Recording News

Barbara King Debut Perfect Timing

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

Brooklyn, New York native Barbara King hopes that the title of her debut CD carries some truth. Perfect Timing is a strong recording and critics everywhere are becoming aware of her presence prompting Lloyd Sachs of the Chicago-Sun Times to say, “Barbara King's dusky, Sarah Vaughan-like qualities mark her as a talent to watch." On Barbara's CCCMG Records debut release she presents jazz listeners a bevy of outstanding interpretations of standards and four original tracks that affirms her belief and ...

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150 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

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Miles Davis Live

Source: Michael Ricci
January 4, 2009

The Miles Davis groups in 1958 and 1959, with John Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Paul Chambers on bass (and varied others, depending on time and occasion) were really, really good, and for bands that became so well known by studio records, they were fabulous live.

You can find a fair number of stage bootlegs if you know your way around the shadowlands of file sharing, but not nearly enough of it is available via normal commercial channels. So proceed ...

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Music Sales Boom but Albums Fizzle For '08

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

Americans bought more music in 2008 than ever before, but album sales the music industry's main source of revenue dropped for a fourth year.

According to the Nielsen Co.'s year-end figures, music purchases CD, vinyl, cassette and digital purchases of entire albums (grouped together as total albums), plus digital track downloads, singles and music videos attained a new high of 1.5 billion, up 10.5% over 2007. More than 70% of those transactions were digital track downloads, a record total of ...

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Prince to Roll out Three Albums This Year

Source: Billboard Magazine
January 3, 2009

Prince is planning to release three new albums in 2009 without the assistance of a record label, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times. A “major retailer" is in talks with the artist to release the music physically, while a new Prince Web site will sell it in digital form. The two new Prince albums are the tentatively titled “MPLSOUND" and “Lotus Flower." He was also heavily involved in an album titled “Elixir" from his protege, Bria Valente. ...

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Vocalist Carolyn Lee Jones Releases "Bon Appetit!"

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2009

Dallas vocalist Carolyn Lee Jones hits the scene with a wonderful first course. Whether she is singing swinging jazz standards, beautiful ballads or jazzy upbeat pop tunes, Carolyn embraces her audience and the music with heart. Supported by her talented friends and New York City musicians pianist Wells Hanley, bassist Saadi Zain and drummer Jacob Melchior, this CD is an innovative collection of classic jazz ("Blue Skies"), stylish new tunes ("Bon Appetit") along with a taste of vintage pop ("Tainted ...

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David Arivett Jazz Composer/Pianist New CD

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2008

A new CD recording has been released by the Songs Of David label."Jazzed and Glad" by David Arivett contains a wide variety of jazz styles, Contemporary, Latin, Funk, Smooth, and Gospel jazz. Memorable melodies, songs that groove, and make ya' want to dance and celebrate, as well as quiet inspirational jazz ballads of thankfulness - are all covered! A delightful smorgasbord of jazz flavors!! 9 out of the 10 tracks on “Jazzed and Glad" were written by Arivett. Joining David ...

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The Film Music of Ralph Rainger

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 31, 2008

The release of a new CD, The Film Music Of Ralph Rainger, is the occasion for my piece in today's Wall Street Journal. Coupled with an article about the contemporary motion picture composer A.B. Rahman, it is headlined,Another Who Has Been Unjustly Forgotten and begins: For years, Jack Benny opened his CBS radio and television broadcasts with “Love in Bloom." The comedian's violin butchery of his theme song became a running coast-to-coast Sunday night gag. As a result, the ...

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