Recording News

Wilco:Wilco (the Album)

Source: JamBase
June 26, 2009

We offer you two takes on the new Wilco album. Very different perspectives but we're all about diversity around these parts...

Take I

By: Kayceman

“Are you under the impression this isn't your life/ Do you dabble in depression?/ Is someone twisting a knife in your back/ Are you being attacked?/ Oh this is a fact that you need to know/ Wilco will love you."

It's crazy how divisive this opening line (and the whole first track “Wilco (the song") ...

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DMB: A New Beginning, a Return to the Past

Source: JamBase
June 26, 2009

By: Mike Bookey

Dave Matthews Band It's cutting late into the afternoon in a town just outside of Pittsburgh and, like he's been doing for most of the summer afternoons in his adult life, Stefan Lessard is getting ready to play a show. Well, he actually calls it a “gig," rather than the massive multi-tour-bus-and-semi-truck production that is required for a performance by the Dave Matthews Band. This night ...

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Diana Collaborates with Barbra Streisand on Her New Album

Source: Billboard Magazine
June 26, 2009

Barbra Streisand has joined forces with Canadian jazz singer-pianist Diana Krall on her first studio album in four years, which is set for release on September 29, her record label said on Monday. Columbia Records said the album “Love Is The Answer" is Streisand's first full-length collection of new studio recordings since 2005's “Guilty Pleasures" and her first album since “Live In Concert 2006." Last year, Streisand was preoccupied with the U.S. election campaign but the singer-actress said this year ...

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Santana / Journey Founding Member Gregg Rolie Releases Limited Edition Live CD

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 26, 2009

Houston, TX - Legendary Santana / Journey founding member, and Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Gregg Rolie has released a limited edition CD of his band in concert in 2007 called 'Rain Dance'. On this 12-track CD, the Gregg Rolie Band whip up a blistering performance featuring all the beloved Santana hits, as well as tracks from his 2001 critically acclaimed solo CD 'Roots' and a few new songs. Songs include “No One To Depend On", “Jingo", “Evil ...

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Marcus Johnson Ranks #5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts

Source: All About Jazz
June 26, 2009

Marcus Johnson IS Poetically Justified. Award winning jazz pianist Marcus Johnson's latest album Poetically Justified has debuted at #5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts within fifteen days of the albums release. Known for his unparalleled success as a composer, producer, record-label founder and businessman, Johnson's eleventh solo jazz record was released on June 2, 2009. In a recent interview with the Washington Post Magazine, Johnson best describes his philosophy in his own words: “In everything you do and dream, ...

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Paying Hommage A Nesuhi

Source: All About Jazz
June 24, 2009

Rhino Presents a Digital Boxed Set Honoring The Roster of Iconic Jazz Artists Nesuhi Ertegun Assembled at Atlantic Records Joel Dorn's Final Production Features Music from The Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Eddie Harris and More Available June 23, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- In 1955, Nesuhi Ertegun joined Atlantic Records, the label founded by his younger brother Ahmet. Put in charge of the labels jazz division, Nesuhi spent the next ...

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The Ed Palermo Big Band Pays Tribute to Music Legend Frank Zappa

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 24, 2009

New York, NY -- Jazz is not dead - at least not when the Ed Palermo Big Band plays it. Part of the Cuneiform 'Contemporary Masters' series, Eddy Loves Frank is the third album to feature the music of Frank Zappa as arranged by Ed Palermo and performed by the Ed Palermo Big Band. A brilliantly original and entertaining big band jazz CD, 'Eddy Loves Frank' shows that Zappas music has become assimilated into the American songbook. It also reveals ...

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New Stefon Harris Album, "Urbanus," to be Released August 25

Source: All About Jazz
June 24, 2009

Concord Jazz today announced the release of vibraphonist-composer Stefon Harris's 7th album as a bandleader and Concord debut, Urbanus. The new release picks up where 2004s Evolution left off in that it features Blackout, his scintillating ensemble that's as versed in modern jazz as it is with rhythms, melodies and soundscapes associated with R&B, pop, hip-hop and funk. The 10-track-album will be available August 25, 2009. The GRAMMY-nominated musician has been hailed as one of the most important young artists ...

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