Recording News

Cameo-Parkway (Abkco) Reissues Coming from Collectors' Choice

Source: conqueroo
April 21, 2010

Six individual CDs including a doo-wop compilation kick off reissue program of long sought-after material

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On June 22, 2010, Collectors' Choice Music in conjunction with ABKCO Music & Records will begin a rollout of six reissues and compilations from the legendary Cameo and Parkway Records masters. The initial six CDs, including four twofers, are Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites, Bobby Rydell Salutes The Great Ones/Rydell at the Copa, Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time/Let's Twist Again, ...

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Luis Bonilla, "I Talking Now!" (2009)

Source: Something Else!
April 21, 2010

By NICK DERISO Luis Bonilla's “I Talking Now" (NJCO/Planet Arts), from the first bristling blast of trombone on the title track, is dashing down a busy city street. It's difficult to tell, at first, if he's running away from or toward something. Whatever the apprehensions, you are quickly surrounded by all of the nervy beauty and the exhilarating clatter we've come to associate with urban life -- and with jazz. Bonilla knows this town, the alley ways and ...

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Joe Chambers - Horace to Max (Savant)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 21, 2010

The arc of drummer Joe Chambers' recording career hasn't matched the magnitude of his merit until relatively recently. Blue Note used him in a sideman capacity on a number of its seminal Sixties sessions, but never tapped him for the leader's chair until decades later and then summarily dropped him after just a single album. A checkered stint for Muse in the Seventies suffered alternately from over-ambitiousness and date-stamping catering to commercial concerns. Enter Savant in 2006 and the release ...

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Brotzmann/Drake (Bra /Eremite)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 21, 2010

Duets with drummers remain one of Peter Brotzmann's most reliably rewarding formats for expression. An active percussive partner accords him the opportunity to shuck down to his primal self in a manner larger ensembles often don't allow. Of the dozens of drummers he's engaged in such conversations only his old colleague Han Bennink matches the rhythmic diversity and acuity that Hamid Drake brings to the equation. This set, recorded at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, spring of 2004, shows off ...

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Trombone Shorty: Backatown out Today/Free Stream

Source: JamBase
April 21, 2010

TROMBONE SHORTY GOES NATIONWIDE WITH BACKATOWN ON 4/20

Shorty Trombone Shorty's major label debut, Backatown (Verve Forecast/Universal), hits today. Produced by Ben Ellman (of Galactic) and featuring guest performances from Marc Broussard, Lenny Kravitz and Allen Toussaint, the album is a tour de force from New Orleans' 24 year-old trombonist/trumpeter/vocalist.

Right now the full album is online and streaming free HERE.

His live shows have been the stuff of legend and last night he was named Entertainer of the Year ...

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JazzWax List: 10 for Starters

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 21, 2010

Last week a friend asked me to recommend a jazz compilation for someone new to jazz. I resisted, telling him that they're all death traps. First, they're loaded with old things (pre-World War II) that are great later but certainly would turn off a newcomer. Second, compilation song choices often stink.

Instead, I urged him simply to buy 10 albums that would win over a newcomer and put him or her firmly on the road to discovery. “But choosing 10 ...

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Nnenna Freelon Releases New CD - "Homefree"

Source: On Target Media Group
April 20, 2010

The new CD from multi-Grammy nominated vocalist Nnenna Freelon, Homefree, hits stores today (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz Records. The new album is Freelon's 7th Concord release and is a soulful, swinging album that Freelon calls her “home brew." The collection is comprised largely of contemporary interpretations of classic American Songbook tunes as well as a new original (the witty, playful and poignant “Cell Phone Blues" composed by the singer) and spirited arrangements of two ...

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Drummer Mike Reed Completes People, Places and Things Trilogy with "Stories and Negotiations" (482 Music) Feat. Jeb Bishop, Art Hoyle, Julian Priester, Ira Sullivan

Source: Fully Altered Media
April 20, 2010

Mike Reed's People, Places & Things Latest Recording, Stories and Negotiations featuring Art Hoyle, Julian Priester & Ira Sullivan

Stories & Negotiations is Third Installment In A Trilogy of Recordings Devoted to the Remarkable Period of 1954-1960 Chicago Jazz, And Its Relation to Chicago Jazz Today

Release Date: April 20, 2010 Catalog #482-107 Recorded live in Chicago's Millennium Park in Summer 2008, Stories and Negotiations is the latest vibrant installment in drummer/composer Mike Reed's ...

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