Recording News

Time Life Releases Motown Collection

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Time Life has issued a five-volume (10 CD) collector's set featuring songs by The Temptations, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Four Tops, Martha & The Vandella's, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, and many more. The place where hits were born, the distinct Motown sound of the '60s and '70s was undeniable, crafted from soulful melodies, soothing vocals and a hint of pop. Now, fans can own a piece of this legacy with The Motown ...

Continue Reading...

Bluegrass Music with a Chinese Accent

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Bluegrass With A Red Tint Abigail Washburn's sound is a mash-up of old-timey Americana and Chinese tradition.

Abigail Washburn is sitting on a bench in New York's Battery Park City on a recent afternoon, the Statue of Liberty standing at attention just beyond the water's edge. Tourists stop to snap photos, buy trinkets, get panhandled. Washburn is herself a fellow traveler: her touring band, the Sparrow Quartet, will play a set of free old-timey music in about an ...

Continue Reading...

"Wigged Out!" New Acker Bros Release on Modern Artists Label

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

They're at it again!...I will resist the urge to sputter about not having been asked to write a commentary on the last Acker Bros. record If That, Then This...water over the bridge, guys. This latest offering by the brothers, who have been unfairly characterized as second-string ditty-smiths, is a foray into musical territory yet unknown (perhaps unknowable!) to their dry, high-brow, poll-reading critics. This music grooves, bops...as incandescent as a neon sign! And there could be no more fitting a ...

Continue Reading...

"Johnny Cash Remixed" Set for October 14 Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Compadre Records/Music World Music has announced the release of Johnny Cash Remixed, featuring bold new interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from top music remixers and producers who were recruited to take the original master recordings and infuse them with the sounds and technology of modern music styles such as hip hop and dance music. The album, which includes a performance from Snoop Dogg, will be available in stores and online on October 14. A vinyl deluxe-edition will be available on ...

Continue Reading...

Swing out Sister: The Stunning New Album - "Beautiful Mess"

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Swing Out Sister release their ninth studio album in the UK on Monday 8th September. The new album is entitled Beautiful Mess and features the single Something Every Day, to be released as a digital download single on September 1st. The band's ninth studio album, evokes a more intimate, jazzy sound. Corinne Drewery's voice has a more mature timbre, supported by Andy Connell's unusually restrained, rhythm-heavy backdrop, yet still interwoven with their signature string and vocal arrangements featuring Gina Foster. ...

Continue Reading...

Smooth Jazz Network to Feature Stevie Wonder Tribute Compilation Single

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Smoothjazznetwork.com has invited Boosweet Records guitarist and label CEO Vernon Neilly to debut his 1st Smooth Jazz single titled “I Was Made To Love You" featuring U-Nam from his latest project, which is a Stevie Wonder tribute compilation entitled: Vernon Neilly & Friends: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder. The CD is set for worldwide release on July 15th, 2008. Fortunately for smooth jazz and Stevie Wonder fans alike,there will be an opportunity to preview and cast their vote on this ...

Continue Reading...

Country Artists Join Jazz Musician Charlie Haden

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Charlie Haden's Ocean of Diamonds Release Sept 23rd

Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs are among the guests artists featured on an upcoming album by jazz bassist, Charlie Haden. Ocean of Diamonds will be released on Sept. 23 on Decca.

Additional guests include Russ Barenberg, Sam Bush, Elvis Costello, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Bela Fleck, Buddy Green, Bruce Hornsby, John Leventhal, Bryan Sutton and Dan Tyminski, as well as jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and actor Jack Black (who is ...

Continue Reading...

Norma Winstone Britain's Poetic Jazz Singer

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Veteran jazz vocalist Norma Winstone's new CD, Distances, features lyrics of her own, plus those by Peter Gabriel, Cole Porter and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

IN A CAREER SPANNING FIVE DECADES, British jazz vocalist Norma Winstone has pioneered, experimented and collaborated to push her music to the cutting edge. She's developed “wordless" vocals, written her own lyrics and covered the classics, always ending up with something new. The dark atmosphere in Winstone's cover of Cole Porter's “Every Time We Say Goodbye" ...

Continue Reading...