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Harkit Records
by Elliott Simon
With their sponsorship of this month's Live from London festival in NYC and unsurpassed archive of classic performances, Harkit Records has rapidly become a worldwide voice for British jazz. Begun in 1999 by collector and jazz aficionado Michael Fishberg, Harkit is definitely the place to go for those impossible to find but wonderfully jazzy British film ...
Ictus Records
by Kurt Gottschalk
The house is full in the beautiful basement theater on a February night at the Rubin Museum, an institution for the preservation of art from the Himalayas that opened its doors in the Chelsea section of Manhattan in 2004. The audience is there for an evening of percussion music and video based on journeys to temples ...
Vampire lesbiche nella Foresta Nera!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Magari qualcuno l'ha scoperta guardando un po', per così dire... dal buco della serratura, grazie a raccolte sfiziose e maliziose come quelle dedicate alle musiche dei film erotici tedeschi. O forse sarà l'aria “di casa" che ispirano i volumi di Beat a Cinecittà , le silhouette del Signor Rossi o de La Linea... In cerca delle ...
Greenleaf Music
by Brian P. Lonergan
When Dave Douglas and Michael Friedman first met at a recording session in New York in the mid '80s, the young trumpeter made an indelible impression on the young drummer. “When Dave started playing, he galvanized the band and he had a certain presence and a freshness that is unforgettable, said Friedman, who would go on ...
Lo sguardo globale della Clean Feed
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista a Pedro Costa alla scoperta di una delle etichette piu' vive e interessanti del nuovo millennio! Fondata nel 2001, l'etichetta portoghese Clean Feed [distribuita in Italia dalla JTD] e', nel giro di pochi anni, diventata uno dei nomi piu' apprezzati nell'ambito del jazz creativo. Una sorta di “bollino di qualita'" che la piccola label si ...
ArtistShare
by Brian P. Lonergan
In early 2005, something happened at the 47th Grammy Awards that had never happened before: an album won its category (Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album) without having been available in any brick-and-mortar record store - only through online sales. The album was the Maria Schneider Orchestra's superlative Concert in the Garden and the ...
Tim Berne's Screwgun Records: By Him, For You
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
With the launch of Screwgun Records in 1996, saxophonist-composer Tim Berne asserted ownership of his music and signaled a shift in his aesthetic perspective. Unwound, a live 3-disc set from his double-saxophone quartet Bloodcount, was taken from audience recordings - what would become a recurrent strategy - and mastered without production tweaks, evoking the sound of ...
Ubiquity Records: Fifteenth Anniversary
by Chris M. Slawecki
December 2005 marks the fifteenth anniversary for Ubiquity Records, a fiercely independent record label physically based in California but which has sown seeds and reaped fruit all over the musical map. Ubiquity Records is the musical lovechild of Jody and Michael McFadin, two DJs who shared the dream of starting their own record label. ...
Fantasy Records and The Concord Music Group
by Andrew Velez
The announcement in November 2004 by the Concord Music Group of its acquisition of Fantasy Records marked the joining of two of the last great independent music houses. With its own impressive jazz list including such legends as Marian McPartland, Rosemary Clooney and Gary Burton, Concord seemed a natural fit for Fantasy.Established in 1949 ...
Taso Music
by Elliott Simon
The globalization of jazz has long been a reality and its subsequent contact with ethnically diverse folk idioms has often produced exciting and creative music. This special synergy is no better showcased than on recent offerings from Taso Music. A Germany- based label, Taso has at the heart of its releases Polish born bassist Vitold Rek's ...
