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Posted: 15 Jan 2014 01:57 PM PST
 Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, celebrates the life and music of four-time Grammy Award®, Lifetime Achievement Award and Grammy® Trustees recipient Carole King as the label's Artist of the Month for January 2014.
The Artist of the Month campaign coincides with the [official] opening of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on January 12, 2014, at Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre. (The show has been in previews since November 2013.)
The campaign also coincides with Carole King's honor as 2014 MusiCares® Person of the Year, as announced by the MusiCares Foundation® and the Recording Academy®. The 24th annual MusiCares® benefit gala dinner and concert will take place in Los Angeles on January 24, 2014, during Grammy® Week, two nights prior to the 56th Annual Grammy Awards®, to be broadcast live on Sunday, January 26th, on the CBS Television Network.
Carole King, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990, is one of the most honored and celebrated singers and songwriters in contemporary music, and rightly so. No musician from the rock and roll era has left a more durable imprint than she has, nor probably ever will. Her litany of original hits (especially those written with partner Gerry Goffin) is enough to ensure that fact. One person's list might top out with "Some Kind Of Wonderful" and "Up On the Roof" (the Drifters), "The Loco-Motion" (Little Eva), "Oh No Not My Baby" (Maxine Brown), and "A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)" (Aretha Franklin), and King's own "It Might As Well Rain Until September."
Another person's list could just as well include "Take Good Care Of My Baby"* (by Bobby Vee), "Halfway To Paradise" (Tony Orlando), "Every Breath I Take" (Gene Pitney), "Hey, Girl" (Freddie Scott), "Go Away Little Girl" (Steve Lawrence), "Crying In the Rain" (the Everly Brothers), "I Can't Stay Mad At You" (Skeeter Davis), "Her Royal Majesty" (James Darren), "Just Once In My Life" (the Righteous Brothers), and of course, James Taylor's Grammy Award®-winning "You've Got A Friend."
As well, the enduring phenomenon of the girl groups is forever associated with Goffin & King's "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (by the Shirelles), "Chains" and "Don't Say Nothin' (Bad About My Baby)" (the Cookies), "One Fine Day" (the Chiffons), and "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)" (the Crystals).
From the start of the British Invasion, Goffin & King charted with "I'm Into Somethin' Good" (Herman's Hermits), and "Don't Bring Me Down" (the Animals). American bands scored with "Goin' Back" and "Wasn't Born To Follow" (the Byrds), "So Much Love" and "Hi-De-Ho" (Blood, Sweat & Tears), "Take a Giant Step," "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)" (the Monkees), and many more
Legacy will continue its role as the steward of Carole King's classic album catalog on Ode Records (1970 to 1976), with special attention to two best-selling titles: Tapestry (1971), RIAA diamond (10 million) certified in the U.S. with 25 million worldwide sales, one of the best-selling albums of all time, 15 weeks at #1 in Billboard, 302 weeks overall, featuring the hit single sides "It's Too Late" b/w "I Feel the Earth Move," "So Far Away" b/w "Smackwater Jack," and definitive standards "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" and "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman"; and The Essential Carole King (2010), the uniquely conceived 2-CD 33-song set, with Disc One (Singer) devoted to her own recordings, and Disc Two (Songwriter) comprising many of the aforementioned '60s artists' hits.
As L.A.-based music journalist/historian Harvey Kubernik wrote in his album notes for The Essential Carole King, "There was Sam Cooke, Dylan, Brian Wilson, Lennon & McCartney, Neil Diamond, John Phillips, Smokey Robinson, and others, but no other female artist, up to that point, had so forged the writer, folkie, rock, R&B, singer, songwriter, performer, hitmaker, life style maker as Carole did on Tapestry."
The MusiCares® honor recognizes King for her career achievements as well as her tireless philanthropic efforts, which have focused on environmental causes for decades, including forest ecosystem protection. Proceeds from the benefit gala provide essential support for MusiCares®, which ensures that music people have a place to turn in times of financial, medical and personal need. Among the roster of multi-Grammy® Award-winning artists who will perform in King's honor at the MusiCares® benefit gala will be the Dixie Chicks, Lady Gaga, Bette Midler, Jason Mraz, James Taylor, and Steven Tyler.
The MusiCares® honor is reminiscent of last May 2013, when President Obama presented Carole King with the fourth annual Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (following previous recipients Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon). After an all-star concert in her honor at Coolidge Auditorium, King was feted at an intimate White House concert attended by the President, his family and friends.
 
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Posted: 15 Jan 2014 01:37 PM PST
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has announced the music lineup for the 45th anniversary Festival scheduled for April 25 - 27 and May 1 - 4, 2014. This year the lineup includes Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Christina Aguilera, Phish, Arcade Fire, Santana, Robin Thicke, The String Cheese Incident, Trey Songz, Vampire Weekend, Foster the People, Public Enemy, The Avett Brothers, Charlie Wilson, Alabama Shakes, John Fogerty, Chaka Khan, Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, Rubén Blades, Lyle Lovett, Boz Scaggs, The Head and the Heart, Johnny Winter, Bobby Womack, Al Jarreau, Keb' Mo', Mary Mary, Delbert McClinton, North Mississippi Allstars, Chick Corea & the Vigil, Jason Isbell, John Hiatt, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Rachelle Ferrell, Pharoah Sanders, Laura Mvula, Solange, Branford Marsalis Quartet, The Rance Allen Group, The Mavericks, Charles Bradley & his Extraordinaires, Bobby Jones & Nashville Super Choir, Robert Earl Keen, Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys, Bombino, Afoxé Omô Nilê Ogunjá of Pernambuco-Brazil, Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio, Johnnyswim, Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Joe Louis Walker, Bernard Allison Group, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings, Lisa Knowles & the Brown Singers, Gregory Porter, René Marie – With Love to Eartha Kitt, Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters, Chris Smither, Spencer Taylor & the Highway QC's and more are all among the national and international artists scheduled to appear at the 45th edition of Jazz Fest.
Also appearing are hundreds of Louisiana legends and Festival favorites are scheduled to appear, such as: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Aaron Neville, the Radiators, Rebirth Brass Band, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk w/ special guest Art Neville, Better Than Ezra, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Galactic, Big Freedia, Chocolate Milk, Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Anders Osborne, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tab Benoit, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, Jon Batiste and Stay Human, The Terence Blanchard Group, Cowboy Mouth, Sonny Landreth, Buckwheat Zydeco, Nicholas Payton XXX, Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9, Ellis Marsalis, Jeremy Davenport, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, Imagination Movers, Wayne Toups & ZyDeCajun, Marc Broussard, Voice of the Wetlands Allstars, PJ Morton, Davell Crawford, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Jon Cleary, John Boutté, Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, Lost Bayou Ramblers, The Revivalists, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Alexis & the Samurai, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Lillian Boutté & New Orleans Gumbozaire, Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band, Treme Brass Band, Los Hombres Calientes and so much more.
 
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Posted: 15 Jan 2014 01:23 PM PST
Motéma Music Will Release Omnivorous Saxophonist, Composer, Producer and Arranger's Jazz Racine Haiti on February 11
Jacques Schwarz-Bart's trajectory as a saxophonist might, at a glance, come across as a game of musical hopscotch. On recordings and in concerts, he has been a collaborator of such diverse artists as Roy Hargrove, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, David Gilmore, Chucho Valdes, Danilo Perez, Ari Hoenig and Meshell N'Degeocello. In his efforts as a bandleader, however, he has followed a clear path, deeper and deeper into the music of his French Caribbean antecedents, which he has continued to blend with modern jazz. His newest project, Jazz Racine Haiti, is a culmination: With an international cast of musicians including two voodoo priests, Schwarz-Bart has created new arrangements of traditional Haitian voodoo ritual music and composed new music inspired by his rigorous engagement with the genre. Motéma Music releases the album February 11.
With Jazz Racine Haiti, Schwarz-Bart comes full circle. He is the son of two novelists, French-Jewish author André Schwarz-Bart and Guadeloupean writer Simone Schwarz-Bart. Jacques' first musical education took place when, as a child in his parents' house, his mother played recordings of classic voodoo music daily. While exploring jazz and classical music at the Berklee College of Music and beyond, he grew to appreciate what he called the "originality and greatness of voodoo music." He further immersed himself in the voodoo music of his childhood on several trips he made to Haiti as an adult while playing with the beloved Caribbean band Tabou Combo. He explains, "Its melodies have a lyricism similar to that of opera and use complex modes that can also be found in jazz music (mixolydian, phrygian, lydian). But what sets it apart is its relationship with silence. The melodies have very punctuated structures, with breaths of various lengths, giving each emotion adequate space to synch in and reach your core. That dialogue with silence creates a doorway to the unknown."
For Jazz Racine Haiti, Schwarz-Bart assembled two voodoo priests, singer Erol Josué and percussionist Gaston Jean-Baptiste (aka Bonga), and five jazz musicians. They headlined the opening night of the prestigious Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris in 2011. Schwarz-Bart has since toured the project Morocco, Guadeloupe, France, Martinique, St. Lucia, La Rochelle, Haiti, Rouen and New York.
Schwarz-Bart produced the album, recording in November 2012 at Studio de Meudon in France and MSR Studios in New York. The recording features lead vocals by Erol Josué, Rozna Zila and Stephanie McKay; tenor sax by Jacques Schwarz-Bart; trumpet by Etienne Charles; flugelhorn by Alex Tassel; piano by Milan Milanović and Gregory Privat; upright bass by Ben Williams; electric bass by Reggie Washington; drums by Obed Calvaire, Arnaud Dolmen; and percussion by Gaston Jean-Baptiste (aka Bonga) and Claude Saturne.
Schwarz-Bart hopes that Jazz Racine Haiti will help to dispel common misconceptions about voodoo. Many mistakenly characterize it as an expression of evil, and have it confused with black magic. In reality, voodoo is an ancient African religion that came into the New World with the slaves to become Santería in Cuba and Candomblé in Brazil and to survive, with its original name, in Haiti. Its ultimate goal is to help its practitioners face the human condition and energize the spirit by connecting it to nature. Voodoo has inspired masterpieces of music, painting, sculpture and poetry and has provided strength and fortitude to many in times of unfathomable tragedy.
The resulting recording is at once an achievement of ethnomusicology and artistic innovation. And in spite of its faithful commitment to a centuries-old—and, to some, esoteric—musical and spiritual tradition, Jazz Racine Haiti is a fresh and remarkably accessible work. To be sure, French Caribbean melodies and rhythms are at the heart of so much African-American music; they were essential to the earliest jazz in New Orleans and are still resonant in so many strands of popular music. As such, Jazz Racine Haiti could be considered the album that reveals the thread connecting Schwarz-Bart's otherwise puzzlingly various musical endeavors.
About Motéma Music
The Harlem-based label Motéma Music, led by Jana Herzen, specializes in jazz and other creative music that spans genres and generations. The company's varied international roster received GRAMMY nominations in jazz, reggae and R&B, and features established music icons such as NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston and Jamaican jazz legend Monty Alexander; innovative mid-career artists including NAACP Image Award nominee Geri Allen, electro/acoustic pianist Marc Cary,vocalist Rene Marie; and remarkable rising stars such as Gregory Porter, whom the label launched in 2010, and the immensely acclaimed Pedrito Martinez Group, which debuted on Motéma in 2013. For more information: www.motema.com.
More Information on Jacques Schwarz-Bart and Jazz Racine Haiti
 
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Posted: 15 Jan 2014 01:15 PM PST
Free-spirited, genre-defying singer Amy Cervini - praised as "an honest, self-assured and honey-dripping presence" by All Music Guide - continues to broaden the idea of what a jazz singer can be with her fourth album, Jazz Country. To be released Feb. 18, 2014, by Anzic Records, Jazz Country is a beautiful collection of "North Americana" that finds the Toronto-bred, New York-based singer in league with her eponymous Jazz Country trio mates, guitarist Jesse Lewis and bassist Matt Aronoff, plus such guests as clarinet superstar Anat Cohen, one-of-a-kind singer-songwriter Nellie McKay and avant-jazz saxophonist Marty Ehrlich, among others.
Cervini and company perform jazz and country songs, as well as folk and pop tunes, with a sense of storytelling, melody and atmosphere to the fore. Virtuoso drummer Matt Wilson put down his sticks to take the producer's chair for the album. Jazz Country features songs by the likes of Hank Williams and Neil Young, Johnny Cash and Carrie Underwood; there are kindred-spirit originals, inspired novelties and a soundtrack classic ("Calling You" from Baghdad Café), along with irresistible versions of such evergreens as "Blue Moon" and "Smile." Time Out New York has praised Cervini's work for "tearing down boundaries between old and new jazz styles, rock, pop, country and more - a reminder of Duke Ellington's old axiom that there's just two kinds of music, good and bad."
With Jazz Country, Cervini explores multiple aspects of the title. Most obviously, jazz meets country on the album or, rather, jazz-schooled musicians explore country, folk and pop music. More deeply, there's the idea of Cervini's own jazz country, in New York City. She explains: "At heart, the title Jazz Country reflects a community of musicians - kindred spirits for me, personally and artistically. The band's initial aim of blending jazz and country music - out of a love for each - has become something more: a celebration of a circle of musical friends, all the diverse personalities and talents." About her Jazz Country trio, Cervini says: "This is a democratic band, one where everyone brings their own ideas. Jesse is so versatile, adventurous and creative, with his own sound and style. Matt is such a sensitive bassist. He really watches me, flowing with the voice. The band steeped in this music over three years of gigs at places like the 55 Bar and Cornelia Street Café, so we really developed our sound. Jazz is often about filling space, but we wanted to leave space in the music. There aren't any drums or cymbals in the mix, and we weren't afraid to let the voice and lyrics resonate in the air, so there's room to really feel the stories in the songs."
As for the album's special guests, Cervini says: "Anat Cohen is the premier voice on her instrument, and she has guested with Jazz Country a lot. Whenever we do a song like 'Frim Fram Sauce' without her, I miss herpresence - it's so energizing. I have worked with Marty Ehrlich for years in various capacities, and I have such respect for him. He has this strong, soulful voice as an instrumentalist and brought a real blues feel to 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I've been a big fan of Nellie McKay for a long time, and I recorded her song 'I Wanna Get Married' on my album Lovefool. She's such a unique performer and having her sing and play ukulele on 'Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue' was a real treat. I got to know keyboardist-accordionist Gary Versace through his work in Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts band. He's astoundingly inventive and such a thoughtful accompanist. Trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis is another thoughtful musician, with a beautiful tone and melodic sense. Besides being a wonderful pianist, arranger and producer, Oded Lev-Ari is my best friend, husband and father of our two kids. 'Go Gently to the Water' is the first duet we've recorded together, oddly enough. Matt Wilson and I work together a lot - we talk practically every day. Full of ideas and positivity, he's a master of allowing musical moments to happen. He enabled Jazz Country to be what it could really be - and he captured it."
Jazz Country ranges from tunes that Cervini fell for her in childhood to recent hits that caught her ear. "Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue" is a tune by Dave Frishberg, composer of Schoolhouse Rock fame. Cervini covered a Frishberg number on her acclaimed 2012 album, Digging Me, Digging You: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie, and here she breaks out her saxophone to go along with McKay's ukulele. "Song for the Mira" is a lyrical Canadian folk song that Cervini sang in choir as a kid, as she did the classic "After the Goldrush" by fellow Canadian Neil Young. "Go Gently to the Water" is a song by renowned jazz vocalist Dominique Eade, one of Cervini's former teachers at the New England Conservatory of Music. The arrangement of "Blue Moon" grew out of guitarist Jesse Lewis's spontaneous introduction to the timeless tune, while Cervini co-wrote the charming "Penguin Dance" with Nicky Schrire, a South African singer who has performed in Cervini's ongoing duet nights at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village (where her duet partners have also included Janis Siegel, Peter Eldridge and Fay Victor, among many others). Cervini co-wrote the album's other original, the cinematic fantasy "Je Danse Avec la Neige," for a Macy's holiday commercial, with the French title translating as "I Dance With the Snow."
"Frim Fram Sauce" was famously recorded by Nat King Cole, but Cervini learned the number from another fellow Canadian, Diana Krall. Although some hear risqué whimsy in the song, Cervini insists that, for her, the song really is about food: "Maybe there's some double-entendre in there, but I don't sing it that way. I'm just a good girl, I guess." One of Cervini's key early influences was Canadian avant-torch singer Holly Cole: "Holly's records were my singalong music in the car as a teenager. She was doing jazzy covers of pop songs before it was the thing to do - Disney tunes, Roberta Flack, Lyle Lovett, Elvis Costello, a whole album of Tom Waits, all of which she made her own. It never occurred to me that she was breaking the rules - it was just cool. Unlike most jazz singers, I learned 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' not from Tony Bennett's version but from hers."
Cervini first heard "Calling You" - the melody-rich theme song from the '80s indie movie Baghdad Café - in a college film-studies class. She says: "That song paints such an emotional picture, with the chorus having this cry to it. Jesse sings a wordless vocal on the track - and that came about during a show, completely spontaneously. We never rehearsed it, and he never even told me he was going to do it. He just burst into song, really feeling it. I loved it so much that it became the way we do the song from then on." The inspiration for recording Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone" came from another member of Cervini's New York circle, singer Melissa Stylianou. "Melissa's arrangement of this is much jazzier," she says. "I fell for the bittersweet story, so I did it in a simpler, more direct way, using the original harmony." A more contemporary country number on the album is K.T. Oslin's "Drivin' Cryin' Missin' You," which Cervini heard Manhattan Transfer vocal star Janis Siegel do. Cervini says: "Janis graciously let me steal it."
The most recent song on the album is the Carrie Underwood smash "Before He Cheats" - a picturesque number about a girl getting even preemptively by keying a philandering beau's precious car. "It's a pretty raw but very funny story, and something that nearly everyone can relate to, whether you've gotten even like that or just wish you had," Cervini says. As for the Charlie Chaplin perennial "Smile" - one of the most covered songs in history - Cervini avoided hearing anyone's recording of it for years as she pondered someday doing it herself. "I cleared my mind of previous interpretations and concentrated on the lyrics, which are very emotional if you stop to really listen to them," she says. "Whether it's 'Smile' or 'Frim Fram Sauce' or 'Before He Cheats,' whether they're funny or wistful or imagistic, what all these songs on the album have in common is that they paint a picture or tell a story, like a little movie for our minds."
The New York Times has described Amy Cervini as "a thoughtful and broad-minded jazz singer," and DownBeat Magazine called her Anzic album Digging Me, Digging You: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie "a gem." Cervini's two previous solo albums - Love Fool (2009, Orange Grove) and Famous Blue (2007, Orange Grove) - saw the vocalist range interpretively from Cole Porter, Billie Holiday and Leonard Cohen to the Cardigans, Feist and Depeche Mode. Live, she has performed in clubs and concert halls from Toronto to Tel Aviv and in prime New York venues from the 55 Bar, Cornelia Street Cafe, Joe's Pub and the Knitting Factory to the Jazz Standard, Birdland, the Blue Note and Carnegie Hall. The Ottawa Citizen declared that "the ex-pat Canadian sings terrific, gimmick-free jazz [with a] poise, intelligence and an unforced honesty that makes every song ring like it was her own."
Amy Cervini: Jazz Country:
1. "Blue Moon" (R. Rodgers, L. Hart)
2. "Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue" (Dave Frishberg)
3. "Song for the Mira" (Allister MacGillivray)
4. "Frim Fram Sauce" (R. Evans, J. Ricardel)
5. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams)
6. "Calling You" (Robert Telson)
7. "Go Gently to the Water" (Dominique Eade)
8. "Penguin Dance" (Amy Cervini, Nicky Schrire)
9. "Smile" (C. Chaplin, J. Turner, G. Parsons)
10. "Je Danse Avec la Neige" (Amy Cervini, Aaron Kotler)
11. "After the Gold Rush" (Neil Young)
12. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash)
13. "Before He Cheats" (C. Tompkins, Josh Kear)
14. "Drivin' Cryin' Missin' You (K.T. Oslin, M. Smotherman)
Musicians: Amy Cervini, vocals & saxophone (track 2) / Jesse Lewis, guitar & voice (6); Matt Aronoff, double-bass / Anat Cohen, clarinet (4, 10); Mary Ehrlich, saxophone (5) / Oded Lev-Ari, piano (7, 8); Nellie McKay, voice & ukelele (2) / Nadje Noordhuis, trumpet (12) / Gary Versace, accordion (8)
Produced by Matt Wilson / Co-produced by Amy Cervini & Oded Lev-Ari / Recorded, edited and mixed by Brian Montgomery at Sear Studios, New York
 
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Posted: 15 Jan 2014 06:17 AM PST
GATO BARBIERI - GATO...PARA LOS AMIGOS / QUE PASA / CHE CORAZON
Overlooked later genius from Gato Barbieri – a trio of albums served up in one nicely priced package! Gato Para Los Amigos is some of Barbieri's best work of the 80s – an excellent live set from 1981 that's kind of a return to the drawn-out intensity of his years at Impulse! The group's got a good mixture of percussion, keyboards, and guitar – and the tracks on the set are mostly Latin-tinged numbers that offer a perfect foil for Gato's soulful and exploratory blowing – those haunting long lines we first fell in love with on his records for Impulse and Flying Dutchman! Titles include "Bolivia", "Carnavalito", "Brazil", "Viva Emiliano Zapata", and "Latino America". Que Pasa is a surprisingly nice late 90s effort from Gato Barbieri – at the time, his first new album in over a decade – and a set put together with a nicely contemporary feel with help from keyboardist Philippe Saisse! Saisse produced the set, and he really gives the record some of the warmly soulful moments of his own great music – an approach that's somewhat deeper than smooth jazz, and which makes more than enough space for Gato's well-blown saxophone solos. There's a bit of backing vocals on the set, and the approach here is definitely soul-based – but it's got a solid bottom that hearkens back to some of Gato's best R&B-inspired work of the 70s. Titles include "Mystica", "Dancing With Dolphins", "Straight Into The Sunrise", "Indonesia", "The Woman I Remember", and "Cause We've Ended As Lovers". Che Corazon is one of Gato Barbieri's most ambitious albums – a record that mixes core jazzy grooving with some larger orchestral parts – but all at a level that still moves along nicely! Sweet keyboards glide alongside Gato's reed lines – which come out strongly in the lead, with that sharp-cutting sense of soul that we've always loved so much. The overall sound is smoother than the early days, but no less soulful – and titles include a great remake of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You", plus "Eclipse", "The Woman On The Lake", "1812", "Encounter", and "Sweet Glenda". ~ Dusty Groove.
EDDIE PALMIERI - IS DOIN' IT IN THE DARK THE EP
Some of the best work we've heard in years from the legendary Eddie Palmieri – sounds recorded especially for a film on pick-up basketball in New York City, and done with a style that really takes us back to Eddie's best records from years back! The music is very jazzy – with long passages that feature strong solos on piano from Palmieri, vibes from Joe Locke, and baritone sax from Ronnie Cuber – played with a freewheeling intensity that goes way beyond any scene-setting need of a film score, and which is filled with the mix of spontaneous energy and sophisticated ideals of Palmieri's best compositions. The percussion is wonderful, too – very rootsy, and beautifully recorded – and the whole thing is punctuated by a few short spoken bits from the film. A true treasure to file next to your Fania classics – with tracks that include "Jibarita Y Su Son", "Bata 2nd & 3rd Movement", "Give The Drummer Some", "Coast To Coast", and "More Moves/The Chef". ~ Dusty Groove
BOMBAY DUB ORCHESTRA - BOHEMIA JUNCTION REMIXES
Bombay Dub Orchestra released their critically acclaimed third studio album, Tales From The Grand Bazaar, on Six Degrees Records last year. Praise poured in saying, "A masterpiece which lovers of all sounds Exotic, Eclectic, Electronica & Classical will adore!!!" (Globetronica) and "Tales From the Grand Bazaar flirts with a host of unique sounds and instruments that blends the electronic with the traditional, and is effortlessly combined and mixed in such a way that is extremely listenable, and easily enjoyable (Black Grooves). The album also appeared on notable year-end lists including tastemaker radio show Echoes. "Bohemia Junction," the lead single from the album gets the remix treatment on the aptly titled Remixes EP, out January 14, 2014. Remixers include Punk A Wallah's, Vlastur Dub, Nutritious & Commodore, and Bombay Dub's 70's dub mix. Vlastur Dub from Athens, Greece treats us to a reverb and effects laden interpretation that is dubby, pulsing and danceable. The Punk-A-Wallas, DJ Pathaan, assisted by Andrew from Bombay Dub Orchestra, go for a storming electro approach, which is guaranteed to please. NYC's Nutritious and Commodore go for a stripped down driving electro approach with lots of space. Rounding out the EP is Bombay Dub Orchestra's Old school dub remix that reflects their affection for classic Jamaican 70s dub with the middle eastern elements of the original track. ~sixdegreesrecords.com
 
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