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From: HDtracks Press <1 To:' Subject: HDtracks Newsletter for 08.27.09 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:49:36 +0000 2 HDtracks Newsletter for 08.27.09 With HDtracks you truly get the same level of quality that you receive when buying a CD from a traditional record store. HDtracks offers the highest quality file formats for any platform or media player. - Audioholics Featured Label: Palmetto Records Palmetto Records has been an independent leading voice in music since it was founded in 1990. Through its choice of innovative artists and careful attention to sonic value, it has emerged as a heavyweight label, as well as being listed as one of the best jazz labels for four years running in the Downbeat Critics Poll. Its original mission of enabling artists to fulfill their creative visions still remains the label's focus. According to Palmetto founder and producer, Matt Balitsaris, the label has succeeded so well because it makes music that matters to the artist and to the audience. Palmetto also supports artists who are often overlooked or are considered somewhat "left of center". This enables the label to help expand the boundaries and even the vocabulary of jazz, and also gives the artists the freedom they need to make great music. Featured Artist: Fred Hersch Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has earned a place among the foremost jazz artists in the world today. He is widely recognized for his ability to reinvent the standard jazz repertoire; investing time-tested classics with keen insight, fresh ideas and extraordinary technique, while steadfastly creating his own unique body of works. Described by The New Yorker as "a poet of a pianist" and The New York Roles as "a master who plays it his way," Hersch's accomplishments include a 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition and two Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. He has recorded more than 20 albums as a solo artist or bandleader, co-led another 20 sessions and appeared as a sideman or featured soloist on some 80 further recordings. Featured Albums EFTA00769488 Leaves of Grass Rise Up! Fred Hersch Dr. Lonnie Smith On Leaves of Grass, Hersch leads a 10-piece Rise Up! is Dr. Lonnie Smith's third recording for ensemble in a work that features vocalists Kurt Palmetto Records and features Donald Harrison Elling and Kate McGarry singing the words of (alto sax), Herlin Riley (drums), Peter Bernstein Walt Whitman set to his own compositions. He (guitar) as well as guest performances by Jo thrives on challenging himself and, with Leaves Lawry (vocals), James Shipp (percussion) and of Grass, has surpassed his own reputation for Matt Balitsaris (guitars). Rise Up! was recorded artistic brilliance. Hersch won the prestigious at Maggie's Farm on May 5th & 6th, 2008 and Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2003, produced by Matt Balitsaris. which he used to support the development of this defining and compelling project. 96 kHz/24-bit and 88.2 kHz/24-bit releases on HUtracks lf tiuiem (88.2kHz/24bit) Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion Conspirare (88.2kHz/24bit) Paul Hillier I Theatre Of Voices Taking up a theme as old as music itself, five modern composers turn their attention to death, Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall especially for the loss of loved ones, and remembrance. Two Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices, David Lang's works — We remember them by Donald Grantham "The Little Match Girl Passion" was awarded the and Eliza Gilkyson's Requiem — are here 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Setting Hans receiving their first recording. Christian Andersen's fable in the format of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Lang elevates the suffering of the little match girl with his poignant, evocative music. EFTA00769489 Wagner: The Ring an Orchestral Adventure / Reges Terrae: Music from the Time of Charles V Siegfried Idyll (88.2kHz/24bit) (88.2kHz/24bit) Neeme Jarvi I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Nordic Voices It has been over 15 years since Neeme Jarvi and The Norwegian vocal sextet Nordic Voices' the RSNO made a new recording for Chandos. Chandos debut contains premiere recordings of This recording marks Jarvi's return to Scotland in works by Clemens non Papa and Pierre de his capacity as Conductor Laureate at the Royal Manchicourt. The disc embraces the rich vocal Scottish National Orchestra. This 67-minute, repertoire associated with the courts of Emperor orchestra-only version of Wagner's famous opera Charles V, sung here with exceptional beauty and cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen is arranged by passion. Henk de Vlieger, arranger, composer and percussionist in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Saltanah reVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder (96kHz/24bit) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt I Simon Shaheen Jen Chapin This historic collaboration brings together Vocalist Jen Chapin, daughter of Harry, has musicians of the Hindustani & Arab traditions. decided to take on the Stevie Wonder songbook Bhatt has already reaped a Grammy & the with the minimalist accompaniment of bass and undying support of legions of new fans as a result saxophone alone, played by Stephan Crump and of the great genre-defying ventures that he has Chris Cheek, respectively, and closely recorded undertaken over the last several years. He is in audiophile sound. Cheek, who also plays with joined in this cross-pollination by oud & fiddle trumpeter Dave Douglas, provides another lead master Shaheen who is equally adept at both voice on tenor, baritone, and soprano, weaving traditional Arabic styles and Western classical and dancing around Chapin's keen interpretations, music. many of which, like "You Haven't Done Nothing," "Higher Ground," and "Big Brother," have a just as much political resonance in the '00s as they did when they were written. MORE NEW RELEASES IN 96 kHz/24 bit and 88.2 kHz/24 bit EFTA00769490 Classical Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major/ Prokofiev: Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Piano Concerto No. 5 / Schlime: 3 Improvisations Lorin Maazel I New York Philharmonic Orchestra Mikhail Pletnev I Russian National Orchestra I Francesco Tristano Schlime The New York Philharmonic is celebrating Lorin Maazel's seven-year tenure as Music Director, "Schlime brings flair, care and imagination, 2002-2009, with the release of a set of new matched by the crisp, translucent playing of the digital recordings, the Complete Mahler Russian National Orchestra conducted by one of Symphonies, Live. Mahler's Ninth Symphony his mentors, Mikhail Pletnev." - Geoffrey Norris, not only brings to a conclusion his completed Telegraph.co.uk orchestral oeuvre, but it also represents a final achievement in the mainstream symphonic tradition that had been developing for more than a century and a half. Jan Party Hats Buzz Will Bernard Ben Allison Funky from start to finish and recorded over three For Buzz Ben uses his mainstay intellectual years, Party Hats features more or less two musical unit, Medicine Wheel, named for the rhythm sections including: Will Bernard, guitar; Native American symbol for the universe. The Will Blades, organ; Ryan Newman, bass; Keith wheel is a perfect symbol for Allison to align McArthur, bass; Jan Jackson, drums; Paul Spina, himself with as it represents the constant drums; Josh Jones, percussion; Michael movement and changing perspective he's brought Bluestein, organ and electric piano; and a number to jazz through his sophisticated compositions of horn players including: Cochemea Gastelum, and inventive arrangements. Medicine Wheel is: alto sax; Joe Cohen, sax; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor Michael Blake, tenor & soprano saxophones; Ted Nash, tenor saxophone & flute; Clark Gayton, EFTA00769491 sax, qarcabas, melodica; Dave Ellis, sax; Mike trombone & bass trombone; Frank Kimbrough, Olmos, trumpet; and Adam Theis, trombone. piano, Wurlitzer & prepared piano; and Michael Sarin on drums. Blues Hard Believer Simply the Best: Live Tommy Castro Irma Thomas Hard Believer is Castro's Alligator Records Irma Thomas, the reigning Soul Queen of New debut. Produced by veteran John Porter, it is a Orleans, has a voice as marvelous as any on this giant step forward for Tommy, bringing together earth, and when she connects with an audience, all the parts of his musical personality — blues, she'll put a song across like you've never heard it roadhouse rock, Memphis soul and hard R&B — before. That's precisely what happened on two in a perfect package. The album debuted at #2 on summer nights in 1990 at Slim's in San the Billboard Blues Chart. Francisco. Here are compelling versions of many of Irma's classics, along with a few surprises. A 1992 Grammy finalist. Latin cti Desde La Capital Brazil Classics 4: The Best of Tom Ze Rumba Club Tom Ze Producer Andy Gonzalez picked an exciting "This is the album that started the Tom a "craze" batch of tunes here, some from the Rumba Club's among North American fans, and also helped stir regular set list, others originals from the band. up renewed interest in tropicalia as well... A The originals include the highly percussive fabulous collection of songs culled from several "Comicador," the jazzy title track, and the vocal- '70s LPs ... quirky, wacky, meticulous and percussion gem "El Presidente de La Republica." infectious pop, with precisely layered effects and Among the standards are a sassy take on "It's You a deeply palpable weirdo vibe. You can see why Or No One," the danceable Tito Puente pieces Ws a pop music cult figure... and why he still EFTA00769492 "Oye Mi Guaguanco" and "Cual Es La Idea," has such a strong following. Recommended!" - Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage," Charlie Slipcue Parker's "Moose the Mooche" and Mal Waldron's "Soul Eyes." More New Additions Best Sellers G. Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (88.lkHz/24bit) Half the Perfect World London Sinfonietta I London Symphony Madeleine Peyroux Orchestra I Tiffin Boys' Choir I Richard Hickox Half the Perfect World is the much-anticipated Recorded live at the Barbican Centre in follow-up to Peyroux's breakthrough album, November 2007, Richard Hickox conducts Carl Careless Love, which drew critical raves from Orff's immensely popular dramatic cantata around the world and sold more than a million Carmina Burana with the London Symphony copies. This time around, Peyroux focuses Orchestra and Chorus and soloists Barry Banks, primarily on songs written by artists from her Laura Claycomb and Christopher Maltman. The lifetime, including Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits score's combination of gloriously infectious and Fred Neil. The album also features an vulgarity interspersed with moments of genuine unforgettable duet with M. lang on the Joni beauty has assured it an unquestionable position Mitchell classic "River" and four original songs as one of the most popular of all twentieth- co-written by Peyroux. century choral works. Live In Concert (96kHz/24bit) Alone And Acoustic The Baltimore Consort Junior Wells I Buddy Guy This wonderful and long awaited live recording Buddy Guy and Junior Wells are doubtlessly the of the popular early music group, The Baltimore best known duo in contemporary blues. In 1981, Consort, was recorded at the First Scots Buddy and Junior spent a day in a studio in Paris, EFTA00769493 Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South in the midst of a European tour, getting back to Carolina during the the Piccolo Spoletto Festival their roots. Instead of their usual electric guitar in June 2007. Surrounded by the ghosts of and amplified harmonica, both played acoustic Scottish Presbyterians, the musicians and their instruments. Instead of accompaniment by a full audience felt a spiritual connection to the past. band, they were accompanied only by each other. Together they paid homage to the Deep South acoustic blues tradition from which their contemporary music sprang, and to some of the bluesmen who inspired them. Includes five previously un-issued performances. Email Marketiry by This message was sent from HDtracks Press to . It was sent from: HDtracks, 355 West : i iContact - Try It Free! 52nd Street 6th Floor, New York, New York 10019. 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