Motema Announces Signing of Randy Weston Written on August 3, 2010.
New York based independent record label Motéma Music has announced the signing of the legendary Randy Weston. They will release his new album The Storyteller in November 2010.
From the Motéma blog:
Recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, The Storyteller features new arrangements of Weston classics and includes accompaniments by Alex Blake on bass, Lewis Nash on drums, Benny Powell on trombone, TK Blue on flute & saxophones, Neil Clarke on percussion, and music by the Jazz Heritage Orchestra of Cleveland State University.
Weston’s Motéma debut The Storyteller will be released in November, and coincides with the 50th Anniversary of Weston’s landmark 1960 recording, UHURU Afrika which helped introduce jazz to Africa, and African rhythms to jazz. Weston’s most recent accolades (of the scores) include a win in the Composer category in The annual Downbeat Critics’ Poll as well as being named to the Hall of Fame joining jazz legends and piers Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane. He was also inducted into ASCAP’s “Jazz Wall of Fame” this year.
Read more about Randy Weston’s The Storyteller on the Motema blog.
Watch Motema’s Randy Weston video playlist
Read more from the jazz category.
Tags: motema, randy weston, the storyteller
Social Bookmark :
Technorati,
Digg,
de.licio.us,
Yahoo,
Blinkbits,
Blogmarks,
Google,
Magnolia.
Leave a Comment
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.