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Album Review: WHAT WOULD PETULA DO? (Maxine Linehan)
WHAT WOULD PETULA DO? SURPRISINGLY MORE THAN “DO-DO-DOODLEDY DO” From sunny, optimistic, and ebullient to kittenish to a grande dame chanteuse, Irish singer and performer Maxine Linehan offers a true homage to the great Petula Clark. While know best for her enduring mid-60s upbeat classic pop song (many written or co-written by Tony Hatch and…
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ALEXANDRE ROCKWELL COLLECTION (Film Movement Plus)
This September, Film Movement Plus invites home audiences back to school – film school, that is – with a curated selection of works from the award-winning filmography of one of the forefathers of the American independent film movement with THE ALEXANDRE ROCKWELL COLLECTION. Coming on the heels of his latest acclaimed theatrical release, SWEET THING,…
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CD: CARELESS LOVE: ALBUM REISSUE AND TOUR DATES (Madeline Peyroux)
Special edition includes previously-unreleased 2005 set from Spain’s Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz The acclaimed jazz singer embarks on a global Careless Love Forever tour this fall Craft Recordings announces the deluxe reissue of Madeleine Peyroux’s best-selling 2004 album, Careless Love. Set for release now, the collection includes the acclaimed, original album, plus a previously-unreleased live set, captured…
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Album Review: GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY (Lillias White)
HAPPINESS IS JUST A THING CALLED LILLIAS So, which Lillias White is your favorite? Is it the bluesy, searching, achy soul singer? The sassy sweetheart of standards? The darling diva of Broadway showtunes? The infectious raging gospel optimism? Well, you get all that and more on her new CD, Get Yourself Some Happy!, out now…
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Film and Album: ANNETTE (CANNES EDITION – SELECTIONS FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (Sparks)
ANNETTE SOUNDTRACK AND FILM DEBUTS Milan Records today releases Annette (Cannes Edition – Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  in North America, an album of music by legendary art-pop duo  SPARKS and featured within the musical film from director LEOS CARAX.  Available everywhere now, the 15-track collection features music composed and performed by Sparks with lyrics co-written…
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Album Review: CLIQUE (Patricia Barber on Impex Records)
I WANNA BE IN HER CLIQUE Flying by at 45 minutes, Patricia Barber’s new album is everything I want when a great vocalist rethinks songs that have been covered over and over. Daring, rhythmic, warming, exciting, and immediately accessible, Clique (Impex Records August 6) has Barber completely reinventing a tracklist of tunes, including classics by…
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Album Release: ARETHA (New Boxed Set From Rhino)
ARETHA 4-CD And Digital Collection Dedicated To The Queen Of Soul Features 81 Tracks, including 19 Previously Unreleased Alternate Versions, Demos, Rarities, and Special Live Performances 2-LP And Single CD Versions Feature Highlights From The Boxed Set; All Formats Available Today, July 30, 2021, From Rhino See ARETHA FRANKLIN performing (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE)…
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Album Release: GROW (Joshua Henry; available September 10)
MARVIN GAYE, OUTKAST & AN OLD GUITAR INSPIRED JOSHUA HENRY’S NEW ALBUM Thousands of people know Joshua Henry from numerous high-profile shows on Broadway (including THREE Tony-nominated performances), and as he ramps up for the release of his debut full-length record Grow (out Sept. 10), he can be heard leaning into the classic R&B…
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Album Release: PEOPLE YOU KNOW (Ditto Kiddo [Jeff Richards])
L.A.-based artist Ditto Kiddo (former Saturday Night Live and MADtv cast member Jeff Richards) has released his latest full-length album People You Know featuring original tracks previously used in the innovative deepfake podcast, The Jeff Richards Show. A music video for the title track has been released on YouTube and Instagram as well. People You Know arrives several months after the…
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Jazz Album: IN HARMONY (Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller)
Resonance Records, the award-winning label home of acclaimed archival releases by Nat King Cole, Bob James, Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery and more, is thrilled to announce the release of In Harmony, a stunning set of live performances by Roy Hargrove on trumpet and Mulgrew Miller on piano, available on a limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP July 17, 2021 at…
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Album Review: GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY! (Lillias White)
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yourself Some Happy!, out July 23, 2021. I caught Ms. White in a cabaret just before the pandemic shutdown, and that evening stays with…
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Album Review (Jazz): AFRIKA LOVE (Alchemy Sound Project)
A JUICY JOURNEY IN JAZZ How awesome is this?! To me, this is what fusion really means: Afrika Love, the sonically adventurous third album by Alchemy Sound Project — which formed in 2014 — takes many different styles of music and melds them together in a jazzy, grooving, funkalicious delight. I get Carl Stalling (composer…
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Album Preview: HARD UP (The Bamboos)
FUNK ME HARD (UP) After more than twenty years performing together, The Bamboos have refined their craft of finding the sweetest spot between soul and funk to its finest point yet. On their tenth studio album, Hard Up, the nine piece band–founded and led by guitarist, producer and songwriter Lance Ferguson and featuring the vocals of the…
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Album Announcement: BIG MESS (Danny Elfman)
DANNY ELFMAN TRUE TO FORM IN NEW ALBUM Danny Elfman has shared “Insects” today – a reworked version of an Oingo Boingo song which is the final track to come out prior to the release of his new double album Big Mess, out on June 11, 2021. WATCH THE ABSOLUTELY COOL 3D VIDEO FOR HIS…
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CD Review: NINETEEN MOVEMENTS FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO (Scott Ordway, composer; Arlen Hlusko, cello)
UNACCOMPANIED CELLO BECOMES THE BEST COMPANY OF ALL It’s a sunny Sunday morning in Los Angeles. Spring is in full swing: the birds are chirping insanely as a lovely breeze wafts in from the window, bringing with it a scent of night-blooming jasmine’s sweet perfume. Then I put in a new CD (released May 27,…
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Jazz Album Pick of the Week: MENDÒ (Alex Cuba)
WELL, FUNK ME HARD Just one listen, and this Latin-flavored funk jazz party had me hooked. “Again, again!” my party-depleted inner child screamed. “Mendó,” as performer, arranger, producer, composer, instrumentalist, Cuban Canadian Alex Cuba writes, “is the substance of the soul.” And this produced-during-pandemic soulfest proves that. Afro-Cuban, Flamenco, pile-driving big band — it’s a…
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Album Review: FLOR (Gretchen Parlato)
I KNOW SHE’S WONDERFUL OK, she’s a fellow native Los Angelino. Her grandfather played trumpet in the Kay Kyser band. She is breezy and fresh sounding like a Portuguese chanteuse in Rio, and evokes an earthy woodwind in an African-esque chant. And if that’s not magic enough, she got the one and only Gerald Clayton…
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Album Review: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE (First Complete Recording from Jay Records)
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, BUT VERY FEW CAN WRITE A SCORE LIKE THIS According to Collins English Dictionary, a cult classic is “a work of art with a small but passionate fan base”. It can be a novel, TV show, or movie, all easily accessible to the enthusiast: you buy the book or watch the show…
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Album Review: HER (Soundtrack by Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett)
HER IS HERE Nominated for Best Original Score at the 2014 Oscars, but never properly released until now, is ARCADE FIRE and OWEN PALLETT‘s hauntingly lilting score to director Spike Jonze’s 2013 hit film HER (listen here), starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Available for the first time digitally today from Milan Records, the HIGHLY RECOMMENDED album features music composed…
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Album Review: TWIST RUN ROAD (Elaine Lucia)
ELAINE LUCIA WILL TWIST AROUND YOUR HEART You know, this is one of the most charming, heartwarming, unique, timeless, soothing but uplifting albums I ever remember hearing. It is instantly accessible and evocative of American folk from the ’60s but with a slight Bossa Nova bent. Elaine Lucia has absolutely captured my heart… and it…
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