Recording News

Charlie Mars:Like a Bird, Like a Plane

Source: JamBase
February 17, 2009

By: Bill Clifford

After fourteen years of writing and performing his own songs, Charlie Mars is truly one of the great bards of the South. He released his first recording, Broken Arrow, by the Charlie Mars Band in 1994. Since, he's released four full-length CDs, including 2004's eponymous major label debut, and he's toured the world in support of them all. Still, the Mississippi raised singer-songwriter has flirted with success, but never quite peaked. Mars' sound has always been straight ...

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First Album: Dr. Cornel West

Source: JamBase
February 17, 2009

First Album: Dr. Cornel West

My first album would probably be What's Going On. I had purchased so many albums before that had meant much to me, but in terms of a sophisticated, musical piece of art that was political and spiritual, it would probably be What's Going On. I already was politically oriented, but to see someone like Marvin Gaye, who was already a towering figure within popular music but had not really made any type of political intervention, ...

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JazzLoft.com Daily Arrivals

Source: Jazz Loft Publicity
February 17, 2009

Paul Dunmall Ancient and Future Airs (Clean Feed) Price: $15.95 Trinity Breaking The Mold (Clean Feed) Price: $15.95 Denman Maroney Identity (Clean Feed) Price: $15.95 Michael Blake Control This (Clean Feed) Price: $15.95 Michel Wintsch / Gerry Hemingway / Banz Oester Less is More (Clean Feed) Price: $15.95 ...

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The All-Time Best 100 Albums

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2009

The All-TIME Best 100 Albums

So here's how we chose the albums for the All-TIME 100. We researched and listened and agonized until we had a list of the greatest and most influential records ever - and then everyone complained because there was no Pink Floyd on it. And that's exactly how it should be.

We hope you'll treat the All-TIME 100 as a great musical parlor game. Read and listen to the arguments for the selections, then tell us ...

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Alvaro is Rojas's "El Arte de la Vida" Reissued on BlueMusicGroup.com

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2009

El Arte de la Vida is pianist Alvaro Is Rojas' most personal outing-to-date. This album features his original heartfelt compositions as well as selections from the American Songbook and songs by Burt Bacharach and John Scofield. Rojas encounters the most introspective reflections in improvised jazz pianism –only on BlueMusicGroup.com. Alvaro Is Rojas (b. 1946 in Barcelona, Spain) is a pianist and composer, who has lived in Stockholm, Sweden since the late 1960s. After having completed classical piano and composition studies ...

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Sunday Spin: Elvis Presley

Source: JamBase
February 15, 2009

THE KING CLOSES OUT VALENTINE'S WEEKEND

There's the mistaken general impression that by the late '60s Elvis Presley was creatively tapped. Out of touch with both the emerging Flower Power scene and the last, clinging vestiges of '50s cocktail culture, Presley wandered far and wide before finding truly firm footing again in the early '70s. But, in his meandering he exhibited a wild sort of diversity. While a touch scattershot, there's a great many satisfying gems during this somewhat ...

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Jorma Kaukonen Ex-Jefferson Airplane Guitarist Still Flies High

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2009

Jorma Kaukonen has left the psychedelic '60s behind him. “The ’60s were a long time ago,” Kaukonen says.

“You just can’t go backward. The arrow of time only goes in one direction.” Kaukonen has a new album, River of Time

Even though his guitar helped Jefferson Airplane soar with the San Francisco Sound on hits such as “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” Jorma Kaukonen is not sentimental about the psychedelic ’60s.

“The ’60s were a long time ago,” Kaukonen ...

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Neko Case Wild Thing

Source: Michael Ricci
February 14, 2009

Case and her “strays" — a half-dozen pianos in varying degrees of disrepair that she has collected sit in her Vermont barn during the recording of her latest record, Middle Cyclone.

“I wish I had a tremolo,” Neko Case said. She looked at the Samburger she was wolfing down — Samburgers and Zinburgers being the specialties of a restaurant called Zinburger, in downtown Tucson, where Case lives, for now. With their maple bacon, American cheese and Thousand Island dressing, Samburgers ...

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