Recording News

Flying Lotus: New Album w/ Yorke, Badu and More

Source: JamBase
February 11, 2010

FLYING LOTUS RETURNS WITH THE NEW ALBUM COSMOGRAMMA SET FOR RELEASE MAY 4, 2010 ON WARP RECORDS

Flying Lotus Flying Lotus has grown into the position of being far more than a producer, he has helped materialize a far-reaching strain of musical ideology that has encompassed not only a global family of like-minded artists, but also a nearly infinite palate of planetary (and interplanetary) sonics. Now he returns with Cosmogramma on May 4.

On his new album an ...

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Ozomatli: Album and Tour Dates

Source: JamBase
February 11, 2010

Upcoming Ozomatli Album and Tour Dates

Ozomatli Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli are set to release their new album, Fire Away April 20 on Mercer Street Records / Downtown Records.

Fire Away is the Grammy Award-winning band's fifth studio full-length, and first for the NYC based Mercer Street Records / Downtown Records. Produced by acclaimed producer Tony Berg (Aimee Mann, Pete Yorn), Fire Away features eleven new Ozo songs.

Ozomatli's music is a collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and ...

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Notes from the Net: Sanborn on Tour; New CDs from Reid, Pizzarelli, Holland; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 11, 2010

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* From the Miles Davis files, the blog Miles Davis Online hears rumors that the museum exhibit about the trumpeter that just closed in Paris may be headed to San Francisco. Also, most Davis fans know that he also ...

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"Simpatico"--Trumpet Master Claudio Roditi's New Release on Resonance Records

Source: DL Media
February 11, 2010

Available Today--SimpaticoTrumpet Master Claudio Roditi's New Release onResonance RecordsRoditi's New CD Follows His 2009 Grammy-Nominated Brazilliance X 4 In the wake of his acclaimed and Grammy-nominated (in the “Best Latin Jazz Album" category) 2009 Resonance Records release, Brazilliance X 4, trumpet/flugelhorn player Claudio Roditi has created Simpatico, another tuneful showcase for his patented blend of Brazilian samba and bossa nova with straight-ahead jazz. But where last year's recording included works by such Brazilian legends as Joo Donato, Durval Ferreira, ...

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Graham Nash Tribute w/ Prince Billy, Fleet Foxes, Benson

Source: JamBase
February 11, 2010

GRASSROOTS RECORDS AND (((folkYEAH!))) ANNOUNCE BE YOURSELF: A TRIBUTE TO GRAHAM NASH'S SONGS FOR BEGINNERS TO BE RELEASED MAY 25 ROBIN PECKNOLD, BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, VETIVER, JOHNATHAN RICE BRENDAN BENSON AND MORE CONTRIBUTE COVERS OF THE NASH CLASSICS

Legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash's emotionally charged solo debut Songs For Beginners was first released in 1971 and came on the heels of a temporary split with his CSN band mates, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and ...

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Shorty Rogers: Re-Entry

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 10, 2010

In 1969, trumpeter Shorty Rogers stopped recording. He was simply too busy to keep up with the practicing necessary to handle the endurance of a studio session. The flood of work in Hollywood compelled him to focus on composing, arranging and orchestrating for television and the movies. Rogers, along with Gerry Mulligan, had been one of the chief architects of West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, and his arrangements for The Giants, his nonet, set new exciting standards for ...

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Nels Cline Singers Release 4th Album, a Double CD, "Initiate," (Studio CD + Live CD) on Cryptogramophone Records April 13th, 2010

Source: Fully Altered Media
February 10, 2010

The Nels Cline Singers are Nels Cline, Scott Amendola & Devin Hoff Live Guests Include David Witham, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), John Dieterich (Deerhoof) & Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof)

Artwork Features Photographs of The Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Switzerland), The Largest Machine in the World

Album Produced by David Breskin (Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Frisell, John Zorn) Engineered by Ron Saint Germain (Bad Brains, Ornette Coleman, Soundgarden)

The concept of duality has been a defining characteristic of ...

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Rachael Sage "Delancey Street," a Gypsy's Journey Home, out 5/18

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 10, 2010

Rachael Sage Delancey Street is A Musical Exploration of Cultural Heritage and Identity A Gypsy Seeks Her Home on Sage's Delancey Street MPress Records Sets Digital Release for April 20th, Brick-and-Mortar Release is May 18th; SXSW, U.S. Tour are Set Singer/songwriter/producer Rachael Sage weaves an introspective tapestry of a gypsy seeking a home on 'Delancey Street'. The MPress Records release, set for May 18th brick- and-mortar (and available digitally on April 20th via iTunes,) is a musical exploration of identity...of ...

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