Recording News

Boz Scaggs Brings New Album "Speak Low" on National Tour

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2008

Five years after his first volume of standards, But Beautiful, debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Jazz chart, GRAMMY award winning musician Boz Scaggs offers his second volume of standards and ballads, aptly titled Speak Low (out September 30 on vinyl and wide release on October 28th via Decca). The multi-dimensional singer, whose 1976 album Silk Degrees was one of the landmark pop titles of the decade, began working on Speak Low several years ago. He'd settled on most ...

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The Black Power Era

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2008

The role of music in the early civil rights movements is fairly widely known. Classic gospel songs, some more than a century old, were refashioned and sung at demonstrations, on picket lines, and across the South. Even the iconic song “We Shall Overcome" is based on an early spiritual. These songs expressed the surging energy of the Black freedom movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Readers not familiar with defiant gems like “If You Miss Me at the ...

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It's All About the Women | the Women Soundtrack

Source: All About Jazz
August 30, 2008

It's all about.... The Women.On September 9th, Verve Forecast will release the soundtrack for the major motion picture, The Women, featuring an outstanding female cast including Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman, Carrie Fisher, and Debi Mazar. The film, based on George Cukor's 1939 film and Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 stage play, is a comedy that centers around a circle of friends in Manhattan that ...

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Stay Golden, Smog: The Best of Golden Smog ~ 10-Track Listening Party

Source: 1888 Media
August 29, 2008

In the late '80s, Minneapolis was home to a tightly knit music scene that claimed its fair share of groups on college and alternative radio playlists. When they weren't playing in their own bands, singer Kraig Johnson (Run Westy Run) and guitarists Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum) Gary Louris (the Jayhawks) and Marc Perlman (the Jayhawks) got together as Golden Smog to play with friends and have a good time. The band recorded a pair of albums for Rykodisc in the ...

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Nick Longo "This Is" CD Reviewed at Creative Loafing

Source: All About Jazz
August 29, 2008

By Mark Gresham This Is, the self-produced debut album from Atlanta jazzman Nick Longo, lays down a foundation of driving cosmopolitan jazz that screams midtown Manhattan, but foreshadows the possibility of a fresh, identifiable uptown Atlanta style, if he chooses to pursue it. Longo's rhythm-driven lead vocals are featured prominently on two tracks, but up front on alto and baritone sax is where Longo marks his turf on the mostly instrumental disc. His dad, John “Pops" Longo, plays tenor sax ...

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Ghostlight Preps '13, a New Musical' for Digital Release

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 28, 2008

Ghostlight Readies Original Broadway Cast Recording for '13, A New Musical'; Digital Release Set for 9/30

A rare instance where the cast album is recorded before performances have officially begun

Ghostlight Records is proud to confirm plans to record the Original Broadway Cast Album of '13, A New Musical'. The recording will be released digitally as of 9/30, and will be available for purchase at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre soon thereafter. A CD version will be in stores in ...

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Millennium Promise and Koch Records Host All-Star Benefit Album Release

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2008

Affair to Feature Grammy-Nominated Jazz Great Kirk Whalum & Friends New York, NY - On Monday, September 29, 2008, philanthropic organizations Millennium Promise and Simmons Family Foundation, along with entertainment powerhouse Koch Records will join forces to host the album release party for Promises Made, an all-star benefit jazz album. The event, being held at BB King's in New York City, will spotlight performances from renowned jazz artists such as Kirk Whalum, Takana, and Take 6, just to name a ...

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KlezFactor's "Klezmachine" Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2008

KlezFactor is pleased to announce the release of their second album, Klezmachine. Klezmachine is already getting rave reviews... Keith Wolzinger of the Klezmer Podcast has called it “unforgettable"! Composer/reedman Mike Anklewicz blends the modal music of Klezmer (Eastern-European Jewish Dance music) with rock, jazz, funk, Balkan, Middle-Eastern and African rhythms to create a fresh new sound. Filling out the band is Ali Berkok on piano, Jaro Dabrowski on guitars, oud and percussion, David MacDougall on drums and percussion, Ben Plotnick ...

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