Recording News

Available Tomorrow - "Home," Duo Recording by Pianist Bruce Barth and Steve Wilson, Released as Collaboration/Partnership with "We Always Swing" Jazz

Source: DL Media
April 27, 2010

Pianist Bruce Barth and Saxophonist Steve Wilson in collaboration with “We Always Swing" Jazz Series set to release Home on April 27 “House Concert," recorded live in Columbia, Missouri, a first from well-respected duo. The “We Always Swing" Jazz Series, the Columbia, Missouri-based, concert presenting and educational organization, and two well-respected present-day artists - Bruce Barth and Steve Wilson - are set to releaseHome, recorded live in Columbia, Missouri. The self-produced project captures the pianist and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist on June 27, ...

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Vocalist/Composer Sarah Partridge Releases New CD Titled "Perspective" (Peartree Productions)

Source: Two for the Show Media
April 27, 2010

The new release from vocalist/composer Sarah Partridge is titled “Perspective." Unlike most modern day jazz vocal releases “Perspective" takes a much more particular path. Bypassing the standard quartet set up that most modern day vocalists take, Partridge takes the duo approach here with her musical cohort Daniel May. The new recording is a gathering over a few days in which they collaborate and select tunes they both enjoy. Aside from covers by some of music's greatest composers, Partridge also includes ...

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Beat Kaestli - Invitation (Chesky)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 27, 2010

Swiss singer Beat Kaestli may seem a bit obvious, not to mention presumptuous in his sobriquet, but that's no reason to be bothered by an implied affinity with hipper times. Formally trained in voice at a number of prestigious academic institutions, he also received an education gigging on the road for the better part of decade. Performance in pop and R&B settings naturally led to an abiding interest in jazz song. This Chesky debut delves voraciously into the Great American ...

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Rosario Giuliani - Lennie's Pennies (Dreyfus)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 27, 2010

Italian altoist Rosario Giuliani isn't reticent about running down his influences. The title and lead track on his latest quartet disc sounds an appreciative salute to Lee Konitz. In the liners he checks off thanks to a handful of others including John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson and Sonny Rollins, though these seem influences more in spirit rather than letter. Conversely, Konitz comes across prominently in the agile glide of his phrasing and tart intonation. Pianist Pierre de Bethmann plays ...

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Singer-Songwriter Lauren Kinhan Releases "Avalon," May 18 on E1 Music

Source: DL Media
April 27, 2010

SINGER-SONGWRITER LAUREN KINHAN RELEASES AVALON, MAY 18 ON E1 MUSIC PERFORMANCE DATES IN BOSTON AND NEW YORK Lauren Kinhan has been - and is - many things in her life: vocalist, songwriter, producer, musician, mother and wife. For most of her career, she's been best known as a member of the highly acclaimed jazz vocal group, The New York Voices. As if to solidify her reputation as a group singer, in the past few years she's also been performing regularly ...

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Luther Gray - Lawnmower (Clean Feed)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 27, 2010

Drummer Luther Gray, an always reliable sideman in the ensembles of others, makes a welcome debut in the driver's seat on this date for Clean Feed. The underlying significance behind the album's title isn't self-evident so Gray helpfully elucidates it in his succinct liners. The tandem of Walkman listening and mower pushing formed the primary conduit by which he digested music for years. The music is meant to limn the arc of his listening evolution over those inumerable solitary hours. ...

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Time for an ECM Two-Fer: Paul Motion Trio and Ralph Towner/Paolo Fresu (2010)

Source: Something Else!
April 26, 2010

By PicoLast month ECM put on sale new offerings by two of their oldest stalwarts: drummer Paul Motian and Ralph Towner. Motian has been discussed on this site probably more than any other drummer, no doubt due to his long association with Bill Evans and his more recent contributions as both a leader and sideman. He began his association with this fabled label early on, in 1972, an association that continues today that was only interrupted from the ...

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Pianist Bill Carrothers Releases New CD on Pirouet Records Titled "Joy Spring"

Source: Two for the Show Media
April 26, 2010

BILL CARROTHERS - JOY SPRING - PIROUET RECORDS BILL CARROTHERS: piano DREW GRESS: bass BILL STEWART: drums

When you listen to the title piece, it's hard to believe what you're hearing. You would never imagine it could sound like this. The piano celebrates a stoic slowness, appears to mark time. Pensive, enigmatic. With endless patience, tentatively feeling its way from bar to bar. Searching. Seemingly struggling with the musical gestalt. Got the wrong track? No: you ...

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