Marcus Miller “Renaissance” Transcriptions Available
If you’ve been aching to play some tracks from Marcus Miller’s 2012 album Renaissance, Stuart Clayton’s Bassline Publishing has just released the book Marcus Miller – Highlights from Renaissance. The 106-page book collects five pieces from the album, including “Detroit,” “Jekyll & Hyde” and “Cee-Tee-Eye,” with transcriptions written in standard notation and tablature. Extensive performance notes are featured as well,...
Coldplay Releases Seventh Album
Coldplay has released its seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams. The album was recorded in California and London and features guests like Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher (Oasis) and Merry Clayton (best known for her spine-tingling vocal on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”). Also, Norwegian pop production duo Stargate handled production duties with Coldplay’s regular producer Rik Simpson. As always,...
1974 Rush Session Reveals Early Live Sound
The sound of early live Rush is available on The Lady Gone Electric, which documents a 1974 live radio broadcast of the group, playing songs from its debut album and the then soon-to-be released Fly By Night from Electric Lady Studios in New York. The event also marked the first recording featuring Neil Peart on drums for the Canadian trio...
New York Gypsy All-Stars Release Sophomore Effort
If you’re looking to explore some new contemporary Balkan, gypsy, jazz/funk/electronica, you’re in luck. The New York Gypsy All-Stars have released its second album, Dromomania. The band, co-founded by versatile, Athens-born, Berklee-educated bassist Panagiotis Andreou, has a thoroughly unique sound. All of the band members pull from varied musical traditions. Andreou, for example, crosses genre boundaries, using funk and rhythmic...
Miles Davis and Great Bassists: The Warner Bros. Years, Remastered
Lovers of the Warner Bros. era of jazz trumpeter/composer Miles Davis’ career, which began in the mid-1980s, can delight in a definitive 8-CD box set called The Last Word – The Warner Bros. Years. The of remastered music covers the Tutu, Amandla and Doo-Bop albums, and the Dingo and Siesta soundtracks. The set also includes a 1986 Miles Davis Octet...
Hadrien Feraud Releases Sophomore Effort as Solo Artist
French jazz bass virtuoso Hadrien Feraud (Chick Corea, John McLaughlin) has released his second album, Born in the 80s. The album mixes jazz fusion, R&B, hip-hop, and soul and the 1984-born Feraud acknowledges the record’s not all about the bass — “It’s more about music,” says Feraud, who was inspired to commit himself to bass after hearing a Jaco Pastorius...
Book Teaches How to Use the Nashville Number System
Want to learn how to use the Nashville Number System and easily play some of country’s greatest songs? The Nashville Number System Fake Book promises to teach you how to use the notation system, which reveals a song’s harmony, key, meter, rhythm, phrase structure, instrumentation, arrangement, and form on one piece of paper. The book is written for use by...
Sly & Robbie Continue to Exude the Reggae Power on Latest Album
Reggae legends Sly & Robbie’s latest album pairs the duo with Japanese reggae group Spicy Chocolate. The album, The Reggae Power 2, also features late reggae great Bob Marley’s grandson, Skip. “Once we heard Skip’s record ‘Cry to Me’ we knew that we wanted to try and involve him in the album,” said bassist Robbie Shakespeare, who is one half...
Three John Abercrombie Quartet Records Re-Released in One Package
Some of prolific Czech-born jazz double bassist George Mraz’s work from the late 1970s into 1980 with the John Abercrombie Quartet has been released by ECM records as part of a three-CD set in its Old & New Masters series called The First Quartet, which combines the albums Arcade, Abercrombie Quartet and M. Mraz performed on the albums in the...
Allmans Album Remastered, Reissued in Deluxe Editions
The Allman Brothers Band’s landmark 1970 album Idlewild South is getting the deluxe treatment 45 years after its initial release. The album, which features “Midnight Rider” and “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” as well as the playing of late bassist Berry Oakley (d. Nov. 11, 1972 from a motorcycle accident), is being released in three forms: a single remastered album;...
Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ Goes Super Deluxe
Tusk was an unusual, unwieldy, experimental double album when Fleetwood Mac released it in 1979. A new deluxe edition of the album ups the ante even further, combining the original double LP on 180-gram vinyl with a 5.1 surround mix on audio DVD and five CDs. The CDs include an alternate version of the album from mostly unreleased session outtakes;...
MonoNeon Releases Five-Song EP
The name of the latest release of short pieces from bassist/experimental musician MonoNeon (Prince, Ne-Yo), a.k.a. Dywane Thomas Jr. kind of says it all: Selfie Quickie. Three of the five songs on the EP clock in at less than two minutes, while the remaining songs run no longer than 2:55 and 3:11, respectively. Selfie Quickie is a collection of funk,...