Dot Time Records Recording Artist Catherine Russell’s Benchmark Release Alone Together Earns a GRAMMY® Nomination For Best Jazz Vocal Album New York, New York — Dot Time Records is pleased to announce the GRAMMY® nomination of world-renowned vocalist Catherine Russell in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Album. Today, November 20th at 9:00AM Russell’s nomination … Read More
By Steve Keogh, London Jazz News Cleveland-born singer VANESSA RUBIN has been a fixture in New York since the 1980s. She made several albums for RCA/Novus in the 1990s, has a new album of songs by Tadd Dameron, but this is quite probably her debut in the UK. Ahead of concerts in London (21-23 November … Read More
By Michael Bourne, WBGO LaTanya Hall owns a variegated curriculum vitae. She’s worked all around show biz. She was a Miss America finalist. She played the young Lena Horne in the workshop of a bio-musical. She starred on the road in the musical Dreamgirls. She was a backup singer with Harry Belafonte early on, and for years … Read More
By Michael Doherty, Michael Doherty’s Music Log It’s interesting to me how closely tied music and film often are. Sometimes a song that we’d heard all our lives will be featured in a film and from then on it is difficult to divorce the film’s images from the song. I think particularly of “Stuck In … Read More
By Leah Williams, London Jazz News Launched in 2015, the Dot Time Records Legends series has so far given the world a whole range of incredible, unreleased music from greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster and Wolfgang Lackerschmid with Chet Baker. There have been four Louis Armstrong releases to date with the latest – … Read More
By George Harris, Jazz Weekly For much of his career, Louis Armstrong was denigrated for not “changing with the times” and embracing modern sounds of bebop and hard bop. What these critics and musicians didn’t understand is that, like Mozart, once you perfect a sound and style, why change directions? The broadcasts performances recorded on … Read More
By Ron Scott, Amsterdam News When examining T.K. Blue’s impressive career it becomes evident his meeting piano virtuoso Randy Weston whose music sprouted from the ancestors and roots of Africa was no coincidence. He actually met Weston while playing and touring with the great South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim formerly known as “Dollar Brand.” Blue … Read More
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz Aside from being a multi-award-winning trumpeter and composer, Brian Lynch appears to be an avid reader and social arbiter as well. His twenty-third album as leader, a two-CD set whose protracted and austere name, The Omni-American Book Club / My Journey Through Literature in Music, belies its bold and free-hearted nature, is dedicated … Read More
World Renowned Vocalist Catherine Russell, Consummate Trumpeter Brian Lynch and Jazz Luminary Randy Brecker Earn Nominations in the 62nd GRAMMY® Awards Catherine Russell’s Alone Together nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album Brian Lynch Big Band’s The Omni-American Book Club nominated for Best Large Ensemble Album and Best Instrumental Composition Randy Brecker’s solo on “Sozhino” from Rocks … Read More
By Tom Schnabel, KCRW Back in the big band era, women on the bandstand played their roles as “girl singers,” not instrumentalists. Ella Fitzgerald got her start with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Sarah Vaughan worked with the Joe Moony Orchestra. During the 1950s and 60s, a number of women playing jazz-type instruments trailblazed the scene—trumpeter … Read More
