Recording News

Aaron Parks' Blue Note Debut "Invisible Cinema" Released, Full Album Stream at AOL

Source: On Target Media Group
August 19, 2008

Rapidly rising Jazz pianist Aaron Parks' Blue Note Records debut Invisible Cinema hits stores this week; the whole album is available to stream now at AOL. Invisible Cinema is a stunning concept record conceived entirely by the 24-year- old, and with his technically involved, melodic and sensitive playing, Parks is setting a new standard for Jazz piano expression. Available now, Invisible Cinema is an acoustic jazz record that evokes sonic and rhythmic frontiers through the use ...

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Loudon Wainwright III Covers Himself

Source: Michael Ricci
August 19, 2008

Here's an old song by this kid I used to know

Even when Loudon Wainwright III was writing songs in his early 20s, many of his characters were already looking back wistfully at their younger days -- such as the protagonist of his 1970 recording “School Days," who begins his tale. In Delaware when I was younger. They're songs written by a young man and originally recorded when he was a young man. But now, tragically, I'm not a young ...

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Amy Macdonald Puts Sacred Cows on Notice

Source: Michael Ricci
August 19, 2008

Amy Macdonald This Is the Life Decca

She's set to follow Amy Winehouse and Duffy as the next big thing out of Britain (where her debut has scored double-platinum status), but Amy Macdonald isn't part of the young retro-soul scene that's bringing back the Motown sound. In fact, this 20-year-old Scottish firebrand revives an older artifact: the confrontational coffeehouse folk that Bob Dylan brought to Greenwich Village in the early '60s. Old music is the only thing of age Macdonald ...

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Organissimo Releases "Groovadelphia"

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

Groovadelphia, organissimo's first CD since 2005's This Is The Place, finds the band deftly refining and expanding its signature sound while extending the tradition of the organ-based trio. Featuring eight original songs and one penned by drummer Randy Marsh's father, acclaimed tenor saxophonist Arno Marsh, this new CD opens with the title track, “Groovadelphia," a tribute to organissimo's “home away from home" on the East Coast. The mood stays traditional with the spicy samba of “Seor Buffet" followed by the ...

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Xavier Rudd:dark Shades of Blue

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

By: Trevor Pour

Occasionally I encounter a work that so eloquently describes the human condition that my futile attempts to capture its essence in a review seem almost absurd. This album is one such work.

Xavier Rudd's Dark Shades of Blue (released August 19 on Anti) is an absolute tour de force and unequivocally his most powerful work to date. Listeners will immediately sense a change in tone; There's a heavy, brooding element to most tracks, something not heard so ...

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Stream Byrne and Eno Now

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

Stream and Download David Byrne & Brian Eno's New Album Now

David Byrne and Brian Eno have completed Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (their first collaboration since 1981's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts).

The album is available exclusively at www.everythingthathappens.com. You can purchase it in a variety of digital and physical formats, including a limited edition Deluxe Package designed by Sagmeister Inc. All formats can be downloaded immediately and physical CDs will be shipped in the Fall. ...

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P-B-S and McConnell Album/Dates

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

PORTER BATISTE STOLTZ FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST PAGE McCONNELL RELEASE MOODOO, RECORDED LIVE AT VERMONT'S CLUB METRONOME SELECT TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED FOR THIS FALL

Porter-Batiste-Stoltz George Porter Jr., Russell Batiste Jr., and Brian Stoltz are part of the rich history that is New Orleans' musical ancestry. Today, Porter-Batiste-Stoltz announce the hard hitting trio's first-ever live release MOODOO, featuring special guest keyboardist Page McConnell (Phish) sitting in on select songs.

The recording offers highlights from an epic November ...

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Rolling Stone Reviews "Passing Strange" Cast CD

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 18, 2008

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: Issue 1059 -- August 21, 2008 Fricke's Picks: Strange Broadway By David Fricke Before it was in workshop, off-Broadway, then on Broadway, the electric musical Passing Strange was a life story: the already rich, then brilliantly embroidered autobiography of the singer-songwriter Mark Stewart, a.k.a. Stew, who wrote and starred in the show. He rightly won a Tony this year for Best Book of a Musical -- Passing Strange is his funny, unsparing dissection ...

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