Recording News

Ghostlight's '13', Original Cast Recording, out Septermber 30th

Source: Seth Cohen PR
September 29, 2008

Ghostlight's Original Broadway Cast Recording for '13, A New Musical' Available 9/30 via Digital Release A rare instance where the cast album is recorded before performances have officially begun Ghostlight Records is proud to confirm the 9/30 digital release of the Original Broadway Cast Album of '13, A New Musical'. This will be a rare instance where the cast album is recorded and released before performances have officially begun. The physical CD will be available for purchase at The Bernard ...

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Ghostlight's 'Reefer Madness' Double-CD out October 28th

Source: Seth Cohen PR
September 29, 2008

Collector’s Edition Double-CD of 'Reefer Madness' Includes Both the Movie Soundtrack and Original Los Angeles Cast Recording Ghostlight's 10/28 CD Release to be Preceded by 10/27 Midnight Concert at Joe's Pub - Cast Members Slated to Perform Include Alan Cumming, Steven Weber and More Ghostlight Records is proud to announce the October 27th release of a Collector's Edition double-CD of 'Reefer Madness', featuring both the Movie Soundtrack, and the original Los Angeles Cast Recording. The double-CD contains new Author Notes, ...

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Reissue of Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue' Reignites the Debate: Greatest Jazz Record Ever?

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2008

Kind of Blue was just 3 years old in 1962, but Miles Davis was already fed up with the spotlight that album and its successors were shining on him.

“It bugs me, because I'm not that important," the trumpeter told Playboy. “Why is it that people have so much to say about me?"If he were alive, the grumpy genius probably wouldn't be happy about the lavish 50th birthday party being given to Kind of Blue, which comes out Tuesday as ...

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Guitarist Vernon Neilly's Tribute to Stevie Wonder

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2008

Smoothie Award winning jazz guitarist Vernon Neilly’s new CD - featuring the Legendary Hit Maker Stevie Wonder’s music - is chocked full of Wonder’s hit songs and has got to be one of the best Tribute CDs I’ve heard in a long while. The album reeks of Pure Class. Vernon has out done himself with the arrangements, recording, and engineering of this sweet music. The record label owner and producer has taken those celebrated hits and has made them flawlessly ...

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Bob Dylan Pre-Release Stream

Source: JamBase
September 27, 2008

NPR MUSIC TO STREAM ENTIRE BOB DYLAN ALBUM, TELL TALE SIGNS, WEEK AHEAD OF RELEASE FULL ALBUM AVAILABLE AT NPR MUSIC BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 30

Bob Dylan NPR Music will exclusively stream Tell Tale Signs, the highly-anticipated forthcoming album from Bob Dylan, beginning Tuesday, September 30 at midnight, one week ahead of the album's release on October 7. The entire two-CD, 27-song set will be available to hear on-demand at NPR Music for the week leading up to its ...

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New CD "Macedonian Clarinet Jazz Composed by Tale Ognenovski" of Internationally Renowned Jazz, Folk Dance and Classical Clarinetist

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2008

The Album from Tale Ognenovski is available. Release Date: September 1, 2008 (Digital - iTunes). Physical CD version of the album will be available in October. Tale Ognenovski composed and arranged all 12 tracks. The album from Independent Records is produced by Tale Ognenovski and Stevan Ognenovski and is distributed by The Orchard.

This third release is the follow up to his two previous: CD Albums entitled: Jazz, Macedonian Folk Dances and Classical Music and MOZART and OGNENOVSKI Clarinet Concertos ...

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Jerry Douglas:glide

Source: JamBase
September 27, 2008

By: Wesley Hodges

Whenever a master of his craft releases a piece of art, expectations are unbelievably high and curiosity is abound. Glide (released August 19 on Koch Record) exceeds such lofty expectations and builds on an already impressive armada of solo releases from the king of the dobro.

Ever the virtuoso and musical chameleon, one should expect Jerry Douglas to draw from a rich musical palette and utilize many of the legends he has befriended in the studio and ...

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Dave Koz - Greatest Hits Debuts at No. 1 on Charts

Source: All About Jazz
September 26, 2008

Dave Koz - Greatest Hits, the first-ever retrospective album from the renowned instrumentalist/composer, debuts at No. 1 on both Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and iTunes' Jazz Album chart. Meanwhile,lead single “Life In The Fast Lane" claims the No. 1 spot on the R&R Smooth Jazz Indicator chart. The album, which was completely re-mastered by the legendary Bernie Grundman, contains 11 Koz classics (including “You Make Me Smile, “ “Faces of the Heart, “ “Can't Let You Go (Sha ...

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