Recording News

Feufollet: Cajun Stars Experimenting on New Album

Source: Michael Ricci
May 13, 2010

Deathbed ballads meet glockenspiels and omnichords. Cajun French choruses are written on iPhones. Indie-rock vibes invade Acadian archives.

Welcome to the world of Feufollet, a band both deeply rooted in the francophone soil of Louisiana and pushing boldly into unexplored yet utterly natural varieties of Cajun experience. Though famous for their renditions of heartbreaking songs and rollicking tunes, the quintet breaks new ground on En Couleurs (Feufollet Records; June 1, 2010) featuring originals that draw on deep roots tempered by ...

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Pianist/Composer John Escreet Releases New CD "Don't Fight the Inevitable" on Mythology Records.

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 12, 2010

Don't Fight The Inevitable is pianist/composer John Escreet's eagerly awaited follow up to his award-winning debut album Consequences. The new recording features David Binney (alto saxophone/electronics), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Matt Brewer (double bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums). Escreet's sophomore release contains all new original material with the only exception being an inventive reinterpretation of Muhal Richard Abram's Charlie In The Parker. Don't Fight The Inevitable continues John's concept of documenting a working band - The project was recorded in New ...

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Contact Releases Five on One - Liebman, Abercrombie, Copland, Gress, and Hart

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 12, 2010

Pirouet Records PIT3048 Release date: May 2010 Contact: Five on One

Dave Liebman - saxophone John Abercrombie - guitar Marc Copland - piano Drew Gress - bass Billy Hart - drums

Five on the way to one. Five in one. Five on the same wavelength. The group is simply called Contact. But that's a word with a whole slew of possible meanings. There is certainly contact-but not of ...

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Bassist Michael Janisch to Record Live Album with Lee Konitz at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London on May 19 and 20.

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 12, 2010

Michael Janisch who is a composer, bandleader, and curator of a monthly creative jazz residency at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club will be performing with the Legendary Lee Konitz along with Dan Tepfer (Piano) and Jeff Williams (Drums) on May 19 and 20, 2010 in a two house per night showing. These series of concerts will all be recorded live for release on Janisch's newly minted Whirlwind Recordings Ltd. record label, which released his critically claimed debut album earlier in ...

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Jonathan Powell: "Transcend" CD Release Show Friday @ The Blue Note

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
May 12, 2010

Great news about fast-rising trumpeter Jonathan Powell: He and his nu Sangha group, including brother Jeremy Powell on sax, are playing a CD-release show this Friday, late night at the Blue Note in New York.

Jonathan and Jeremy, both gifted, young, eclectically minded jazz musicians, are Tampa friends of mine, and former bandmates, who performed and recorded with my old jam/jazz/experimental group, Ghetto Love Sugar (in addition to their gazillion other projects).

Jonathan has lived in NYC for several years, and ...

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Giuseppi Logan Celebrates 75th Birthday with Gig, Live Broadcast

Source: Michael Ricci
May 12, 2010

"With Giuseppi, it's always fresh. He's going to do things that no other saxophone player does." - Dave Burrell “There's a vibrancy to the music that's unexpectedly touching" - WIRE “There's a heartening tenderness and warmth to his playing" - Downbeat “An astonishing comeback record" - All Music Guide (4 stars) Legendary saxophonist Giuseppi Logan will celebrate his 75th birthday on May 22nd. To mark the occasion, he will play a special show at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn NY ...

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Bill Holman: I Told You So

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 12, 2010

Bill Holman arranged only one album for the Count Basie band while Basie was alive. The little-known album is I Told You So, recorded in January 1976 for Pablo Records. What makes this Basie album exceptional is Bill's powerful musical intellect and explosive sense of swing.

Throughout Bill's career, Basie has been a recurring influence. Bill's decision in the late 1940s to become an arranger was influenced largely by the intoxicating appeal of the Basie band of that era. Then ...

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William Hooker Trio - Yearn for Certainty (Engine)

Source: Master of a Small House
May 12, 2010

An admirable eclecticism and open-mindedness underscores William Hooker's career as a drummer. He's reliably followed his muse even when the ideas advancing his numerous projects have suffered under suspect application. This concert at Roulette is an apposite example of that phenomenon. On cardboard tray card it brims with potential intrigue. String bender David Soldier and reedist Sabir Mateen are two stalwart Downtown heroes with infrequent intersections between them. Hooker's decision to enlist them both is inspired. Holding the occasion in ...

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