THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER SONY MUSIC ACQUIRES DEAN MARTIN REPRISE RECORDS CATALOG

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1. SONY MUSIC ACQUIRES DEAN MARTIN REPRISE RECORDS CATALOG
2. NEW RELEASES: SHARKY'S MACHINE - THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC; EDDIE KENDRICKS - LOVE KEYS; PETER BERNSTEIN - SOLO GUITAR: LIVE AT SMALLS
3. NEW RELEASES: BERNIE WORRELL - ELEVATION: THE UPPER AIR; NOEL GOURDIN - CITY HEART, SOUTHERN SOUL; DAVID BERKMAN - LIVE AT SMALLS

SONY MUSIC ACQUIRES DEAN MARTIN REPRISE RECORDS CATALOG Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:07 PM PST Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, in partnership with the Dean Martin Family Trust, has acquired the singer's legendary Reprise Records catalog and begun remastering titles for a major ongoing reissue project. The Dean Martin Reprise catalog acquisition includes all the recordings Dino made during his extraordinary creative tenure (1962-1974) at Rat Pack chairman Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records label. The Nashville Sessions, the album Martin cut for Warner Bros in 1983, is also included. The Dean Martin reissue project began with the first digital releases of The Dean Martin Christmas Album, 1966's #1 Christmas album and perennial holiday classic, and Dean Martin: The Reprise Years, a 2-disc anthology of the crooner's high points at the label. Legacy Recordings is remastering all the tracks in Dean Martin's Reprise catalog with an eye toward releasing the catalog digitally and physically over the course of the next year. On January 20, Legacy released The Very Best of Dean Martin as part of the label's popular Playlist series.  The Dean Martin Playlist contains: 1.Everybody Loves Somebody 2.Every Minute, Every Hour 3.The Door Is Still Open to My Heart 4.You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 5.Send Me the Pillow You Dream On 6.In the Chapel in the Moonlight 7.I Can't Help Remembering You 8.Houston 9.Bumming Around 10.I Will 11.Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me 12.Ain't Gonna Try Anymore 13.Kiss the World Goodbye 14.Drinking Champagne  The next wave of titles in the Dean Martin Reprise Records reissue project, coming February 4, will include digital releases of ten albums: 1.The Door Is Still Open To My Heart 2.Everybody Loves Somebody 3.Dream With Dean 4.Dean Martin Hits Again 5.Welcome To My World 6.(Remember Me) I'm The One That Loves You 7.Dino Latino 8.French Style 9.The Dean Martin TV Show 10.Houston  "We're so pleased to be working with the Dean Martin Family Trust in bringing Dean's Reprise Records legacy to new generations," said Adam Block, President, Legacy Recordings.  "Dean's music and style embody the very essence of 'cool' and now is the perfect time to introduce this timeless pop music to future fans." One of the great lounge singers of the pre-rock era, Dean Martin hit his stride as a cultural icon during his years with Reprise, knocking the Beatles off the top of the charts in August 1964 with a dreamy contemporary take on "Everybody Loves Somebody (Sometime)," a standard he'd sung on Bob Hope's radio show in 1948 that became one of his theme songs, a sentiment so universal it's on his gravestone. A multi-faceted artist whose talents crossed media boundaries, Dean Martin has three stars on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame: one for recording, one for movies, and one for television, where he introduced Americans to Celebrity Roasts in the 1970s. The genius of Dean Martin is that he made everything sound easy and classy and fun. Relaxed and comfortable, with a beatific self-assurance that transcended confidence, Dino's one of the greatest singers who ever cut records. On his Reprise Recordings, the King of Cool is also his most soulful. THE DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS ALBUM 1.White Christmas 2.Jingle Bells 3.I'll Be Home For Christmas 4.Blue Christmas 5.Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 6.A Marshmallow World 7.Silver Bells 8.Winter Wonderland 9.The Things We Did Last Summer 10.Silent Night DEAN MARTIN: THE REPRISE YEARS Disc One: The Greatest Hits 1.Everybody Loves Somebody 2.The Door Is Still Open To My Heart 3.You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 4.You'll Always Be The One I Love 5.Send Me The Pillow You Dream On 6.(Remember Me) I'm The One Who Loves You 7.Houston 8.I Will 9.Somewhere There's A Someone 10.Come Running Back 11.A Million And One 12.Nobody's Baby Again 13.(Open Up The Door) Let The Good Times In 14.Lay Some Happiness On Me 15.In The Chapel In The Moonlight 16.Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me 17.In The Misty Moonlight 18.You've Still Got A Place In My Heart 19.Not Enough Indians 20.I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am Disc Two: The Best Of The Rest 1.Who's Got The Action 2.The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else 3.I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face 4.Baby-O 5.Things 6.Corrine Corrina 7.Bumming Around 8.Welcome To My World 9.My Heart Cries For You 10.Gentle On My Mind 11.Tik-A-Tee, Tik-A-Tay 12.Senza Fine 13.Tangerine 14.Besame Mucho 15.Blue Moon 16.I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) 17.Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup 18.C'est Si Bon 19.My Melancholy Baby 20.Everybody Loves Somebody (original version) DEAN MARTIN: REPRISE ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY French Style (1962) Dino Latino (1962; #99) Country Style (1963; #109) Dean Tex Martin Rides Again (1963) Dream With Dean (1964; #15*) Everybody Loves Somebody (1964; #2*) The Door Is Still Open To My Heart (1964) Dean Martin Hits Again (1965; #13*) (Remember Me) I'm The One Who Loves You (1965; #12*) Houston (1965; #11*) Somewhere There's Someone (1966; 40*) Dean Martin Sings Songs From "The Silencers" (1966; #108) The Hit Sound Of Dean Martin (1966; #50) The Dean Martin Christmas Album (1966; #1 Xmas*) The Dean Martin TV Show (1966; #34) Happiness Is Dean Martin (1967; #46) Welcome To My World (1967; #20*) Dean Martin's Greatest Hits! (1968; #26*) Dean Martin's Greatest Hits! Vol. 2 (1968; #83*) Gentle On My Mind (1968; #14*) I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (1969; #90) My Woman, My Woman, My Wife (1970; #97) For The Good Times (1971; #113, #41 Country) Dino (1972; #117) Sittin' On Top Of The World (1973) You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me (1973) Once In Awhile (1978) The Nashville Sessions (1983; #49 Country) * certified gold album (most of which sold over 1,000,000 units--there was no platinum certification at the time) ~ Legacy Recordings

NEW RELEASES: SHARKY'S MACHINE - THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC; EDDIE KENDRICKS - LOVE KEYS; PETER BERNSTEIN - SOLO GUITAR: LIVE AT SMALLS Posted: 18 Feb 2014 11:27 AM PST SHARKY'S MACHINE - THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC One of the coolest soundtracks ever for a Burt Reynolds film – an a hip mix of soul and jazz tracks that's gone onto become a classic over the years! The album's a compilation of sorts, but most of the material was recorded fresh for the film – and the different artists really work together here to forge some great backdrops for the action on the screen! Al Capps handled the larger charts, but most numbers really spotlight an individual artist – and highlights include Randy Crawford singing a new version of "Street Life" – different than the one with The Crusaders – Sarah Vaughan singing "Love Theme From Sharky's Machine", Peggy Lee vocals on "Let's Keep Dancing", and Julie London singing "My Funny Valentine" – as one of the first recordings after many years of retirement. Other great numbers include "Dope Bust" by Flora Purim & Buddy DeFranco, "Sharky's Theme" by Eddie Harris, "Before You" by Sarah Vaughan & Joe Williams, "8 To 5 I Lose" by Joe Williams, and the instrumental cuts "Sexercise" and "High Energy" by Doc Severinsen. ~ Dusty Groove EDDIE KENDRICKS - LOVE KEYS Having recently released a quartet of albums by David Ruffin, Real Gone Music now turns its attention to Ruffin's former running mate in the Temptations, Eddie Kendricks, whose mellifluous tenor and falsetto were such an integral part of the group's sound. Kendricks began his solo journey in 1971, leaving Motown in 1977 for a two-album, two-year stint at Arista Records.  In 1981, Eddie signed with Atlantic Records for the one-off LP, Love Keys, which would be his last major label album (aside from a 1987 collaboration with fellow ex-Temptation, David Ruffin). Produced in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama by the team of Johnny Sandlin (best known for his work with Southern rock artists like the Allman Brothers, Bonnie Bramlett, Elvin Bishop, and Wet Willie) and Randy Roberts, Love Keys featured backing from the Muscle Shoals Horns and the Southern soul group the Controllers on songs written by Lou Courtney ("I'm In Need Of Love"), David Pomeranz ("Old Home Town") and Eddie's former Motown colleagues, Brian & Eddie Holland (for the track, "(Oh I) Need Your Lovin,'" a Billboard Top 50 R&B single). The album represented Eddie Kendricks' first venture into Southern soul, and was the last charting solo set for the great soul singer, who passed away in 1992. It makes its worldwide CD debut here, with notes and added photos. A must for fans of Kendricks and the Temps, brought to you by Real Gone and SoulMusic Records! Tracks: (Oh I) Need Your Lovin'; I'm in Need of Love; I Don't Need Nobody Else; Bernadette; You Can't Stop My Loving; Never Alone; Hot; Looking for Love; and In Love We're the One. ~ Real Gone PETER BERNSTEIN - SOLO GUITAR: LIVE AT SMALLS Sublime solo guitar from Peter Bernstein – an artist who's already had a group outing in the Smalls Live series, but who sounds completely different here on his own! Bernstein's always got these chromatic qualities that make his work with other players so wonderful – and that aspect of his music comes even more to the forefront in this stripped-down setting – an amazing ear for tones and colors that easily mark him as one of the most compelling guitarists in mainstream jazz – with a style that's sensitive, yet quite strong too – but never overdone. Most tunes are familiar numbers, really recast anew in the hands of Bernstein – and tracks include "Pannonica", "Django", "Crepuscule With Nellie", "Giant Steps", "The Tender Trap", "Wise One", "Yesterdays", and "Put Your Dreams Away".~ Dusty Groove

NEW RELEASES: BERNIE WORRELL - ELEVATION: THE UPPER AIR; NOEL GOURDIN - CITY HEART, SOUTHERN SOUL; DAVID BERKMAN - LIVE AT SMALLS Posted: 18 Feb 2014 11:22 AM PST BERNIE WORRELL - ELEVATION: THE UPPER AIR Bernie Worrell, keyboard legend, founding member and essential collaborator, composer, and arranger in George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic, has worked with an extremely diverse array of artists - Talking Heads, Bootsy Collins, The Rolling Stones, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Black Uhuru, Fela Kuti, Burning Spear, Pharoah Sanders, Buddy Guy, Sly & The Family Stone, Mos Def, Albert King, Sly & Robbie, etc. He is among the most influential and emulated electronic keyboardists in modern music. His synthesizer work defined 80's and 90's West Coast Hip Hop and is still recognized in the pop hits of today. Elevation is his first solo acoustic creation. Intimate, personal, atmospheric and touching, a humble statement which is both vulnerable and child-like. Songs and themes appear as flashbacks and memories, some accessible, some subconscious; they are based on motifs by John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Bob Marley, Carlos Santana, Charles Mingus and others. Featured are delicate impressions of classic soul music from his own history and three original ambient soundscapes - all delivered with his signature hand. Produced by legendary iconoclast, Bill Laswell, with original artwork by Japan's modern master Shinro Ohtake.Tracks include: In a Silent Way; I'd Rather Be With You; Alabama; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Light On Water; Ooh Child; Samba Pa Ti; Realm of Site; I Wanna Go Outside In the Rain; Wings; and Redemption Song NOEL GOURDIN - CITY HEART, SOUTHERN SOUL They definitely got the title right on this one –as Noel Gourdin sings in a contemporary urban mode, but with lots of the deeper inflections we remember from classic southern soul – a wonderful blend that really makes the record his best so far! Production is nice and lean – stripped-down, and with a good focus on the kind of slightly snapping rhythms that really help deliver the edge in Noel's lyrics – an approach that's right on the money, and really lets Gourdin stretch out and inflect the tunes with plenty of his own personal warmth. Production is by Marcellus Dawson, and the team of Ty Macklin and Taylor Pace – and titles include "No Worries", "Heaven Knows", "Foxxxy", "Spotlight Lovin", "Come Over", "Patience", "Photography", and "I Want You". ~ Dusty Groove DAVID BERKMAN - LIVE AT SMALLS A great live date in the excellent Smalls series – and a wonderful group outing not just for pianist David Berkman, but for trumpeter Tom Harrell as well! Tom gets a lot of room to really open up and solo beautifully on the record – in ways that are quite different than his own studio work in recent years, and which really take us back to the qualities in Harrell's music we first fell in love with years ago! Berkman's got an inventive touch on the piano – sometimes angular but tight, sometimes more spacious – and the group also features Ed Howard on bass and Jonathan Blake on drums. All tracks are nice and long, and the Berkman originals are especially great for both his piano and Harrell's trumpet – titles that include "Ghost Wife", "Small Wooden Housekeeper", and "For Kenny" – nestled alongside versions of "Body & Soul" and "Sweet & Lovely". ~ Dusty Groove