Recording News

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Ludwig Premiere, New Album

Source: JamBase
June 9, 2010

YOU GOT FRED ALL OVER MY BEETHOVEN!!!

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is less than a week away from the world premier of Ludwig, their project reinterpreting Beethoven's 3rd & 6th Symphonies using arrangements by Noam Faingold & JFJO. The project premieres with the 50 piece Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, June 12, kicking off the 26th annual OK Mozart Festival in the gorgeous PAC at the Bartlesville Community Center. Tickets are still available and can be purchased here.

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Pianist/Composer Gwilym Simcock Releases New CD "Blues Vignette" on Basho Records

Source: Two for the Show Media
June 9, 2010

Basho Records is proud to announce the new double CD release “Blues Vignette“ from pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock. The album introduces his new trio featuring extraordinary, classically trained Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev and young UK drum star James Maddren as well as documenting Simcock's emerging voice as a solo pianist.

The first CD offers a mix of stunning improvisations and new original compositions as well as insightful interpretations of Grieg's Piano Concerto and a unique reading of the popular ...

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Notes from the Net: "First Times" with Miles; Oliver Lake's New CD; Boney James on the Mend; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 10, 2010

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* Starting off, as is our custom, with a Miles Davis item, NPR's A Blog Supreme recently asked readers “What Was Your First Miles Davis Album"? and got “nearly 1,000 replies on NPR's Facebook page; 103 replies here on ...

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Bill Carrothers - Joy Spring (Pirouet)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 8, 2010

June 26, 1956 - a day that will forever register in the ledger of jazz tragedy. Pianist Bill Carrothers pays tribute to the two jazz icons lost on that faithful date, Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, on this consistently engaging trio session. Carrothers covers the major bases of the Brown and Powell songbook, also pulling in tunes by other composers that they favored on albums and concert sets. Regular collaborators bassist Drew Gress and Bill Stewart jibe perfectly with his ...

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Konitz/ Cheek/ Furic Leibovici - Jugendstil II (ESP)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 8, 2010

How to improve on an already winsome formula? Such was a question facing producer Jim Black and bassist/composer Stephane Furic Leibovici in the wake of their first chamber jazz project for ESP. The answer came in an unexpected and inspired conscription, altoist Lee Konitz. Konitz has been influential party to these types of projects for well over a half-century as a melodic improviser nonpareil. His presence in the company of Leibovici and saxophonist Chris Cheek, here sticking solely to tenor, ...

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James Blood Ulmer - In and out (in and Out)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 8, 2010

A rare case of record title matching record label, James Blood Ulmer's latest carries that parity over to the music by not tinkering much with the successful strategy of past outings. Fronting a trio session, Ulmer's guitar positions up front with athletic support from bassist Mark Peterson and drummer Aubrey Dayle in close proximity. Peterson plucks both electric and acoustic instruments and his corpulent lines on the former are a sturdy undercarriage to Ulmer's snaking, seething blues leads and dart-tipped ...

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The Heft of Miles

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
June 10, 2010

How much musical weight do you give to trumpeter Miles Davis's 30 years of recordings for Columbia? Everyone may have a different answer, depending on the stylistic preferences of the listener, since Davis was always a groundbreaker in pushing style and sound. While it clearly doesn't include everything he recorded for the label, Columbia/Legacy this fall (September 24 at last word) will release a hefty package that is likely to appeal to the compleatists ...

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Post-War R&B a Bridge for Jazz and Rock 'N' Roll

Source: Groove Notes
June 8, 2010

Here is a great discussion between KPLU's Nick Morrison and Kirsten Kendrick.

Below is video and a transcript of the interview. To hear the audio from the interview, click here.

SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) Without jazz, rock 'n' roll might have never happened. At least it wouldn't have happened as it did. And the link between jazz and rock 'n' roll is post-World War II rhythm and blues. That's the viewpoint of KPLU's Nick Morrison. He compiled a list of the ...

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