Recording News

Jeremy Manasia After Dark CD Release Party

Source: All About Jazz
January 17, 2009

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Booker T. Rocks with Truckers, Neil Young

Source: Billboard Magazine
January 17, 2009

Booker T. Jones' Stax/Volt resume reads like a field guide to American music, but for his Anti- debut and first solo set since the '80s, the 64-year-old soul man went with a different kind of Southern sound altogether, enlisting Georgia rockers the Drive-By Truckers as his backing band for an album of all-new instrumentals. Potato Hole is due April 21. Neil Young, who Booker T. and the MGs backed on 2002's “Are You Passionate?" handles lead guitar duties, and the ...

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Byrne, MMJ, Bon Iver and More on Aids Comp

Source: JamBase
January 16, 2009

Dark Was The Night (A Red Hot compilation) out February 17 on 4AD

Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17, 2009. It's comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double CD/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the Red Hot Organization - an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture. They are the people responsible for albums including No Alternative, Red Hot and Blue and many ...

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Lonely Hearts Dub Band

Source: JamBase
January 16, 2009

EASY STAR ALL-STARS' RE-IMAGINING OF SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND LONELY HEARTS DUB BAND SET FOR RELEASE APRIL 14 ALBUM FOLLOWS THE TREMENDOUS SUCCESS OF DUB SIDE OF THE MOON and RADIODREAD

“They made a smashing success out of their cover of Dark Side of the Moon..."Pitchfork

“The All-Stars have tackled Radiohead's OK Computer, and the result is again impressive." Rolling Stone

Easy Star All-Stars Following the widespread critical and commercial success of 2003's Dub ...

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Carol Fredette Releases "Everything in Time" CD After a 10 Year Hiatus

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 16, 2009

New York, NY - January 12, 2009-When a legendary jazz figure like Stan Getz states, “She’s as good as they come,” surely long time vocalist Carol Fredette must feel that is a lot to live up to. With her long awaited release, Everything In Time people in the jazz community and critics alike are bound to be lavishing the vocalist with praise once again.

When you hear Carol sing and listen to her music, you know ...

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The Leonisa Ardizzone Quintet Swings Their Way into Your Heart on New Release

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 16, 2009

New York, NY-January 12, 2009-

The Leonisa Ardizzone Quintet adopts old-fashioned values and modern day recording techniques on their new release The Scent of Bitter Almonds…

The Quintet and the articulate and seasoned Leonisa Ardizzone takes swinging jazz tunes and then makes it a memorable trip for everyone. The vocalists’ soft and sensual style allows her the flexibility to present perfected phrasing and at times the most enjoyable scatting in between her quintet’s marvelous instrumental breaks. ...

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Hot Day at the Zoo:Long Way Home

Source: JamBase
January 15, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

The best compliment one can pay an EP is that it leaves you hungry for more from the band. That's an easy compliment to give first rate string band and songwriters Hot Day at the Zoo's five-track salvo, Long Way Home (self-released), which begins with the satisfying rumble of a train. Then, a voice beamed in through an ol' fangled radio mic says, “I've been hating this here town since I was five-years-old/ I'm a lonesome forty-niner, ...

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Willie Nelson and the Wheel

Source: JamBase
January 15, 2009

WILLIE NELSON TEAMS UP WITH ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL JERRY WEXLER'S CONCEPT ALBUM COMES TO LIFE

Willie Nelson Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel will release Willie And The Wheel in stores and digitally on February 3, 2009 via Bismeaux Records. Jerry Wexler's long-overdue concept album takes Willie Nelson back to his musical roots. Teamed up with Ray Benson and the master musicianship of Asleep At The Wheel, this album celebrates the timeless appeal of a most ...

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