New Jazz Releases for the Week of 4/12/2011

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Ben Allison, Benny Green, Gordon Goodwin, Jazz, Leo Blanco, Malika Zarra, New Releases

Greeting’s jazz enthusiasts, I’m elated as always to present the latest jazz releases for the second week of April. With each visit, you’ll discover a montage of new jazz recordings featured at Amazon.com that encompasses a generous diet of nuances which includes a wealth of complex and distinctive styles, textures, melodies, and rhythms exalted by a host of definitive and creative voices in the world of jazz.

New Jazz for the week of 4-12-2011

For more details, please visit Amazon.com for a complete list of this week latest jazz releases!

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PIANIST BENNY GREEN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HIS MUSICAL HEROES WITH NEW TRIO RECORDING, SOURCE

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Benny Green, Jazz, KENNY WASHINGTON, PETER WASHINGTON, Piano

TO BE RELEASED APRIL 12 ON JAZZ LEGACY PRODUCTIONS

FIRST TRIO ALBUM IN TEN YEARS FEATURES GREEN’S LONG-TIME PARTNERS, PETER WASHINGTON (BASS) & KENNY WASHINGTON (DRUMS)

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Benny Green - SOURCE

The dynamic and exuberant pianist Benny Green pays tribute to the great pianists and composers he grew up listening to, in an energetic and swinging, 10-piece collection titled Source (Jazz Legacy Productions). Featuring Green’s trio-mates, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Kenny Washington, Source includes compositions by Bud Powell, Sonny Clark, Carl Perkins, Kenny Drew, Duke Pearson and Horace Silver. Remarkably, this is Green’s first recording as a leader since his duo date with Russell Malone, Bluebird, in 2004, and his first trio recording since 2000, Naturally, when his band comprised Malone and bassist Christian McBride.

Source was largely set into motion when Green and the two Washingtons were getting reacquainted with each other in 2009 while on tour in Japan as the rhythm section for Japanese guitarist Satoshi Inoue. While Green had performed with Peter and Kenny many times over the years (for example, Peter played on Green’s debut album, Prelude, on Criss Cross in 1988, and Kenny played on Green’s 1996 Blue Note release The Place to Be), the tour made for a reunion of sorts.