Recording News

Cheap Trick Preps 'The Latest,' 'SGT. Pepper' Live Releases

Source: Billboard Magazine
May 29, 2009

Cheap Trick is stepping outside of the label world to release its next studio album, “The Latest," itself. The veteran rock group will start taking pre-orders for the 13-track set, which it recorded during the past year mostly in Los Angeles with producer Julian Raymond, on Friday via its official web site, www.cheaptrick.com, and at Amazon.com. Those who pre-order will receive “The Latest" on June 23, the day Cheap Trick starts it summer tour with Def Leppard and Poison in ...

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Ronin Rhythm Records Announces June 1 Digital Releases

Source: Lori Hehr Public Relations
May 29, 2009

Ronin Rhythm Records brings its complete back catalog to the digital download platform in collaboration with Iapetus Distribution/Unsung Records. Seven titles are being released digitally on the June 1, 2009 via most major download stores such as iTunes, emusic, Amazon, etc. Ronin Rhythm Records is a platform for new creative music covering New Minimal, Funk and Ritual Groove Music. The label was founded in 2006 on the base of pianist and composer Nik Bartsch's pre-ECM albums and is dedicated to ...

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DMB Stream New Album

Source: JamBase
May 29, 2009

Dave Matthews Band Stream New Album

DMB Dave Matthews Band will release Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, the highly anticipated album following the death of band member Leroi Moore, on June 2. The album, a tribute to Leroi Moore, will be the band's first studio album in four years and will include the newly released single “Funny the Way It Is." Rolling Stone's four star review states that Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King producer Rob Cavallo, “has brought ...

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Cecil and Miles in NYC (and India)

Source: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel
May 29, 2009

Taylor, the pianist beyond genre (age: 80) and still-groundbreaking music of Davis, the trumpeter/conceptualist (dead 18 years) are at major Manhattan venues this week, continuing to provoke and gratify. Cecil Taylor performs at the Blue Note tonight (Thursday, May 28) while “Miles From India," mixing veterans of Davis' electric bands with South Asian improvisers, has a four-night stand at Iridium. And last Monday, Davis' propheticOn The Corner was revisited at Merkin Concert Hall. Frequent readers of this blog know I'm ...

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Jann Kloses Reverie Continues to Build in the U.S. and Abroad

Source: Anne Leighton
May 28, 2009

New York City, May 2009: Jann Klose's album REVERIE is continuing to build momentum. The record has already become a critical favorite in regional America and is as the LA Weekly states becoming a minor hit, heard on over 100 radio stations worldwide, including Sirius XM Radio in the U.S., the BBC in the U.K. and most recently, Prambors Radio in Indonesia. George Graham just included REVERIE in his list of Best CDs of 2008 alongside Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, ...

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Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 28, 2009

Up until May 1959, no jazz composition recorded by Charles Mingus had been as controversial or as politically charged as Fables of Faubus. The song, first recorded 50 years ago this month on Mingus Ah Um, was meant to be a condemnation of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus. In 1957 Faubus had ordered the state's National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School by nine African-American teenagers. With the reissue of Mingus Ah Um by Sony Legacy ...

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Isaac Hayes' 'Hot Buttered Soul' Album Reissued on Stax with Bonus Tracks, Digital Remastering

Source: conqueroo
May 28, 2009

Four-song long-player ushered in the era of album-oriented soul with hits “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Walk On By.” Reissue contains notes by Jim James of My Morning Jacket.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Until Isaac Hayes released Hot Buttered Soul in 1969, soul music had been a singles-oriented genre. Best known as the partner of David Porter in writing such Stax hits as “Hold On! I’m Coming,” “Soul Man” and “B-A-B-Y” among others, Hayes, along with Marvin ...

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Tito Puente: Dance Mania

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 27, 2009

To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first recording for a major label (RCA) to feature Cuban dance rhythms without relying on commercial gimmicks or jazz constructs. It also was the first popular mambo album to feature vocals sung in Spanish--recreating the sound heard at New York's Palladium dance hall in the 1950s. To ...

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