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Nick Lowe Announces Second EP With Los Straitjackets Love Starvation / Trombone Out May 17

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Nick Lowe Announces Second EP With Los Straitjackets Love Starvation / Trombone Out May 17

On May 17, Yep Roc Records will release Nick Lowe’s Love Starvation / Trombone, the latest collaboration between the “master songwriter who never takes himself too seriously” (Rolling Stone) and Los Straitjackets, America’s beloved masked men of surf-and-spy guitar instrumentals (who also have new music coming soon). Recorded in Woodstock, New York over a short break from touring, the collection features three new Lowe originals and a cover of the obscure Phil Spector-produced gem “Raincoat In The River.” Lowe’s second consecutive release with Los Straitjackets (after 2018’s Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside) brings the ongoing collaboration to new heights, as he notes “The Straitjackets definitely influenced these new songs. Love Starvation was written very specifically with them in mind.” Love Starvation / Trombone will be released via all digital platforms and as a 12″ featuring unique sequencing on each side and exclusive artwork for each.

Lowe on “Love Starvation”: “It has a kind of Ritchie Valens feel to it that I thought might suit Los Straitjackets. It’s funny, that song could’ve been a Rockpile song. But in a way, I don’t think I was good enough to write a song like that back then. It sounds like old stuff, but I’m just better at doing it now.”

Love Starvation / Trombone comes at an exciting time for Lowe, who was just the subject of a career-spanning profile in the December 2018 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The new release follows last year’s collaboration with Los Straitjackets (and Lowe’s first new music in five years) Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside. The group brought single “Tokyo Bay” to CONAN for a special performance during the show’s final week of music bookings, and the “gracefully raucous” (The Ringer) release led NPR Music to declare “The Jesus of Cool rocks again” while still “maintaining his sophisticated pop craft” according to Billboard.

To celebrate Love Starvation / Trombone, the latest incarnation of Nick Lowe’s Quality Rock & Roll Revue Starring Los Straitjackets will come to the United States in April before extensive UK dates in the summer. A full list is below – Lowe and Los Straitjackets’ Yep Roc Records labelmate Dawn Landes will support on most of the US shows.

Love Starvation / Trombone Tracklist:
1. Love Starvation
2. Blue On Blue
3. Trombone
4. Raincoat In The River

NICK LOWE’S QUALITY ROCK & ROLL REVUE STARRING LOS STRAITJACKETS 2019:
April 3: Atlanta, GA – The Variety*
April 5: Asheville, NC – Orange Peel*
April 6: Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom*
April 7: Washington, DC – The Hamilton*
April 9: Philadelphia, PA – Ardmore Music Hall^
April 11: Boston, MA – The Wilbur*
April 12: Tarrytown, NY – Tarrytown Music Hall*
April 13: New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom*
April 14: Infinity Music Hall and Bistro – Hartford, CT*
* with Dawn Landes
^ with Molly Parden

Folkways groundbreakers Mary Lou Williams, Lucinda Williams & Elizabeth Cotten kick off Women’s History Month

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Folkways groundbreakers Mary Lou Williams, Lucinda Williams & Elizabeth Cotten kick off Women’s History Month

Smithsonian Folkways has announced three new releases in its acclaimed Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, digging deep into the label’s archives to resurrect some of its most iconic and sought after titles. On March 1st the label will celebrate Women’s History Month with reissues of jazz innovator Mary Lou Williams’ groundbreaking self-titled album from 1964, famed singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’ first album of original songs, ‘Happy Woman Blues,’ from 1980, and folk music icon Elizabeth Cotten’s 1958 debut ‘Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar.’ These woman helped to shape the musical landscapes of their time, often with far less acknowledgement and support than their male counterparts. Folkways is proud to present this work anew, highlighting the diversity and depth of their individual contributions and acknowledging the continuing struggle of women to make their voices heard in a male-dominated field.

The Vinyl Reissue Series, originally conceived in celebration of the label’s 70th anniversary in 2018, will continue throughout 2019, presenting works by some of the most influential voices of the 20th century as well as shining a light on lesser known artists whose contributions to the label’s legacy are just as vital. Each reissue is meticulously redesigned from original prints and materials, photos, and audio remastered from the original LP masters by GRAMMY-award winning sound engineer Pete Reiniger. Each limited reissue also features the iconic black textured Folkways tip-on style album jacket and liner notes booklet that was included in the original release.

Folkways’ unique nonprofit mission, to document “people’s music,” spoken word, instruction, and sounds from all around the world, has sustained the label for seven decades and built the most iconic and diverse collection of music of the 20th century. Some of the best-loved, all-time greats, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Elizabeth Cotten were Folkways artists, as are thousands of creators and preservers of cultural heritage.

Mary Lou Williams – ‘Mary Lou Williams’ (originally released in 1964)

Composer, arranger, and pianist Mary Lou Williams’ musical career reflected the history of American jazz from the late 1920s through the 1970s. Described by Duke Ellington as being “beyond category,” Williams was conversant in jazz styles ranging from stride through swing and be-bop to the avant-garde, yet her music was always rooted in spirituals and the blues. This self-produced recording, originally recorded in 1962 and 1963, contains a mix of standards and originals including four original compositions reflecting her devout interest in religious music.

Lucinda Williams – ‘Happy Woman Blues’ (originally released in 1980)

Lucinda Williams, whose musical style defies easy categorization, recorded her first album of original songs in 1980, supported by a six-member band. Her songs are a mix of traditional and alternative country, folk, and blues that reflect her Louisiana roots. The Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau gave Happy Woman Blues an “A–” and described Williams as a “guileless throwback to the days of the acoustic blues mamas” who “means what she says and says what she means.”

Elizabeth Cotten – ‘Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar’ (originally released in 1958)

Elizabeth Cotten’s 1958 debut album on Folkways is best known for containing the earliest recording of her classic “Freight Train.” The breadth of her repertoire and her endearing style have captivated generations of guitarists and fans of traditional American music. Cotten’s self-taught, upside-down, left-handed playing style on the guitar and banjo made her a true original. Many of her deeply personal compositions, such as the immortal “Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie,” are included. “[A] classic and belongs in every collection…” — Blues Review Quarterly.

Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection To Be Released May 3 On What Would Have Been Seeger’s 100th Birthday

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Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection To Be Released May 3 On What Would Have Been Seeger’s 100th Birthday

Smithsonian Folkways is proud to announce the upcoming release of Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, a career-spanning anthology of one of America’s most quintessential, celebrated, and influential musicians. Featuring classic recordings, 20 previously unreleased tracks, historic live performances, and special collaborations, this set encompasses over 60 years of Pete’s Folkways catalog, including 6 CDs and a 200-page extensively annotated and illustrated 12 x 12” hardbound book. The collection will be available May 3rd, on what would have been Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday. Smithsonian Folkways will be organizing and sponsoring Pete Seeger centennial events around the country throughout 2019, which will be announced soon.

Seeger collaborated with and amplified the voices of artists of color, working people, and impoverished Southern communities, voices which would not have otherwise reached a mass American audience in the early years of his career. His political activism, both through and outside of music, positioned him as a trailblazer, a guiding light for subsequent generations of individuals fighting for their beliefs through art. Though he faced career setbacks, he remained a vital force in folk music and activism for many decades until his death in 2014. During tumultuous and volatile times, through many human rights and environmental struggles, Seeger chose a life of principle and bravery. With his wife, Toshi, he forged a radical path long before independent art was ever considered a career option by most.

Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection was produced by Jeff Place and Robert Santelli, the same team who produced the acclaimed box sets Woody at 100 and Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, rounding out a trilogy commemorating three of Folkways’ most iconic recording artists. Featuring photos and stories from all eras of Seeger’s life, from his first recording sessions with Folkways founder Moses Asch to performing at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration, the set contextualizes the songs and provides valuable insight into the personality that created this classic music.

Seeger’s most iconic songs included helped to define a generation and have become unquestionable standards in today’s folk landscape. “If I Had A Hammer” became one of the most recognizable songs of resistance of the mid-20th century. Co-written by Seeger and his longtime collaborator Lee Hays, he originally performed the song with The Weavers, often at political rallies, and it remained a staple in his live performances. It is a testament to Seeger’s foundational influence that this song was performed by Peter, Paul and Mary alongside Dr. Martin Luther King at the 1963 March on Washington. The Smithsonian Folkways Collection includes many other recordings of the political anthems that came to define his legacy, including earlier labor songs “UAW-CIO”, as well as “Black and White”, which highlights the landmark civil rights Supreme Court case Brown v. The Board of Education, and the collection’s closing number “One Grain of Sand”, a meditation on the idea that millions of small actions can add up to great change.

Seeger’s dedication to international folk song is also demonstrated in the collection. From the Israeli “Tzena, Tzena, Tzena” to several songs from the South African movement against apartheid, global songs, many of which were collected during Seeger’s time in the military, are interspersed here amongst his many labor anthems. Seeger was also passionate about African American folk music, and the collection includes a version of “Kumbaya,” the seminal black spiritual, sung by Seeger and Piedmont blues musician Sonny Terry at Carnegie Hall, as well as other songs with roots in the African American community such as “Didn’t Old John Cross the Water” and “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore.” Seeger’s embrace of African American music and performers was radical during this time and a testament to the forward thinking, intersectional nature of his music and philosophy.

The American musical cannon was profoundly influenced by Seeger’s expansive career. He brought countless songs now considered to be folk standards to the forefront of American musical culture, as demonstrated by this collections inclusion of “Barbara Allen”, later recorded by the Everly Brothers, Bob Dylan, as well as “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”, which was covered by both Jimmie Rodgers and Bonnie Raitt. Over the past half century his songs have also been performed by Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, The Byrds, and many other giants of popular music.

Today I Learned Javier Bardem Does A GREAT Mick Jagger Impression

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Today I Learned Javier Bardem Does A GREAT Mick Jagger Impression

Javier remembers his Oscar win from 11 years ago, demonstrates the Mick Jagger impression he did to celebrate the night he won, talks about going in a submarine with Greenpeace, and reveals what it was like making the film Everybody Knows with his wife Penelope Cruz.

Billie Eilish Releases The First Episode Of Short-form Mini Series, “A Snippet Into Billie’s Mind – Bury A Friend”

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Billie Eilish Releases The First Episode Of Short-form Mini Series, “A Snippet Into Billie’s Mind – Bury A Friend”

Today, pop-phenom Billie Eilish has revealed, A Snippet Into Billie’s Mind – bury a friend, the first of three episodes in a short-form mini-series available exclusively on YouTube. The episode provides an exclusive glimpse into her latest single, “bury a friend”, taken from her forthcoming debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (out March 29 on Darkroom/Interscope Records. Produced with YouTube Music and shot in her brother Finneas’s bedroom/home studio – where the pair made the album – Billie and Finneas reveal for the very first time, fascinating details into the making of this global hit. From the inspirations and themes behind the lyrics to the surprising every-day-life sounds used in the track, the first video in this mini-series offers an intriguing insight into the writing and recording process Billie and her brother took when writing “bury a friend”.

Always one to push the boundaries of creativity and seeking to build a holistic relationship with her fans, 17-year-old Billie Eilish has consistently leveraged the power of YouTube to connect to her audiences and bring them along on her unparalleled journey and rise to global stardom. By collaborating with creators such as the ASME nominated Vanity Fair piece “Same Interview, One Year Apart” (22 million+ views) and regularly releasing unique and compelling music videos and content on her own channel (which currently has more than 1.2 billion views and 7.9 million subscribers), Billie Eilish has fast become one of the biggest global artists of 2019.

A Snippet Into Billie’s Mind is a 3-episode mini-series bringing fans closer into the creation of the primary singles on her upcoming album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?. Each episode will bring new insight into each song as they are released, helping fans understand her process and shine new light on her music. Pre-order WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? HERE.

On the series, Billie reveals: “The visual elements in my work have always been super important to me. I’ve connected with so many of you over the years through my music videos on YouTube and thanks to them I now have the chance to make this mini-series for you all. It’s just so dope that I get to reveal even more of what goes on inside my head. Stuff that I’ve never shared before. I’m psyched for you all to see.”

Billie Eilish is currently on her SOLD-OUT tour across Europe through March before returning to her native California for two very special performances at Coachella Festival in April, then embarking on her SOLD OUT North American tour in May. Starting in San Francisco on May 29, her WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WORLD TOUR continues with American rapper Denzel Curry joining as direct support with the exception of Vancouver, where Billie’s brother Finneas will be opening.

Billie Eilish – WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?:

1. !!!!!!!
2. bad guy
3. xanny
4. you should see me in a crown
5. all the good girls go to hell
6. wish you were gay
7. when the party’s over
8. 8
9. my strange addiction
10. bury a friend
11. ilomilo
12. listen before i go
13. i love you
14. goodbye

Verve, Impulse! Records Launch 180-Gram Vinyl Reissues Of BiIllie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Charlie Byrd, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie And More

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Verve, Impulse! Records Launch 180-Gram Vinyl Reissues Of BiIllie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Charlie Byrd, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie And More

Today, Verve and Impulse! Records launched their new series Vital Vinyl, a celebration of essential jazz LPs from the iconic labels’ enduring catalogs. Throughout the year, the labels are making some of their most beloved must-have albums from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s available once again as non-limited editions LPs, pressed on audiophile grade 180-gram black vinyl and showcased with their original cover artwork, track listings and liner notes. The records will be released in three batches with the first available now followed by the second on May 3 and the final installment on June 7. Almost all major jazz artists are included within this series, from the joyful vocals of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong to the Brazilian Jazz revolutions of Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd and Antonio Carlos Jobim, through to the powerful soloing of Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Smith, Lester Young, Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery and Gerry Mulligan. View the trailer to learn more about the series HERE.

Whether you’re a serious collector looking to complete your collection or a music fan just getting into jazz who wants to pick up a few classics for your turntable, the Vital Vinyl series has you covered with high quality reissues of some of the best records from this exciting, prolific era in Verve and Impulse! Records history.

The nine classic records available now include Billie Holiday’s Songs For Distingué Lovers and Body and Soul, Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster’s Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald’s Mack The Knife: Ella In Berlin, Jimmy Smith’s The Cat, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s The Composer Of Desafinado Plays, Wes Montgomery’s California Dreaming and Stan Getz’s collaborations with Bill Evans and Charlie Byrd: Stan Getz & Bill Evans and Jazz Samba,respectively. All titles are available to order now HERE.

May 3rd will see the release of Oscar Peterson’s We Get Requests and his collaboration with Lester Young, The President Plays With The Oscar Peterson Trio, Benny Carter’s Further Definitions, Gil Evans Orchestra’s Out Of The Cool, Dizzy Gillespie’s Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac, Roy Haynes’ Out of The Afternoon and Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth.

The series will conclude with the June 7th releases of Sonny Rollins’ On Impulse!, Archie Shepp’s Fire Music, McCoy Tyner’s Inception, Ella Fitzgerald’s Sings The Cole Porter Songbook, Gerry Mulligan/Ben Webster’s Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie’s Bird And Diz and a pair of Charles Mingus records: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady and Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus.

In all, 40 titles comprise the Vital Vinyl series, making some of these albums available for the first time in years while others already in print will now be perennially available. Vital Vinyl is rounded out by 16 records already recently newly reissued including revered titles from Alice Coltrane,John Coltrane, Count Basie, Charlie Haden, Charlie Parker and Keith Jarrett, out now. More info about all releases is below.

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 22:

Billie Holiday – Songs For Distingué Lovers: Norman Granz brings together Barney Kessel on guitar, Ben Webster on tenor sax and Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison on trumpet to back up Billie on this 1956 classic.

 

Billie Holiday – Body And Soul – A perfect companion piece to Songs For Distingué Loversfeaturing classic versions of “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” and “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off”.

 

Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster: Two titans of the tenor collaborate on this landmark 1957 album, perfectly distilling their differing styles to produce a bona fide jazz classic.

 

Ella Fitzgerald – Mack The Knife: Ella In Berlin: One of the great live jazz albums, this 1960 collection features the famous title track and a superb four-piece band including Jim Hall on guitar.

 

Jimmy Smith – The Cat: The Hammond Organ maestro’s best-known album, featuring perennial favorites “Main Theme From The Carpetbaggers” and the killer title track.

 

Stan Getz & Bill Evans – Stan Getz & Bill Evans: Recorded in 1964 but not released until 1973, this classic double-header also features an all-star rhythm section of Ron Carter on bass and Elvin Jones on drums.

 

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba: This famous 1962 collaboration sounds as fresh today as it did when it was released, an all-time classic album including evergreen versions of “Desafinado”, “O Pato” and “One Note Samba”.

 

Antonio Carlos Jobim – The Composer Of Desafinado Plays: This Claus Ogerman-arranged masterpiece was the debut album from the legendary Brazilian composer/pianist, featuring landmark performances of “The Girl From Ipanema”, “Once I Loved” and “Corcovado”.

 

Wes Montgomery – California Dreaming: A career highlight for the guitarist, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio during September 1966, this Creed Taylor-produced album was an artistic and commercial smash, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Jazz chart.

 

 

 

AVAILABLE MAY 3:

 

Oscar Peterson – We Get Requests: Nothing less than one of the great jazz piano trio albums of all time. First released in 1964, We Get Requests features all-time-classic versions of “The Girl From Ipanema”, “Quiet Nights” and “The Days Of Wine And Roses”.

 

Lester Young & Oscar Peterson – The President Plays With The Oscar Peterson Trio: A landmark collaboration between two jazz titans, this classic 1952 collection also features the stellar rhythm section of Barney Kessel on guitar, Ray Brown on bass and JC Heard on drums.

 

Benny Carter – Further Definitions: The alto sax pioneer takes his place in one of the heaviest horn frontlines in jazz history – alongside Phil Woods, Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Rouse – on this classic 1961 studio album, also featuring Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Jo Jones. 

 

Gil Evans Orchestra – Out Of The Cool: A classic big-band album and one of the first-ever releases on the Impulse! label, this 1961 recording features a superb line-up including Jimmy Knepper on trombone, Ron Carter on bass and a fiery Elvin Jones on drums.

 

Dizzy Gillespie – Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac: A perennially-popular 1967 live album from the bebop trumpet pioneer, an effervescent, electrifying quintet recording also featuring his great friend and fellow bebop legend James Moody on various saxophones and flute.

 

Roy Haynes – Out Of The Afternoon: Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in May 1962, this classic quartet album features Roland Kirk on saxophones and several famous Haynes drum solos, most notably on his own composition “Snap Crackle”.

 

Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth: The saxophonist/composer/arranger offers up six unique takes on the blues for this 1961 classic, alongside one of the great pick-up bands in jazz history: Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes.

 

 

 

AVAILABLE JUNE 7:

 

Sonny Rollins – On Impulse!: The tenor sax master attacks five standards and in the process produces some of his most intense performances on record. Taped at the Van Gelder Studio in one marathon session on July 8th,  1965, this electrifying Impulse! Records debut also featured Ray Bryant on piano and Mickey Roker on drums.

 

Archie Shepp – Fire Music: The tenor firebrand and avant-garde hero’s second Impulse! album, released in 1965, was an ensemble masterpiece featuring an original tune dedicated to Malcolm X (“Malcom, Malcolm Semper Malcolm”) plus unique takes on Antonio Carlos Jobim (“The Girl From Ipanema”) and Duke Ellington (“Prelude To A Kiss”).

 

McCoy Tyner – Inception: The piano pioneer’s 1962 debut solo album was a groundbreaking trio date featuring Art Davis on bass and his John Coltrane Quartet bandmate Elvin Jones on drums. Concentrating mainly on original compositions, Inception also featured inspired takes on “Speak Low” and “There Is No Greater Love”.

 

Ella Fitzgerald – Sings The Cole Porter Songbook: Nothing less than one of the great vocal jazz albums, this Grammy-winning 1956 collection showcased a large orchestra arranged by Buddy Bregman and famous versions of “Miss Otis Regrets”, “I Get A Kick Out Of You”, “Every Time We Say Goodbye”, “Night And Day”,
“Love For Sale” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”.

 

Gerry Mulligan/Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster: Recorded in two sessions during November and December 1959, this historic summit meeting between the baritone and tenor sax masters produced some classic Mulligan compositions (“The Cat Walk”, “Tell Me When”) and also unique takes on Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge” and Jule Styne’s “Sunday”.

 

Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady: There’s nothing else in jazz quite like this collection recorded – astonishingly – in just one session on January 20th, 1963. With liner notes written by Mingus’s psychotherapist, the album uses ornate ensemble orchestration to produce a sound somewhere between jazz and folk.

 

Charles Mingus – Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus: Mingus’s second Impulse! album, released in 1963, was another large-ensemble masterpiece featuring two of the bassist/bandleader’s greatest compositions – “Celia” and “Better Get Hit In Yo’ Soul” – plus a famous version of Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo”.

 

Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie – Bird And Diz: One of the bedrock albums of the bebop era, 1950’s Bird And Diz saw producer Norman Granz bring together a formidable rhythm section – Thelonious Monk, Curley Russell and Buddy Rich – to bring Parker’s effervescent compositions to life, producing a timeless jazz landmark.

VITAL VINYL TITLES ALREADY AVAILABLE:
Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
Bill Evans – Conversations With Myself
Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra
Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker With Strings
Count Basie – April In Paris
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis
Keith Jarrett – Treasure Island
John Coltrane Quartet – Ballads
John Coltrane – ColtraneJohn Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
John Coltrane Quartet – Crescent
John Coltrane – “Live” At The Village Vanguard
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Oscar Peterson Trio – Night Train
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto

Mumford & Sons Announce Gentlemen Of The Road Takeover At London’s All Points East

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Mumford & Sons Announce Gentlemen Of The Road Takeover At London’s All Points East

Mumford & Sons are very pleased to announce a huge headline show at London’s Victoria Park this Summer in a special collaboration between All Points East and their own Gentlemen of the Road events on Saturday June 1.

This is the second time the band will have brought Gentlemen of the Road, their own community-minded festival set-up, to an established event, having taken over a full day’s line-up at the Latitude and Longitude Festivals back in 2017.

The band have been very busy curating the full line-up, and bringing a typically eclectic collection of big name artists to London. Joining Mumford & Sons will be Leon Bridges, who also preceded the band in Auckland’s Western Springs back in January, Dizzee Rascal, old friends The Vaccines, BRITs Critics Choice’ winner Sam Fender, Dermot Kennedy, Jade Bird, Australia’s Gretta Ray, and Canadian newcomers, Dizzy. Many more artists will be announced in the lead-up to the event.

Reflecting the band’s collective and individual tastes with an emphasis on big, exciting live performances, the GOTR x APE line-up brings some globally established names and fast emerging new faces to London, and kicks off the festival season with a monumental first bow.

Mumford & Sons follow All Points East with another huge Summer night out in Dublin at Malahide Castle on Friday 14th June. The support acts feature Norway’s enchanting AURORA, and local talent Dermot Kennedy and Wild Youth.

In November 2018, Mumford & Sons released their acclaimed fourth album, Delta. Debuting at number 1 in the US for the third time in the row, it’s a record that marries a more experimental sound with that vast sky-scraping jubilance that has made the band such a massive deal right across the world. The band also released a new acoustic video for their latest single “Beloved” today, watch below:

Gentlemen of the Road is an endeavour of Mumford & Sons which produces community-minded touring Festivals. With a commitment to giving back to the causes the band are close to, Gentlemen of the Road & its Fund will be supporting global charities, local programs, urgent needs, and will always do what it can to protect the planet. Having already taken GOTR around the globe with weekend Stopovers in England, Ireland, the US and Australia, each and every event puts due prominence on the town or city they arrive in, ensuring the local community are as involved with its planning as they want to be, and offering a spotlight on the locale to a huge audience.

Following a handful of arena shows around Delta’s release, Mumford & Sons will now emphatically return to the live stage, playing two shows in Canada at the beginning of March, see details below.

Canadian Arena Shows:
March 4—Montreal, QC—Bell Centre
March 5—Ottawa, ON—Canadian Tire Center

Professor Longhair’s 1975 Performance, Live On The Queen Mary, Presented By Paul And Linda McCartney, To Receive Special Reissue April 5

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Professor Longhair’s 1975 Performance, Live On The Queen Mary, Presented By Paul And Linda McCartney, To Receive Special Reissue April 5

Originally released in 1978 on Harvest Records, Professor Longhair’s Live on the Queen Mary documents a legendary performance from the Venus and Mars album release party thrown by Paul and Linda McCartney and Wings in 1975.

Live on the Queen Mary was recorded March 24, 1975 on its titular cruise ship, while docked in Long Beach, California. Highlights include the rollicking “Mess Around”, the standards “Stagger Lee”, “Everyday I Have the Blues”, “I’m Movin’ On”, and Professor Longhair’s own hits “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” and “Tipitina” about which Hugh Laurie writes, “Because that live version of Tipitina, oh sweet Lord. If the record had nothing else on it, it would still be a treasure beyond price.”

Live On The Queen Mary will be re-released April 5 via Harvest, across digital platforms, on CD, and on newly remastered 180gram vinyl. The album will feature a foreword by Hugh Laurie, as will the limited edition “Long Live Fess” deluxe which will also feature the 180gram LP, the double A-Side 7” Single “Tipitina”/” Mess Around”, and more.

Professor Longhair a/k/a Henry Roeland “Roy” Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980) was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. He was active in two distinct periods, first in the heyday of early rhythm and blues and later on during the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz surrounding the beginnings of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Professor Longhair’s influence was crucial to many of his fellow New Orleans musical legends such as Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Dr. John, all of whom were touched by his rumba, mambo, and calypso piano based blues sound.

Professor Longhair – Live On The Queen Mary (CD / DIGITAL):
Tell Me Pretty Baby
Mess Around
Everyday I Have The Blues
Tipitina
I’m Movin’ On
Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Cry To Me
Gone So Long
Stagger Lee

Professor Longhair – Live On The Queen Mary (180gram VINYL):

SIDE A
Tell Me Pretty Baby
Mess Around
Everyday I Have The Blues
Tipitina

SIDE B
I’m Movin’ On
Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Cry To Me
Gone So Long
Stagger Lee

Professor Longhair – Live On The Queen Mary (180gram VINYL LP DELUXE + 7” SINGLE):

SIDE A
Tell Me Pretty Baby
Mess Around
Everyday I Have The Blues
Tipitina

SIDE B
I’m Movin’ On
Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Cry To Me
Gone So Long
Stagger Lee

7″ SINGLE – SIDE A
Tipitina

7″ SINGLE – SIDE B
Mess Around

David Sylvian’s 1991 Album, Rain Tree Crow, Out On Deluxe Vinyl Reissue March 29

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David Sylvian’s 1991 Album, Rain Tree Crow, Out On Deluxe Vinyl Reissue March 29

Following this month’s deluxe vinyl releases of David Sylvian’s solo albums, Brilliant Trees, Alchemy – An Index of Possibilities, Gone To Earth and Secrets of the Beehive, March 29th will see the release of the cult classic 1991 album, Rain Tree Crow.

Featuring David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn, Rain Tree Crow also features contributions from Bill Nelson, Phil Palmer and Michael Brook. The majority of the material on the album grew out of group improvisations. There were no pre-rehearsals; the improvisation took place in the recording studio and much of the finished work contains original elements of those initial performances. Rain Tree Crow is pressed on 180gram vinyl and contains a download card.

Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan Releases “Tenderness” From His Upcoming Solo Album

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Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan Releases “Tenderness” From His Upcoming Solo Album

Guns N’ Roses bassist and New York Times bestselling author Duff McKagan has released “Tenderness”, the stunning first track from his much-anticipated solo album, and was produced by and features recent GRAMMY winner Shooter Jennings.

McKagan, backed by Shooter and his band, recently announced two special performances: May 30th at TLA in Philadelphia and May 31st at City Winery in DC. Tickets for both shows go on sale today.

McKagan and Jennings began recording back in March 2018, working out of Station House studios in Echo Park, CA, where they wrote and recorded in-between McKagan’s tour with seminal rock band Guns N’ Roses and the release of Jennings’ eponymous album, Shooter.

“Before beginning this project, I was asked more than a few times if I was going to write a book on my experience of the two-and-a-half-year GN’R Not In This Lifetime … tour,” says McKagan. “While, of course, it had been an amazing experience, in the end, I decided the ideas swirling around in my head were better suited for a record. The heartbreak, anger, fear, confusion and divide I have experienced traveling this globe of ours coerced these words into songs that tell my truth, and one that I hope will spread and help us all.”

Looking at the world outside his tour bus window, McKagan saw a landscape filled with disillusion, injustice and fear. Surveying this vista of ruin, its street littered with broken and abandoned promises, he channeled a collective hurt into songs of monolithic power.

“The real point of ‘Tenderness’ is not for me to be some damn politician or some other voice to add to what is already way too much noise,” he says. “This is a song of unity and peace…and I want this record to be a meditation and to bring maybe some healing, if that is not too high-handed or lofty of a goal. I can use what marginal voice I have as an artist, to hopefully help arrest what seems like a fall. As a father, I must say and do something now…because I love my girls and my wife, and I love my country, and I feel I must be strong and use my voice now, do it while I am able, or perhaps never get a chance ever again.”

“From the start of the development of this record, ‘Tenderness’ stood out as a focal point,” says Jennings. “I was almost scared to cut it too early – before we had really mined the sound of the album. I knew we had one shot to do it right with feeling. After it was done and we had a first mix, I wrote Duff and said ‘this song has to come out right now!’ It has a simple message of celebrating life and each other and for everyone to take it easy on one another. It offered an empathetic solution for a divisive time in the world: Tenderness.”

About his collaboration with Jennings, McKagan says, “Fortune shone my way when Shooter and I began to work on the structures of the songs. Shooter has a brilliant mind, and a seemingly endless musical catalogue bouncing around in his head that he’s ready to tap into at any moment. He believed in this thing from day one, and that gave me the confidence and energy to forge on. Shooter, seemingly, can play any musical instrument, but instead of that being sort of daunting to me, he works in such an honest way that I never once felt like I was in the company of a guy trying to show me up. The contrary was in fact true. He made me a better acoustic guitar player, and more at ease as a singer. His ability to get real and authentic sounds in the studio are second to none, and making this record was one of the most inspiring musical experiences of my career.”

The upcoming album is McKagan’s musical follow-up to 2015’s bestselling book, How To Be A Man (And Other Illusions).

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