Silk City Records is pleased to announce our future recording projects:
Roy Buchanan (scheduled for release 2010) - One of Buchanan's rawest and most expressive performances captured LIVE right here in the northern woods of New Jersey...
Sitting in with...Paul Gonsalves & Fats Wright (scheduled for release 2010) - A smoky after-hours session with the famous Paul Gonsalves, sax man for Duke Ellington. Flawless straight-ahead Jazz from a giant in a rare front man appearance. Recorded in the early 1960’s in a Boston recording studio. Gonsalves' famed 27 chorus sax solo at the Newport Jazz Festival in the late 1950's is credited with returning Ellington to prominence as a jazz icon. While Paul had done a number of jam and duo improvisational recordings with other jazz sax players before his untimely death, these are believed to be his only known sessions featured as frontman and band leader.
Fats Wright was an absolutely under-recorded master of jazz piano operating out of the Western Virgina region of Roanoke/Charlottesville. A true master of the ivories, he actually fought hard against putting out recordings for fear that it would erode his performance potential and concerned that he would be cheated or swindled by dishonest producers or labels (which history has proven was true during that period). This recording, one of the few agreed to by Fats, represents his ability to transform pop ballads and standards into jazz masterpieces!
Muddy Waters: Buried Alive - It looks like these precious sessions by the legendary Muddy Waters will be released very soon, indeed! These classic, never before heard live gems from the King of Chicago Blues feature both acoustic and electric gold... and some of Otis Spann's BEST EVER piano work. Nine acoustic tunes (with Muddy and Otis singing, accompanied by Otis' piano), and nine electric band cuts recorded live in front of a TV studio audience in 1966. The band features classic performances by Muddy, Otis, Luther "Georgia Boy Snake" Johnson, S.P. Leary, Pee Wee Madison, Little Sonny Webling, and Paul Oscher. We also have about 90 minutes of interview with Muddy and Otis, talking about the Blues, Hoodoo, The Beatles, being a Preacher, and life in Mississippi. Recorded in 1966 for a television broadcast, the station burned to the ground in a fire before the show could be broadcast. All that remained were the audio tapes, which were found in a garage in Verona NJ some years ago.
Toshiko: Living in Eden - Big band Jazz recorded live at NY’s famed Town Hall in the 1960’s. Originally discovered as a child prodigy by jazz giant Oscar Petersen, legendary jazz pianist Toshiko has been stunning audiences around the world for some time now. Her nimble finger dexterity, and her flawless phrasing have become the stuff legacys are made of.
Blues IN THE HOUSE - A compilation of live recordings of some the the finest national and regional artists appearing here in NJ during the 1980's.
Mel Hood- A Life in Jazz Time - The debut recording of one of NJ's most famous Blues entreprenuers... Recorded live