Recording News

Alessandro Bottura Releases an Exclusive - "Morning Grooves" Album

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2009

Alessandro Bottura Lets Loose The Perfect Debut Album Of Instrumental Funk Songs In The New Morning Grooves CD.

This album is full of wonderful surprises. The movements are complex and yet simple. All tracks are a delight to the ears.

Funk, Rock, Pop and Jazz all mixed up in this first album by Italian bass player Alessandro Bottura; a 9-track instrumental journey in a Fusion experience that learns from masters such as Weather Report, Yellowjackets, Rippingtons, Spyro Gyra and MM&W. ...

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Beck Reveals One Foot Reissue Track List

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2009

Beck Reveals One Foot in the Grave Deluxe Reissue Track List.

As Rock Daily reported last week, Beck will reissue his 1994 slacker folk album One Foot in the Grave on April 14th. Now, a mere week before it hits shelves, we have a track list. In addition to the albumfs 16 songs, a second disc boasts an additional 16 tracks, 13 of which have never been officially released. One Foot, recorded before but released four months after Beckfs breakthrough ...

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Musicians Find Some New CO-Stars: Their Fans

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2009

Music fans pitch in to design covers, back CDs, map tours

Chris Kubik always dreamed of designing album covers. But as a senior graphic designer for Schumacher Electric Corp., he was more likely to spend his time with battery chargers and jump starters than superstars and electric guitars.

So when his girlfriend told him about a contest for Rascal Flatts fans to create the country trio's new album cover, he jumped at the chance. “I made up a couple of ...

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Singers, Part 1

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
April 10, 2009

I've been sampling CDs by singers. For the most part, the CDs are new, but not all of the singers are. As an example, take Jimmy Rushing...please.

Jimmy Rushing, The Scene: Live In New York (High Note). Rushing became famous with the Count Basie band of the late 1930s and was with Basie until 1950. The clich most often applied to him is “blues shouter," and he was a magnificent one. The designation sells him short, though. Rushing was also ...

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Random Touch's "Turbulent Flesh"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
April 9, 2009

Algonquin, IL - What really matters when it comes to Random Touch is not their 38 years of collaboration, or their love of pure improvisation or their disinterest in trading music for dollars. What really matters is that they give birth to music that lies beyond ego/mind/thought. Music such as theirs cannot be made when utilizing the mind. Random Touch describe the creative process as riding a wave. The wave itself lies beyond what thought can understand, or the ability ...

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In Defense of the Album

Source: HypeBot
April 9, 2009

Guest post by Scott Perry of New Music Tipsheet. If you haven't already, sign up for his great free weekly new release newsletter.

We have a branding problem. Somewhere in the past five years, artist release cycles have sped up from a CD / album cycle to an MP3 “leak" given to a blog to a random, “Oh yeah, I remember that" download that shows up in your iPod's shuffle a month later.

I remember a recent Lefsetz ...

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Keith Jarrett: Trio Yesterdays

Source: JamBase
April 9, 2009

By: Ron Hart

Legendary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett continues to deliver classic live material from his 2001 tour with his longtime trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette with the release of Yesterdays (released January 27 on ECM). Culled from a Tokyo performance in April of '01, this jubilant set marks the fourth live album from this tour, augmented by a heavy concentration on the standards the trio peppered throughout their epic sets. They don't call 'em the ...

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CSN: Unreleased Demos

Source: JamBase
April 9, 2009

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH'S UNRELEASED DEMOS The Legendary Group Kicks Off A Summer Tour with The Release Of A Collection Of Group And Solo Demos, Including Early Versions Of “Marrakesh Express," “Almost Cut My Hair," “Long Time Gone" And “Love The One You're With" Album Available from Rhino June 2

The Mighty Trinity As members of one of rock's first supergroups, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash helped define the Woodstock ...

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