Recording News

Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2009

Multi-Grammy award winning Michael Buble is scheduled to release a new DVD/CD Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden on June 16, it was confirmed today by 143/Reprise Records. The DVD/CD documentary will include a masterful Buble performance, which breathlessly captures all the elements surrounding the show including an intimate and complex portrayal of the Canadian singing sensation in the days, minutes and seconds leading up to this historic event. Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden also shows footage of Buble's ...

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Gov't Mule New Album

Source: JamBase
May 22, 2009

Gov't Mule Roars Back With Torrid Set of Tracks And a New-Found Shot Of Soul on By A Thread Out July 28

Gov't Mule Gov't Mule has completed work on By A Thread. Their first studio album in three years, it is slated for release on July 28, with a special presale beginning today.

Now a quartet, lead by lead guitarist and frontman Warren Haynes, joined by drummer Matt Abts, keyboardist Danny Louis and new bassist Jorgen Carlsson, ...

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New Live Concert Video for Billy Childs

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2009

Artistshare is excited to announce that Billy Childs has a new video posted on his project page, which features his fantastic band, along with the masterful work of the Ying quartet. In order to see this video footage of the band, live in concert, you must become a participant on his project page. Visit Billy Childs' project page to become a participant in this exciting project! Billy is also a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. With two Grammys, this ...

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Mark Murphy to Release His Debut Album "To Find You There" on July 21, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2009

MURPHY JOINED BY ACCLAIMED JAZZ PLAYERS BEN ALLISON, JEFF BALLARD & JONATHAN KREISBERG Mark Murphy is set to release his debut album To Find You There July 21, 2009. Murphy is a child of the 1970’s. Had he been old enough, he would have loved being a part of the burgeoning singer-songwriter movement of the day. At the time, New York City songwriters chose the best musicians they knew--often jazz and studio musicians--to record and perform with. After all, songwriting ...

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Yes:Symphonic Live

Source: JamBase
May 21, 2009

By: Greg Gargiulo

As if Yes, with their transcendental crescendos, awe-inspiring arrangements, fantastical otherworldliness and generally divine aura, needed further instrumentation to add depth to their naturally-celestial sound? No, just hearing sagas such as “Close to the Edge" or “Ritual" alone should be enough to send any listener into a sonic frenzy, comfortably overwhelmed by the massive outpourings of sound and constantly-shifting movements that don't merely allude to a sensation of traveling, they actually transport you. No, lack of elemental ...

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Zappa Digital Downloads

Source: JamBase
May 21, 2009

ZAPPA RECORDS BEGINS SELLING DIGITAL DOWNLOADS DIRECTLY FROM ZAPPA.COM MOVE COMMEMORATES THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF ZAPPA NAMING HIS BAND THE MOTHERS

Frank Zappa Zappa Records has begun selling official digital downloads (ODDs) directly from Zappa.com with the 41st anniversary release of MOTHERMANIA, which also marks the 45th anniversary of Frank Zappa & The Mothers. You can order it at barfkoswill.shop.musictoday.com.

The album is available in 256kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC format.

On May 10, 1964, Frank Zappa named ...

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Peter Martin Releases New Solo Piano CD "Set of Five"

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 21, 2009

Jazz pianist and St. Louis native Peter Martin has released a new CD of solo piano music entitled Set of Five. The EP-length release includes five tracks: “Dr. Jazz", “I Can't Help It", “Intimate Dance", “Basin Street Blues" and “Viva La Vida".Set of Five is available as either an MP3 download or CD directly from Martin's online store, and should be on iTunes in the near future. You can hear samples on his Web site, which recently was ...

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More Praise for PJ Parker's "Dreams Are Meant for Two" - From France and Jazz Fans Around the World

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2009

Somerset, New Jersey -- Jazz vocalist PJ Parker's latest CD, Dreams Are Meant For Two, continues to receive critical praise, this time from the venerable Jazz Hot magazine of Paris, France. At the same time, jazz fans from around the world continue to let their preferences be known: PJ's artist profile page at AllAboutJazz.com--the most popular jazz Web site in the world--is now the 6th most popular among living jazz artists, and 14th among all jazz artists profiled on the ...

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