Recording News

Phosphorescent Album/Tour

Source: JamBase
January 22, 2009

Phosphorescent Announce Tour, Special To Willie Performances, Share MP3

Matthew Houck - Phosphorescent Phosphorescent are hitting the road in support of To Willie, their February 3 release on Dead Oceans. To Willie finds Phosphorescent digging into the Willie Nelson catalog, covering not classics, but deep album cuts. The songs collected on To Willie seem cracked from Phosphorescent's proprietary mold with Matthew Houck's unmistakable voice leading the way. They feel lived in, they feel weathered and they feel just like Phosphorescent. ...

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The New Best of Nick Lowe

Source: JamBase
January 22, 2009

Nick Lowe to Release Career-Spanning set Quiet PleaseThe New Best of Nick Lowe Vintage Music Videos Unearthed for Deluxe Version

Nick Lowe British songwriting icon Nick Lowe will release his definitive best of Quiet PleaseThe New Best of Nick Lowe on March 17, 2009.

Following his critically acclaimed solo album At My Age which People Magazine called “charming" and “timeless" and his near perfectly rated reissue of the classic Jesus of Cool (rated 9.3 by Pitchfork), Nick Lowe ...

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Roland Hanna Plays Alec Wilder

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 22, 2009

Sometimes you wind up with the greatest albums by accident. A couple of weeks ago I purchased a batch of Helen Merrill CDs online. When they arrived, I began listening to them, one after the next. Three tracks into the fourth CD, I suddenly realized Helen wasn't singing (hey, I go into a zone when I'm writing). Puzzled, I reached for the jewel case. The cover of the Gitanes release said, Helen Merrill Presents: Sir Roland Hanna Plays the Music ...

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Nate Wilson Group:Unbound

Source: JamBase
January 21, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

What a goddamn fantastic piece of rock 'n' roll. The Nate Wilson Group come on with the fiery mojo of Free, Move-era Jeff Lynne, early solo David Gilmour (with a few Meddle touches) and more modern kindred spirits like power pop craftsmen Matthew Sweet and Stephen Malkmus - a heavy, melodic thrust & joust that's just plain great listening. Wilson's debut as a bandleader, Unbound, is largely a far cry from his work in Assembly of Dust ...

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Sutton Foster Sets January 23 Press Conference, Solo CD "Wish" out in February

Source: Seth Cohen PR
January 21, 2009

Sutton Foster Confirms 1/23 Call-In Press Conference, in Advance of 2/17 Solo Debut Wish Barnes and Noble In-Store Performance Set for 2/27 Sold-Out Lincoln Center Songbook Concert Set for 2/19 Sutton Foster’s debut CD Wish will be released February 17th on Ghostlight Records. The album features 15 songs culled from the worlds of jazz, pop, Broadway and cabaret, and highlights Foster’s eclectic choices, ranging from Patty Griffin’s ‘Nobody’s Cryin’’ to Duke Ellington’s ‘I Like the Sunrise’…from Frank Loesser’s ‘Warm All ...

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Benny Golson: Two New CDs

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 21, 2009

Benny Golson is one sublime composer and tenor saxophonist. For too long, Benny (who turns 80 on Sunday) has been unfairly pegged as a glossy Los Angeles artist whose music is more closely identified with the jazz of TV ads and movies than the jazz of art and meaning. This is absurdly shortsighted. Listen to Benny's compositions and performances (today or yesterday), and you'll hear instantly that he's truly among jazz's most potent and profound artists. In fact, the only ...

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Thomas Chapin - Alive (8-CD Boxed Set) - More Found!

Source: All About Jazz
January 21, 2009

We are working directly with Thomas Chapin's widow to make this amazing set available once again in limited quantities. Eight CD box set, encompassing Chapin's seven titles on Knitting Factory plus an extra disc enhanced CD of previously unreleased video and audio recordings. This set also features extensive liner notes by Bob Blumenthal.

Listening to Thomas Chapin's seven trio CDs in the wake of his untimely death only drives home further the loss the jazz world suffered when he succumbed ...

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Vedder, Grohl Set for Nick Drake Tribute Album

Source: Billboard Magazine
January 21, 2009

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Norah Jones and Jack Johnson are among the acts confirmed for a Nick Drake tribute album to be released by Johnson's Brushfire Records. The announcement was made during the MidemNet conference in Cannes, France, by David Schulhof, whose company, EverGreen Copyrights, controls Drake's rights. “Fans are willing to pay for that kind of product," he said. “I don't think labels are doing that and I certainly don't think publishers are doing that." The recording ...

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