Recording News

Drummer Gerry Gibbs Hands Down His Awesome Aural History of Jazz Icon Miles Davis

Source: Mixed Media Promotion
March 25, 2010

Since the beginning of time there has been the telling of oral history. Stories have been passed down through generations, of family, of ancestry, of traditions, of myth, all indispensable to human identity. In fact, it is essential for a people to retain this history because it defines the character found at man's core. It's the same with music; it's an “aural," rather than an “oral," telling of history. Gerry Gibbs and the Electric Thrasher Orchestra have taken it upon ...

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Concord Music Group Assembles Pianist Vince Guaraldi's Vivid Musical Portraits of Classic Peanuts Characters

Source: DL Media
March 25, 2010

CONCORD MUSIC GROUP ASSEMBLES PIANIST VINCE GUARALDI'S VIVID MUSICAL PORTRAITS OF CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARACTERS Peanuts Portraits marks the 60th anniversary of cartoonist Charles Schulz's enduring characters By the 1960s, cartoonist Charles Schulz's Peanuts - featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus Van Pelt, Schroeder and other alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking characters - had become a popular fixture in newspaper comics for more than a decade. But when pianist Vince Guaraldi began composing and recording music for various Peanuts television specials ...

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Resonance Records to Release Romanian Piano Virtuoso Marian Petrescu's "Live at the Jazz Standard" on May 11

Source: DL Media
March 25, 2010

Resonance Records To Release Romanian Piano Virtuoso Marian Petrescu'sLive at the Jazz Standard On May 11 Petrescu's Explosive Debut As A Leader For The Label Features Powerhouse Playing Alongside The Ace Rhythm Section of Andreas berg, David Finck & Mark McLean With a dazzling keyboard command, and a seemingly unlimited wellspring of musical ideas, Romanian keyboard giant Marian Petrescu raises the pianistic bar with the release of Live at the Jazz Standard, his debut as a leader for Resonance Records.

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Japanese Label Denon Releases Major Jazz Recordings from Archive of Classic Content

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2010

Japanese Label Denon Releases Major Jazz Recordings from Archive of Classic Content: Select recordings will be available worldwide for the first time on all digital services

LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2010: Japanese label Denon, a sub-label of Columbia Music Entertainment (CME), the oldest recording company in Japan, has released select albums from their archives to be available for the first time digitally throughout the world. BFM Digital, a leading digital distributor of independent music, will be distributing the content.

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Richmond VA News - Review of "Introducing Justin Kauflin" CD

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2010

By Dean Christesen If the album as a whole is pianist Justin Kauflin's introduction, then track one is the first impression. On drummer Billy Williams's composition “The Covenant," Kauflin's personality comes out right away: unpretentious, creative, and assertive with a fluidity that makes the tune's 5/4 time feel as natural as ever. This release marks the Virginia Beach native's debut as a leader, and along with his remarkable abilities on his instrument, it's his and his bandmates' young ages that ...

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Bassist Avishai Cohen Sings Roots into Gold

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
March 24, 2010

Ladino Jazz and Clave Cantatas: Bassist Avishai Cohen Sings Roots into Gold

Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen is an alchemist at heart. Finding inspiration in musicians ranging from Bach to Stevie Wonder, Avishai can transform a tired Israeli school tune back into poetic gold. He can take the Sephardic melodies his grandfather sang in prayer, or his mother hummed while washing dishes, and make them groove. He can take a sinuous and spontaneous jazz bass line turn it into a top ...

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Composer/Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) Releases Woodbox Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear)

Source: AMT Public Relations
March 24, 2010

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Woodbox Beats & Balladry Available March 30th on Thirsty Ear Recordings Haitian-American violinist/composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) continues to establish himself as one of todays most relevant artists on the contemporary classical music scene. An innovative violinist, composer, performer, re-mixer, and band leader, DBR has won world-wide acclaim for his eclecticism and fearless exploration, whether through extended violin techniques, the infusion of electronics, or in his perspectives on the definition of chamber music. On Woodbox Beats ...

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Wilson Pickett Collection Rhino Handmade Release

Source: JamBase
March 24, 2010

RHINO HANDMADE TO RELEASE A SLEW OF NEW TITLES IN 2010

Wilson Pickett Rhino Handmade kicks off plans for a steady stream of new titles in 2010 beginning with the six-CD Wilson Pickett collection, Funky Midnight Mover - The Atlantic Studio Recordings (1962-1978). This collection - the first comprehensive compilation of Pickett's Atlantic material - includes all his originally issued recordings for the label, as well as early pre-Atlantic sides, his 1978 album for the Atlantic-distributed Big Tree imprint, and ...

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