Recording News

William Fitzsimmons Debuts at #2 on Itunes, Major Tour Set

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 9, 2008

William Fitzsimmons' Sparrow Debuts at #2 on iTunes Folk Chart and #57 on iTunes Overall; Early Reviews From Press and Consumers are Stellar PASTE Presents U.S. Tour, Including Dates in SC, GA, TN, NC, VA, PA, NY, MA, OH, MI, MO, WI, IL William Fitzsimmons' The Sparrrow And The Crow was released digitally last week, and debuted impressively, at #2 on the iTunes Folk Chart. The album has also reached Number 57 on the overall iTunes download chart, and is ...

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Youtube Adding Amazon, iTunes Download Links

Source: PC Magazine
October 9, 2008

Not sure you have enough places to buy music online? YouTube jumped into the retail space by adding links to select content that will let users purchase music, games, and more via Amazon's MP3 store and iTunes. Google started rolling out the YouTube eCommerce Platform in the United States Wednesday. It will expand internationally in the next few months. “Our goal is to improve the overall YouTube experience by connecting consumers with relevant information and entertaining content," Chad Hurley, co-founder ...

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Recent Listening (and Viewing): Zoot, Dog, Woman and Handy

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 9, 2008

It's a pleasure to run into old friends in places where you don't expect them. Yesterday, I encountered Zoot Sims in a dog food commercial. He was in good company; a cute pooch and a beautiful woman.

The music was “Blinuet," one of several pieces George Handy wrote for the 1956 ABC Parmount album Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone. If you would like to hear all of “Blinuet" and the rest of ...

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Recent Listening: Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 9, 2008

Art Farmer-Gigi Gryce Quintet: Complete 1954-1955 Prestige Recordings (Fresh Sound). In 1953, Farmer arrived in New York from California with Lionel Hampton's band, Gryce from his Fulbright studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Arthur Honneger. The next year they began a two-year collaboration in a quintet that amalgamated their instrumental skills with approaches to form and harmony that eased away from the rigidities of bebop.

Farmer, with his lyricism and relatively soft tone, already stood apart from the pack ...

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Femi Kuti: 1st Album in 7 Yrs

Source: JamBase
October 8, 2008

First studio album in seven years by reigning King of Afrobeat

Not content to merely follow in his famous father, Fela Kuti's footsteps, Femi Kuti continues to expand his musical palette with his latest studio release, Day By Day, a hybrid of Afro-pop, jazz and urban influences. The album has been a long time coming: seven years since his last studio album Fight To Win and four years since the live Africa Shrine, on which he recorded early versions of ...

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Cold River:cold River

Source: JamBase
October 8, 2008

Cold River is a variation of the band Astrograss, which are both led my songwriter-guitarist-vocalist Jordan Shapiro and are two of the tightest, most unique bluegrass inspired bands in New York City. Based out of Brooklyn, arguably the new and unlikely musical epicenter of NYC, these two bands have the responsibility of educating the city slickers, metrosexuals and hipsters to a thing called bluegrass. The members of Cold River have crisscrossed paths while traveling the world over the past fifteen ...

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Eartha Kitt CD and First Ever Concert DVD Coming Out Soon.

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2008

"The most exciting woman in the world" - Orson Welles on Eartha Kitt, 1950. It is with great pleasure that Network announce the releases of EARTHA KITT LIVE AT THE CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL (E) on DVD on 27th October 2008, RRP 19.99 and CD, RRP 12.99. This is, unbelievably, Eartha Kitts first ever live concert DVD. These releases are recordings of her sell-out opening concert at the world renowned Cheltenham Jazz Festival in 2008. With a career that ...

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LJC News: Ritmo Masacote in the Listening Center and Social Networks

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
October 8, 2008

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