Recording News

Lymbyc Systym:Love Your Abuser Remixed

Source: JamBase
November 20, 2008

By: Greg Gargiulo

Lymbyc Systym can be described as natural beauty that's captured, organized, personified and dispersed. The product channels to nerves and synapses directly, puts ease in areas where it's needed most, and judiciously congregates sounds to the effect of multi-faceted relaxation. Love Your Abuser Remixed (Mush Records) takes the beatific essence of Love Your Abuser and gives a number of friends and fellow travelers - as well as the Systym themselves - the chance to reorganize, enhance and ...

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Beyonce Knowles Styles Etta James

Source: All About Jazz
November 19, 2008

With A Double-Album, A World Tour, Starring Roles In Two Movies And Several Ad Campaigns In the Works, The Heat Is On For Beyonce

On a brisk March day in Rahway, N.J., Beyonce and Adrien Brody are filming a crucial scene for their upcoming movie Cadillac Records. The set is an old Ukranian social club that has been converted into a 1950s production studio, complete with vintage instruments and cream, perforated walls. Musicians, dressed in porkpie hats and carrying rusted ...

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John Bunch and Frank Wess

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 19, 2008

During down time with Count Basie's band in the 1950s, Frank Wess recorded on flute for the Commodore and Savoy record labels, among others. A gifted arranger, player and session leader, Wess' small-group flute recordings during this period are standouts on the instrument. Some of the albums are still in print on CD while others, like Trombones & Flute, are scarce or painfully expensive. So two weeks ago when I heard The John Bunch Trio with Frank Wess: Plays the ...

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Paul McCartney Exclusive Stream Entire Fireman Album

Source: JamBase
November 19, 2008

Exclusive First Listen: Paul McCartney Hear The Entire Album, Featuring McCartney And Youth As The Fireman

Listen To Electric Arguments

The Fireman: Youth (at left) and Paul McCartney When The Fireman released its debut album in 1993 the instrumental dance and electronica mix Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest the band's identity was a mystery. U.K. music magazine Melody Maker eventually exposed The Fireman as a duo featuring the bassist and producer known as Youth and, to everyone's surprise, Paul ...

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Grammy Award-Winning Producer David Foster Releases CD+DVD

Source: On Target Media Group
November 19, 2008

Uber songwriter / producer and 15-time Grammy winner David Foster assembled an all-star lineup for Hit Man: David Foster and Friends, released this November via 143 / Reprise (Warner Bros.). The stunning collection of artists performed a one-night only show in Las Vegas last spring, which honored his hugely successful four-decade career. The result is the CD / DVD Hit Man: David Foster and Friends, with stand-out performances by Kenny G, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Katharine ...

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Music World/Columbia Records Set to Release "Cadillac Records"

Source: All About Jazz
November 19, 2008

Music World/Columbia Records proudly announces the release of Cadillac Records - Music From The Motion Picture available everywhere Tuesday, December 2. The keenly-awaited album of classic rhythm & blues covers and new soul sounds performed by Beyonce, Solange, Jeffrey Wright, Raphael Saadiq, Mos Def and others arrives three days in advance of the nationwide opening of “Cadillac Records, “ the year's most eagerly-anticipated musical drama, on Friday, December 5. Cadillac Records - Music From The Motion Picture is available in ...

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Ravi Coltrane Returns with "Blending Times"

Source: All About Jazz
November 18, 2008

Tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane has put the finishing touches on his long-awaited new recording Blending Times which is set for release on the Savoy Jazz label on January 13th. The follow up to the Grammy-nominated “In Flux" (a recording of such distinction that the New York Times declared him an artist who had “come into his own"), Coltrane again performs primarily with his stellar quartet consisting of Luis Perdomo on piano, Drew Gress on bass and E.J. Strickland on drums. ...

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Savvy Jazz Veterans and Fiery Rock Newcomers

Source: Michael Ricci
November 18, 2008

This season has produced a bumper crop of worthy live releases by Sonny Rollins. First came Live in 65 & 68, a gem from the latest series of Jazz Icons DVDs on Naxos (jazzicons.com).

Consisting of a pair of concerts in Copenhagen originally taped for television broadcast, it finds Mr. Rollins, the great tenor saxophonist, in casual form but at a creative peak, improvising with an astonishing flow of ideas. In the loose but invigorating 1965 performance he digs in ...

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