Recording News

The Music Shines Brightly: Through the Lens of the Other Dimension, Random Touchs 13th Release

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
April 1, 2010

Algonquin, IL - Through the Lens of the Other Dimension is an evocative work, highly cinematic, heart-felt and softer than more recent works by eclectic music ensemble Random Touch. 2007s Alchemy is the previous release it most strongly resembles. The sixteen succinct pieces are like poetic soundtracks for various films. Titles such as Burglars on Tiptoe and Morning Rain are typical and lend an air of the visual and the contemplative to the sound and arc of the individual tracks. ...

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Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere Reunite for New Album, 'Midnight Flyer'

Source: conqueroo
April 1, 2010

Midnight Flyer, due in stores June 15, showcases more brilliant songwriting by two titans of blue-eyed soul's golden age

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - 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 ...

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Ennio Morricone 2010 Tour and Deluxe Box Set

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

“No other film composer has shaped music as unmistakable as Ennio Morricone“ - Morag Reavley, BBC

Italian composer and conductor Ennio Morricone, who has composed some 400 motion picture scores over a 45-year career embarks on a European tour this spring.

The highly prolific composer has worked with virtually every major international director of the last half-century. Morricone has earned five Academy Award nominations for original score -- for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables ...

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Pianist Bruce Barth and Saxophonist Steve Wilson Set to Release Home on April 27 in Collaboration with "We Always Swing" Jazz Series

Source: DL Media
April 1, 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 Jazz Series/Co-Leaders set to “host" CD-Release Party at Murry's, a favorite local venue, on April 25 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 release Home, recorded live in ...

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Frigid Air New Release from the Air Department

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

Frigid Air, the latest aural excursion from world fusion adventurers The Air Department, may well be their most eloquent offering to date.

On this their third release, the strong jazz roots and world music sensibility of The Air Department have been blended exquisitely together. This collection of new music, and one reimagined piece from the archives, artfully mines the strengths of composer Roger Ebacher's deep affinity for the art of improvisation both on flute and piano, and the tasteful percussive ...

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CD Review: "Introducing Justin Kauflin"

Source: Michael Ricci
March 31, 2010

By Joe Lang, Jersey Jazz, May 2010 Pianist and William Paterson University graduate Justin Kauflin has, with Introducing Justin Kauflin (JKC - 001), immediately established himself as a stellar jazz player, composer and leader. It is rare for a young musician to produce an album that displays the kind of musical maturity that is in evidence here. His cohorts, Tim Green on alto sax, Etan Haziza on guitar, Phil Kuehn on bass and Billy Williams on ...

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Champian Fulton - The Breeze and I (Gut String)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 31, 2010

As is the current lot of jazz writ large, singers in the idiom rate comparatively low on the public awareness and consumption charts. There are arguable exceptions like Diana Krall and if the definition is particularly inclusive, Norah Jones, but most of the time vocalists are in the same boat as their instrumental brethren. Even that waning bellwether of pop music celebrity, American Idol, gives the deep jazz vocal tradition only passing notice, usually hidden in the colloquial-hinged platitudes of ...

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Brandon Wright - Boiling Point (Posi-Tone)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 31, 2010

Over four decades after his premature passing, Coltrane is still a near-inescapable force for jazz saxophonists who opt for tradition-minded playing. Twenty-something Brandon Wright certainly sounds under the master's spell. From the bright, soaring unisions of “Free Man" the opening number on his new release, the tracks of Trane are a primary method of melodic travel. That observation may read like a slight, but it's not intended as one. After all, if a player is going to cop a sound ...

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