Recording News

Impressions Quintet Debut Album Launch Sunday 9th May Cubana Tapas Bar, Sheffield

Source: Michael Ricci
May 6, 2010

Together 5 years, Impressions are an exciting jazz quintet based in Sheffield featuring the stunning vocals of Karen Lake with a cool line up of Pete Lyons on tenor saxophone, Jez Matthews on piano, Rich Keates on double bass and Brian Bestall on drums.

See them perform songs from debut album, No Moon At All, at their cd launch Date - Sunday 9th May 2010, doors open 8.00, performance 9.00-11.00 Venue - Cubana Tapas Bar, Trippet ...

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Charles Mingus, "Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus" (1963)

Source: Something Else!
May 6, 2010

By NICK DERISO

Bassist Charles Mingus, an enlightening yet stormy presence, clearly felt he had unfinished business with some of his earlier work. So, he used “Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus" and a move to the more creatively open Impulse! label to take another pass at them.That turned into a dramatic remodeling project for Mingus.In fact, he rips them up, pieces them back together, speeds them up, slows them down, drives them into the ditch, then ...

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Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 - Dulcet Crush (Hatology)

Source: Master of a Small House
May 6, 2010

Swiss mountain guide by day, trumpeter by calling, Manuel Mengis is a model of the new millennial musician. His highly personal jazz is a polyglot of influences, mixing in rock, funk, pop and even the occasional bit of pap. Gruppe 6, his working band, represents a similarly deep wellspring of musical resources. Saxophonists Reto Suhner and Roland von Fle can play cocktail balladry with the same facility as Aylerian scrawls. Lionel Friedli's percussion philosophy fractures into a prismatic array of ...

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Saxophonist/Composer Miguel Zenon and "Esta Plena" Live at the Jazz Standard in New York City - June 10th thru 13th, 2010.

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 5, 2010

Saxophonist/Composer & Bandleader Miguel Zenon will be performing with his Esta Plena Group at The Jazz Standard in New York City from Thursday June 10th, 2010 thru Sunday June 13th, 2010--in celebration of his latest release on Marsalis Music titled Esta Plena. - Set Times are 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM - with an 11:30PM set added on Friday and Saturday.

“This young musician and composer is at once reestablishing the artistic, cultural, and social tradition of jazz while creating ...

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2nd Set of Fela Kuti Reissues 5/11

Source: JamBase
May 5, 2010

KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS TO RELEASE SECOND SET OF FELA REISSUES MAY 11, 2010 UNIQUE PRE-SALE OFFERINGS VIA FELA.NET

Fela Kuti Knitting Factory Records is very excited to announce that the second set of Fela Kuti reissues will be released on May 11, 2010. Once again, as the reissues are being made available in mostly chronological order, these seven CDs that contain 14 albums total are mostly from the mid '70s and represent Fela and Africa '70 in their ...

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Keefe Jackson Quartet - Seeing You See (Clean Feed)

Source: Master of a Small House
May 5, 2010

Likening the Chicago jazz scene anatomy to an onion might seem like a ridiculous exercise in reduction, but it's also a way to symbolize the layered, intergenerational relationships that exist between the city's players. Hailing originally from Arkansas, reedist Keefe Jackson resides on the younger end of that populous spectrum, his industrious track record representative of the prevailing collaborative ethos. Fast Citizens, co-led by colleague Aram Shelton, arguably remains his highest profile ensemble thanks to an ongoing Delmark association. Jackson's ...

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Richard Julian's "Girls Need Attention" in Stores Today

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2010

RICHARD JULIAN New album Girls Need Attention

Available digitally and in stores today!

(Sample tracks here.)

Check out Richard's new blog

'The Brooklyn Lime: tequila, music, food, travel, whatever' here.

Upcoming Shows... NYC CD Release

Saturday, May 15th / 7 PM Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 Amy Correia Opens Tuesday, May 18 - The Basement Nashville, TN - 7 PM

with Jedd Hughes, Brent Cobb, and Reed Foehl Nashville ...

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L.A. Based Band Infantree Gives Listeners Food for Thought on May 4th

Source: 1888 Media
May 4, 2010

Six-song Food For Thought EP produced by Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, Melissa Etheridge) will be available digitally on May 4th.

Infantree is a Los Angeles-based band which formed in 2007 with Alex Vojdani (vocals, lyrics, guitar, keys) Matt Kronish (vocals, lyrics, guitar, banjo) and Donald Fisher (vocals, lyrics, keys, bass, mandolin, guitar) as high school students in Calabasas, CA before solidifying the line-up in 2008 with the addition of drummer Jordan Avesar who provided not only ...

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