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Ambrose Akinmusire: A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Mark Sullivan
Live recordings at the venerable Village Vanguard are immediately part of a storied tradition. Fully aware of the spirit of the place, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire brought his longtime quartet with pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer Justin Brown--but he took the unusual step of performing all new, original compositions. This is his third Blue ...
Could Part Of Universal Music Be Up For Sale?
In a first-time valuation, Universal's parent company Vivendi recently dropped word that it's subsidiary had a price tag of $22 billion suggesting Vivendi either wants to sell part of it, or move the company public in an attempted cash grab. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Universal Music’s parent company Vivendi recently put a ...
Universal Music Ties With Tencent In Major Expansion Into China
Universal Music Group and Tencent Music Entertainment Group have entered into a partnership that will significantly expand the international music market in China. Under the terms of a new deal, China's Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) will distribute music from UMG's vast global catalog on its popular streaming platforms QQ Music, KuGou and Kuwo. TME also becomes the ...
Recent And Upcoming ECM Releases: April - June 2017
Look for these recent or upcoming releases on ECM Records. Aaron Parks Find the Way Aaron Parks: piano, Ben Street: double bass, Billy Hart: drums. For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks—following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest”—the prize-winning pianist has convened a cross-generational trio ...
Recent and Upcoming ECM Releases: January - March 2017
Look for these recent or upcoming releases on ECM Records. January 13th John Abercrombie Quartet Up and Coming John Abercrombie: guitar Marc Copland: piano Drew Gress: double bass Joey Baron: drums Guitarist John Abercrombie—who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974—returns with a second album by his quartet featuring kindred-spirit piano foil Marc ...
No Borders
Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2016
Track listing: Shuffle & Bow; Been Such a Long Time; Shango; Congo Women; The Rooster; One of These Days; KwaZulu; In an Age; Makeba; Heaven In You; Don't Go Lose It Baby; Tapera ; Alright; Tonight, Tonight, Tonight; Exile.
Setting Sons Deluxe Edition
Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD: 1 Girl On The Phone; Thick As Thieves; Private Hell; Little Boy Soldiers;
Wasteland; Burning Sky; Smithers-Jones; Saturday's Kids; The Eton Rifles; Heat
Wave; Strange Town; Butterfly Collector; When You're Young; Smithers-Jones;
The Eton Rifles; See-Saw; Going Underground; Dreams Of Children. CD 2: Girl
On The Phone; To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time); It's Too Bad;
Burning Sky; Away From The Numbers; Smithers-Jones; The Modern World; Mr.
Clean; The Butterfly Collector; Private Hell; Thick As Thieves; When You're
Young; Strange Town; Eton Rifles; Down In The Tube Station At Midnight;
Saturday's Kids; All Mod Cons; David Watts.
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years
by Doug Collette
The BeatlesEight Days a Week: The Touring Years (2 DVD Deluxe Edition) Universal Music Group 2016 Even with an almost immediately coincidental announcement of home video release in the early fall of 2016, Ron Howard's Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years elicited a response so great on its initially limited ...
Nels Cline: Lovers
by Mark Sullivan
No one can accuse guitarist Nels Cline of being predictable. He has recorded with his avant-garde trio the Nels Cline Singers most consistently (with bassist Devin Hoff and drummer Scott Amendola), but also led larger groups, such as the one on New Monastery (Cryptogramophone, 2006). More recently there was his duet with guitarist Julian Lage on ...
Glauco Venier: Miniatures
by Mark Sullivan
Italian pianist Glauco Venier presents a delicate program of “Music for piano and percussion" on his first solo album for ECM. The approach came out of music Venier made for a documentary film about sculptor Giorgio Celiberti, which involved piano plus playing on “sonorous sculptures" (metal sculptures designed to also have sound qualities). For this recording ...
