Recording News

Michael Cuscuna on Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions

Source: Michael Ricci
July 14, 2010

The mid fifties was a fertile time for jazz; fresh, original ensembles were taking shape all over the country. The Modern Jazz Quartet, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Jazz Messengers and the Ahmad Jamal Trio immediately come to mind. Among musicians, each group had its imitators and its creative disciples who took its innovations one step further. But no group in this era was as pervasive in the 1957 incarnation of Jamal's trio with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel ...

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New Releases from Cadence Jazz Records Featuring Jimmy Bennington and Perry Robinson

Source: Michael Ricci
July 13, 2010

"Jimmy Bennington and Perry Robinson show no generation gap. Bennington plays like a veteran and Robinson delivers with a young lion's innocence. This is a pairing that over the past few years seems to have brought out the best in both. Here they stretch out in relaxed but dynamic fashion over three tracks and produce what is arguably some of their finest work to date." --Cadence

A legend from the 1960's, Robinson, who has recorded historic music for the Savoy ...

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Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 7 (Blues and Roots Edition)

Source: Something Else!
July 13, 2010

Trombone Shorty's sudden emergence on the national music scene from the streets of Treme is one of the big music stories of 2010.By PicoSometimes when listening to music, neither jazz nor mainstream is right for the moment. Blues or something folky or rootsy is usually called upon to fill in that gap. And there's been a number of new offerings coming out of these earthbound genres of late that soothes the soul like nothing else can. ...

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The Bad Plus: New Album out 9/14

Source: JamBase
July 13, 2010

NEVER STOP, THE TRIO'S FIRST ALBUM OF ALL ORIGINALS, SET FOR RELEASE ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The Bad Plus 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 ...

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Illinois Jacquet: Jumpin' at Apollo

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 13, 2010

In the mid-1940s, Illinois Jacquet was one of only a few tenor saxophonists who played in the styles of both Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Most tenormen of the period picked one influential approach or the other. Jacquet's ability to swing between both styles allowed him to chop away like Hawkins on r&b sides and sail along breezily like Young on ballads. Between 1945 and 1947, Jacquet exhibited these styles on the Apollo label, first in Los Angeles and then ...

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New Jazz CD: Marc Hoffman Releases "Curioso"

Source: blueplate pr
July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010 (CHARLOTTE, NC)--Virillion Music recording artist Marc Hoffman has announced the release of Curioso, an all-original jazz CD that features Hoffman on keyboard and vocals, Tim Gordon (Mr. Groove) on sax, Grammy nominee John Sharp on guitar, Terry Peoples and Nathan Scott on bass, and Gray Fallin (The Brubakers), Mike Lanier and Ryan Scott on drums and percussion. Curioso follows the release of a single track from the CD several weeks ago entitled “Hefti," Hoffman's tribute to his ...

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Esperanza Spalding's Champer Music Society

Source: Music Dept
July 12, 2010

Centuries ago, long before the advent of radio or recording technology, chamber music was the music for the masses--the music in which people from nearly every segment of society could find meaning and relevance.

A decade into the 21st century, Esperanza Spalding--the bassist, vocalist and composer who first appeared on the jazz scene in 2008--takes a contemporary approach to this once universal form of entertainment with Chamber Music Society, her August 17, 2010, release on Heads Up International, a division ...

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Kerry Politzer - Blue in Blue (2010)

Source: Something Else!
July 12, 2010

By PicoLast May 7, Piloo Records issued the 5th album by pianist, composer and vocalist Kerry Politzer, called Blue In Blue. Playing the piano since the age of four, Politzer studied classical piano for 14 years before falling under the spell of jazz, and she has committed herself to playing and composing in that idiom ever since. While working toward a bachelor degree in Music In Jazz Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music, she got ...

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