Verve Remixed 3 details...we finally have the track information for this much-anticipated release. All in all, the mood is visionary, danceable, and groovilicious as some of the worlds most adventurous remixers have mined the Verve vaults for another incredible disc. Note that the two previous editions (Verve Remixed and Verve Remixed 2) have both sold in excess of 500,000 copies combined. Verve Remixed 3 includes the following 13 songs:
Nina Simone Little Girl Blue - Postal Service Remix
Billie Holiday Speak Low - Bent Remix
Anita O'Day Sing, Sing, Sing - RSL Remix
Sarah Vaughan Fever - Adam Freeland Remix
Shirley Horn Come Dance With Me - Sugardaddy Remix
Blossom Dearie Just One Of Those Things - Brazilian Girls Remix
Astrud Gilberto The Gentle Rain - RJD2 Remix
Sarah Vaughan Peter Gunn - Max Sedgley Remix
Jimmy Smith Stay Loose - Lyrics Born Remix
Hugh Masekela The Boy's Doin' It - Carl Craiig Remix
Nina Simone Lilac Wine - The Album Leaf Remix
Billie Holiday Yesterdays - Junior Boys Remix
Dinah Washington Baby, Did You Hear? - Danger Mouse Remix
According to Billboard Magazine, Ray Charles' Genius Love Company album skyrockets from position 15 to number 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, increasing sales 202% from the previous week with 224,000 copies sold last week. Genius Loves Company has thus far sold 2.4 million copies since its release.
New and noteworthy releases from the Bluenote label... as Bluenote RVG releases Ray Charles: O Genio: Live In Brazil DVD. It features Ray Charles in great form with his big band and the Raelettes from a 1963 concert taped in Brazil. 26 performances in all on this 105 minute disc in black and white.
Bluenote CD releases due on 3/1 include Tina Brooks True Blue; Grant Green Feeling The Spirit; Herbie Hancock Speak Like A Child; Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer and Ike Quebec Heavy Soul.
Lenny White, Stanley Clarke, Wayne Shorter and Michel Petrucciani's 1989 all-star concert The Manhattan Project is now available on DVD (58 minutes/color), and also on the Bluenote RVG label.
Verve Records releases vocalist/guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's fourth album Deep Song on 3/1. This outing includes an all-star lineup as Kurt is joined by high-profile musicians Brad Mehldau on piano, Joshua Redman on tenor sax, along with Larry Grenadier on bass and either Al Jackson or Jeff Ballard on drums.
Rick Braun and Chuck Loeb play at the Lite 100.5FM Smooth Jazz Concert Series at the SBM Auditorium at Manchester Community College, in Manchester CT on Mar. 15. In the meantime, Chuck Loeb will perform at the Sun Valley Mall in Concord CA on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 6PM.
Lenny Williams' latest release My Way includes a current rendition of the Tower of Power classic, So Very Hard To Go. Lenny Williams was Tower Of Power's lead singer during their breakout period in the '70s. He has recorded some 20 releases since leaving the band.
The Tower of Power are on the road with bookings out as far as 2006!. Next month they hit Pennsylvania (Rex Theatre, American Music Theatre, Keswick Theatre, Kirby Center For The Performing Arts); Maryland (Rams Head Live); New Jersey (State Theatre); New York (Inter-Media Art Center); Vermont (Paramount Theatre); Massachusetts (Scullers Jazz Club); and Connecticut (Mohegan Sun Casino). In June, they'll appear with Tom Jones at multiple venues in the US and Canada.
Jocelyn Brown's latest release, Black Skin Blue-Eyed Boys, is available as a single with a remix by Joe Jam and Joe Samba on the Afro Vision label.
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