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Sirius XM NYE Broadcasts

December 24th, 2010 | No Comments

FURTHUR, BISCUITS, DBT, AVETTS AND MORE

Eminem

SIRIUS XM Radio announced yesterday that it will celebrate the new year with a wide-ranging lineup of live concerts, special performances, exclusive DJ sets, a special New Year’s Eve music channel and various year-end countdowns. Here’s the rundown:

-Eminem’s “Home & Home” concert – featuring guest appearances from 50 Cent, Drake, B.O.B. and Dr. Dre, was recorded live at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI, and will play exclusively on his Sirius XM channel Shade 45 and XM channel 66 on Friday, December 31 at 8:00 pm ET.

-A special encore broadcast of Paul McCartney’s performance from the Apollo Theater from December 13 will air on The Bridge, SIRIUS channel 33 and XM channel 27, on Friday, December 31 at 9:00 pm ET.

Other NYE performances being broadcast live on Sirius XM include:

-Furthur from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA
-The Disco Biscuits from the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA
-Southside Johnny at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ
-Patti Smith at Bowery Ballroom in New York City, NY
-The Avett Brothers at Ashville Civic Center in Asheville, NC
-Phil Vassar from downtown Nashville, TN
-Drive By Truckersfrom Terminal 5 in New York, NY
-Pitbull from House of Blues in Las Vegas, NV
-Little Feat at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA

Sirius XM will also broadcast historic and special concerts by Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Flaming Lips, Jack Johnson, Phoenix, Bachman & Turner, Peter Noone, Gerald Albright and Vampire Weekend.

For dance music fans, Sirius XM will broadcast DJ Paul Oakenfold live from Rain in Las Vegas and Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello will DJ live from Roseland in New York, NY. In addition, listeners can hear DJ sets by Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Swedish House Mafia’s Axwell, as well as a special presentation of Tim Berg presents “Avicii LEV7LS” on New Year’s Eve. The DJ sets will air on Electric Area, Sirius channel 38 and XM channel 80.

Real Jazz, Sirius channel 72 and XM channel 70, will present NPR’s 30th “Toast of the Nation” featuring live jazz, coast to coast, with performances from Dianne Reeves, Lionel Loueke Trio, Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra with Nnenna Freelon, Jimmy Heath, Cyrus Chestnut, Nicholas Payton and Benny Green.

Metropolitan Opera Radio, Sirius channel 78 and XM channel 79, will present a live broadcast of the new production premiere Verdi’s La Traviata.

Sirius XM’s New Year’s Nation channel, Sirius channel 3 and XM channel 23, has been custom-created to serve as the soundtrack to New Year’s Eve parties around the country and will feature party hits from genres across Sirius XM’s music platform. The channel will launch on Friday, December 31 at 12:00 pm ET and will air through Saturday, January 1 at 11:59 pm ET.


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Ray Charles: New Jazz Collection

March 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Ray Charles’ Genius + Soul = Jazz is Centerpiece of 2-CD Deluxe Edition
Retrospective of the Artist’s Jazz Recordings of the ’60s and ’70s

Ray Charles

Ray Charles was best known for his work in the idioms of R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and even successful forays into country. But he also recorded influential jazz albums, including the groundbreaking Genius + Soul = Jazz originally released in 1961, and continuing into the ’70s with My Kind of Jazz, Jazz Number II and My Kind of Jazz Part 3. On April 6, 2010, Concord Records will release a deluxe edition two-CD set featuring digitally remastered versions of all four albums including encyclopedic liner notes by Will Friedwald, jazz writer for The Wall Street Journal and author of several books on music and popular culture, along with original liner notes by Dick Katz and Quincy Jones.

Dick Katz wrote in his original January 1961 liner notes, “The combination here of rare talent plus uncommon craftsmanship has produced a record that showcases the timeless quality and innate taste that is uniquely that of Ray Charles.”

Some nine years later, Charles recorded another jazz album, My Kind of Jazz. With sessions in Los Angeles this time, Charles surrounded himself with such players as Bobby Bryant and Blue Mitchell, trumpet; Glen Childress, trombone; Andy Ennis, Albert McQueen and Clifford Scott, saxophone; and Ben Martin, guitar. The album contained Charles’ own “Booty-Butt” (which was issued as a single on his own Tangerine label), Lee Morgan’s “Sidewinder,” and Horace Silver’s “Señor Blues.”

Jazz Number II was recorded roughly two years later at Charles’ Tangerine/RPM Studios, where he enlisted an impressive cast of arrangers: Alf Clausen, Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Heath and Roger Neumann. The tracks included Ray Charles and Roger Neumann’s “Our Suite,” Teddy Edwards’ “Brazilian Skies” and “Going Home,” Thad Jones’ “Kids Are Pretty People” and Jimmy Heath’s “Togetherness.”

My Kind of Jazz Part 3 concludes the Genius + Soul = Jazz deluxe package and was recorded in Los Angeles circa 1975, featured the Ray Charles Orchestra including Clifford Solomon, alto sax; Glen Childress, trombone; Johnny Coles, trumpet; Leroy Cooper, baritone sax; and James Clay, tenor sax. Included are compositions by Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Jimmy Heath and Benny Golson. Issued on Charles’ own Crossover Records, the album reached #55 on the R&B chart in 1976.

The reissue of Genius + Soul = Jazz continues Concord Music Group’s long-term reissuing of the Ray Charles catalog in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation.


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