Recording News

Backyard Tire Fire Album/Tour Working with Steve Berlin

Source: JamBase
February 1, 2009

BACKYARD TIRE FIRE To Begin Work On New Album with LOS LOBOS' STEVE BERLIN Set To Produce February Tour Dates with JJ Grey & MOFRO and Headline Shows in March and April Announced

Backyard Tire Fire Backyard Tire Fire return to the studio next month to begin work on the follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2008 release, The Places We Lived. They'll be joined by Grammy Award-winning producer Steve Berlin behind the boards. Berlin first discovered Backyard Tire ...

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Bermuda Jazzman is Musical Hit on Internet

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2009

Winfield Davis has come a long way since his days as a music-mad toddler banging on pots and pans. The jazz artist, a former drummer for Bermuda Regiment, is making a name for himself in the United States and across the world after his career took off through Internet radio. He currently has two CDs out, on which all the tracks were composed, produced and performed by himself, and is planning to tour internationally to entertain fans of his recently-formed ...

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Retro Lounge Music is Alive and Well

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2009

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Jerrold Dubyk Quartet - The Way You See It

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2009

“Jerrold’s voice is one to heard and deserving of wider recognition.” - Brad Turner, Canadian jazz musician and multiple Juno Award winner. Jerrold strives for the high melodic ideals of tenor giants such as Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson - saxophonists who put a well-placed note ahead of a sheet of sound. Jerrold is arriving as a versatile and exciting jazz tenor player with an inspiring and soulful sound. One thing is for sure - he will not alienate his ...

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Steve Martin is Serious About Banjo

Source: Michael Ricci
January 31, 2009

Steve Martin is serious about The Crow The actor-comedian wrote or co-wrote all the songs and enlisted some heavyweight help for his debut album as a musician.

Steve Martin has a reputation as one of the toughest interviews in the entertainment business. He's known for clipped yes-no responses to questions about the making of his latest film, his thoughts on the art of comedy or, especially, his personal life.

But bring up a subject that's near and dear ...

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings the Blues

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

Van Dyke Parks and Los Lobos' David Hidago lend a hand on storied songwriter Ramblin' Jack Elliott's second album this decade, A Stranger Here.

Due April 7th via Anti-, the set finds Elliott, 77, working with producer Joe Henry to interpret Depression-era blues songs. Parks contributes piano and vibraphone, while Hidago offers acoustic guitar and accordion.

“The record company selected about 15 old blues songs that I might choose to learn, and I was listening to that CD about four ...

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Loudon Wainwright III Music a Family Affair

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

Music a family affair for Loudon Wainwright III Why wouldnt you write about them? he says of writing songs about family

Loudon Wainwright III latest album Recovery. “Its a play on words about recovering a song," says Wainwright. “I had been performing some of the songs, but some of them I had forgotten about and had to relearn."

Access spoke to Super Bowl musical performers including Bruce Springsteen and Faith Hill about the upcoming big day, and Hill ...

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Christian Herluf Pedersen New Release from Stockholm Jazz Records

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

As a well known member of various ensembles across many different genres, Danish/Swedish saxplayer, Christian Herluf Pedersen, now emerges as a band leader and composer on his upcoming debut album Christian Herluf Pedersen - Alliance.

The album consists of original songs inspired by the great jazz of the past - performed with a curiosity and sincerity that looks forward in time, and with effortless communication between all 4 members in the band.

Besides Christian the quartet consists of pianist Fredrik ...

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