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Harry Beckett Maxine ITM920010 >> 4250079750108 >> CD NEW RELEASES Jazz & World Chucho Valdés : photo by Alejandro Perez : photo by Valdés Chucho 8th November 2010 call-off: 29th October harmonia mundi labels: world village, le chant du monde distributed labels: accords croisés, airmail, act, alpha, american jazz classics, asphalt tango, aum fidelity, bd jazz, black eye, black saint, blues beacon, british library national sound archive, cadillac, camjazz, camoci, casequarter, contre jour, cristal, deda, edition, ellipsis arts, emanem, enja, evidence, fedora, fmp, foghorn, hatology, hi 4 head, highnote, high two, hippo, home made rekords, iaso, institut du monde arabe, iris music, itm, jaro medien, jazz wax, jazzwerstatt, konimusic, long distance, lusafrica, maik maier, makasound, marabi, morgenland, network, ocora, ogun, otrabanda, out note, pi recordings, playasound, plus loin, poll winners, ponderosa, poo productions, psi, q-rious, raki, rare music, regardless, riti, savant, smalls live, soul note, tiptoe, token, totolo, wergo, winter & winter, yellowbird harmonia mundi UK Ltd, 45 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ (tel) 020 8709 9500 (email) [email protected] PRIORITY NEW RELEASE 8th November File under: Jazz Chucho Valdés & The Afro-Cuban Messengers Chucho’s Steps 479051 >> 794881976027 >> CD digipack 1. Las Dos Caras (Both Sides) 8.54 2. Danzón 9.07 3. Zawinul’s Mambo 11.21 4. Begin To Be Good 5.12 5. New Orleans 4.42 6. Yansá 7.49 7. Julián 7.52 8. Chucho’s Steps 10.52 Chucho Valdés, piano Juan Carlos Rojas Castro, drums Lazaro Rivero Alarcon, bass Yaroldy Abreu Robles, percusion Carlos Miyares Hernandez, tenor saxophone Reynaldo Melian Alvarez, trumpet CHUCHO VALDÉS is in concert at the BARBICAN The superstar of Afro-Cuban Jazz is back with a Thursday 18th November (London Jazz Festival) new band and a new album! Chucho’s Steps review: “Valdés versatility shines resplendently on this CD. His com- One of the finest piano players in jazz, any sort of jazz, positions use a wide canvas on which he splashes a whirl Chucho Valdés has long been at the very top of Cuban mu- of colors that spin headily or mark open spaces with deep sic. From the inception of the mighty Irakere nearly forty daubs. The whole comes into sharp focus in his approach to years ago and on through a multitude of musical guises the piano. Brimming with ideas that seem to swoop out with (most recently an album on Sony with his father Bebo, and every touch of the keys, he can open a flood gate or lay back and play a temperate and soulful refrain...This is another an album on Warner with flamenco singer Concha Buika), master work from the genius of Chucho Valdés.” his genius always shines through. All About Jazz Now with his band The Afro-Cuban Messengers he pres- ents a new album (all composed, arranged and produced by Live review: Chucho) that once again emphasises the sheer dynamism “Ronnie Scott’s isn’t that small by club standards, but and exhilaration of his music. Chucho Valdés, the 68-year-old physical and musical giant from Quivicán in Cuba, makes it feel like a shoebox. Valdés’s “In short, this album is exceptional because it mixes virtuosity, ex- octave span might even have frightened Rachmaninov, and perimentation and spontaneity...on this CD, four musical languages his headlong keyboard exploits – traversing most of jazz are combined with great effectiveness: hard bop, modal jazz, free piano history, and often veering into classical – sound as if jazz and Afro-Cuban ritual music. Chucho shows that there isn’t they might burst open the doors...an unforgettable show.” a formula, but rather an expressive form that is not only enjoyed ***** John Fordham, The Guardian (April, 2010) to the fullest, but above all leaves a message and indicates one or more paths to follow.” Leonardo Acosta (from the sleeve notes) harmonia mundi UK Ltd, 45 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ (tel) 020 8709 9500 (email) [email protected] PRIORITY NEW RELEASE 8th November ITM Archives File under: Jazz Harry Beckett Maxine ITM920010 >> 4250079750108 >> CD 1. Bessie’s Blues – Falling in Love With Love Harry Beckett - tp, fl-h / Annie Whitehead - tb / John Burgess - fl, sax, b-cl / Mario Castronari - b / Winston Clifford - dr recorded at Porcupine Studios London, 1995 2. Les Jardins Du Casino Harry Beckett - tp, fl-h / Django Bates - p recorded at Porcupine Studios London, 1991 3. I Don’t Want To Know – Amsterdam Harry Beckett - tp, fl-h / Joachim Kühn – p / J.-F. Jenny Clarke - b recorded at CMP Studios Zerkall, Germany, 1991 4. Maxine Harry Beckett - tp, fl-h / Chris McGregor - p recorded at Hermes Studios Kamen, Germany, 1987 5. Cozy ‘N Rozy Harry Beckett - tp, fl-h / Chris McGregor - p / Courtney Pine - ts / Fred T. Baker - b / Clifford Jarvis - dr recorded at Manufaktur Schorndorf, Germany, 1987 In Memoriam Harry Beckett (1935 – 2010) Spotlight on a Central Figure of British jazz His playing has been described as “the musical equivalent of DNA,” and indeed to identify Harry Beckett requires no genetic analysis: it is sufficient just to hear him. His warm, exuberant tone, and his light, supple melody lines on trumpet and flugel horn are unmistakable, especially when he plays ballads. Beckett loves ballads, and some samples of these are to be found on the present album. This recording, made during one of the most productive phases of his career, presents him as a gifted in- terpreter of ballads, a great melodist, and a versatile stylist. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when what was already a lively British jazz scene was experiencing an almost unprecedented boom, it would have been difficult to imagine British jazz without Beckett. He belonged to all kinds of formations large and small and playing a wide variety of styles, lent his talents as a wind player to the then fashionable genre of jazz dance, and led his own groups and projects, each featuring top musicians of the British jazz elite. Regarded as a kind of father figure, he not only moved back and forth between different musical styles and generations, but was also able to act as a mediator between them and bring them together. All in all the compilation highlights the large and intricate web of personal and musical connections within which Harry Beckett was working back then. Berthold Klostermann harmonia mundi UK Ltd, 45 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ (tel) 020 8709 9500 (email) [email protected] PRIORITY NEW RELEASE 8th November File under: Jazz La Grande Histoire du Jazz An epic 100 CD chronological documentation of the history of jazz music from 1898 to 1959, housed in four boxed sets. Each box contains 25 slipcase CDs, a booklet (up to 186 pages) and an index. The booklets contain extensive notes (Eng/Fr) with recording dates and line-ups. 31 hours (approx) of music in each box, totalling 1677 tracks. Each track has been restored and mastered from original sources. Full track listing available on request. From Ragtime to Swing From Middle Jazz to 1898 - 1952 Be-bop 1952 - 1955 5741900/24 5741925/49 794881973224 794881973323 From Hard Bop to Cool From Modern Jazz to 1955 - 1957 Free Jazz 1957 - 1959 5741950/74 5741975/99 794881973422 794881973521 harmonia mundi UK Ltd, 45 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ (tel) 020 8709 9500 (email) [email protected] NEW RELEASES 8th November File under: Jazz HENRY THREADGILL ZOOID This Brings Us To - Vol. 2 Pi Recordings Pi36 808713003628 CD digipack Henry Threadgill (flute, alto saxophone); Liberty Ellman (guitar); Jose Davila (trombone, tuba); Stomu Takeishi (bass guitar); Elliot H. Kavee (drums) Here is the highly anticipated Volume II to 2009’s This Brings Us To, from alto saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill with his band Zooid. Volume I received across-the-board accolades as one of the best releases of 2009, coming in at #4 in the Down Beat Critics Poll, #4 in the Jazz Times Poll, and #2 in the Village Voice Jazz Poll. The two volumes of This Brings Us To are the culmination of eight years of work for Zooid to perfect a new system of group improvisation. When naming the albums, Threadgill insisted that they be named Volume I and II because he saw them as two parts that make up the whole of where Zooid was at the time of the recording. The recording session captures the band in peak form right after they returned to New York from a long European tour that gave them an extend- ed opportunity to negotiate and really live with this intricate and cutting-edge music. The two volumes also represent the two sets that the band performed live while on tour. “This Brings Us To, Volume 1 is a spectacular return from an important jazz composer, and is hope- fully an indicator of more to come from Threadgill and Zooid.” Allaboutjazz KEITH & JULIE TIPPETT Live At The Purcell Room Ogun OGCD034 5020675572317 CD digipack A performance from the 2008 London Jazz Festival, recorded for broadcast by Jazz on 3. The album consists of one long improvisation “Mirror Image” which incorporates two poems by vocal- ist Julie Tippetts. Husband Keith is of course on piano and both musicians play an array of percussion instruments. Spontaneous, innovative music-making as ever by two of UK jazz’s most respected and cherished artists (dubbed “the royal couple of UK free jazz”). VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA The Minimalism of Erik Satie Hatology HATO671 752156067122 CD digipack One of the jewels of the Hatology catalogue surfaces again. Described by the Penguin Guide as “a classic of its era...it remains a benchmark recording”, the album sees Matthias Ruegg’s mighty VAO reconfiguring the works of Satie.
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