GLORIA REUBEN - PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Actress and singer, Gloria Reuben, releases, Perchance to Dream, her first ever Jazz album
with the specialty, non-profit record label MCG Jazz. Perchance to Dream
includes eight standards, done in a completely unique way and two new tunes.
Songs list: Change Partners, Poor Girl, Close Enough For Love, Pure Imagination,
When I Close My Eyes, How Am I To Know, Save Your Love For Me, You Better Love
Me, Sharing The Night With The Blues, and Here's To Life.
BILLY PRICE / OTIS CLAY - THIS TIME FOR REAL
Billy Price and Otis Clay: Two singers
separated by a generation come together in a performance that moves the
Southern soul tradition a little bit further up the road.
Pittsburgh
rhythm and blues singer Billy Price and deep Southern soul/gospel icon Otis
Clay worked with masterful guitarist/producer Duke Robillard to create their
first full-album collaboration, This Time for Real. On This Time for Real, the
singers have selected an array of soul and R&B songs from the catalogues of
artists including Joe Tex, Sam & Dave, the Spinners, Los Lobos, Syl
Johnson, and Bobby Womack as well as new versions of two songs originally
recorded by Clay. The two friends have performed and worked together
occasionally since 1982, but this is by far their most extensive collaboration
to date. ~ Amazon
DAVID TORN - ONLY SKY
David Torn
ever-intrepid guitarist, producer, improviser, film composer and soundscape
artist returns with only sky, an album that explores the far sonic edges of
what one man and a guitar can create, a solo recording of almost orchestral
atmosphere. It is Torns first ECM release since 2007s acclaimed prezens, a
full-band project, with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey, that Jazzwise
described as a vibrating collage full of shimmering sonic shapes, a dark, urban
electronic soundscape a potent mix of jazz, free-form rock and technology that
is both demanding and rewarding. Many of those same descriptors apply to only
sky, with its hovering ambient shadows and vaulting flashes of light, its
channeling of deep country/blues memories and Burroughsian dreams of North
Africa. Recorded in the acoustically apt hall of the Experimental Media and
Performing Arts Center in upstate New York (and then sorted and mixed in Torn s
own mad-scientist lair), only sky is an album to get lost in, over and again. ~ Amazon
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