A Nyc Tribute

Not every grey is also an Eminence - but this person here definitely is: August-Wilhelm Scheer, baritone saxophonist and a passionate jazz musician, and for many years through the August-Wilhelm-Scheer-Foundation for Science and Art a sponsor of the jazz scene. He says, the jazz makes him free - like a bird in the air. If somebody like him who has earned his money as an enterpriser and university professor and impresses in more than one area, gets together with a legend of the jazz - or we better say, with another legend - something amazing can be expected. Especially, if the second legend is none less than Jimmy Cobb. Together one devotes himself to the work of a third, also a legend of jazz Thelonious Monk, to whom Scheer would like to raise a monument and give respect on A NYC tributes…

Strictly speaking, this isn't just a guitar tribute to the Beatles, although stringed instruments that are plucked, strummed, and otherwise manipulated are in abundance, representing styles and sounds that will recall Django Reinhardt at one moment and the Mahavishnu Orchestra at the next. Toots Thielemans adds some astonishingly tasteful harmonica (and whistling) to "Yesterday" and Thomas Dawson's organ is almost a lead instrument on "Come Together."

RSR Music is proud to release the first and only tribute to KISS Unmasked. Undressed features many different styles of musical intreputations of all the tracks included on KISS' 1980 release. This tribute offers an unique look at this often overlooked classic gem from KISS' original lineup.

From 1965 to 1971, beloved poet and writer Allen Ginsberg wrote The Fall of America: Poems of These States, a poetry collection detailing his travels across and “discovery” of America. Now, in honor of the 50th anniversary of those writings, a special star-studded tribute album has been announced.

The only recording Ella Fitzgerald made as a duo with a pianist is re-created with this new and exciting duo. Very intimate, moving, grooving, a feast of the senses, this tribute CD to Ella Fitzgerald will make you remember the Great American Songbook!

All the tribute albums in the Magna Carta catalog tread dangerous ground. How can they give the artists room to stretch and still maintain enough of the original spirit to capture the art-rock audience that knows these songs by heart? "Supper's Ready" manages to walk that fine line for the most part, with strong contributions by Annie Haslam, Kevin Gilbert (a trombone solo on "Back in NYC" works impossibly well) and Magna Carta label workhorses Robert Berry, Trent Gardner and Magellan, and Shadow Gallery. On the down side, John Goodsall, guitarist of Phil Collins' jazz offshoot, Brand X, is wasted on "Carpet Crawlers." Matching him with vocalist Michael Zentner is a disservice.

SING A SONG OF BIRD is a collaboration of four New York jazz vocalists who are passionate about Charlie Parker’s music and have rendered new lyrics to six of his compositions. This is the 15th recording for Grammy-nominated vocalist ROSEANNA VITRO, who conceived and guided this project but chose not to sing on every tune. Instead, she hands the microphone to her mentors, bebop jazz legends BOB DOROUGH, SHEILA JORDAN and MARION COWINGS, each of whom take solo turns with their own unique and soulful interpretations on several compositions by Bird.