Recording News

Delmark New Releases: Feb Releases, March Reissues, and April New Releases!

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2007

February 20, 2007 new releases are off and running : Jimmy Burns, Live at B.L.U.E.S. (DE 789/DVD 1789) with Jesse Fortune! 2006 live recording on DVD/CD Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Hot 'N' Heavy: Live at the Ascension Loft (DE 574/ DVD1574) with Kahil El'Zabar, Fareed Haque, Corey Wilkes, and Ernest Dawkins, 2006 live recording on DVD and CD Cowboy Roy Brown, Street Singer (DE 790), recorded late '50's Barrelhouse Buck McFarland, Alton Blues (DE 788), recorded 1961 March 2007 Delmark classics ...

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Singer and Berklee Vocal Chair Jan Shapiro Releases New CD, "Back to Basics"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 12, 2007

Singer Jan Shapiro has been a mainstay in voice education at Boston's Berklee College of Music for more than 20 years. Since 1997, when she became department chair, she has overseen the dramatic expansion of vocal studies at Berklee and had the satisfaction of building what is now the premier contemporary voice department in the country. But her academic and administrative responsibilities left little time for her own singing.

Last spring, Shapiro finally carved out the necessary time to plan ...

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Carla Thomas Reissued on Reactivated Stax Label

Source: conqueroo
March 12, 2007

CARLA THOMAS' THE QUEEN ALONE REISSUED IN DELUXE EXPANDED EDITION ON STAX RECORDS

Queen of Memphis Soul looked to soul stylings of Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia on this 1969 album, which is reissued with four previously unreleased tracks

MEMPHIS, TN -- Carla Thomas became famous thanks to several great singles on Stax Records: “Gee Whiz," “B-A-B-Y," “Let Me Be Good To You" and a duet with Otis Redding, “Tramp." In 1969, she recorded The Queen Alone, produced by Stax co-founder ...

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Some Wonderful Moment Featuring Ron Miles

Source: All About Jazz
March 10, 2007

ears&eyes Records Presents...

Just wanted to pass along that the Jason Steele Ensemble debut release, Some Wonderful Moment, is now available for pre-order. Just go to jasonsteelemusic.com to pre-order and you will receive a free mp3 of “Horn Interlude"--one of the tracks from the CD.

Musicians on Some Wonderful Moment... Ron Miles-Cornet Thad Franklin-Trumpet/Flugelhorn Tim Sullivan-Sax/Bass Clarinet Josh Sclar-Sax Keith Johnson-Fender Rhodes Matt Ulery-Bass Charles Rumback-Drums ...

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Collectors' Choice Music Reissues Jerry Butler's Mercury Years

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2007

Two Gamble & Huff-produced LPs contain Chicago soul singer's biggest hits such as “Hey Western Union Man" and “Only The Strong Survive"

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jerry Butler was accorded the nickname “The Ice Man" by a Philadelphia DJ who once called Butler's show “the coolest thing I ever saw." That was in the early '60s after Butler had left the Impressions, with whom he'd scored the doo-wop hit “For Your Precious Love." More than 40 years later, he's still ...

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John Prine and Mac Wiseman Team up for a Duets Record

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2007

The Collaborative John Prine Prine and Bluegrass Legend Mac Wiseman Record Duet Album Oh Boy Records and Shout! Factory Release Prine's Live On Soundstage 1980 DVD

Nashville, TN - When two titans of industry join forces, the results can be groundbreaking. If that industry is the music industry, and the titans are legendary songwriter John Prine and bluegrass genius Mac Wiseman, the results are groundbreaking, breathtaking and heartwarming. Prine and Wiseman joined forces to release Standard ...

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Joey Defrancesco - "Live at Yoshi's": Out Now on Concord Records

Source: On Target Media Group
March 7, 2007

Joey Defrancesco Live At Yoshi's is now available. Released this week (3.6.07) on Concord Records, 'Live at Yoshi's' delivers an outstanding live collection of jazz standards.

Live At Yoshi's is Joey DeFrancesco's eighth release for Concord and features renditions of standards “Cherokee," “Ceora," “I'm in the Mood for Love" and more. Last year the hammond B-3 master set up shop for a four-night engagement at Yoshi's, the San Francisco Bay Area's premiere jazz club in Oakland CA and has managed ...

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Dmitri Kolesnik's "Five Corners" on Twinz/Challenge Records

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2007

The first release of the collaboration between Challenge Records International and Twnz Records is a fact.

On the 5th of March Dmitri Kolesnik's Five Corners will be released.

Five Corners Challenge Records CR 73256

Personnel Dmitri Kolesnik - bass Eric Alexander - tenor sax Jim Rotondi - trumpet and flugelhorn Alex Sipiagin - trumpet and flugelhorn Andrei Kondakov - piano Lenny White - drums ...

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