Recording News

Peggy Duquesnel Sings About Love on New CD "Summertime Lullaby"

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 4, 2010

New York, NY -- Peggy Duquesnel isn't just the director of music at her church in Los Angeles, she's also a successful jazz musician who's released seven albums. Her homey charm and inspiration shines through on her newest release, Summertime Lullaby.

Duquesnel has been a guest with the Auckland Philharmonic, the Anaheim Angels baseball team, the Mighty Ducks NHL team, the Roland Corporation, Disney, and Kawai America, as well as serving as the adjunct professor of ...

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Barney Kessel: Soaring

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 3, 2010

I love the sound of a jazz guitar. But what I enjoy most aren't the melody lines, although who can deny the joy of a great guitar solo. Instead, I'm a nut for the sound of swinging guitar chords and harmonic voicings. The thicker and meatier the chords played the better, and the more of them the merrier. If you share my passion for this full guitar sound, an album that will knock you out is Barney Kessel's Soaring.

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Chris Kelsey - Not Cool (Tzazz Krytyk)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 3, 2010

As playfully glib as ever, saxophonist Chris Kelsey couches his latest effort in an oppositional framework certain to arch a few eyebrows and maybe even roll a few eyes. His commentary to the disc commences with a caveat clarifying that his decision to sight Paul Desmond in his crosshairs isn't strictly motivated by disdain. Sure, he still attaches signifiers like “sappy", “wimpy" and “nerdy" to the much-lauded surname, but he's also careful to concede the Caucasian altoist's stature as “an ...

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Esa Pietila Improvised Solo Saxohone CD "Karhea" Released

Source: Michael Ricci
March 3, 2010

Solo concerts / New “FOUR STREAMS" Quartet Esa Pietilas fully improvised solo saxophone CD “KARHEA" has been released on march 26. 2009. “At the Solo concerts, the virtuosity of his technique and the tonal colours he creates in multitude textures belong into to the elite of saxophone expression. His capabilities to let the saxophone ring from variety of minimalism whispers to full free blowing, results a rich palette of colourful shapes of multiphonics, chordal tones, rhythmic surprises, and even fuga-like ...

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Steff Mahan Starts Fresh at 40; "Never a Long Way Home" CD out Now

Source: Seth Cohen PR
March 3, 2010

Musician Steff Mahan Rebuilds her “Broken Life" and Starts Fresh at 40 Hard Knocks Infuse Mahan's Cinematic Songs with Honesty, Poignancy and Vivid Detail Alt-Country singer/songwriter Steff Mahan always envisioned a career as a performer, but life got in the way, time passed, and she wasn't able to hit the road for her first real tour until she was forty years old. Now, with the release of her new CD Never A Long Way Home, she aims to chronicle the ...

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Otis Taylor's New Album, "Clovis People," Set for Release on May 11, 2010

Source: conqueroo
March 2, 2010

BOULDER, Colo. -- Otis Taylor digs the past. Whether it's the songs he wrote a decade ago, or ancient civilizations that lived more than 10,000 years ago, he's drawn to stories from another time, and he's compelled to retell them in a way that's relevant in the modern day. On Clovis People, set for release May 11, 2010, on Telarc International, a division of Concord Music Group, Taylor writes his own history.

It's the ideal project for the architect of ...

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Tom Harrell - Roman Nights (High Note)

Source: Master of a Small House
March 2, 2010

As a proud proponent of the “if it ain't broke, why fix it" philosophy to music-making, trumpeter Tom Harrell reconvenes his working band for this latest release. It's the same quintet on his last several records for High Note and a compelling example of the sort of dividends divisible from longevity with such an aggregation. These players know each other well and that camaraderie breeds a constructive shared confidence. While both the instrumentation and music could easily construe ...

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Rendezvous Band Offers Merging of Jazz and Electropop Music

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
March 2, 2010

Check out this up and coming jazz-electropop band about to enter mainstream this year. Known as “Rendezvous", they are currently working with D. Bascombe, the producer/mixer who has collaborated with Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Verve, and Suede. The band plays jazz music but their songs are also classified under electronica... It's interesting how both jazz and electropop were merged into one by this band! You may check out the band's music on rendezvousmusic.co.uk.Rendezvous Jazzes It Up! Jazz is ...

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