Recording News

Thomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult - Lonely House (Covers) (Cimp)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 6, 2010

Covers seem natural grist for the creative music mill that is cellist Thomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult. The cleverly-coined chamber ensemble evinces a flexibility of form and function that invites investigation of a myriad of compositional sources. Ulrich and his bandmates, guitarist Rolf Sturm and bassist Michael Bisio, are voracious musical consumers. Combine that collective appetite with comparably broad commands of their instruments and the result is a reliable recipe for far-ranging songbook interpretation. This set, their third for ...

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Jakob Dylan New Album Stream It Free Here!

Source: JamBase
April 6, 2010

Stream Jakob Dylan' New Album, Women and Country, For Free

Jakob Dylan's new album, Women and Country, is set for release tomorrow (April 6) through Columbia Records, but you can listen for free right now!

Billed as Jakob Dylan and Three Legs, this new collection finds Dylan reuniting with acclaimed Grammy and Golden Globe winning producer T Bone Burnett (Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Crazy Heart), who produced the Wallflowers' 1996 breakthrough album Bringing Down the Horse. On this release, Jakob ...

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Guitarist Tom Lagana Stakes His Claim on Second CD; Sax Legend George Garzone Guests on Schematic

Source: DL Media
April 6, 2010

Guitarist Tom Lagana Stakes His Claim on Second CD; Sax legend George Garzone Guests on SchematicScheduled for May release on Harvest Time RecordsFor the past decade, guitarist Tom Lagana has been quietly carving out a niche on the D.C.-Baltimore-Annapolis jazz scene, with occasional forays into Richmond, Virginia and Philadelphia. On Schematic, the 40-year-old protg of guitarist Charlie Byrd makes a strikingly original statement with a potent rhythm tandem of drummer Todd Harrison and bassist Tom Baldwin ...

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Jake Hertzog Promotional Tracks

Source: Michael Ricci
April 6, 2010

Jake Hertzog's new release on Buckyball Records, Patterns, is hitting the streets by the end of the month. We want to share with you in advance two free mp3 promo tracks.

“Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzogs playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his own. What a gifted guitarist, and at 22, hes just getting started!" --Art Thompson, Guitar Magazine

Jake Hertzog ...

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One Track Mind: Roberto Badoglio "Inner Urge" (2010)

Source: Something Else!
April 6, 2010

By PicoI find that much of jazz is taking someone else's tune and make it into something new. The trick is to do so without casting off the thing (or things) that made it such a great tune to cover to begin with. But who can take Joe Henderson's modal madness of “Inner Urge", update it with modern touches that leave the compositional brilliance shining through?Roberto Badoglio, for one, can.Badoglio is a hotshot electric ...

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Frank Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim Reissue Coming On Concord

Source: conqueroo
April 5, 2010

Twenty-song set contains the complete 1967 'Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim' album plus all 10 songs from its intended 1969 follow-up, Sinatra/Jobim

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- In 1967, Frank Sinatra teamed up with Brazilian singer, pianist, guitarist, composer and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim to record an album that married the Chairman's signature vocals with rhythms from the master of bossa nova. The resulting album, Francis Albert Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim, reached #19, remaining on Billboard's rock-dominated album chart for ...

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Brazilian Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo & Vocalist Carol Saboya to Release New CD, "La e Ca," on April 20

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 5, 2010

Jazz and samba have shared a rich interactive history for the last half-century. In Rio de Janeiro, musicians took note of Chet Baker, Bill Evans, and composers like Cole Porter while jazz musicians in Los Angeles and New York absorbed the music of Black Orpheus and bossa nova innovators Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. Pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo was one of those young Rio players in the 1960s who found himself captivated by these new sounds, both at home and ...

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Marc Wagnon's CD Release "Earth is a Cruel Master" on Buckyball Music

Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2010

Marc returns to his own musical vision, combining great jazz-rock with thought-provoking themes such as recent scientific discoveries, climate change and the human condition. Marc takes on the lion's share of the instrumentation, returning to his first love: the drum set- and is joined by long-time collaborators Van Manakas and Leo Traversa.

In the early 90's Marc founded the group Tunnels with world renowned bassist Percy Jones, releasing a critically acclaimed CD in 1994, followed by Painted Rock in 1999. ...

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