Recording News

Mark O'Leary "Ellipses" on FMR Records

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

Mark O'Leary Trio - Ellipses (FMR 254; UK) Featuring Mark O'Leary on guitar & electronics, Stale Storlokken on synth & samples and John Herndon on drums. Considering that Irish daredevil guitar wiz, Mark O'Leary's career is not yet a decade old, he has already unleashed more than a dozen discs as a leader on various labels like Leo, FMR & Clean Feed. Each one of his dozen+ discs features a different trio or duo from around the world an each ...

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Meddy Gerville Releases New Album: Fo kronm la vi

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

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Jenny Scheinman Tour/Albums

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

RIDICULOUSLY TALENTED VIOLINIST RELEASES TWO ALBUMS AND TOURS NORTHEAST

“...Ms. Scheinman is a killer player... She has the street musician's trick of getting attention with the pure power of a single, perfect note." - New York Times

“On her self-titled disc- one of two being released simultaneously- she reveals herself to be as personal a stylist with her vocals as she is with her violin, navigating roots and folk-rock styles with consummate ease. - No Depression

“Ms. Scheinman's ...

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Carly Simon This Kind of Love CD

Source: Michael Ricci
June 2, 2008

CARLY SIMON COMING AROUND AGAIN WITH THE KIND OF LOVE The singer, now 62, has a new album out and is even hitting the stage with Taylor again -- not ex-husband James, but their son, Ben (and his sister, Sally, is involved too) CARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on “ American Idol." “I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that ...

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Sunday Spin: Staple Singers

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

OUR WEEKLY NOD TO AMAZING ALBUMS GIVES A GOOD CAHOOT

The Staple Singers did nothing less than modernize gospel music. They are the next evolutionary step after Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, all churchgoers that etched humanity into hymns and gave hips to hallelujahs. Compacting the pulpit into danceable bursts, The Staple Singers - Roebuck “Pops" Staples and his children Mavis, Pervis, Cleotha and Yvonne - were protest music with a backbeat, beloved by Martin ...

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New Stax Albums

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

VENERABLE SOUL LABEL RETURNS WITH NEW RELEASES BY CLASSIC ARTISTS

Nudge It Up A Notch Recently revived Stax Records offers up two tasty summer platters by revered Stax alumni - Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere's Nudge It Up a Notch and Eddie Floyd's first new album in six years, Eddie Loves You So, both out July 29, 2008.

The soul summit between Steve Cropper (Booker T & The MG's), Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals) and producer-songwriter Jon Tiven found ...

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Nobu Stowe Lee Pembleton Project - Hommage an Klaus Kinski (Black Saint, 2007) ****a1/2

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

Those who know Nobu Stowe and Blaise Siwula's fully improvisational records, will be more than thrilled by this one. Stowe joins forces with Lee Pembleton, “sound designer". Other musicians include Blaise Siwula on sax and clarinet, Perry Robinson on clarinet and micro-ocarina, John McLellan on drums and Ross Bonadonna on bass clarinet, alto saxophone and guitar. An unusual line-up for an unusual album. Although the album is dedicated to German actor Klaus Kinski, it has as much to do with ...

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Glows in the Dark - Music to Listen to Glows in the Dark by (2008)

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

Scott Burton's compositions are as natural and uncontrived as his guitar playing: they work seamlessly with meaning and breadth. The debut record from his quintet, Glows in the Dark, features eight originals by the guitarist. Often shifting from dire marches to vicious free jazz to driving punk beats, the music never freezes. It would be unfair to categorize the album by these extremes alone, for there is so much more in between.Burton's arrangements of his group of Reginald ...

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