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Gabriele Tranchina's New Release Receives Rave Reviews
Jazzheads Recording Artist, Gabrielle Tranchina’s newest release “A Song of Love’s Color” has been climbing charts, captivating radio audiences around the world, and receiving much acclaim. Here's some recent feeedback on the new release. Learn more about the album here
"... a wonderful exercise in sophistication and raw power. This one kicks! Beautiful!" – Greg Edwards, Gapplegate.com
"Few vocalists have the capability to cover so much territory in the space of a single CD, so Gabriele Tranchina is clearly a talent deserving of wider recognition"
-- Ken Dryden – AllMusic.com
"..on Monday, Tranchina’s new album – A Song of Love’s Color (Jazzheads JH1176) – landed fresh from New York, inveigled its way onto my player and has been sitting there ever since, spinning an insistent spell, and demanding listen after listen"
– Piers Ford
"Gabriele Tranchina has a fine, clear, voice, is articulate and knows how to put a lyric over and how to work with a band, whether it's swinging hard or cooing a ballad. …Kudos to the fine rhythm section (percussionist Renato Thoms works well alongside Sanabria and Debriani) and the handsome piano contributions of Joe Vincent Tranchina"
-– Richard B Kamins
"...when you have a voice that shows the beautiful of not only your voice and singing, but jazz music itself, you must fall to your knees and beg. Gabriele Tranchina is a singer that will make you bow, as you’ll hear in her new album A Song Of Love’s Color (Jazzheads)."
-–thisIsBooksMusic.com
Hip Hop Hoodios Are Profiled On LatiNation
Hip Hop Hoodios were profiled during the week of April 18th on the nationally-syndicated tv show "LatiNation". This unusual cross-cultural phenomenon (whose music has been featured in Warner Bros Pictures release ‘Pride & Glory’ and MTV’s ‘Life of Ryan’) weaves a tightly stretched canvas of klezmer, hip-hop, and salsa splattered by some of the vividest, smartest rhymes to stud a rap disc since Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill". Learn More about this group in our artist profile.
Timbasa Climbs Charts
Settling into spot #13 on the JazzWeek World Music Albums’ April 26 chart, the album has garnered flattering reviews and international attention. Jazz Flutist Mark Weinstein plays World based Jazz and Post-Bebop with world-class musicians rooted in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, African, Jewish and Indian traditions.
A Latin Jazz innovator, Mark was among the first jazz musicians to record with traditional Cuban rhythm sections. His classic recording, Cuban Roots, released in 1967 with Mark on trombone and Chick Corea on piano transformed Latin Jazz, as have his Latin Jazz recordings on flute, including Cuban Roots Revisited (1999) and more recently on Jazzheads, Algo Mas (2005), Con Alma (2007) and Timbasa (to be released 2010). A joint project with Cuban master musician Omar Soso, Tales From the Earth is to be released October 2009. His Brazilian jazz recordings include Tudo de Bom (2003) and on Jazzheads, O Nosso Amor (2006) and Lua e Sol (2008). His Jewish albums Shifra Tanzt (2002) and Milling Time (2001) recorded in Kiev Ukraine, demonstrate the breadth of his musical conception as do his straight ahead albums, Seasoning (1996), Three Dueces (2000) and on Jazzheads, Straight, No Chaser (2008).
His recent recordings on Jazzheads include such notables as Jazz master Kenny Barron, Latin Jazz legend Mark Levine and the young Cuban virtuosa Axel Tosco Laugart. Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo, Downbeat Rising Star Dave Stryker, percussionists Cyro Baptista and Pedrito Martinez are featured on his Jazzheads recordings as are bassists Santi Debriano, Nilson Mata and Panegiotis Andreau. He has also recorded with bassist Mike Richmond as well as guitarists Jean Paul Bourelly, Vic Juris, Paul Meyers, Brad Shepik and Ed Cherry and drummers and percussionists Cindy Blackman, Victor Lewis, Paulo Braga, Mauricio Herrera, Cecil Brooks III, Marque Gilmore, Francisco Aguabella, Guilherme Franco and Milton Cardon. Mark has performed as a sideman with Cal Tjader, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Larry Harlow, Herbie Mann, Maynard Ferguson, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson and many others.
Sunday Morning is Available Today
Sunday Morning’ is the first in a series of CD recordings by Randy Klein titled, ‘Two Duos’. This recording features trombonist, Chris Washburne and Russian saxophonist, Oleg Kireyev, in an interpretive solo setting with piano accompaniment by Randy Klein.
The music, composed by Klein, is both eclectic and original. The 'Two Duos' series will consist of duets between Klein and a growing list of improvising soloists, which currently consists of Chris Washburne, trombone; Oleg Kireyev, saxophone and Kenny Davis, bass. The music for the series, composed by Klein, is captivating and powerful, and is meant to feature the soloist as well as the accompanist in a rare setting that is extremely exposed. Sample the Music Preorder and Learn More About This New Jazzheads Release.