Recording News

Stone River Boys Are Hacienda Brothers' Dave Gonzalez and Hollisters' Mike Barfield, Debut CD out June 1

Source: conqueroo
April 15, 2010

Group's debut album Love on the Dial out June 1 on Cow Island Music

AUSTIN, Texas -- After tearing it up in the Lone Star State and across the country for nearly two years, Austin's Stone River Boys will issue their recording bow Love on the Dial on June 1 via Northampton, Mass.-based Cow Island Music.

The Texas-based quintet features the talents of two well-traveled roots music practitioners -- guitarist Dave Gonzalez, formerly a driving force in the Hacienda Brothers ...

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Marc Hoffman Channels Neal Hefti for Tribute Single

Source: blueplate pr
April 15, 2010

CHARLOTTE, NC -- Ahead of the release of his remixed and remastered CD Curioso, North Carolina jazz composer/performer Marc Hoffman has released a single entitled “Hefti" that's dedicated to Neal Hefti, the popular composer and arranger most people remember for the “Odd Couple," “Batman," and “Barefoot in the Park" theme songs.

Hoffman studied film composition under Neal Hefti at the University of Southern California. And like much of Hefti's more popular tunes, Hoffman's “Hefti" is light and effervescent, with a ...

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Keller Williams Covers Dead: Winehouse, YMSB on New Album

Source: JamBase
April 15, 2010

KELLER WILLIAMS' BRAND NEW ALBUM, THIEF, TO BE RELEASED MAY 25 THE ALL-COVERS ALBUM, RECORDED WITH LARRY AND JENNY KEEL, OFFERS KELLER VERSIONS OF SONGS BY AMY WINEHOUSE, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, RYAN ADAMS YMSB, PATTERSON HOOD, THE RACONTEURS, DANNY BARNES AND MANY OTHERS LOOK FOR KELLER ON TOUR THIS SUMMER, INCLUDING SELECT DATES AS PART OF RHYTHM DEVILS

Keller Williams Keller Williams releases his first-ever all-covers collection, amusingly titled Thief, ...

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Catch a Glimpse "Inside This Heart of Mine" April 13, 2010 Vocalist Catherine Russell's New World Village Release

Source: Michael Ricci
April 14, 2010

"A masterful singer who knows how to inject her personality into the heart of a great song." --Philadelphia Inquirer “Combine her joy de vive persona with an all star band that swings beyond the stars and you've got this top-shelf, first-class recording. Catherine reigns...destined not just for applause but awards." --Bob Gish, Jazz Inside Magazine World Village/Harmonia Mundi proudly announces the release of vocalist CATHERINE RUSSELL's, “INSIDE THIS HEART OF MINE" on APRIL 13, 2010. Her third album for the ...

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Native Singer Jeremy Goodfeather Dons Baseball Cap in Lieu of Feathers

Source: Michael Ricci
April 14, 2010

When Native American singer and activist Floyd Red Crow Westerman passed away in 2007, Jeremy Goodfeather's Hunka (adopted) mother asked him to play a few songs at the Oakland memorial, a request that launched an unexpected series of events for the San Francisco resident. “I had established myself as a community member within the Native circle, but people had no idea I could sing," recalls Goodfeather, who's debut album is out now on Round Whirled Records. “When they heard me ...

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Balkan Beat Box: Album and Tour

Source: JamBase
April 14, 2010

BALKAN BEAT BOX RETURNS WITH HIGHLY PRAISED BLUE EYED BLACK BOY APRIL 27 ON NAT GEO MUSIC, SUMMER TOUR DATES INCLUDE STOPS AT LOLLAPALOOZA, LINCOLN CENTER AND MORE

Balkan Beat Box Critics are applauding Balkan Beat Box's new set Blue Eyed Black Boy, due out April 27 on Nat Geo Music. Huffington Post proclaims it “has single handedly raised the ante of what modern Balkan music could sound like," and Boston Globe's Grade A album review calls it ...

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Mike Reed's People, Places and Things - Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)

Source: Master of a Small House
April 14, 2010

The last tine in drummer Mike Reed's three-pronged exploration of Chicago jazz history, this disc is appropriately climactic in its inspired variation on the project's guiding theme. Reed conscripted three living legends with deep ties to the Windy City scene - trumpeter Art Hoyle, trombonist Julian Priester and multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, heard solely on tenor - to augment his working quartet. Trombonist Jeb Bishop is also on board to further enliven the ensemble. The music was recorded in concert at ...

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John Smoot's Journey to Brazil

Source: Michael Ricci
April 14, 2010

Blending the coolness of jazz with the sensuality of bossa nova, pianist/composer John Smoot, scores with his latest single, “Deus De Toda Criacao" from the upcoming CD, Journey To Brazil. This melodic tune is gaining the attention of Bossa/Jazz fans around the globe and is quickly becoming a radio favorite in Japan, Brazil, Europe and Greece as well as the U.S. “All of the music on this album was inspired by my recent travels to Brazil--Salvador Bahia, Fernando De Noronha, ...

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