Recording News

Ross Bolleter - Night Kitchen (2002-2009) (Emanem)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 1, 2010

Like Roland Kirk and his panoply of horns, Russ Bolleter faces the charge of gimmickry each time he holds forth on his instruments. Bolleter's province is ruined pianos, the specifics for which are delineated in his own book on the subject, The Well Weathered Piano (3rd edition). “Ruined" is an important adjectival designation, distinct from “neglected" or “devastated" with a key requirement residing in the condition that no single note sounds like one attainable from an even-tempered upright piano.

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Ethan Mann - It's All About a Groove (Petunia)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 1, 2010

Truth in titular advertising definitely applies to this trio date. Groove and feel are paramount to guitarist Ethan Mann's musical philosophy. Keyboardist Chip Crawford and drummer Greg Bandy are of a shared music-making consciousness. All three men have been gigging since their teens in a multitude of setting. Bandy had the distinction of working New York City clubs during the Seventies and good fortune to curry favor with profile band leaders like Pharoah Sanders and Gary Bartz. Mann and Crawford ...

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Sarah Manning - Dandelion Clock (Positone)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 1, 2010

A few seconds with Sarah Manning's cutting and passionate alto and it comes as no surprise that one of her key early mentors was none other than Jackie McLean. Manning also studied with Yusef Lateef on one leg of a cross-coastal odyssey that eventually ended in New York City. This quartet set, her debut for Positone, displays the logical benefits of those peregrinations. Manning officiates a program comprised of originals save for Jimmy Rowles' “The Peacocks" and Michel Legrand's “The ...

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Eric Felten - Seize the Night (Melotone)

Source: Master of a Small House
June 1, 2010

A doubler on voice and trombone, Eric Felten shares a page in common with the Jack Teagarden playbook. His methods on both bespeak a more recent vintage, but there's still something classic in tone about this laidback set. Felten's lubricious phrasing brings to mind J.J. Johnson and is largely free of grit or growl. No tailgate or gutbucket exclamations here, just a smoothly urbane vocabulary whether he's phrasing a lead line or a lyric. A Harvard alum, he built his ...

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"American Dreams," New CD by Jazz Vocalist Laurie Antonioli, Due June 22 from Her Intrinsic Music Label

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
June 1, 2010

Deeply valued as a musician's singer throughout her career, Laurie Antonioli is sure to come into wider awareness and appreciation with the release on June 22 of her fourth album, American Dreams. The stunning new disc, on her Intrinsic Music label, is her first U.S. release since 1985's Soul Eyes (a duo album with George Cables) and amounts to a belated and much-welcome American debut. Years in the making, and in the dreaming, American Dreams is an eclectic project held ...

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Utopia Records Bari Saxophonist Rebecca Buxton Burns on "Step Back"

Source: One Creative Publicist & Management
June 1, 2010

Rebecca Buxton is a talented Baritone Saxophonist on Utopia Records' burning hot single “Step Back".

(New York, NY) Beautiful Baritone Saxophonist Rebecca Buxton can blow her saxophone with the best of them. The funkadelic track “Step Back" through Utopia Records is a display of her mean sax play. Backed by legendary music impresario Alfonzo Blackwell's lush songwriting, production, arrangement and multi-instrumental work, Ms. Buxton delivers on this funk masterpiece that gets everyone up and dancing to the soulful grooves. Visit ...

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Even Sopranos Get the Blues

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2010

FOR months now, the acclaimed soprano Rene Fleming, her recording company and her public relations agency have been working hard to make one thing clear: Dark Hope, her new Decca recording of indie rock songs, is not a crossover project.

Crossover! Heaven forbid! To many classical music critics and tradition-minded artists, the commercial crossover projects in the last two decades are sure signs, in the words of the esteemed British baritone Thomas Allen, that well- organized hijackers and ...

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Max Wild: New Album 'Tamba' on Obliqsound & Tour with Chiwoniso

Source: Calabro Music
May 31, 2010

Brooklyn, NY -- Zimbabwean saxophonist Max Wild will release Tamba on June 29, his riveting full-length debut on ObliqSound that blurs the lines between jazz, funk and Afropop. In Shona -- the predominant language spoken in Zimbabwe -- Tamba means “dance," and it's virtually impossible to be within listening distance of this music and not comply. Featuring Zimbabwean vocalists Chiwoniso and the late Sam Mtukudzi, Tamba fuses the rhythmic and melodic traditions of southern Africa with the sophisticated harmonies and ...

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