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Lewis' critically acclaimed album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart, at #4 on the Billboard Top Country Album Chart and at #26 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart in the first week of its release. The star-studded album, which features 15 members of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame including Lewis himself, has shipped over 175 thousand units and hit #6 on the Americana Radio Charts. This 71 year-old founding father of rock 'n' roll known as The Killer is back.
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie: "Flyin' Home"
Norman Granz is one of the most important non-musicians in the history of jazz and no one has made a greater contribution to the staging, recording and filming of jazz concerts. This series of performances from the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival now makes a part of this legacy available on dvd for the first time. Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie Orchestra. This concert is the perfect example of how to "swing". The ideal combination of Ella Fitzgerald, at the height of her powers in 1979, with the Count Basie Orchestra and then accompanied by the great man himself, leads to a sublime evening with versions of such Ella classics as "Flying Home", "A-tisket, A-tasket", "Please don?t talk about me when I?m gone", "Sweet Georgia Brown", and many more.
One of the world's most celebrated and innovative electronic acts, R?yksopp return with the highly anticipated follow-up to their classic debut Melody AM. Combining lush atmospherics with enthralling pop, "The Understanding" is R?yksopp's most accomplished release yet, an inspired and ambitious musical confection fusing otherworldly melodies, irresistible rhythms and a cinematic sweep that transcends categories.
Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and lyricist Andrew Bird picked up his first violin at the age of 4. Actually, it was a Cracker Jack box with a ruler taped to it, and the first of his many Suzuki music lessons involved simply bowing to the teacher and going home. He spent his formative years soaking up classical repertoire completely by ear so when it came time for a restless teen-ager to make the jump to Hungarian Gypsy music, early jazz, country blues, south Indian etc., it wasn't such a giant leap. It's fitting that now, though classically trained, he has instead opted to play his violin in a most unconventional manner, accompanying himself on glockenspiel and guitar, adding singing and whistling to the equation, and becoming a pop songwriter in the process.
Today in Tech History: June 29, 2008
The invention of the snowmobile, and the first classical-music recording.
"Nerd TV" episode 8: Avram Miller
Avram Miller went from playing jazz piano to building DEC's first PC to starting Intel's venture fund.
Out of the Box: Psystar Open Computer
While the desktop is still legal, Rich Brown unboxes the first Mac clone in years: the Psystar Open Computer.
Mediaeval Baebes: "Temptasyon"
The Mediaeval Baebes are eight young women who share a passion for music several centuries old but are as 21st-century as they come. Their first album, "Salva Nos", released in 1997, went to Number 2 in the classical charts, earning the girls a silver disc. Subsequent albums include "Worlds Blysse" (which went straight to Number 1), "Undrentide", "The Rose", and "Mistletoe & Wine".
Dri has spent her music career lending her vocal and keyboard chops to bands like the much missed first wave emo-band The Anniversary, and Saddle Creek's Art In Manila. Her sultry debut "Smoke Rings" is a collection of kisses (and kiss-offs) blown to past and present loves; a swirl of stoned immediacy with feelings and melodies coming to life in loose perfection. A departure in sound from her previous work "Smoke Rings" is a diverse soulful affair taking influence from the classic sounds of Motown and Stax as well as modern R&B.
It all started after Charlie Tate graduated from the London School of Furniture. He was approached by the infamous Paris-based Big Cheese Records to form a funk bank, and Big Cheese All Stars were born! 2 singles, an album, and several extensive stints of touring, supporting the likes of Don Blackman, Roy Ayers, Gil Scott-Heron, Fred Wesley and James Brown put an end to a career in bespoke cabinet making. A future immersed in the funk, the soul and the jazz seemed assured. While still with the All Stars, an opportunity to play base in Neneh Cherry's band arose and the best part of the year was spent on the road touring her "Woman" album. A lot of fun was had. A lot of drinking was done. But the love of the funk, the soul, and the jazz prevailed. Unfortunately the sheer size of what the All Stars had become essentially caused its demise. Just about then, the idea of forming a record company began to take shape. King Kooba had been in existence for some time now, the first release having been on a subsidiary of the aforementioned Big Cheese Records. But the thought of an autonomous vessel for representing the Kooba and several other projects seemed too good to resist. Enter Second Skin Records, and what a productve lot they turned out to be! Roughly 30 singles and 12 albums, not a bad output from a hybrid label offering all manner of styles from drum and bass, beats, ambient, bizniss, electronica and breaks. Pretty much most of what was going on at the time, perhaps the varied style of the label, but particualrly what the Kooba were up to, appealed to San Francisco's Om Records. Several licenses, then an album, and a relationship with Om had been cemented. With the release of "Indian Summer" in the fall of 2002, a man like Charlie decided his fate lay in the Bay area...The rest as they say is history!
