferson Airplane. Formed during the summer of 1965 in San Francisco, the group triumphed in 1967 with Surrealistic Pillow, one of the key recordings of the Summer of Love, containing the hits “Somebody to Love," “White ...

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Japanese Pianist Junko Onishi to release "Baroque" on September 14th

Source: Muse Media
August 3, 2010

JAPANESE JAZZ PIANO SENSATION JUNKO ONISHI MAKES VERVE DEBUT WITH “BAROQUE" SEPTEMBER 14th CD features an all-star ensemble including Nicholas Payton, Wycliffe Gordon and James Carter “It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that blues and swing," states Junko Onishi, one of Japan's most prominent jazz pianists. And swing she does on her Verve debut, Baroque, set for release September 14th. “Since she began her recording career in 1992, Junko Onishi has distinguished herself as a forceful, original ...

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