Fall 2012 - Worlds Records

CAPRI74119 JOE GILMAN RELATIVITY Three Spheres • Waterfall • Three Worlds • Smaller And Smaller •Covered Alley • Encounter • Snow • Day And Night • Sky And Water • Dewdrop • Ascending And Descending(Personnel: Nick Frenay, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Zach Brown, Corey Fonville) Pianist and composer JoeGilman follows his critically acclaimed release Americanvas, where all compositions were interpretations ofpainting by 20th Century American artists, with a tribute to the works of M.C. Escher titled Relativity. All theoriginal compositions were conceptualized and titled from Escher’s imaginative creations. Relativity’s cover isgraced with the Escher artwork for which this release is titled. He once again utilizes the talents of students atthe Brubeck Institute where he is a professor including Nick Frenzy, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Zach Brown andCorey Fonville. [Item Code: 73733 CD: $16.00]CHALLENGE73348 HARRY ALLEN SCOTT HAMILTON ROUND MIDNIGHT My Melancholy Baby • Great Scott •How Am I To Know • The Opener • Baubles, Bangles And Beads • Hey Lock • Lover • Flight Of The Foo Birds• ‘Round Midnight (Personnel: Scott Hamilton, Rossano Sportiello, Joel Forbes, Chuck Riggs) [2012] HavingHarry Allen and Scott Hamilton team together on a recording date, at a festival, or on any bandstand is quitelogical. Their playing is complementary, and they blend together well. They help keep the tradition of swingtenor alive without sounding exactly like any of their historical predecessors - and they can always be reliedupon to play exciting music. [Item Code: 73779 CD: $16.00]CONCORD33959 KURT ELLING 1619 BROADWAY - THE BRILL BUILDING PROJECT On Broadway • Come FlyWith Me • You Send Me • I Only Have Eyes For You • I’m Satisfied • A House Is Not A Home • Shoppin’ ForClothes • So Far Away • Pleasant Valley Sunday • American Tune • Tutti For Cootie Collective Personnel: JohnmcLean, Laurence Hobgood, Clark Sommers, Kendrick Scott, Christian McBride, Joel Frahm, Ernie Watts, TomLuer, Kye Palmer) [2012] The Brill Building Project, the new album from vocalist, Kurt Elling. With 1619Broadway ‘The Brill Building Project.’ The 11-track collection features renditions of classic songs that came out of the Brill Building.[Item Code: 73756 CD: $16.00]CRISS CROSS1350 CLARENCE PENN DALI IN COBBLE HILL The B 61 • Cobble Hill • A Walk On The B-H-P • Dali • IHear Music • Mr. C • Persistence Of Memory • My Romance • Solato’s Morning Blues • Zoom Zoom (Personnel:Chris Potter, Adam Rogers, Ben Street) [2012] Master drummer-percussionist Clarence Penn presents ‘Daliin Cobble Hill,’ a meditation on how the iconic Surrealist painter might have digested a stroll through Penn’sBrooklyn neighborhood. The eight originals and two standards incorporate a variety of moods, flavors, and strategiesthat reflect Penn’s extensive activity as a sideman for jazz’ best-and-brightest over the past decades; hisensemble of grand master generational contemporaries Chris Potter on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, AdamRogers on guitar, and Ben Street on bass inhabit the stories, playing with deep imagination and virtuosic craft.[Item Code: 73648 CD: $19.00]1351 OPUS 5 PENTASONIC The Saboteur • Videlles Dreams • Sign Of Life • Ducktones • Little Dancer• Three Days Of Maybe • Danny • Red Clay • Charlie’s Wig (Personnel: Seamus Blake, Alex Sipiagin, DavidKikoski, Boris Kozlov, Donald Edwards) [2012] The powerful all-star quintet Opus 5 returns with Pentasonic,the follow-up to their muscular 2011 debut Introducing Opus 5. It’s a can’t-miss linup with tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake and trumpeter AlexSipiagin in the front line, David Kikoski doubling on piano and Fender Rhodes, Boris Kozlov on bass, and Donald Edwards on drums. Once againOpus 5 puts original music by the band’s members in the forefront, but the choice arrangements of Charlie Parker’s seldom-heard ‘Charlie’s Wig’and Freddie Hubbard’s classic ‘Red Clay’ bring unique and unexpected angles to the session. Moody and ethereal, rhythmically skewed, alwaysfuriously burning, this is music that lives up to the name of everyone involved. [Item Code: 73649 CD: $19.00]1352 CONRAD HERWIG A VOICE THROUGH THE DOOR A Voice Through The Door • Traceless Moon • The Sun Within• Morning Shade • Water Rising Into Mist • All Or Nothing At All • Thorn Witness • Free Action Reaction (Personnel: RalphBowen, Orrin Evans, Kenny Davis, Donald Edwards) [2012] It would be fellow Criss Cross associate Walt Weiskopf who would bringConrad Herwig into the label’s fold back in 1992. Now some 15 years into his tenure, Herwig has recorded eight remarkable and engaginglydiverse albums with ‘A Voice Through the Door’ being his latest breakthrough. Then emphasis is on shared communication, an aspect that isclearly evident through Herwig’s long track record with pianist Orrin Evans and drummer Donald Edwards.[Item Code: 73650 CD: $19.00]DELMARK253 THE FAT BABIES CHICAGO HOT Snake Rag • London Cafe Blues • San • Alexander’s Ragtime Band• I Surrender Dear • Dardanella • Black Snake Blues • Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man • Froggie Moore •Willow Tree • Weary Blues • Liza (All The Clouds’ll Roll Away) • Please • Susie • Tight Like This • Stomp Off,Let’s Go (Personnel: Beau Sample, Andy Schumm, John Otto, Dave Bock, Paula Saro, Jake Sanders, Alex HallMike Walbridge) [2012] ‘Chicago Hot’ is a collection of 20s and 30s tunes mostly from Chicago’s south side.The band takes on recordings by King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Erskine Tate, Freddie Keppard,Jimmy Noone, Bix Beiderbecke which are infectiously danceable and endlessly engaging.[Item Code: 73764 CD: $16.00]8 worldsrecords.com (800) 742-6663 Fall Supplement 2012 8