Long Song Records

14/11/2024

13/11/2024

"Uno degli album più belli dell’anno, teso, lucido e senza tempo".

TRACCE DI JAZZ ha parole bellissime per il ns nuovo disco EYES ON THE HORIZON del JOE FONDA QUARTET che trovate sulla ns pagina bandcamp https://joefondaquarte.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-on-the-horizon
in uscita il 15 novembre!

  Ho tra le mani un album, splendido, che ben difficilmente troveremo alla fine d’anno nei consueti Top Jazz sia nostrani che internazionali. I motivi sono molteplici, e anche abbastanza intui…

04/11/2024

OUT NOVEMBER 15th!!!

Bassist-composer JOE FONDA’s "EYES ON THE HORIZON" is a gift—a gift from a former student to his master teacher, legendary trumpet player and composer WADADA LEO SMITH. It is the best
possible gift a mentor can receive—it doesn’t imitate Wadada’s own work, it’s entirely in Joe’s voice.
Featuring Wadada Leo Smith himself, pianist SATOKO FUJII, and drummer TIZIANO TONONI, it is a gift given by a mature artist out of respect to another whose example of artistic integrity, perseverance, and ongoing creativity continues to inspire him to this day.
credits
releases November 15, 2024

Joe Fonda: double bass, flute

Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet

Satoko Fujii: piano

Tiziano Tononi: drums

Produced by Fabrizio Perissinotto

7 track album

27/10/2024

Con qualche colpevole settimana di ritardo condividiamo una splendida e graditissima recensione da parte del ns caro amico Marco Denti su ROOTS HIGHWAY, prestigioso pozzo continuo di meraviglie musicali selezionate e consigliate con passione.
GRAZIE!
STAR MOTEL si trova sulla ns pagina BANDCAMP in tutto il suo splendore!!

The J. & F. Band
"Star Motel. An American Music Experience"
[Long Song Records]
http://www.rootshighway.it/outtakes/2024/jfband.htm

"...raffinate riletture, derivazioni jazzistiche, improvvisazioni fulminee e, in generale, uno spirito “free” che ormai è un bene tanto prezioso quanto raro..."

16/09/2024

Eccellente recensione di IN A DREAM di Andy Aledort da parte di Late For The Sky - The Vinyl Legacy Association, storica e illustre rivista di appassionatissimi di musica! Grazie per l'attenzione alle nostre produzioni.
il disco lo trovate qui:
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-dream

Andy Aledort, chitarrista americano già con la Dickey Betts Band, ha pubblicato il suo nuovo album In A Dream per l'etichetta milanese Long Song Records. La nostra recensione è qui 👇

http://www.lateforthesky.org/2024/09/11/andy-aledort-in-a-dream/

13/09/2024

Per BLOW UP "STAR MOTEL" della J. & F. BAND è il DISCO DEL MESE nel nuovo numero di settembre!

Un risultato che ci rende estremamente orgogliosi, BLOW UP è una rivista prestigiosa che copre molti generi e in ogni numero recensisce parecchi titoli, essere stati prescelti è motivo di grande gioia!
Voto: 8.4 su 10!
"Una della band sulla carta più improbabili e scombiccherate del pianeta e insieme quella a cui riesce meglio di tenere insieme il florido mazzo della musica statunitense di ogni epoca.."
"..un marchio di fabbrica dalla sciolta originalità che profuma di alcoliche e notturne jam session senza mai perdere di vista la qualità dell'esecuzione, ottenuta dal mirabile equilibrio tra la potenza del collettivo e i calibrarti spunti individuali. Da quelle parti le stelle e strisce non sono mai state così lucide".
trovate il disco qui:
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/star-motel-an-american-music-experience

08/09/2024

Nuove entusiasmanti recensioni di STAR MOTEL della J. & F. BAND sono apparse sulla stampa specializzata! Cominciamo con il Buscadero (numero di luglio), purtroppo con la triste coincidenza della morte di Paolo Carù, fondatore della rivista e grandissima figura di riferimento per il settore musicale italiano che lascia un vuoto incolmabile.
STAR MOTEL è tra i migliori dischi del mese in assoluto (4 Stelle, Bollino Buscadero "disco consigliato"), le belle parole di Mauro Zambellini (grazie!) ne esaltano l'eclettismo, la passione e l'impatto della musica.
"STAR MOTEL è un esempio di come la musica, nelle sue accezioni migliori, e svincolata da mortificanti calcoli di marketing, continui ad essere il più popolare linguaggio universale per accomunare uomini a culture".
"Fuori dagli schemi STAR MOTEL è un'esperienza di musica americana che travalica gli steccati dei generi, un'opera di frontiera che ci consegna uno dei dischi più eclettici e appassionati dell'anno".
Potere trovarlo qui:
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/star-motel-an-american-music-experience

28/08/2024

A long time LONG SONG favourite!
Open your windows, turn up the volume, and play this wonder to the world!

from the album THE MASSARON MILLEVOI CONNECTION

08/07/2024

J. & F. from the J. & F. BAND while recording in Milano some years ago!

04/07/2024

"...I AM FLYING INTO THE SUN IN MY FORMULA ONE.."
this is Bobby Lee Rodgers' Formula One!
and this https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/track/formula-one is the song "FORMULA ONE" that can make your summer better, with his latin funk flavour, lazy sunny mood, catchy chorus.
Listen to believe!!! (obviously from the new J. & F. BAND record "STAR MOTEL - AN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE")

Jazz. Rock. Improvised Music, and More. Visit our Bandcamp page https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com

28/06/2024

It's time for you to refresh your memory and remember Bobby Lee Rodgers's first Long Song adventure. Bobby Lee Rodgers is such a funk rock and jazz force of nature, and that's why he also made the J. & F. BAND records so special and spicy with his presence, songs, surreal humour, and his amazing guitar technique.

from the album Sled

25/06/2024

OUT NOW!!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!!

LIVE A TRUE "AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE" WITH:

JAIMOE:
drums and percussion
JOE FONDA:
electric and double bass,
vocals
TIZIANO "TIZ THE WIZ" TONONI:
drums, percussion, gongs
PAOLO “PEE WEE”
DURANTE:
piano, hammond, synth, mellotron
DAVID GRISSOM:
guitar
JON IRABAGON:
tenor saxophone
EMANUELE “5P”
PARRINI:
violin
BOBBY LEE RODGERS:
guitar, vocals, backing vocals
CRAIG GREEN:
guitar

9 track album

22/06/2024

THE J. & F. BAND: "STAR MOTEL: AN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE", OUT JUNE 25th, EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON OUR BANDCAMP PAGE: https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/star-motel-an-american-music-experience
A TRULY FANTASTIC AND ADVENTUROUS RECORDS WITH:
JAIMOE:
drums and percussion
JOE FONDA:
electric and double bass,
vocals
TIZIANO "TIZ THE WIZ" TONONI:
drums, percussion, gongs
PAOLO “PEE WEE”
DURANTE:
piano, hammond, synth, mellotron
DAVID GRISSOM:
guitar
JON IRABAGON:
tenor saxophone
EMANUELE “5P”
PARRINI:
violin
BOBBY LEE RODGERS:
guitar, vocals, backing vocals
CRAIG GREEN:
guitar
(pictures by David Apuzzo, Photography )

18/06/2024

Critics and listeners who were able to get previews of this record are already getting very excited. "THIS RECORD, FRANKLY, IS A BOMB" said more than one. DISCOVER WHY with this 15 minute long incredible rendition of a super blues classic, where THE J.& F. BAND WILL LITERALLY BLOW YOUR MIND with one of the hottest hard grooving codas ever. OUT IN ONE WEEK! Pre-order it here.

from the album Star Motel: An American Music Experience

11/06/2024

Many thanks to the revered critic Mauro Zambellini for his enthusiastic words after the pre-listening of J. & F. BAND'S "STAR MOTEL" record (available for pre-order on our Bandcamp page!). Here they are:
"The J&F Band's fourth album will be released at the end of the month and, frankly, it's a bomb. The collective which counts on Italian and American musicians including the drummer Tiziano Tononi, the percussionist ex Allman Jaimoe, the bassist Joe Fonda, the guitarist David Grissom, the keyboardist Paolo Durante, the singer Bobby Lee Rodgers and others this time went beyond the best expectations, although to be honest even the previous albums were already really good, especially Me and The Devil. The formula is the same but saying this is a limitation because their music comes from live performances where jazz improvisation is based on very specific rock and blues references and bases, on this occasion a very particular reinterpretation of the well-known Route 66 by almost ten minutes, an equally incandescent You Keep Me Running by Jimmy Reed lasting over 15 minutes where Jon Irabagon's sax goes crazy as if we were at the Village Vanguard and a distorted and unrecognizable Take The Highway by the Marshall Tucker Band which takes you to a place where you never thought about going. But there are also original compositions and a sound dynamic always ready to surprise and amaze with its inventiveness... Under the production of the tireless Fabrizio Perissinotto who gathered everyone in the Firehouse 12 studio in New Haven, Connecticut, the place where they go to record great flower of American musicians, this time the J&F Band has decided to divide Star Motel, a splendid cover of an on the road mood with the subtitle An American Music Experience, into two parts: the first CD with six mostly sung tracks where jazz is the instrument for playing blues and rock in a different way according to an attitude that was mastered by the Allmans, the second CD where the ensemble indulges in instrumentals following the concept of a Mingus Medley through a jam of passion, technique, feeling, inventiveness , risks and rigor in that dimension that is typical of creating together without friction and hierarchies. A double album that goes beyond the boundaries of genres in a declaration of luminous and exhilarating universal music. Listen to believe". (picture by David Apuzzo)

03/06/2024

NEW DOUBLE CD COMING SOON! OUT JUNE, 25.

The J. & F. BAND is on the move once again! The new musical journey taken by the band with "Star Motel: an American Music Experience" spans from the North-East Chicago blues, with Route 66, to the funk of the deep South, going West to L.A. via Nogales, Arizona, to meet the Mingus ghost and his visions, back through the Great Plains where the Rez is the way of life for many. To end where it all began, in the South-East country and funky vibe...
PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE ON OUR BANDCAMP PAGE.

RELEASE DATE: JUNE, 25 2024The J. & F. BAND is on the move once again! The new musical journey taken by the band with "STAR MOTEL: AN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIEN...

28/05/2024

Guitar World interviews Andy Aledort about his critically acclaimed record "IN A DREAM", available on our Bandcamp page! so cool!

The veteran guitarist’s new album, In a Dream, features US guitar great David Grissom, plus covers of Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Albert King

27/05/2024

With a new double CD coming, right around the corner, let's make a jump into the past to remember a nice cool track from the J .& F. BAND second record, "Cajun Blue", graced by a really nice brass section!
find the record on our LONG SONG RECORDS Bandcamp page!

"Cajun Blue", the new J. & F. Band album is available for pre-order on our bandcamp page:https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cajun-blueMusic and lyric...