Recording News

Orlando le Fleming - From Brooklyn with Love (19/8)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 29, 2010

Bassist Orlando Le Fleming doesn't score many points for creativity when it comes to the title of this live disc. Fortunately, what's absent in left-field thinking is made up for through audible work ethic and dedication to craft. Culled from two dates at Freddy's Backroom in the titular borough, the disc's six cuts find the bassist's quartet ranging by turns leisurely and aggressively through a songbook of conventionally-structured originals outfitted with generous improvisational space. Le Fleming seems to ...

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Black Music Legends Visit the Jewish Songbook on "Black Sabbath" Compilation

Source: conqueroo
June 29, 2010

Interplay of Jewish Culture & Black Music Chronicles on Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations

CD compilation with deluxe booklet to be released by the Idelsohn Society on September 14; features Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Scott, Cannonball Adderly, Nina Simone, the Temptations and more

Los Angeles, CA - Black Sabbath: The Secret History of Black-Jewish Relations is the first CD compilation to showcase legendary African-American artists covering Jewish songs. Focusing on the 1930s through ...

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Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves

Source: On Target Media Group
June 29, 2010

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Daniel Cros Blending Latin America on New Release

Source: Michael Ricci
June 28, 2010

Daniel Cros, Las vueltas que da la vida (Rosazul) coming on August 10th

Much rain has fallen since the days when he was the singer and lead guitarist in a mod band appearing on National TV in Spain. Since then, Daniel Cros has followed a trajectory that has been seduced progressively by pop, jazz and Latin rhythms, now he has brought all these genres together into one unique style.

His new work brings together a selection of twelve songs that ...

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1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die (651-660)

Source: Groove Notes
June 28, 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: James Moody

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 28, 2010

James Moody, 4B (IPO). According to the evidence on this CD due for release in early August, Moody at 85 is undiminished in energy, endurance, chops and harmonic imagination. In the companion to last year's 4A, the winner of the JJA's 2010 lifetime achievement award moves at deliberate speed— swinging—through jazz and standard classics including “Take The 'A' Train," “Hot House," “But Not For Me," “Bye Bye Blackbird" as a waltz, and compositions by Kenny Barron and Todd Coolman. Barron, ...

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Jamaaladeen Tacuma: For the Love of Ornette

Source: Michael Ricci
June 28, 2010

Jamaaladeen Tacuma is proud and honored to announce the completion of a recording project that is long awaited. A recording made up of original compositions featuring as guest his mentor and long time band leader Ornette Coleman. This album is titled For the Love of Ornette and will feature master saxophonist, composer, harmolodic musicologist Ornette Coleman as a guest soloist. The recording will highlight two important works, a composition that Ornette wrote for Jamaaladeen entitled “TACUMA SONG," which Jamaaladeen featured ...

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Solomon Burke Completes an 'Impossible' Musical Mission

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2010

Mission accomplished: Solomon Burke's new album, Nothing's Impossible, was produced by Memphis studio ace Willie Mitchell.

Solomon Burke and Willie Mitchell were friends for years without ever laying eyes on each other.

The King of Rock & Soul and the revered Memphis producer who made R&B stars out of Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson and, most famously, Al Green, spoke frequently over the years. But it wasn't until Burke finally visited Mitchell in 2008 that these longtime pillars of soul music ...

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