Recording News

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Releases "Upto Here | from Here" on Arogole Records/Obliqsound

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2009

With her third full-length album, Israeli-born Ayelet Rose Gottlieb has elevated to a rarefied level of artistry. On the new album, Upto Here | From Here, releasing August 11 on her own Arogole Records imprint and distributed through ObliqSound, Gottlieb pulls the art of jazz singing out of its safety zone and infuses it with new possibilities, exploring the human voice in a way that few contemporary singers can or will. And Gottlieb does so seemingly nonchalantly, with the panache ...

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N.P.R. Music Offers Free Newport Jazz Sampler

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2009

We know that AllAboutJazz.com readers never stop looking for new music--specially free new music. So please check out NPR Music's Newport Jazz Festival Sampler.

In the interest of feeding these insatiable beasts, NPR Music is currently offering two free 12-song music samplers for download, featuring artists performing at this year's Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals in August. NPR Music is covering both festivals with webcasts and broadcasts--these free downloads preview the artists listeners will hear.

The jazz compilation boasts a ...

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Recent Listening: Seikaly, Broom, Glover, Davis-Rollins

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 9, 2009

As the Alps tower over Swiss villages, stacks of compact discs tower over me. Sampling, auditioning, listening at length when something grabs my ear, I make my way through the CD Alps that surround me. If I live to be 115, which is my plan, there is no possibility of my fully hearing more than a smattering of these discs. Some of the arrivals in the never-ending stream of albums are from veterans, young and old, recording for prominent companies. ...

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K'Jon's Soul is Back, and It's Mature

Source: Michael Ricci
August 8, 2009

No signifier of sincerity is left unexplored in the fantasy of domesticity that is K’Jon’s “This Time”: soft, pensive piano; light, Spanish-inflected guitar; muted horns; pliant strings; and, at the song’s end, a children’s choir.

“Last night tried to get some snooze/Dreamed we was breaking up, we were through,” he sings. “When I looked around you was gone/Found that a house is really not a home/When you’re alone.”

“This Time” is the second single from K’Jon’s major-label debut, “I Get ...

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17 Hippies: US Tour and New Album

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
August 8, 2009

There's Gold in Them There Hinterhfe: Berlin's 17 Hippies Unearth a New Global Sound for an Old City Made New

An overjoyed Algerian crowd in a freak cloudburst. Guangzhou's secret French Quarter and the whiskey-toned light on Louisiana's bayou. The deep gray gloom of back tenement courtyards and the golden promise of distant lands. Germany's quirkiest acoustic export 17 Hippies embrace all the planet's unexpected juxtapositions on their new album El Dorado (Buda Musique), their latest and merriest foray into ...

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Hard Drives Hide Unreleased Michael Jackson Songs

Source: PC Magazine
August 8, 2009

His sister LaToya has taken possession of computer hard drives that contain a trove of unreleased songs he recorded with A-list singers such as Ne-Yo, Akon, and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, according to Rolling Stone magazine. The drives were in the “Thriller" singer's rented Holmby Hills, Calif., mansion when he died suddenly in June. Hours afterward, the family descended on the house to claim all its contents, and LaToya grabbed the drives, Rolling Stone said, quoting the late ...

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Kris Kristofferson: New Album

Source: JamBase
August 7, 2009

Kris Kristofferson Reflects On Life And Love On His New Album Closer To The Bone

Kris Kristofferson Grammy Award-winning music legend Kris Kristofferson opens his latest release with the title track “Closer To The Bone," an intense, intimate song that seems to sum up the entire album. The record, Kristofferson's second with New West Records, continues with 11 poignant tracks and will be released on September 29. The new record was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Don Was (The Rolling ...

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Wayne Krantz Returns

Source: JamBase
August 7, 2009

Guitar Maverick Wayne Krantz To Release His First Studio Album In Fifteen Years

Wayne Krantz The boldly inventive improvisations of guitarist Wayne Krantz have long held a fascination for fans of dynamic, uncompromised music. Ex-Sideman with Steely Dan, Michael Brecker , Billy Cobham and many others, Krantz has focused on live performance for nearly two decades, holding down a residency at New York City's 55 Bar and documenting the shows via a series of CDs and downloads available exclusively on ...

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