Recording News

The Verve Readies First Album Since 1997

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

The Verve has christened its reunion album “Four" and will release it before the end of the summer.

The set is due Aug. 18 via EMI internationally and a day later in North America, where it will come out on the Verve's On Our Own imprint with distribution via MRI/Megaforce/RED. The album's first single, “Love Is Noise," was premiered on BBC Radio One late June and is now streaming from the band's MySpace site. The Verve got back together in ...

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Music Sales Slump Could Spell the End of Boxed Sets

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

With music sales in a steady decline, perhaps the biggest victim of the P2P era is the boxed set.

With only a limited number of sets planned for the latter part of 2008, sales of boxed sets have hit record lows, making labels reluctant about releasing them at all. This year, the most notable boxed sets are the Jesus & Mary Chain's The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities, a Jane's Addiction anthology endorsed by drummer Stephen Perkins and ...

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Swampdawamp Release 2.0-Another Big Helping of Southern Rock and Blues

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

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Phil Christie's Rearview Mirror CD Available on Amazon

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

The last song Phil Christie wrote for his new CD became its title and is the one that most defined it. Rearview Mirror with its images of “looking back and reflecting on love lost, love won, dreams unfulfilled and those dreams that may still yet come true" are a unifying thread throughout the recording's ten tracks. The songs' rich tones and storylines are enhanced by Doug Lancio's (Patty Griffin, Gretchen Peters) atmospheric guitar style, Barry Walsh's (Gretchen Peters) piano work ...

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Beck's Modern Guilt Released

Source: Michael Ricci
July 8, 2008

Review Beck “Modern Guilt" (DGC Records)

There are many probable reasons Beck made “Modern Guilt," his concise yet deliberately cosmic collaboration with fellow shaggy pop auteur Danger Mouse. He's finishing up a long contract with his record label; he has two small kids and doesn't want to kill himself with a long, eclectic project; he's 38 and can't break dance anymore. But let's consider an artistic one: He and the producer also known as Brian Burton share a ...

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UK Jazz Fans Rush to Pre-Order the Passion Debut Album Before Stocks Run Out

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

The limited release of the debut album by UK supergroup The Passion has got British jazz fans racing to Amazon to pre-order there copy before they all sell out. The group that comprises Jacqui Dankworth, Liane Carroll and Sara Colman have been together for almost ten years, but announced that with the debut album “One Good Reason" finally getting an official release that the band were breaking up to follow their own solo careers. The album, originally recorded in 2002 ...

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Melissa Morgan Signs with Telarc

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

Telarc announced yesterday that it has signed New York-based jazz vocalist Melissa Morgan.

Morgan will make her recording debut in March 2009 with the release of Until I Met You.

Trained in classical music at a young age, Morgan shifted toward jazz in her teen years, due in part to her grandmother's extensive collection of Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson LPs. At SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, she studied with artists like Yolanda Bavan, Jon Faddis ...

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Vocalist Jamie Davis Releases New CD "Vibe over Perfection" on Unity Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

The Chocolate Baritone Debuts At the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival

Walnut Creek, CA -- 2008 is a defining year for Unity Music and jazz vocalist Jamie Davis as he confirms his position in the pantheon of great male vocalists on VIBE OVER PERFECTION, his new CD, scheduled for release July 15, 2008.

Mr. Davis, who debuts at the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21st, 2008, has been compared to Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, and Lou Rawls, with a truly ...

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