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Ennio Morricone: Fabled Hoard Of 1970s Library Music Reissued

by Chris May
October 23, 2020

Practically unobtainable since their release by RCA Italy in 1972, the ten albums which make up Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai's Dimensioni Sonore: Musiche Per L'Immagine E L'Immaginazione are being reissued by Dialogo on October 30 2020. The new release plugs a chasm in the availability of classic-era library music, which at its best is an ...

Various Artists: Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music

by Chris May
November 25, 2018

Library music--aka stock or production music--was first marketed in the 1920s, to be used by “picture palaces" showing silent movies. Its golden age came during the 1960s and 1970s, when it provided off-the-shelf incidental music for radio, television, film and advertising. Ever since Quentin Tarantino included recordings by one of that era's most prolific British library-music ...

Song Yi Jeon: Movement Of Lives

by Jerome Wilson
June 3, 2018

Song Yi Jeon is a vocalist from South Korea whose voice and music can be as ethereal as ectoplasm or as penetrating as a laser. She recalls the mystical flexibility of Sheila Jordan and the raucous improvisations of Patty Waters in her sound but comes up with her own brand of hypnotic beauty. On ...

Bill Cunliffe: A Day In the Life

by Tish Oney
November 3, 2016

Grammy award-winning arranger and pianist Bill Cunliffe has been on the cutting edge of large ensemble arranging and jazz trio performance for the past few decades. An avid composer, performer, film scorer, educator and author of several jazz piano books (and online workshops), Cunliffe is focusing his creative output these days around a few select projects. ...

Heather Cairncross: At Last

by Bruce Lindsay
November 10, 2012

At Last is named for singer Heather Cairncross' cover version of Harry Warren and Matt Gordon's classic love song, but it may equally well serve as an exclamation of relief. This is an album that Cairncross has been thinking about making for some years. In 2011, everything came together and Cairncross was finally able to record ...

Record-Busting 100+ Bassists Serenade Tivoli

by Fradley Garner
September 29, 2012

Record-Busting 100+ Bassists Serenade TivoliThe seeds were planted by Oscar Pettiford, the seminal American cellist and bassist who put down roots in Copenhagen in 1958, and by the homegrown virtuoso Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, who played his vintage Italian bass like the nimblest-fingered guitarist when he wasn't bowing like Giovanni Bottesini. In August, 2012, the ...

Mood Swings

By Swingle Singers

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Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. So What 2. Surfboard 3. Insensatez 4. The Girl from Ipanema 5. Milonga del Angel 6. A Time for Love 7. A Timeless Place 8. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? 9. Have You Met Miss Jones? 10. My Funny Valentine 11. The Lady is a Tramp 12. Just One of Those Things 13. My Foolish Heart 14. All the Things You Are 15. It Don't Mean a Thing 16. Soul Bossa Nova

The Swingle Singers: Mood Swings

by Russell Moon
March 24, 2004

Ward Swingle is back. Swingle left The Double Six of Paris in 1963 to form his own vocal group, The Swingle Singers, which enjoyed success on both sides of the Atlantic. Forty years later, Swingle has assembled a group of eight (four women and four men) young and very talented singers to carry on. Mood Swings ...