Recording News

Brazilian Vocalist Kenia Pays Homage to the Dorival Caymmi Songbook on Her New Mooka Records Release, "Kenia Celebrates Dorival Caymmi"

Source: DL Media
April 19, 2010

Brazilian Vocalist Kenia Pays Homage To The Dorival Caymmi Songbook On Her New Mooka Records ReleaseKenia Celebrates Dorival Caymmi Ever hungry for new challenges, the sultry-voiced Brazilian enchantress Kenia, who reemerged on the jazz scene two years ago with the critically-acclaimed album Simply Kenia, serves up one of the most demanding and satisfying projects of her three decade long career with Kenia Celebrates Dorival Caymmi on Mooka Records.Renowned for her ability to ...

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Walking the Talk: Rocky Dawuni Uniting Ghanaian Roots with Global Soul

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 19, 2010

Walking the Talk: Rocky Dawuni, Humanitarian Reggae Rebel, Unites Ghanaian Roots with Global Soul

Rocky Dawuni walks the talk. Fist held high and dreadlocks flowing, the Ghanaian reggae artist is a rebel among rebels, tackling serious social issues with uplifting ballads and reggae rockers. All while working to challenge everything from infectious diseases to clean water to poverty across the rural communities of his homeland.

On Hymns for the Rebel Soul (Aquarian Records; May 25, 2010), Dawuni's infectious, groove-driven music ...

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"Egypt Noir": Ali Hassan Kuban, Salwa Abou Greisha, and More...

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

In the last decades, Western archeologists unearthed the remains of an advanced Black African civilization thousands of years older than Egypt's under the deserts of Sudan. But they could have just as easily discovered the funky echoes of this lost world at certain Cairo hotspots, by spending an evening with the rollicking music of the city's Nubians.

Driven from their homeland when the Aswan dam flooded a great stretch of the upper Nile that once was the kingdom of Nubia, ...

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Herbie Hancock Releases Free Track from 'The Imagine Project,' Celebrates 70th Birthday!!

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

Los Angeles, CA -- In honor of Herbie Hancock's 70th birthday on Monday, April 12th, fans around the globe were offered the opportunity to download a free track, “The Song Goes On," from Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project, set for release on June 22nd via Hancock Records/RED. Featuring Anoushka Shankar (sitarist daughter of Ravis Shankar), Chaka Khan and Wayne Shorter, “The Song Goes On" was recorded in Mumbai, India, along with a stellar group of Indian musicians, and will be ...

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Dalai Lama's Voice Heard On 'Renaissance'

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

There's a sanctuary where the pulse of cumbia moves to Tibetan notions of eternal time, where Native American and Indian sonics transform the voice of a female Sufi from Iran. A retreat where one of the planet's most revered teachers' words become a melody, and the message dances in the medium.

This place, created in a cozy home studio in the L.A. hills, is the home of the striking soundtrack to the documentary film Dalai Lama Renaissance (White Swan; May ...

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Grover Washington Jr. Fans Coming May 18th, a New Grover Live CD

Source: CHC Network
April 19, 2010

Grover Washington Jr. Fans Coming May 18, 2010 Grover Live! A new CD documenting the late great Saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. In a 1997 concert with his touring band.

Grover Live

The godfather of today's urban contemporary jazz scene, Grover Washington Jr., was one of the most popular and influential saxophonists of the 70s and 80s.

And as the newly discovered Grover Live demonstrates, the man was clearly on top of his ...

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Christie Winn and the Lowdowns, "Closer to Home" Just Released

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

The Band: Christie Winn - Vocals, Keyboards, Melodica; Steve Bissinger - Guitars, Lap Steel Guitar; Joe Kyle - Acoustic Bass; Jim Bove - Drums. About The Lowdowns The Lowdowns weave a sparse musical tapestry in support of Winn's nuanced vocals. Their rst album, “Further Away From Here" was described by one reviewer as “Diced americana thrown into a simmering vat of thick, swampy jazz." Gabriel Fehrenbach of Suddeutsche Zeitung writes, “As songwriters, Winn and Bissinger have a great feeling for ...

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Jazz Revelation Records Releases New CD Birds of a Feather

Source: Michael Ricci
April 17, 2010

Berklee's student run label Jazz Revelation Records (JRR) celebrates the release of its seventh compilation CD, Birds of a Feather, with a concert at the Berklee Performance Center on Thursday, April 22. The concert will feature seven of the label's most exciting student artists: Christoph Huber, Tom Kain, Utar Dundarartun, Kazuyo Kuriya, Lihi Haruvi, Nathan Cepelinski, and Roy Guzman. The Seventh Annual Jazz Revelation Records CD Release Concert is $10 ($5 for seniors), and begins at 8:15 p.m. at the ...

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