OutNow Recordings

OutNow Recordings was created based upon a deep consideration of the essence of jazz and contemporary improvised music and all that this music has been, is now, and can be in the future. .style1 { color: #D9E21D; } Out On April 1st: 1. Albert Beger and Gerry Hemingway - There's Nothing Better To Do 2. Yoni Kretzmer 2Bass Quartet - Weight Visit Our Website var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-24937141-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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A remarkable debut that demands future documents from this quartet.

Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz

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There's Nothing Better To Do captures a rare, immediate musical affinity, a breadth of shared musical vocabulary, and a mastery of free improvisation. Beger and Hemingway do not seek to explore obvious sonic avenues, choosing, instead, to explore themselves through this unique meeting

Eyal Hareuveni - All About Jazz

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Albert Beger celebrates a new album with Gerry Hemingway. 2nd April in Levontin7, Tel Aviv.

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Hi folks,

Super excited to announce that things are going well for the upcoming two releases of ours.  Here are some samples from the upcoming albums - enjoy and spread the word.

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Downbeat magazine had a very nice review by Bill Meyer in their last edition, of the Campbell/Elisha album Watching Cartoons With Eddie.

Click on the picture to enlarge it to a readable size.

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A review of Yoni Kretzmer's 2 bass show. The full album will be out on April 1st.

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We really liked the rough energies of Acid Birds. Ever since stumbling upon them in WFMU's Scott McDowell show, we're big fans of their. 

Check out the page in the Free Music Archive for some online free samples (or see this below)

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A review of Yoni Kretzmer's Overlook on NY Jazz Record, by Ken Waxman (Click on the image to enlarge)

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Ken Waxman with a BRILLIANT Feature of OutNow in NY Jazz Record

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New Review: AllAboutJazz on Cracked Song

A new review in AllAboutJazz, by Eyal Hareuveni on Ido Bukelman's Cracked Song album. 

Listen to two songs from the album and buy digitally

<a href="http://outnowrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ido-bukelmans-cracked-song" _mce_href="http://outnowrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ido-bukelmans-cracked-song">Ido Bukelman's Cracked Song by Ido Bukelman</a>

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John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

I’m pretty much a fan of all things Coltrane, especially from 1965 and forward. This album, Interstellar Space, is a duet album with the powerhouse that was drummer Rashied Ali.

Recorded just five months before his death in 1967, this album was not released until 1974. It’s a real fire-spitter of a jazz record. His last masterpiece… Get it!

This is an original US pressing from 1974 out on Impulse Records.

John Coltrane – Interstellar Space

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New Videos: Albert Beger and Hamid Drake

About a year ago, the Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger joined forces with legendery drummer Hamid Drake who came to play the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival. The two shared the stage, and gave an amazing, improvised concert,  in the memory of the late Fred Anderson. 

The show was professionally recorded to make a live album and until the album will be released, we edited four videos off the entire show and we bring it here to you.

In March 15th, we'll release a new album by Albert Beger and Gerry Hemingway. More details here. 

Albert Beger and Hamid Drake In Tel Aviv

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New Track: Butterflies by Albert Beger and Gerry Hemingway

We're super excited about this;  In April 1st, we'll release a new recording by Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger and American drummer and percussionist Gerry Hemingway titled There's Nothing Better To Do.

We recorded a live show that took place in Tel Aviv, November 2011 and the result is just fantastic. We'll soon be taking discounted pre-orders, so make sure you'll join our mailing list here to get notified about it. Here's a track from the album to get you all started.

Albert Beger and Gerry Hemingway - Butterflies (if you can't see the player, please click here)

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We're blown away here.

And there's another piece by these guys.

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Yair:  I played this through and through today, this amazing piece by Sonny Sharock, with his wife Linda doing the vocals. Far out. This is serious.  

This immediately made me think of Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble album (This is a more relaxed piece but this album Xenogenesis Suite has some pretty radical moments of its own

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The fabulous Destination:Out blogs, lists their best selling FMP releases of 2011. 

The blog has been releasing the FMP catalog in digital format through a Bandcamp store for the last 12 months, and really brought some justice to our world. We recommend on these two (and of course the entire catalog is amazing) 

<a href="http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/14-love-poems-plus-10-more" _mce_href="http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/14-love-poems-plus-10-more">14 Love Poems [plus 10 more] by PETER BRÖTZMANN</a>

<a href="http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/pearls" _mce_href="http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/pearls">Pearls by GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA</a>

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Ido :

Discovering Paul Metzger just a few months ago was like discovering s friend, a big brother, and even a soul mate for me.  

Using his self-made guitar or his 23 strings banjo Paul is playing the music of "Don Quixote"; riding along in his imaginary world that he builds, and I am following him in my mind.