Recording News

New Release: John Carey, "Son of the House" on Planet Bass

Source: Michael Ricci
February 16, 2010

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John Basile New CD Release "No Apologies" on Stringtime Jazz

Source: Lisa Reedy Promotions
February 15, 2010

Jazz Guitarist John Basile and StringTime Jazz return to the roots and present a soulful organ based collection of standards, originals, latin, and '70s pop tunes in a new CD release entitled No Apologies. “For this project we wanted to approach the music, choice of musicians, and conception totally from an organic, back to basics approach, and work with material that I felt was complete in representing my experience in all styles of music over the years," says guitarist John ...

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Cratedigger: The 5th Dimension, "The Magic Garden"

Source: Pop Dose
February 14, 2010

There are very few songwriters who have enjoyed careers as storied as Jimmy Webb. For more than 40 years he's been sending songs up the pop charts, creating stars along the way. My own appreciation of Webb began with the Richard Harris recording of Webbs epic “MacArthur Park" in 1968. Its a song that has inspired strong, and not necessarily positive, reactions. There has always been that silly criticism about someone left the cake out in the rain, and all ...

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Guitarist Bryan Baker Prepares to Release "This Morning Day"

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2010

"A player of jaw-dropping technique and ferocious intensity with a darkly alluring musical vision, guitarist Bryan Baker is a leading light among a new breed of six-string renegades who are tearing it up with reckless abandon while pushing stylistic boundaries with impunity. His (debut record) Aphotic is the most startlingly original debut by a guitarist since Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life." -- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times Born into an immensely creative family, with his father being a professional guitarist, his ...

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Resonance Records Download Week at All About Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2010

Download five free MP3s courtesy of Resonance Records

Includes tracks from the Claudio Roditi's Simpatico and Gene Harris' Another Night in London.

Featured: 2010-02-09 Sweet Georgia Brown (09:29) Gene Harris From: Another Night in London Resonance Records Featured: 2010-02-08 Spring Samba (04:52) Claudio Roditi From: Simpatico Resonance Records Featured: 2010-02-12 I Hear A Rhapsody (06:17)

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Benevento Album out 5/11: Between Needles and Nightfall

Source: JamBase
February 13, 2010

MARCO BENEVENTO TO RELEASE BETWEEN NEEDLES & NIGHTFALL MAY 11

Marco Benevento Back with his third full length studio album in as many years, Brooklyn-based pianist and sound sculptor Marco Benevento delivers Between Needles & Nightfall May 11 via his label Royal Potato Family.

Between Needles & Nightfall was initially conceived at Trout Recording in Brooklyn where engineer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Akron/Family) tracked Benevento and his trio, including bassist Reed Mathis and drummer Andrew Barr, over three days.

The material ...

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Stanton Moore: New Album

Source: JamBase
February 13, 2010

Galactic's Stanton Moore Releases Groove Alchemy

Stanton Moore Best known as a founding member of New Orleans-based funk band Galactic, Stanton Moore releases Groove Alchemy on April 13.

The 12-track CD is the culmination of Moore's multimedia project that also includes an instructional book and DVD of the same name.

All three facets of the project are designed to explore the roots of funk drumming by examining the work of pioneers like Jabo Starks, Clyde Stubblefield, and Zigaboo Modeliste - ...

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Flowmotion: New Album Streaming Free

Source: JamBase
February 13, 2010

EARLY TASTE OF GREAT NEW ALBUM FROM PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAMPS

Flowmotion Melodic rock has few better proponents than Seattle's Flowmotion. As fine as their past work and exemplary live shows have been, the group's forthcoming studio effort, Ghost Pepper (arriving March 17), showcases a band ready for much wider discovery. With a sound humming on a similar wavelength to Wilco and ALO - i.e. indestructibly solid songwriting paired with sharp, tough musicianship and inviting vocals - Flowmotion's latest gives classic ...

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