Recording News

Music Taste Releases West Coast All Stars: California Dreamin'

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2008

Steely Dan, the Mama's and the Papa's, the Eagles, America. These are but a few bands that have since established themselves as the musical pioneers of their time. Songs such as “Hotel California," “Sister Golden Hair," and “Rikki Don't Lose That Number" still persist in today's musicscape. Enter the West Coast All Stars. Under the direction of producer Joey Carbone, a vocal quartet consisting of Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, Bobby Kimball, and Joseph Williams sought to reinvent old time Californian ...

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George Kahn and the New West Coast Jazz

Source: Imaginary Friends
August 26, 2008

By Scott Yanow “I disagree with the notion that jazz is dead or that it is in the museum stage where all of the important musicians who people listen to are now dead," says pianist-composer George Kahn. “I believe that there is a great deal of life in the music and it is still a very viable and fun art form. Also, West Coast Jazz has been unfairly maligned historically. Some writers have inaccurately said that black people did not ...

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Dare2/Emarcy Records to Release Dave Holland's "Pass It On"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 26, 2008

Esteemed as a bassist, composer, and bandleader, Dave Holland has worked in a vast array of settings over the last 40 years, from classic dates with Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, and Wayne Shorter to his own adventurous recordings, seven of which have been honored with Grammy Awards or nominations in the last decade alone. Holland's latest CD, the third for his Dare2 imprint (distributed by Emarcy/Universal), is a stellar sextet session called Pass It On which will be released September ...

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B.B.King First Studio Album in Three Years

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2008

B.B.King: One Kind Favor

The wake of Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, John Mellencamp and all that's come before, T Bone Burnett is on such a producing roll that his presence threatens to eclipse the artist(s) he's working with.

But that's hardly the case on B.B. King's first new studio album in three years. Burnett's concept for the 12-track set--to have the 82-year-old King revisit songs he played at the very beginning of his career--plays out in an inspired outing ...

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German Prog Legends Amon Duul 2 Get Back Catalog Re-Issue

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
August 25, 2008

Germany - Experimental music pioneers Amon Duul 2, whose music defined the German progressive rock scene of the 1970's, are back in the news with the reissuing of the band's back catalog on SPV Records - many titles have been long out of print. “All the important works of Amon Duul 2 are remastered and wherever there was spare room on the CDs, we added bonus tracks recorded in 2005, 2006 and 2007", says guitarist and original band member John ...

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Randy Newman Wielding a Lyrical Scalpel to Deliver a Pointed Political Message

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2008

Of all the assessments of the Bush administration that have been set to pop music, few are as deadpan as Randy Newman's song “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country," which Mr. Newman released last year on iTunes and has included on his first album of new material in nearly a decade, Harps and Angels (Nonesuch). Over the kind of stately piano arrangement he's known for, Mr. Newman, 64, calmly sings that “the leaders we have/While they're the worst ...

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Pat Coil Sextet's "Bird House" Set for September Release

Source: Liberty Hill Music
August 23, 2008

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Gonzo Tapes: Hunter S.

Source: JamBase
August 23, 2008

The Gonzo Tapes: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

On October 28 Shout! Factory will make available the previously unreleased Gonzo Tapes in a newly produced collection titled The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, in concurrence with the Magnolia Pictures film release of “Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson," directed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney.

Legendary Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson knew from the beginning of ...

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