Recording News

The Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farill Quartet Live at the Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center on April 16th, 2010.

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 21, 2010

Jazz at Calhoun with The Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farill Quartet Friday - April 16, 2010 7:00 PM

Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center 433 W End Ave. New York, NY 10024 @ 81st St. The 2009-10 Calhoun Performing Arts Series presents Jazz at Calhoun with The Jim Seeley/ Arturo O'Farill Quartet Tickets: $5/students & senior citizens; $10/adults JIM SEELEY (trumpet/flugelhorn, composer/arranger) studied at Berklee College of Music. He has toured, recorded and/or performed with Ray Charles, Chucho Valdes, The ...

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Bassist/Composer Damian Erskine Releases New CD Titled "So to Speak"

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 21, 2010

Bassist/Composer Damian Erskine has released what promises to be one of the most exciting recordings of 2010. The CD titled “So to Speak" is the most recent release from this master bassist from the West Coast. If the last name rings a bell, it should, Damian is the nephew of legendary jazz drummer Peter Erskine, to which he credits much of his influence and musical path. Damian spent much time on the road as a young man with uncle Peter, ...

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Bassist/Composer Thomson Kneeland Releases New CD Titled "Mazurka for a Modern Man" on Weltschmerz Records

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 21, 2010

Thomson Kneeland's latest album, Mazurka for a Modern Man, is the culmination of a compositional project he completed in 2007, working with the late percussionist Take Toriyama, guitarist Nate Radley, Trumpeter David Smith & alto saxophonist Loren Stillman; the core of the musicians shared a broad vocabulary from ten years of playing together almost weekly: Balkan folk music, Indian tihais, drum'n'bass, electronica, rock, and of course, jazz and improvised music. They completed fourteen compositions in the studio in April 2007; ...

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Barb Jungr Releases the "Men I Love-the New American Songbook" CD

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 21, 2010

New York, New York - Barb Jungr is renowned for her unique vocal style and approach to arrangements and interpretations of a wide range of songs. When you hear her sing The Talking Heads classic track “Once In A Lifetime" on the upcoming release The Men I Love-The New American Songbook, you will find yourself caught up in the elucidation and forget who actually originally did the song to begin with. That is homage to the diverse talents of Barb ...

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Urban Jazz Pianist Elisha "Atlas" Parris is Here... AtLasT!

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

After being behind the scenes for the last 5 years as a record producer, music director, composer and songwriter, it's finally time for Elisha “Atlas" Parris to make a splash in the jazz community with his highly anticipated new urban jazz release, appropriately entitled “AtLasT!"

AtLasT! miraculously marries the straight-ahead jazz vibe of Miles Davis (Tune Up) with the soulful spirituality of James Weldon Johnson (Lift Ev'ry Voice), then skillfully weaves in Elisha's own urban jazz compositions (Beautiful Space, Tell ...

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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Shout! Factory Reissues

Source: JamBase
March 19, 2010

MAJORDOMO RECORDS TO REISSUE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION CATALOGUE

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Majordomo Records, a division of Shout! Factory, has teamed up with scuzz-blues pioneers The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion for a unique reissue campaign beginning in March 2010. The Blues Explosion's catalog will join Shout! Factory's elite, eclectic roster, which houses Rhett Miller, Von Bondies, Richard Thompson, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, among others.

“We're very honored to work with The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion," says Garson Foos, ...

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The Disco Biscuits: Planet Anthem

Source: JamBase
March 19, 2010

By: Dennis Cook

The Disco Biscuits have never been my thing. Long respected their general savvy and knack at carving out a unique niche for themselves, and there's no denying they can play their butts off, but music either connects with us or it doesn't. I offer this caveat because I came into Planet Anthem (released March 16 on Diamond Riggs Records) with ZERO expectations. And one's POV on Bisco will heavily influence their response to their game changing new ...

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Burton Greene - Live at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965 (Porter)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 19, 2010

Woodstock was a creative refuge well before the music festival that bore its name signaled a culmination of counter-culture sensibilities. Pianist Burton Greene was among a number of jazz musicians who made the area a second home in the mid-Sixties. Separated from daily grind of city-living they were able to develop and express their music largely independent of distracting stressors. Part of the process included live performance and fortunately the tape machines were often rolling. This set by Greene's working ...

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