Long Song Records

30/05/2025

US friends! Thanks Ettore Franco Gilardoni and Real Sound Studio for the usual super high experience and professional level and friendship!

24/04/2025

our beloved shaman Jaimoe wore our cult t-shirt SOUND IS GOD during THE BROTHERS second show at M.S.GARDEN in NY!
How pretty! This means a lot to us, a truly special person.

(picture of The Brothers by Andrew Blackstein or Bradley Strickland, thanks!)

16/04/2025

Backstage with J. & F. (Jaimoe and Joe Fonda or our beloved J. & F. BAND) at Madison Square Garden for the first of two concerts of THE BROTHERS!!!!

16/04/2025

02/04/2025

Here's a very nice review from the prestigious Italian music magazine Blow Up about the MAIER & HAWKINS CD "TWO FOR KEITH"
8.0 super score! Thanks Piercarlo Poggio, great music critic.
Also check some live footage from their recent concert in Monfalcone.
Get the record here:
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-for-keith-2
"There are beautiful souls who don't go away even when they disappear. They leave traces, memories, images, maybe a piece of paper with some illuminating notes. In music this happens frequently and we must be grateful for the privilege of being able to have at our disposal, hopefully indefinitely, works of immeasurable value that force us to remain human. The background to this meeting between double bass player Giovanni Maier and Alexander Hawkins' piano is a juicy 2013 album, "Two For Joyce" (Long Song), in which Maier had Keith Tippett as a partner, a duet that was already ready to be repeated in the spring of 2020. First Covid and then fate decided otherwise. To process the mourning of Tippett's passing, Maier thought of trying new paths with Hawkins, because that's what it's all about. No obvious homages and no themes of the English master taken up again without much inspiration. Much better to launch into new free-flying adventures, as Tippett's best lesson was. Compared to his illustrious compatriot, Hawkins's approach to the instrument is on the other hand divergent, because he lives in a fragmented and precarious era, which devours and then spits out sounds of every kind. All this inevitably pervades his keyboard, between percussive sounds, abstractions, semblances of melodic figurations, forward leaps and lateral swerves, silences, phrasings from the history of jazz and futuristic hypotheses.
The great thing is that Maier is not impressed, he is there glued to the eruption of ideas of the young man, a safe anchor but also a proactive light in many moments. Tippett will get a bit of healthy envy"

23/02/2025

OUT MARCH 25TH!

For fans of first class avant jazz: an inspired and daring collection of mostly improvised duets guided by the spirit of the great late Keith Tippett and executed by two master musicians, Giovanni Maier on bass and Alexander Hawkins on piano.

13 track album

24/01/2025

Great reviews are pouring in for Joe Fonda Quartet's "Eyes On The Horizon"!
some excellent excerpts:

4 Stars **** DOWNBEAT, ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM

Best of 2024 Selection, AllAboutJazz.com

“One of the most beautiful albums of the year, tense, lucid and timeless” TRACCE DI JAZZ

“A masterful exploration of musical dialogue” JAZZ VIEWS

“this is an exceptional album” PARIS VIEW

“A must listen, Wadada Leo Smith shines” WHO’S MAKIN’ A SCENE!

“An album full of expressive freedom at the same time structured and logical” BLOW UP rating 8.0
...and more are coming soon!!!!

7 track album

11/01/2025

Always remember!

15/12/2024

Great reviews are pouring in for Joe Fonda Quartet's "Eyes On The Horizon"!
some excellent excerpts:

4 Stars **** DOWNBEAT

Best of 2024 Selection, AllAboutJazz.com

“One of the most beautiful albums of the year, tense, lucid and timeless” TRACCE DI JAZZ

“A masterful exploration of musical dialogue” JAZZ VIEWS

“this is an exceptional album” PARIS VIEW

“A must listen, Wadada Leo Smith shines” WHO’S MAKIN’ A SCENE!

“An album full of expressive freedom at the same time structured and logical” BLOW UP rating 8.0
...and more are coming soon!!!!

7 track album

23/11/2024

Ever imagine what Lowell George and Little Feat, Ornette Coleman, B.B. King, Los Lobos, Benny Goodman, Frank Zappa, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band might sound like mashed together and propelled by a drummer steeped in Gene Krupa and The Allman Brothers Band and a bassist adept in all manner of jazz? Likely not, so welcome to the incredible, no holds barred and thoroughly interlocked world of The J. & F. BAND!

MAKINGASCENE.ORG presents a review from TOM CLARKE on the new release from The J & F Band "Star Motel: An American Music Experience"

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Star Motel: An American Music Experience features The J. & F. Band, blending influences from jazz, rock, and blues. The album, produced by Fabrizio Perissinotto, showcases intricate musicianship, highlighted by Jaimoe's jam and various interpretations, including a vibrant take on "Route 66." It’s ...

08/07/2024

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