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Loudon Wainwright III Reimagines Great American Songbook Classics on New Album: Singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III reimagines 14 carefully selected Great American Songbook classics on his upcoming album, I'd Rather Lead a Band, due out October 9. These include a version of "A Perfect Day," one of Carrie Jacobs-Bond's most popular songs. The record is a collaboration with Vince Giordano and his band The Nighthawks, and producer/music supervisor Randall Poster. https://soundcloud.com/thirtytigers/07-a-perfect-day/s-IFLf2JwNVfd?in=thirtytigers/sets/loudon-wainwright-iii-id//s-zBdf3G8I0E2 Analog Players Society Release TILTED Today: The Analog Players Society, the Brooklyn collective headed by producer/engineer Amon, is releasing TILTED, the first part of a two-part series, today, August 28. TILTED documents a star-studded live acoustic session at The Bridge Studio. Its raw, improvised music - the starting points of which were Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy" and Antonio Carlos Jobim's "One Note Samba" - was remixed and transformed into Soundtrack to a Nonexistent Film, due out October 30. Both records are out via Ropeadope and Amon states via a press released that the music on TILTED "reflects the dystopian reality that's filled with confusion, fear, anger and a glimpse of hope." You can preview “One Note Samba” from TILTED via the player below. https://youtu.be/mVf0U8NC_0o Robert Glasper Releases New Song with H.E.R. and Meshell Ndegochello: Robert Glasper has shared a new song named "Better Than I Imagined," featuring H.E.R. and Meshell Ndegeocello. The track will appear on his new project, Black Radio 3, due out in 2021. In addition to dropping this new track, the pianist/composer will be performing at the March on Washington this Friday, alongside Derrick Hodge, falling on the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. https://youtu.be/8yQE8v-5GTU Shanachie Welcomes Justin Lee Schultz to Its Roster: Shanachie Entertainment has announced the signing of multi-instrumental wiz-kid Justin Lee Schultz. The 13-year-old prodigy dazzled audiences on such TV shows as Harry, Little Big Shots and America's Most Musical Family. His debut album will be released in November 2020 and feature Bob James, Harvey Mason, Najee, Jonathan Butler, Gerald Albright, Pieces of a Dream and more. https://youtu.be/SizoZwfKMZ4 Craft Announces CD Edition of Charlie Parker Savoy Collection: Craft has announced the November 6 release of a CD edition of The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection, already available on vinyl and digital, as part of its yearlong celebration of Charlie Parker’s 100th birthday anniversary. The collection spotlights Bird’s groundbreaking bebop sessions for Savoy from 1944 to 1948, alongside such greats as Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. Along with newly restored and remastered audio, the set comes with a 20-page booklet with photos, ephemera and liner notes from Neil Tesser. https://youtu.be/ZSyevpfmdPw Alex da Kid Releases Jazz-Adjacent Album and New Fashion Collection: Alexander Grant, A.K.A. Alex da Kid - the man behind such massive hits as Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” and Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie" - has embarked on a new creative direction via his new jazz-adjacent album 000 CHANNEL BLACK. This is the producer/engineer’s first full-length release as _by.ALEXANDER and is out now via his own imprint. It also comes at around the same time as the launch of his new fashion collection, also called 000 CHANNEL BLACK, consisting of 19 women’s and unisex pieces that he designed and developed. https://youtu.be/nVXCAcf-mc8
