Recording News

Collectors' Choice Reissues More Rare Peggy Lee Albums

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
January 6, 2010

COLLECTORS' CHOICE REISSUES MORE RARE PEGGY LEE ALBUMS TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY and LET'S LOVE To Be Released January 26 TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY Perhaps the most famous album in the Peggy Lee canon is one that few people have ever heard! Culled from three nights of a three-week April run at New York's Copacabana in 1968, during which Lee played two shows per night (and three on Saturday), blending in contemporary songs with old favorites to rave reviews. “Two Shows Nightly" ...

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Catching up (2): Peacock, Copland, Hubbard, Nimmer, Green

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 6, 2010

Gary Peacock and Marc Copland, Insight. Marc Copland, Alone (Pirouet). Copland's previous explorations on the fine German label Pirouet were four trio CDs and one by a quartet. In these new ones, he pares down personnel but not his signature keyboard touch, melodic inventiveness or harmonic astringency. Peacock, the brilliant bassist, gets top billing in the duo album, but he and Copland are full partners. Laced with chance-taking adventure, their interaction nonetheless produces an overall sense of contemplation and ease. ...

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Tokyo Rosenthal Announces New Release and Northeast Tour

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 6, 2010

Chapel Hill, NC -- Rock and Sock Records recording artist, Tokyo Rosenthal, announced today that his new album, Ghosts will be released on January 18. This will be Rosenthal's latest studio album since the highly acclaimed Love Won Out which broke into four different music charts. Ghosts features the previously released single, Mister Tell Me Bout The Great Depression, the riveting, hard rocking tune that tells the tale of the present economic downturn. Also already getting attention and advance airplay ...

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#6 For December 2009!---- Tony Foster's "In Between Moods" on the Earshot National Campus/Community Radio Charts!

Source: Michael Ricci
January 6, 2010

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"The Audience," New CD by Saxophonist Ralph Lalama, Due Jan. 26 from Mighty Quinn Productions

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 6, 2010

Ever since arriving on the New York scene in the mid-1970s, tenor saxophonist Ralph Lalama has been widely recognized as a Most Valuable Player. He's been a key soloist with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra for more than 25 years, and a member of Joe Lovano's Grammy-winning Nonet since its inception in 1999. But it was only in 2008 that Lalama made his first U.S. recording as a leader, the well-received Energy Fields for Mighty Quinn Productions. Now he's produced a ...

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Mort Weiss Releases First Solo Jazz Clarinet Recording, Raising the Bar, on February 16th

Source: GoMedia PR
January 6, 2010

Boy meets clarinet. Boy falls head over heels for clarinet. Boy spends every available minute with clarinet. But then the fast life, drugs and alcohol, slowly seduces, then pries the boy from his true source of devotion. Early passions die. The clarinet is abandoned. Four decades pass. Finally, one day, the dreams of youth are resurrected and the clarinet, once again, takes center stage. This is Mort Weiss' love story. The culmination of that love affair can be heard on ...

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Miles Brown Trio CD "Share My Life" Available on iTunes

Source: Michael Ricci
January 6, 2010

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Paul Revere & the Raiders' 'Complete Original Columbia Singles' Package Coming On Collectors' Choice

Source: conqueroo
January 6, 2010

Three-disc set contains 66 songs including all commercially released Columbia A and B sides plus “special product" tracks and a Pontiac GTO commercial

LOS ANGELES -- Paul Revere & the Raiders put the Pacific Northwest on the rock 'n' roll map with such smash hits as “Steppin' Out," “Kicks," “Hungry," “Just Like Me," “Good Thing," “Him Or Me -- What's It Going to Be?," “Ups And Downs," “Let Me," “I Had a Dream," “Too Much Talk," “Indian Reservation" and many ...

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