Recording News

Black Saint and Soul Note Recordings Now Available for Download Only on eMusic for the Holiday Season

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

eMusic Announces Exclusive New Jazz Catalogues! NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2008, eMusic, the world's largest digital retailer of independent music and the world's second largest digital music service, today announced that complete catalogues from seminal jazz labels Black Saint and Soul Note are now, for the first time ever, available for digital download. Available exclusively on eMusic for the critical two months of holiday retail, the catalogues include approximately 580 essential and rare recordings from some of the most acclaimed ...

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Susanne Alt Quartet: Third CD Coming Up!

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

Please stay tuned for news about our 3rd cd which will be released beginning of 2009!

About Susanne Alt Susanne Alt was born in Wuerzburg, Germany and raised by parents who are musicians/music teachers. They taught her classical piano and guitar at an early age. When she was 12 years old, she switched to saxophone. At the age of 15, after winning regional and national prizes she became external student at the Meistersingerkonservatorium Nuernberg where she studied classical saxophone, while ...

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Celebrate Christmas with Al Jarreau

Source: Special Ops Media
November 20, 2008

Celebrate this holiday season with the release of Al Jarreau's Christmas CD available now from Rhino! Al Jarreau Christmas Listening Party: Quicktime Windows Media Real Al Jarreau has Christmas on his mind. This fall the seven-time Grammy-winning vocalist released his first-ever Christmas album--his first album of newly recorded music since 2006's sensational Givin' It Up with George Benson. AL JARREAU CHRISTMAS includes the singer's distinctive vocal spin on a dozen yuletide classics. This holiday ...

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Bob Willis' 10-CD Box Set Traces "Tiffany Transcriptions," Rare 1940 Live Radio Broadcasts, out January 27, 2009

Source: conqueroo
November 20, 2008

Western swing king’s rare 1940s San Francisco radio transcriptions are remastered with revelatory new sound. Set features liner notes by Rich Kienzle with testimonials from swing disciples Ray Benson, Ranger Doug and Big Sandy’s Fly-Rite Boys.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys were the originators and best- known practitioners of Western swing, their repertoire including classics like “New San Antonio Rose,” “Faded Love” and “Take Me Back to Tulsa.” In 1945, Wills teamed up ...

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Hope Deans Releases New CD "Presence"

Source: Amy Bakari Public Relations
November 20, 2008

Atlanta, GA - Presence is a blessing and is how I will sum up my excitement about where I am today as we turn the corner on this musical journey. This is how Hope Deans, an up and coming jazz vocalist, describes her new CD. Presence is a compilation of five tracks of Hope's favorite holiday standards including “What the World Needs Now" which she performs with the Georgia Youth Choir. Ms Deans will officially launch her first CD Presence ...

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Jane Monheit Releases “The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me"

Source: Muse Media
November 20, 2008

Critically-acclaimed Grammy-nominated vocalist Jane Monheit set to release new CD, The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me, January 20th on Concord Records. New release produced by jazz veterans Matt Pierson and Joe McEwen features songs by Fiona Apple, Corrine Bailey Rae, Ivan Lins and Paul Simon, as well as classics from the Great American Songbook Los Angeles, California. The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me Jane Monheit’s eagerly anticipated new CD, is set for release on Concord Records January 20th, 2009. An ...

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Diamond, Rubin to Get Busy on Third Album

Source: Billboard Magazine
November 20, 2008

Neil Diamond is about to embark on the final leg of his latest world tour, but he's already put his next album in motion. The veteran singer tells Billboard.com that he recently met with Rick Rubin, who produced his last two albums and they've set a meeting for Jan. 12, four days after Diamond's final concert, to start planning the follow-up to his recent chart-topping “Home Before Dark." “I told (Rubin) I want to start writing on the 12th," says ...

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David Vandervelde:Waiting For the Sunrise

Source: JamBase
November 20, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

“When the morning comes I will be fine/ When the day is done I will be fine," moans David Vandervelde in a voice eerily reminiscent of Dan Fogelberg at his peak. In my book that's a swell thing, but that tome holds loving chapters on '70s soft rock. Waiting For Sunrise (Secretly Canadian) isn't so much a throwback as a loving homage, right down to the frosted sepia cover shot and ornate title lettering. Where Vandervelde immediately ...

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