Recording News

Edinburgh's Loose Grip Releases "Looking Glass" on Fabrikant Records

Source: Michael Ricci
March 4, 2010

Fabrikant Records is proud to announce the release of Looking Glass, the debut recording from an exciting new modern jazz quartet known as Loose Grip. The group is led by ex-pat Canadian drummer Chris Wallace and features 2009 Scottish Jazz Award winner Malcolm MacFarlane on guitar. Other members are Scottish jazz veteran John Burgess on tenor sax and American double bassist Sean Pentland. Wallace is building a reputation as one of Scotland's up and coming talents through his work with ...

Continue Reading...

Spanish Breeze Moves to #24 on Next Week's JazzWeek World Chart

Source: Barcelona Music
March 4, 2010

Thomas Lorenzo's latest CD, Spanish Breeze, Barcelona Music 2009 is moving up in the charts to #24 on next week's Jazz-Week World Chart Track 6 “Dulzura Con Rabia" will be added to the New Music Hour with Maria Lopez which airs on smoothjazznetwork.com Thomas believes that this album is a portrait of his Australian Spanish heritage where he seeks to share with his listeners all those imperfections that make us human beings and make us feel proud, shy, embarrassed, confused, ...

Continue Reading...

Jorge Strunz of 'Strunz and Farah' Releasing Solo Album March 16

Source: Michael Ricci
March 4, 2010

Jorge Strunz, Neotropical Nocturnes (Selva)

Latin American guitarist set to release solo album March 16

Seasonal storms sweep in at sunset. Vines interweave like arpeggios. Rains sigh and pelt the tin roof. Night falls, melancholy and magical, over crumbling colonial facades and humble villages, over the tropical nexus of two continents.

Genre-defying guitarist Jorge Strunz, one half of the acclaimed global guitar duo Strunz & Farah, evokes this luxuriant and haunting world, taking his virtuosity in a new and subtle ...

Continue Reading...

Barbes Records Announces: La's Accordion Playing Punks Very Be Careful's " Escape Room" out April 13

Source: Press Junkie PR
March 4, 2010

Don't call Los Angeles's seminal vallenato band Very Be Careful a “world music" act. The musicians' sound may be seeded in a particular region - the coastal northeast of Colombia, where this accordion-driven folk music has been making pulses race and libidos rise since the 1950s - but what they play is raw and groove-oriented.

As you can hear on the band's new Barbes Records release Escape Room (out April 13), the material is mostly their own (with covers of ...

Continue Reading...

Various - Boogie Woogie Kings (Delmark)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 4, 2010

As an idiom, boogie woogie seems an ideal candidate for sampler consumption. That's a polite way of saying that for many listeners, a little tends to go a long way. Rhythmic and melodic protocols tend to follow relatively rigid parameters and most purveyors aren't usually known for their ability to straddle other piano forms. That hasn't stopped the good folks at Delmark from continuing to dust off classic sides by the leading lights of the style. This latest collection lives ...

Continue Reading...

The Souljazz Orchestra: Album

Source: JamBase
March 4, 2010

The Souljazz Orchestra Release Rising Sun

Since their creation in 2002 in Ottawa, Canada, The Souljazz Orchestra has become one of the most potent bands in their field. Drawing on the rough, raw grooves of the '60s and '70s and fusing soul, jazz, Afro and Latin rhythms within their music, they have moved forward the blueprint of Fela, Fania and the funk in entirely new ways, whilst keeping the vital analogue grit intact.

They have previously released two albums on ...

Continue Reading...

Rebecca Parris: You Don't Know Me

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 4, 2010

The other day I happened across a CD of a singer whose name was new to me. As readers of this bog know, I'm pretty picky about the singers I listen to. I like my female vocalists authentic, earthy and deeply meaningful. I can't help it. My ears are spoiled and can instantly separate the fakers from the achers. I also favor jazz singers over pop or cabaret warblers. The difference for me is that jazz singers are bruised fruit, ...

Continue Reading...

Guitarist-Composer Fabrizio Sotti to Release "Inner Dance" on E1 Music, April 6 -- Paying Homage to Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith

Source: DL Media
March 4, 2010

GUITARIST-COMPOSER FABRIZIO SOTTI TO RELEASE INNER DANCE ON E1 MUSIC, APRIL 6SOTTI'S DEBUT ON THE LABEL PAYS HOMAGE TO WES MONTGOMERY AND JIMMY SMITHDriven by the dynamic interplay between Fabrizio Sotti's colorful electric and acoustic guitar and Sam Barsh's bluesy Hammond B-3 organ, the Italian born artist/composer's highly anticipated E1 Music debut Inner Dance beautifully recalls the spirit of the mid-60s albums by his guitar hero Wes Montgomery and organ great Jimmy ...

Continue Reading...