New Releases This Week

Released three years after Remigio Pereira, Victor Micallef, Fraser Walters, and Clifton Murray topped the holiday charts with 2009's certified platinum Christmas outing The Perfect Gift, the Canadian Tenors third full-length outing, the 12-track Lead with Your Heart, draws on ...

Several overdue reissues and the archival First Class Love were released within a couple years of Teena Marie's passing. A bigger surprise came in January 2013, when UMe issued this, the artist's 14th and final studio album. Its recording had ...

Although trumpeter Brad Goode has made his home in Colorado in recent years, he was born in Chicago and led the house band at The Green Mill for several years, so returning to the city to record Hypnotic Suggestion (held ...

Melissa McClelland is the wife of Canadian singer/songwriter Luke Doucet, guitarist for Sarah McLachlan's touring band. Like her husband's, McClelland's music is rootsy, with touches of blues, jazz, country, and folk-rock. Doucet produced this set, McClelland's third solo outing, and ...

J.J. Cale in session at the Paradise Studios in Los Angeles from 1979, featuring Leon Russell. Special features on the DVD include 5 bonus songs.

Recording information: Found Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Hole In The Wall Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Knob And Tube Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Sterling Sound Productions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The White Raccoon, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada; The Woodshed, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Personnel: ...

Personnel: Amelia Curran (vocals, guitar).

At album number 13, Yo La Tengo are an institution unto themselves, having perfected their craft of slow-burning, unassumingly insular indie rock in incremental baby steps since their formation in 1984. Almost three decades of building a language of wistfully ...

2013 two CD collection that features a splendid cross-section of many of the songs that Andy Williams virtually made his own. Among the musical treats included here are his memorable interpretation of Henry Mancini's haunting theme 'Moon River,' 'Secret Love,' ...

Universal Music offers this budget-priced compilation of number one hits covering the calendar year of 2012. Various styles are represented, but the names are all familiar ones. Juanes is here with "La Señal"; so too Wisin & Yandel with their ...

After a four-year gap between her second and third albums, Winnipeg's Christine Fellows followed 2005's Paper Anniversary with another winner barely two years later. Nevertheless continues the folk-influenced singer/songwriter's winning streak, kicking off with the quirkily orchestrated instrumental "Let Us ...

Recording information: Lincoln County Social Club; The Woodshed. Personnel: Gregory MacDonald, Melissa McClelland, Paul Beard, Rich Levesque, Colin MacDonald, Phil Pfisterer, Derek Downham, Gord Stevenson, Luke Doucet (vocals). Audio Mixer: Nick Detoro.

On her 2007 album, MI VIDA LOCA, Jenni Rivera presents another rousing set of Mexican banda tunes. One of the few female performers in the style, Rivera imbues her songs with striking emotion, never allowing the robust, horn-driven arrangements to ...

Liner Note Author: Colin Escott. Track Listing: Cold, Cold Heart; Funeral, The; Comedy With Hank and the Drifting Cowboys; I Can't Help It; Half As Much; Moanin' the Blues; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry; You're Gonna Change; From Jerusalem ...

Even without an official debut, rapper A$AP Rocky spent 2012 performing alongside Rihanna at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, playing Lana Del Rey's husband in the singer's "National Anthem" video, and landing a spot in a television commercial for ...

Artists include Cyril Neville, Rebirth Brass Band, "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Nicholas Payton. Performers include: Cyril Neville, Rebirth Brass Band, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Nicholas Payton, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews.

Track Listing: Sure Friends; Outside the Stars; Cheap Town; You Look Like a Wreck; Angels & Devils; Creaky Old Chair; Sun's Hanging Low; Walls Are So Thin; I Can See the Moon; Autumn Leaves, The; Darkness Has Fallen; Goodnight Irene on New Year's Eve;

Although the repertoire on this CD reissue by the Oscar Peterson Trio (with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen) is fairly typical (with such veteran standards as "C Jam Blues," "Bags' Groove," "Easy Does It" and "I Got It ...

This Deluxe Edition of BALLADS includes a bonus disc of previously unissued material. McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Elvin Jones (drums). BALLADS (1962) finds John Coltrane's classic quartet (which includes bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner, and drummer Elvin Jones) gathering ...

Seven-time Grammy nominee and Grammy Award winner John Clayton joins Jackie Ryan (considered by Jazz Times to be "one of the outstanding jazz vocalists of her generation and, quite possibly, of all time, rivaling the dexterous sass Sarah Vaughan and ...

UK collection from the Godfather Of Soul. This collection showcases the early part of James Brown's career. Brown's music continues to enthrall Soul fans, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. 25 tracks. Xtra.

Track Listing: DISC 1: Partenza!; Sunkiss; Power of Praise; Between Us; Hard Werq; Horosho; I Love the Sound; Drums Are Talking; Still My Thing; Profanity; I Feel Old Rhythms; Varm; Lost In Music; Mustage; Work It; DNA Repair; Big Bass ...

Though he no longer lives in the San Francisco Bay area, mambo king Pete "Pops" Escovedo's music is deeply entrenched in its heritage. Recorded at the Stern Grove Festival in July of 2012, Escovedo's big band and some special guests ...