Recording News

Jack Prybylski Takes the Music "Out of the Box" with New Release

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
February 24, 2010

Buffalo, NY -- What do you get when you combine elements of trance, steeped in generous portions of rhythm with a heat-infused saxophone that is masterfully caressed by one very bad cat? You get a pass on a very trippy vibe that some might say is “Out of the Box." Produced by Four 80 East (one of the hottest bands that has existed to defy all the rules), Out of the Box (Innervision Records) is the third solo release by ...

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Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabete, "Ali and Toumani"

Source: Michael Ricci
February 24, 2010

Ali and Toumani contains the final recordings made by a pair of master musicians: the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Tour, who died in 2006, and the Cuban bassist Orlando “Cachato" Lopez, who died last year.

But this 11-track album -- the second collection of collaborations by Tour and the Malian kora player Toumani Diabet -- doesn't sound like death. Rather, it's an early contender for the warmest, most life-affirming listen of 2010. As it was on the 2005 Grammy-winning “In ...

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1930s Recordings Preserve Haiti's Cultural Wealth

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2010

At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music - songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies in the late 1930s. He preserved the sounds on aluminum discs for the Library of Congress, but they were largely forgotten for seven decades as they sat in the library's archives. Recently discovered, they were compiled into a box set released last fall. Haitian music scholars called it a “cultural ...

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The Making of "Alfie" (Part 2)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 24, 2010

Soon after English pop star Cilla Black and Burt Bacharach recorded Alfie in London in late 1965, the single was released by Parlophone in Britain in January 1966. Paramount's English marketers intended for the single to stir up interest for the movie prior to the film's release in London in March. But Black's single exceeded expectations, inching up the U.K. charts for three months, topping out at No. 9 shortly before the film opened at month's end. The contrast between ...

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Martin Sexton Tour to Hit Bonnaroo, Jazzfest, Dave Matthews Band Tour and Headliner at Venues

Source: conqueroo
February 24, 2010

April 6 CD release: Sugarcoating

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Martin Sexton's spring and summer tour dates have just been announced and include several highlights: appearances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Bonnaroo, plus a run of dates supporting Dave Matthews Band.

Starting close to home with a New Haven date on April 15, he will headline such key markets as DC 930 Club, New York Nokia Theatre, Chicago Park West, Los Angeles House of Blues, San Francisco ...

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Gini Wilson: The Duchess Releases a New CD of Solo Piano Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
February 23, 2010

Best of the Vintage Solo Piano Jazz

Pianist Gini Wilson: The Duchess, is the Director and co-founder of the well known San Francisco ChamberJazz Quartet. Best of the Vintage contains lyrical and haunting arrangements of well-loved jazz standards, two pop songs, two bossa novas by the famed composer Amandio Cabral, and some emotionally resonant originals by the legendary Bay Area pianist.

“Wilson is a highly trained musician who is informed by the best elements of classical music and jazz. Emotion-drenched ...

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Jaga Jazzist Featured at AAJ!

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2010

Back after a five-year hiatus, Jaga Jazzist's One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010) is released today in North America. To celebrate the release of One-Armed Bandit, AAJ is providing extensive coverage:

Read AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman's insightful review of One-Armed Bandit;

Download the title track to One-Armed Bandit, today's Daily Download;

Watch Jaga Jazzist perform “One-Armed Bandit" on Norwegian public television (NRK), today's Video of the Day;

Check out an action shot of Jaga Jazzist, performing last year at Molde ...

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The Making of "Alfie" (Part 1)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 23, 2010

If the arrival of the Beatles in February 1964 marked a turning point in jazz's commercial viability, then the recording of Alfie by Cilla Black in 1965 was the sound of the door slamming shut. Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the U.S. release of the English film starring Michael Caine, the song went on to become a big hit for Black, Cher and Dionne Warwick. Despite Bacharach and David's initial trepidation about writing the song, Alfie today ...

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