Recording News

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Impulse! 1965)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
January 18, 2011

Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane's “humble offering to Him" has become one of the most revered albums in jazz and indeed all of American music. A deeply spiritual man who claimed to have experienced a religious epiphany that allowed him to cast aside alcohol and drugs and fully commit himself to a musical and spiritual quest that were becoming one and the same, Coltrane entered the studio with the other members of what would come to be called his “classic ...

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Bradford Monk - Bradford Monk and the Foggy Hogtown Boys (2011)

Source: Something Else!
January 18, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Inspired by a record-release performance by the Toronto-based Foggy Hogtown Boys, fellow Canadian Bradford Monk decided to compose a traditional bluegrass recording. By that, he didn't mean sped-up country songs. He meant honest-to-goodness, real-deal bluegrass—done the old-fashioned way, with no winking irony or next-gen updates. His singular focus has paid rich dividends. Their self-titled CD, set for release early this year, features a series of emotionally complex, intellectually challenging string arrangements, each paired with direct, heartfelt vocal ...

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In Praise of Todd Rundgren: Pioneer, Pop Star, Fabulously Weird

Source: Something Else!
January 18, 2011

By Something Else Reviews Perhaps Todd Rungren's own restive muse—he's dabbled in every major rock subgenre over the past four decades—simply makes him too difficult to categorize. Maybe Rundgren never stuck with one thing long enough. Somehow, this pop music maverick hasn't consistently found the wider fame he so richly deserves. At least outside of our crowded listening stations at the SER Towers. We love us some Rundgren. Let's count the ways ... “WE GOTTA GET YOU A WOMAN" (RUST, ...

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Not Only Cats Love Jazz

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
January 18, 2011

Cats make jazz and love jazz. In the case of loving jazz, so do mice. Well, at least one mouse in particular. Next month, a Walt Disney Records imprint, Disney Pearl Series, will release Disney Jazz Volume 1: Everybody Wants to Be a Cat. It's a 13-track collection of popular songs from the soundtracks of Disney films. OK, maybe the analogy to Mickey Mouse was a stretch. But there is nothing mickey mouse about the participants, who include a wide ...

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Mint Records Goes Klezmer with Geoff Berner

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 17, 2011

Geoff Berner, Victory Party (Mint Records) Victory Party Introduces Klezmer to Creepy Release Date: March 08, 2011 Vancouver's Geoff Berner to make his Mint Records debut as he continues to expand his sound with his first release since completing the internationally celebrated Whiskey Rabbi trilogy. Berner's fifth full length studio album,Victory Party is produced by mastermind Josh Dolgen (Socalled) and will be released on March 8th on Mint Records. “I know this sounds extreme, but with producer Josh Dolgin's help, ...

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Dance Music Icon Banco de Gaia to Release New Music February 8

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 17, 2011

Banco de Gaia, Songs From The Silk Road (Disco Gecko) Best of Founding Father of Eclectic Electronica Release: 02/08/2011

Persian strings and prog rock. Tibetan songs and ecstatic house. Welcome to the strange, wonderful world of DJ/remixer/dance music maestro Banco de Gaia (aka Toby Marks) whose work sprang from the hopeful exuberance of British house, the joys of sampling, and the advent of global music.

Now, new listeners unfamiliar with this funky founding father of eclectic ...

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"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Main Title)" by Alex North

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
January 17, 2011

One of the loveliest pieces of music ever heard in film is surely the Alex North theme to the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Much of the work North (1910-91) did fell between the later phase of the Golden Age era of film music and the earliest part of the Silver Age era, and as a result sort of landed somewhere in between. North's earliest successes included A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman (both 1951) ...

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John Carter - Bobby Bradford - Mosaic Select 36 (Mosaic, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
January 17, 2011

Clarinetist and saxophonist John Carter and trumpeter Bobby Bradford co-led an excellent band in the 1970's that was steeped in the free-bop of Ornette Coleman, but clearly taken in a unique and personal direction. This three disc compilation brings together the albums that Carter and Bradford recorded for Revelation Records, Seeking and Secrets, along with unreleased material including a fascinating duo performance. Seeking is a quartet album with the co-leaders joined by Tom Williamson on bass and Bruz Freeman on ...

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