Spanish-flamenco at its best from a new offering by Enrique Morente entitled Morente suena La Alhambra (Morente Dreams of the Alhambra). Ute Lemper, Pat Metheny and Cheb Khaled guest.
Columbia has scheduled November 1 as the release date for a new album by Burt Bacharach - At This Time.
Kirk Whalum and his band will be performing selections from his new album – Kirk Whalum Performs the Babyface Songbook - on Monday, October 3 in New York City. The event will take place at the Au Bar. Whalum will perform two shows and will have a CD signing after each performance.
Jazz legend Miles Davis is among the 15 acts being considered for the 21st class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Artists are eligible 25 years after the release of their first record. Other artists making the final ballot are John Mellencamp, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Blondie, Cat Stevens, the Patti smith Group, the Sex Pistols, the Stooges, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath, the Dave Clark Five, the J. Geils Band, Chic, Joe Tex and the Sir Douglas Quintet. There results will be announced by year-end.
Digital jazz record label, Blue Canoe Records has released two CDs from it’s catalog of diverse jazz artists. Traditional jazz drummer, author and educator Philip Smith’s Jazz Consortium and Curtis Mayfield alumni, Buzz Amaato’s smooth jazz CD entitled A Collection were both released on September 13, 2005. Drummer Philip Smith’s CD, Jazz Consortium is a swinging mix of traditional jazz standards while famed R&B producer Buzz Amato’s debut CD, A Collection is a smooth jazz selection of original compositions that span nearly two decades in the making.
New from Bette Midler in both CD and DualDisc format is Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook. It’s available on October 25.
Singer Rhian Benson won the Best Jazz Act at the recent 10th annual Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) awards held in London. If you haven’t heard Rhian sing then you are truly missing out on a great talent. Congratulations Rhian on a well-deserved award! Other winners include Damien Marley - Best Reggae Act, Youssou N’Dour - Best African Act, Bob Marley – Posthumous Achievement Award, and John Legend – Best R&B Act. The awards show featured a tribute to Luther Vandross and Damien Marley, accompanied by brothers Stephen and Julian, closed the show with a performance of his fathers classic Could You Be Loved.
Eric Darius has been booked for the following upcoming appearances: Sept. 28 – Park City Jazz Festival in Park City, UT; Sept. 30 – Hyatt Newporter in Newport Beach, CA; Oct. 1& 9 – Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival in Avalon, CA; Oct. 2 – Thornton Winery in Temecula, CA; Nov. 12 – Gainesville Jazz Festival in Gainsville, FL; and Nov. 19 – Rick Braun All Star Jazz Cruise in Galveston, TX. And speaking of Galveston, let’s keep our fingers crossed that Hurricane Rita doesn’t cause extensive damage to the wonderful city of Galveston (or any other city for that matter).
To Love Again is the title of Chris Botti’s upcoming album being released in both CD and DualDisc formats. To Love Again features 13 tracks with guest vocals from Michael Buble, Paul Buchanan, Paula Cole, Gladys Knight, Renee Olstead, Rosa Passos, Jill Scott, Steven Tyler and Sting. Songs on the CD include the timeless classics Embraceable You, What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life, My One And Only Love, Let There Be Love, Love Man, Smile and the title track To Love Again. The DVD side of the DualDisc edition includes the entire album in enhanced LPCM Stereo, 5 brand new performances of Chris Botti and his quartet filmed on location at Capital Studios in Los Angeles and features new live performances of all four instrumental songs from the To Love Again CD – Embraceable You, What’s New?, To Love Again and I’ll Be Seeing You, plus additional bonus performances and features including special guest David Sanborn and Botti in a duet, backed by a quartet, on a great version of Miles Davis’ Flamenco Sketches. Release is set for October 18 on Columbia.
Norah Jones has joined the lineup for the 19th annual Bridge School Benefit concerts to be held October 29-30 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre outside San Francisco.
Barbra Steisand reteams with Barry Gibb for Guilty Pleasures. It’s a reunion of sorts as they attempt to revisit the success that they had 25 years ago with their massive hit album Guilty. This one is also very good as Gibb brings out the best from Streisand on songs such as Stranger In A Strange Land, Come Tomorrow, Golden Dawn, and the Bee Gees cover (Our Love) Don’t Throw It All Away. Also included is the soon to be club classic – Night Of My Life which has just been remixed for the dancefloor.
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