Recording News

Live at Last: "Les Sabler Live" to be Released September 1st

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
August 24, 2009

The guitarists Fragile serviced to radio, finishing next studio album The tape was rolling one special spring night in 1995 when multidimensional guitarist Les Sabler led his six band members onto the Sarasota Opera House stage for a magical program comprised of contemporary jazz, rock fusion, adult pop, blues and Latin rhythms. The inspired performance will finally be made available September 1st when Les Sabler Live is released by The Music Force Media Group. Sabler's haunting instrumental rendition of Stings ...

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Bill Hart Tells Us... "This is Why"

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2009

This Is Why, the latest release from guitar guru Bill Hart, is a fusion freight train transferring payloads full of blues, funk, rock and jazz. It is precisely this jambalaya of genres that makes Mr. Hart's music so accessible. “This is Why" features five-time Grammy nominee award winner Mike Stern (guitar) along with Enrico Galetta (bass), Gary Wilkins (bass), Charles Marvray (drums), Tom Knight (drums), Jef Ven Veen (drums and Ahsa Ahla (percussion). The result is deep groove, thick interplay ...

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Joe Henry Gives His Own Tone to the Blues

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2009

The musical wanderer's 'Blood From Stars' was released last week, also has become a noted producer.

Joe Henry is tapped into the American past in unexpected ways. He lives in a roomy South Pasadena Craftsman designed for President Garfield's widow, and his preferred attire, a black suit and pointy boots, suggests that the 48-year-old singer and guitarist would have been at home playing in Elvis Presley's first band.

“I typically come to things late," Henry said. “I was too busy ...

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Luis Marin Live at the Nuyorican Cafe Re-Issued

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2009

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Joe Henry Gives His Own Tone to the Blues

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2009

Joe Henry is tapped into the American past in unexpected ways. He lives in a roomy South Pasadena Craftsman designed for President Garfield's widow, and his preferred attire, a black suit and pointy boots, suggests that the 48-year-old singer and guitarist would have been at home playing in Elvis Presley's first band. “I typically come to things late," Henry said. “I was too busy with Leadbelly when the Clash happened." These days, the easygoing musician is venturing back to some ...

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Terence Blanchard Explores Democratic Themes Through Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2009

It's no coincidence that Terence Blanchard's new album Choices arrives at a moment when the nation is in the midst of a roiling debate over how to reform the health-care system. That's not to say the trumpeter and film composer offers an opinion on whether we should adopt a “public option" for health insurance. But his latest release for Concord Music is very concerned with notions of national dialogue, and questions about how we make decisions as a people. At ...

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Willie Nelson in Jazz Country

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2009

The singer has surrounded himself with some of the genre's top musicians for his new album of pop standards, American Classic.

Willie Nelson's famous face is tanned and weathered. White whiskers increasingly dominate his two-day stubble, and streaks of gray color the waist-length braid trailing down his back. The country music legend is sitting on a bench seat inside a tour bus parked behind the bullpen at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore, waiting to take the stage at this, one ...

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"Golden Earrings" - Testament to Taste, Talent, and Exceptional Chemistry

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2009

Whaling City Sound is excited to bring you this very special collection of music from the late, great guitarist Joe Beck and jazz vocalist Laura Theodore. This intimate and inspired series of duets effectively pays twin tributes. Initially conceived by Theodore as a tribute to the revered vocalist and popular music icon Peggy Lee, whose alluring, “cool" style captivated listeners through the '40s, '50s & '60s, it also stands as a tribute to the late guitar great Joe Beck, who ...

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