Tuesday, June 03, 2014

NEW RELEASES: JOSHUA REDMAN - TRIOS LIVE; YUSEF LATEEF / ROSCOE MITCELL / DOUGLAS EWART / ADAM RUDOLPH - VOICE PRINTS; INGE BRANDENBURG - DON'T BLAME ME

JOSHUA REDMAN  - TRIOS LIVE

Nonesuch Records presents saxophonist Joshua Redman's Trios Live. The album was recorded at New York City s Jazz Standard and Washington, DC s Blues Alley during stands with two different trios Redman and drummer Gregory Hutchinson with bassist Matt Penman (Jazz Standard) and Redman and Hutchinson with bassist Reuben Rogers (Blues Alley). Trios Live features four original tunes by Redman and interpretations of three additional songs. "This album is dedicated to all those folks, all around the world, of all ages, identities, allegiances, and persuasions, who come out, day to day, night after night, to see and hear live jazz," Redman says in the album's liner notes. "You bear witness to this music; you testify to that moment. You are here. You were there. You made it possible. You make it real. You are the reason. You were the point." ~ Amazon.com

YUSEF LATEEF  / ROSCOE MITCELL / DOUGLAS EWART / ADAM RUDOLPH - VOICE PRINTS

Some of the most spiritual work we've heard from Yusef Lateef in years – a set cut with AACM legends Roscoe Mitchell and Douglas Ewart, and done with a sound that takes us back to the legendary sounds of both players in the 70s! Adam Rudolph also joins the quartet, bringing in some great percussion – and the album's a really collaborative affair, with all the musicians shifting through a wide range of instrumentation in their own spheres of expertise – at a level that recalls the work of the Art Ensemble of Chicago at their best. Lateef plays tenor, flutes, oboe, and even vocalizes a bit – as does Ewart, who along with Roscoe Mitchell plays a range of reeds and percussion instruments. Titles include "Voice Prints", "Sound Search", "Harpers Ferry", and "Morning Moves".  ~ Dusty Groove 

INGE BRANDENBURG - DON'T BLAME ME: EUROPE'S BEST JAZZ SINGER IN CONCERT 1958-1962

Rare work from the lovely Inge Brandenburg – one of Germany's hippest jazz singers of the postwar years – and an artist who set the tone for later work from a range of European vocalists! Inge sings in English throughout, and has a groove that's almost in the Verve Records mode – often with small combo backing that allow Inge lots of room for inflection on the lyrics and a definite jazz-based sensibility – and a style that might be somewhere between that of Anita O'Day and Ella Fitzgerald. The package brings together a host of well-recorded live tracks from the late 50s and early 60s – only two of which have ever been issued before – and titles include "Secret Love", "Lover Man", "That Old Black Magic", "S'Wonderful", "Lover Come Back To Me", "There'll Never Be Another You", and "Dancing On The Ceiling".  ~ Dusty Groove

 

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