Recording News

Dan Pratt Organ Quartet - Toe the Line (Posi-Tone)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 10, 2010

The Hammond organ is a hardy instrument, having weathered waxing and waning popularity since pioneers like Fats Waller and Bill Doggett brought it prominence as a viable jazz voice. Still, the number of players who opt to apply it to adventurous settings remains relatively few compared to the legion content to toe the line of convention. Saxophonist Dan Pratt and organist Jared Gold choose the less traveled path on this second disc by Pratt's working quartet. Gold is an important ...

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Herbie Hancock New Album w/ Matthews, Jeff Beck, Trucks

Source: JamBase
March 10, 2010

HERBIE HANCOCK'S THE IMAGINE PROJECT SET FOR RELEASE JUNE 22 CD AND DOCUMENTARY RECORDED AROUND THE GLOBE AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TOUR DATES TO COINCIDE WITH HANCOCK'S 70TH BIRTHDAY

Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project, the new CD from multiple Grammy-winning artist and musical pioneer Herbie Hancock, is an unprecedented international recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and over a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. Utilizing ...

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Ornette Coleman is 80

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 10, 2010

Today is Ornette Coleman's 80th birthday. In my admiration for Coleman's independence, faithfulness to his vision and inspiration, I yield to no one--except my artsjournal colleague Howard Mandel, whose lengthy Jazz Beyond Jazz tribute today is replete with Coleman history and analysis and links to recordings and books. As addenda to Howard's account of Coleman's initial breakthrough with Contemporary Records, I offer this archive item and this followup entry.

Over the years, there is wide variety of instrumentation and sound ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records to Release Anima, the Debut Recording from Trombonist/Composer Mike Fahie

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
March 10, 2010

BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND RECORDS To Release ANIMA, The Debut Recording From Trombonist/Composer MIKE FAHIE Featuring Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Ben Street and Billy Hart! Available March 30 on BJURecords.com On March 30, 2010 Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records proudly releases the debut recording, Anima, from Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based trombonist/composer Mike Fahie (pronounced “fay"), featuring the thrilling ensemble of Mike Fahie (trombone), Bill McHenry (tenor saxophone), Ben Monder (guitar), Ben Street (bass), Billy Hart (drums). For Mike Fahie, the meaning of Anima, “the ...

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Crooner Matteo Brancaleoni's Album No. 1 on Italian Itunes Top Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
March 10, 2010

Matteo Brancaleoni, 28 year-old Italian singer, is No.1 on the Italian Top Jazz Selling album chart on iTunes with his new album “Live In Studio" for the second successive week!

The album has been also at No. 23 on the Top 200 Selling Album, and now is still No. 30 above Michael Buble's “Crazy Love" (No. 77)!

Matteo Brancaleoni's latest album “Live In Studio", hit also the Top 200 album chart, and the Top 10 Jazz Album on iTunes (Italian ...

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Grizzlies, Devils, Dolls, Art and Moi Mingle on Free URB ALT Music Sampler-Dos

Source: 4961 Polemics
March 9, 2010

The second edition of URB ALT Media's free music compilation, “URB ALT Sampler-Dos," offers more genre blurring sounds from around the globe. The compilation collects songs by various eclectic artists including Gil Scott-Heron, Grizzly Bear, MuthaWit, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toro y Moi, No Bra, BLK JKS, Free Moral Agents, and Leila Adu among many others. URB ALT's history of producing the URB ALT showcase and annual festival has exposed the presenters to wonderful signed and unsigned artists deserving of further recognition. ...

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CD Review: Jimi Hendrix, "Valleys of Neptune"

Source: Pop Dose
March 9, 2010

Given Jimi Hendrix's stature as one of the all-time greatest rock guitarists, the release of any new, previously unreleased material from the 40-years-dead guitar god tends to be cause for celebration. And why the hell not? Much of his barrel-bottom scrapings have more soul in them than the master cuts of more skillful axe-wankers. If you're going to bliss out on wankery, there were few better practitioners of the art than Jimi Hendrix.

Concurrently, given that more vault material from ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc - True Story (Dreyfus)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 9, 2010

Possessing a technique suggestive of years of rigorous training, French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc is actually an autodidact. His self-honed skills at the keyboard are immediately impressive and evince Bill Evans impressionism by way of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. His left hand is very nearly as mighty and variable as his right allowing for overlapping runs of dizzying density and detail. Free playing in systemic manners akin to Michel Pettruciani and early Cecil Taylor also falls with in the scope ...

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