Recording News

Recent Listening: Daniel Szabo, Chris Potter

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
April 2, 2010

Daniel Szabo Trio Meets Chris Potter, Contribution (BMC). Szabo is a 34-year-old pianist and composer with impressive academic and performance credentials and awards in Hungary and the US. One of his professors at the New England Conservatory was Bob Brookmeyer, who sent a copy of Szabo's CD with a note strongly suggesting that his former student deserves close attention. This album commands close attention. Szabo's compositions have lines with binding energy that urges forward motion, and chord structures of challenging ...

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Chemical Bros: New Album 6/08

Source: JamBase
April 2, 2010

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS WILL RELEASE NEW ALBUM FURTHER ON JUNE 8, 2010

The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers are set to release their seventh studio album, Further, on June 8, 2010 on Freestyle Dust/Astralwerks. This album is the band's first to be released with corresponding films made specifically to match each of the 8 audio tracks. The films will be included on an iTunes LP and special edition DVD.

Nearly three years on from the release of their Grammy Award ...

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Odean Pope Quartet - Fresh Breeze (Cimp)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 2, 2010

Odean Pope records are old reliables. Such shorthand is not meant to argue anything safe or rote about the entries in his discography. Rather it's meant as an assertion of principled dependability across the board. Put on a Pope album and you're guaranteed some gold-standard tenor playing at a minimum. Fellow Philadelphian Bobby Zankel has a comparable reputation earned in similar fashion. Both men have benefited from a long association with the Cadence stable of labels. Zankel, in particular, has ...

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Ullmann|Swell 4 - News? No News! (2010)

Source: Something Else!
April 2, 2010

By PicoGerman woodwind wunderkind Gebhard Ullmann and New York-based trombone titlist Steve Swell may come from opposing sides of the Atlantic, but when the two get together to make music, they're in the same house of whack jazz. There are some 70 led or co-led albums between the two (including Swell's mind melting Particle Data Group with Gregg Bendian and Bruce Eisenbeil). Together, they make a highly charged quartet that adds Hilliard Greene on double bass and Barry ...

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Herb Ellis, "Texas Swings" (1992)

Source: Something Else!
April 2, 2010

Today, we remember Texas jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, who has passed at 88 in his Los Angeles home after a long bout with Alzheimer's. Over a career that spanned six decades, Ellis worked with a number of legends, including Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong and in the classic line-up of the acclaimed Oscar Peterson Trio. Here's one of our favorite Ellis recordings, from off the beaten path:

NICK DERISO: When you think of Herb Ellis, it's bound to be ...

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Jamie St Clair's New Release "Infusion: Tales of a Rock & Roll Seeker" Release in June 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

Sublime Dezine Records is shooting for Fall 2011 to release the new vocal jazz rock CD from Jamie St Clair: INFUSION: TALES OF A ROCK & ROLL SEEKER. Musicians: Jamie St Clair (guitars, vocals, arrangements) Prem Joshua (sitar, flute) Kit Walker (piano, bass) Suvarna Freeman (vocals) Maniko (vocals) Anandgyan (bass, vocals) Praashekh Borker (sarod) It's a fusion CD that goes from an acoustic “wall of vocals" sound on Zen Fire, to a Bruce Hornsby meets Crosby, Stills & Nash ballad ...

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"Blue Lou" Marini and Misha Segal Release New CD

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

On March 23, 2010, “The Blue Lou and Misha Project - Highly Classified" was released by saxophonist Lou Marini and pianist / composer Misha Segal. The CD was recorded in Los Angeles, California and in New York City. This CD is the first collaborative recording by Marini and Segal. Lou Marini is best known as a member of several noted bands, including Blood, Sweat and Tears, Steely Dan, the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Buddy Rich Band, The Maureen McGovern Band, ...

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Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere Reunite for Second CD 'Midnight Flyer'

Source: conqueroo
April 2, 2010

LOS ANGELES, CA - Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. and the MGs and one of the primary architects of the unmistakable Stax sound of the 1960s, and vocalist/keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, the voice of the Rascals and the pivotal figure in the blue-eyed soul movement of that same era, have reconvened for their second collaborative recording. Sparks fly at the crossroads of Memphis soul and East Coast R&B when Stax Records releases Midnight Flyer on June 15, 2010.

Midnight Flyer, ...

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