Compilation: Bio
The Red Hot Organization and Entertainment One Music establish a new partnership to produce Red Hot + Rio 2, a modern tribute to late 60's Brazilian Tropiclia movement. The album will shed new light to the songs of this influential, politically charged era, which changed the culture of the country forever. Red Hot + Rio 2 is the latest entry in the series of tribute albums produced by the Red Hot Organization to raise money for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. Please see tracklist on back). The compilation features over 33 original collaborations between Brazil's legendary musicians and today's international indie artists including John Legend, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, Caetano Veloso, Seu Jorge, Beck, Bebel Gilberto, Jose Gonzales, Beirut, Tom Ze, Javelin, Of Montreal, Marisa Monte, Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello, DJ Dolores, Aloe Blacc, Angelique Kidjo, Rita Lee, Madlib, Money Mark, C?u, Apollo Nove, Mayra Andrade, Trio Mocote, Tha Boogie, Alice Smith, Carlinhos Brown, Los Van Van, Brazilian Girls, Marcos Valle, Forra In The Dark, Mia Doi Todd, Phenomenonal Handclap Band, N.A.S,A, Moreno Veloso, Otto, Superhuman Happiness, Cults and many more.
Masterworks Jazz celebrates the The 40th anniversary of CTI Records, the beloved jazz label founded in 1970 by producer Creed Taylor, beginning October 5 with the release of 6 classic CTI titles remastered on CD followed by CTI Records: The Cool Revolution, a deluxe 4-CD multi-artist box set retrospective on October 12. Two weeks later on October 26, the double-CD restoration of California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (1971) will be released with 90 minutes of music rarely heard and never before available. The 40th anniversary commemorationwill also include reissues of 6 more classic CTI albums, plus four collectible vinyl LPs in the coming months. CTI Records: The Cool Revolution will contain four hour-long-plus discs, each presenting a thematic overview of a particular aspect of CTI: Straight Up Jazz, Deep Grooves/Big Hits, The Brazilian Connection, Cool and Classic. The 39 tracks in the box set as well as all CTI anniversary edition titles are remastered for the first time from the original analog -inch tapes. Reissues producer Richard Seidel and engineers Mark Wilder, Maria Triana and Dave Darlington recapture the rich, distinctive sound of the original LPs achieved by Taylor and original engineer Rudy Van Gelder.CTI Records: The Cool Revolutionincludes a lavishly illustrated 20-page, LP-sized booklet containing rare photos, plus new liner notes by noted jazz critic Dan Ouellette with comments by CTI artists and enthusiasts.
GPR Records, Dedicated to Broadway, Classical, Spoken Word & Children's Music launches its first recording: POETIC LICENSE. 100 Poems by 100 Performers. Spoken Work Performers: include Kathleen Turner, Michael York, and Jason Alexander Patti LuPone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charles Busch, Len Cariou, Michael Cerveris, Florence Henderson, David Garrison, Paige Davis, Kate Mulgrew, Harriet Harris, Cynthia Nixon. Released in April 2010: National Poetry Month
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman
As Black History Month 2009 is being celebrated Sony Classical releases Lift Every Voice - Honoring The African American Musical Legacy, a newly compiled two-CD anthology of seminal performances of more than 60 years of recordings drawn from a variety of musical genres. With such artists as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Luther Vandross, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle, Lift Every Voice represents the breadth and depth of the black musical experience in America. This significant new musical retrospective, features historic live performances and studio recordings from a cavalcade of great African American artists, each of whom has performed at Carnegie Hall:
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is thrilled to announce that the first complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO will be released by Sony Masterworks Broadway on February 3, 2009. The CD is produced by David Lai, Bruce Pomahac and Ted Chapin. A cast of stars from the worlds of Broadway and opera was assembled for this unprecedented studio recording. Featured on the CD are Patrick Wilson as Joe Taylor, Jr.; Nathan Gunn and Audra McDonald as Joe's parents; Marni Nixon as Joe's Grandma; Judy Kuhn as Beulah; Liz Callaway as Emily; Laura Benanti as Jennie; and Norbert Leo Butz as Joe's best friend, Charlie.
Three Beloved Classic Children's Stories The Runaway Bunny, Paddington Bear And Tubby The Tuba Featured In Musical Versions On Sony Classical With Colorful Orchestral Arrangements And Delightful Narration, A New Recording On Sony Classical Brings Together Musical Versions Of Three Of The World's Most Beloved And Best Selling Stories For Children. Published in 1942, Margaret Brown's The Runaway Bunny, illustrated by Clement Hurd, has been in print ever since. It continues to sell nearly one million copies per year in the 23 languages into which it has been translated. The Runaway Bunny is featured in the last scene of the film Wit
Songs of the African Coast: Cafe Music of Liberia 18 Live tracks from Yarngo Music Unique late 1940's Liberian recording from noted ethnomusicologist: Arthur Alberts The Tribal, Folk and Cafe Music of West Africa. The intricate connections between African and American music. Extensive liner notes & never before seen artist photos. Also accompanying the CD are extensive liner notes and never before seen photographs of the artists. This recording includes some the best known musicians from Liberia at the time including the blind Prof. Howard B. Hayes, Malinda Jackson Parker, and the Greenwood Singers. Not only were these noted artists, and well respected professional citizens of Liberia.
Sony Masterworks Jazz, Larry Rosen, and Quincy Jones Debut First Historical Jazz Compilation linked to the JAZZ ROOTS Concert Series. Jazz Roots | The Music of the Americas. This 2-CD 37 track compilation documents Jazz from African drums through toda. Includes artists Olatunji, Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Tito Puente, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, and more. Sony MASTERWORKS Jazz in partnership with producer Larry Rosen released JAZZ ROOTS: The Music of the Americas, the first compilation of this new branded series which traces the story of Jazz starting with the "Drums from Africa" and their effect on the musical DNA of the Americas. The historical descriptions for the package have been created in association the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium.
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Masterworks Jazz celebrates the The 40th anniversary of CTI Records, the beloved jazz label founded in 1970 by producer Creed Taylor, beginning October 5 with the release of 6 classic CTI titles remastered on CD followed by CTI Records: The Cool Revolution, a deluxe 4-CD multi-artist box set retrospective on October 12. Two weeks later on October 26, the double-CD restoration of California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium (1971) will be released with 90 minutes of music rarely heard and never before available. The 40th anniversary commemorationwill also include reissues of 6 more classic CTI albums, plus four collectible vinyl LPs in the coming months. CTI Records: The Cool Revolution will contain four hour-long-plus discs, each presenting a thematic overview of a particular aspect of CTI: Straight Up Jazz, Deep Grooves/Big Hits, The Brazilian Connection, Cool and Classic. The 39 tracks in the box set as well as all CTI anniversary edition titles are remastered for the first time from the original analog -inch tapes. Reissues producer Richard Seidel and engineers Mark Wilder, Maria Triana and Dave Darlington recapture the rich, distinctive sound of the original LPs achieved by Taylor and original engineer Rudy Van Gelder.CTI Records: The Cool Revolutionincludes a lavishly illustrated 20-page, LP-sized booklet containing rare photos, plus new liner notes by noted jazz critic Dan Ouellette with comments by CTI artists and enthusiasts.
GPR Records, Dedicated to Broadway, Classical, Spoken Word & Children's Music launches its first recording: POETIC LICENSE. 100 Poems by 100 Performers. Spoken Work Performers: include Kathleen Turner, Michael York, and Jason Alexander Patti LuPone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charles Busch, Len Cariou, Michael Cerveris, Florence Henderson, David Garrison, Paige Davis, Kate Mulgrew, Harriet Harris, Cynthia Nixon. Released in April 2010: National Poetry Month.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman
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As Black History Month 2009 is being celebrated Sony Classical releases Lift Every Voice - Honoring The African American Musical Legacy, a newly compiled two-CD anthology of seminal performances of more than 60 years of recordings drawn from a variety of musical genres. With such artists as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Luther Vandross, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle, Lift Every Voice represents the breadth and depth of the black musical experience in America. This significant new musical retrospective, features historic live performances and studio recordings from a cavalcade of great African American artists, each of whom has performed at Carnegie Hall:
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The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is thrilled to announce that the first complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO will be released by Sony Masterworks Broadway on February 3, 2009. The CD is produced by David Lai, Bruce Pomahac and Ted Chapin. A cast of stars from the worlds of Broadway and opera was assembled for this unprecedented studio recording. Featured on the CD are Patrick Wilson as Joe Taylor, Jr.; Nathan Gunn and Audra McDonald as Joe's parents; Marni Nixon as Joe's Grandma; Judy Kuhn as Beulah; Liz Callaway as Emily; Laura Benanti as Jennie; and Norbert Leo Butz as Joe's best friend, Charlie.
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Three Beloved Classic Children's Stories The Runaway Bunny, Paddington Bear And Tubby The Tuba Featured In Musical Versions On Sony Classical With Colorful Orchestral Arrangements And Delightful Narration, A New Recording On Sony Classical Brings Together Musical Versions Of Three Of The World's Most Beloved And Best Selling Stories For Children. Published in 1942, Margaret Brown's The Runaway Bunny, illustrated by Clement Hurd, has been in print ever since. It continues to sell nearly one million copies per year in the 23 languages into which it has been translated. The Runaway Bunny is featured in the last scene of the film Wit
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Songs of the African Coast: Cafe Music of Liberia 18 Live tracks from Yarngo Music Unique late 1940's Liberian recording from noted ethnomusicologist: Arthur Alberts The Tribal, Folk and Cafe Music of West Africa. The intricate connections between African and American music. Extensive liner notes & never before seen artist photos. Also accompanying the CD are extensive liner notes and never before seen photographs of the artists. This recording includes some the best known musicians from Liberia at the time including the blind Prof. Howard B. Hayes, Malinda Jackson Parker, and the Greenwood Singers. Not only were these noted artists, and well respected professional citizens of Liberia.
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The worldwide success of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code has inspired readers to explore the world of the remarkable figure at the heart of the story the multifaceted Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci. Sony Classical's new collection Da Vinci Music From His Time takes listeners inside the great music that flourished during da Vinci's lifetime (1452-1519), at the height of the Renaissance. Drawing on definitive modern recordings from the Sony BMG Masterworks catalogue, the collection includes masterworks by composers who were the Bachs and Beethovens of their time Josquin Desprez, Johannes Ockeghem, Alexander Agricola, Philippe Verdelot and many more. Did Leonard da Vinci actually know this music. His unparalleled accomplishments as painter, architect, engineer, mathematician, scientist, philosopher describe a restless intellect and a passionate soul.
Track Listing
| 1 | Matilda | |
| 2 | Ol' Man River | |
| 3 | On Children | |
| 4 | I Will Move On Up A Little Higher | |
| 5 | So What | |
| 6 | Let The Bright Seraphim From Samson | |
| 7 | Du Bist Die Ruh | |
| 8 | Erbarme Dich From St. Matthew Passion | |
| 9 | Un Bel Di From Madama Butterfly | |
| 10 | Die Nachtigall | |
| 11 | A House Is Not A Home | |
| 12 | Night In Tunisia | |
| 13 | Come Sunday | |
| 14 | Come Home | |
| 15 | Ain't No Sunshine | |
| 16 | A-Tisket A-Tasket | |
| 17 | 99 Miles From L.A | |
| 18 | Guess Who I Saw Today | |
| 19 | Soulville | |
| 20 | I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free |
