Recording News

Ari Hest's "52" is an Indie Success; Tour Coming

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 31, 2008

Exceeding All Expectations, Ari Hest's 52 Experiment is an Indie Success Fans to Select 12 Favorite Tracks for Hest's Next CD Tour Dates Confirmed for NY, IN, IL, TX, OK, NC, TN, GA, AL, SC Ari Hest's ambitious 52 project began this past January as an experiment: could an independent artist write, produce, record and release one new song every week, for 52 weeks in a row? Would fans embrace the effort, and spend $20 (38 cents-per-song) for a 52-week ...

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Boz Scaggs Revisits Standards This Fall with 'Speak Low' (Decca)

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

This fall, Decca will release renowned musician Boz Scaggs' Speak Low, the silken-voiced singer's newest collection of standards and first studio album in five years, available on vinyl September 30 and in all other forms October 28. Co-produced with GRAMMY award-winning producer/arranger Gil Goldstein, Scaggs interprets Ellington, Mercer, Rodgers & Hart, and other classic writers and composers. In addition to Goldstein on piano/keyboards, the line up includes Alex Acuna (drums), Bob Sheppard (woodwinds), and Scott Colley (bass). Scaggs began his ...

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Creedence Clearwater LPS Reissued on Fantasy with Bonus Tracks on Sept. 30

Source: conqueroo
July 31, 2008

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL'S FIRST SIX ALBUMS REISSUED IN EXPANDED EDITIONS ON FANTASY RECORDS SEPTEMBER 30

Digitally remastered reissues will include rare and previously unreleased bonus material with liners by noted music journalists

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The first six albums by Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductees Creedence Clearwater Revival will be reissued by Fantasy Records (a unit of Concord Music Group) on September 30, 2008 as six individual expanded-edition CDs. The albums -- Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, ...

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Ry Cooder Keeps L.A. Sound Alive

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Albums recall long-lost city of juke joints and honky-tonks LOS ANGELES - It was more than 50 years ago but Ry Cooder remembers it like it could have been last week; he was 8 years old and Johnny Cash came on the radio singing “Hey Porter." A third-grader with a guitar was hooked.

Cooder knew he had to head up to “Big River" himself. Or over to Folsom Prison or down to Jackson, Miss., or anywhere else Cash ...

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Marlon Jordan Records Live at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

3 Faces of Marlon Jordan heralds the unique talent of one of New Orleans most exceptional trumpet players, Marlon Jordan. It allows Jordan to transverse along an uncharted path; classical, jazz, and hip hop music all in a three CD compilation. Not only does 3 Faces of Marlon Jordan promise to offer Jordan's unique sonic signature, Marlon has recruited some of the best musicians that New Orleans has to offer for the jazz segment of the CD including; pianists Ellis ...

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American and New Zealand Harmonica Wizards Team up for Amazing New CD

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

2008 marks a milestone for PT Gazell & Brendan Power, as their highly anticipated duet CD Back To Back hits the stands. This collection of jazz and swing standards from MissMax & Tethnik Records is certain to make fans and industry folks alike sit up and take notice. American master of the half-valved diatonic, PT Gazell and New Zealand chromatic harmonica wizard Brendan Power, pay homage to the swinging sounds of Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Ben Webster and so much ...

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Byrne and Eno Album Details

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

David Byrne & Brian Eno Announce Album Details

Eno & Byrne David Byrne and Brian Eno have finished their first collaboration in almost 30 years. The “electronic gospel" album is called Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. The majority of the album features Eno on the music and Byrne focusing on words and singing. Byrne says, “It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited." On August 4, the song “Strange Overtones" will be offered as a free download ...

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Other Places: Friedwald on the VJO

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 30, 2008

Not long ago in a Recent Listening in Brief posting, I brushed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's new CD. Brevity by no means indicated a lack of enthusiasm for the latest recorded work of that remarkable institution. Will Friedwald, the jazz critic of The New York Sun, is another VJO enthusiast. He attended the band's recent performance at New York's 92nd Street YMCA in the summer concert series overseen by pianist Bill Charlap. Here is some of what he wrote ...

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