New Album Releases, Week of 9-27-2005
Published September 27, 2005
There are quite a few intriguing box sets this week, and numerous big name albums from Neil Young and Gretchen Wilson among others.
Surprisingly, a recording of a live jazz concert from 1957, Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, is the #9 seller today at Amazon.
Neil Young's new Prairie Wind CD is the #1 Amazon album, apparently a now third Harvest style album, which is perhaps his most musical approach.
I really WANT to like Gretchen Wilson, but the record just wasn't very good. She has a second album out today, All Jacked Up. We'll see if it's any better. Plus, the CD is in two versions, one a couple dollars cheaper but purposely corrupted with copy protection nonsense. Caveat emptor.
There are several really tasty sounding box sets worth mentioning this week. Going from the merely tasty to the drool-inducing, there's Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story which includes some KD Lang, Jonathan Richman, Brian Wilson, the Ramones, Smiths, M, the Pretenders, Madonna and Talking Heads along with a lots of lesser known pieces of grooviness.
There's a box set of the Band with a DVD and dozens of previously unreleased recordings.
100 Years of Jazz Guitar: Swinging on Strings sure sounds like something a fellow would need to hear.
Tastiest of box treats this week, The Complete Library of Congress Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton. Sweet.
Finally, it wouldn't be right if I did not note The Regis Philbin Christmas Album. How'd we get through all these past Yuletides without it? You have to wonder.
Anyone who's heard any of these albums is encouraged to leave notes in comments.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
The Band A Musical History [CD/DVD Box Set] Capitol
Album Rock, Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Country-Rock, Rock & Roll
Sheryl Crow Wildflower A&M
American Trad Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Supergrass Road to Rouen Capitol
Punk-Pop, Britpop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Various Artists Children Of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1995 Rhino
American Underground, College Rock, Garage Rock Revival, Neo-Psychedelia, Jangle Pop, Paisley Underground, Alternative Pop/Rock
Gretchen Wilson All Jacked Up Sony
Contemporary Country, Country-Pop
Abandoned Pools Armed to the Teeth Universal
Alternative Pop/Rock
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals Jacksonville City Nights Lost Highway
Alternative Country, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Americana, Alternative Country-Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
George Benson Best of George Benson Live GRP
Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Big Star In Space Rykodisc
Pop/Rock, Power Pop
Blackalicious The Craft Anti
Underground Rap, Hip-Hop, West Coast Rap
Blind Melon The Best of Blind Melon [Bonus DVD] Capitol
Alternative Pop/Rock, American Trad Rock
The Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine Geffen
Funk Metal, Post-Grunge
Toni Libra Blackground
Contemporary R&B, Adult Contemporary
Roy Budd Get Budd: The Soundtracks Castle Us
Movie Themes, Film Music, Soundtracks
Calla Collisions Beggars Banquet
Indie Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental
James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Ali Jackson/Reginald Veal Gold Sounds Brides & Bows L.L.C.
Progressive Jazz, Post-Bop
Bruce Cockburn Speechless Rounder
Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Structured Improvisation
Criteria En Garde Saddle Creek
Indie Rock
The Everly Brothers Give Me a Future Varese
Close Harmony, Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll
Renee Fleming Sacred Songs Decca
Sacred Vocal Music
Buddy Guy Bring 'Em In Jive Records
Modern Electric Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Chicago Blues, Blues-Rock
Her Space Holiday The Past Presents the Future Wichita
Indie Pop, Indie Electronic
The Joggers With a Cape and a Cane Startime International
Indie Rock
Wynonna Judd Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime Curb
Contemporary Country, Neo-Traditionalist Country
Erich Kunzel Howard Hanson: Bold Island Suite; Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"; Suite from Merry Mount Telarc
Modern Orchestral Music
Bettye LaVette I've Got My Own Hell to Raise Anti
Northern Soul, Soul
Lil' Kim The Naked Truth Atlantic
East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap, Hip-Hop
Mack 10 Hustla's Handbook Capitol
Gangsta Rap, West Coast Rap, G-Funk
Kathy Mattea Right Out of Nowhere Narada
Country-Folk, Contemporary Country, Americana, Progressive Country
Brad Mehldau Day Is Done Nonesuch
Contemporary Jazz, Progressive Jazz
Natalie Merchant Greatest Hits [Deluxe Edition] Rhino
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Ministry Rantology Sanctuary Records
Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal
Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane Blue Note
Hard Bop
Jelly Roll Morton The Complete Library of Congress Recordings Rounder
New Orleans Jazz, Dixieland, Trad Jazz, Classic Jazz
Mark Murphy Once to Every Heart Verve
Vocal Jazz, Standards, Torch Songs, Ballads
Jon Nicholson A Lil Sump'm Sump'm [DualDisc] Warner Bros.
Americana, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll
Ric Ocasek Nexterday Sanctuary
Pop/Rock, Album Rock, New Wave
Smith Quartet Steve Reich: Different Trains Signum UK
Contemporary Chamber Music
Trio Mediaeval Stella Maris ECM
Sacred Vocal Music
Bryn Terfel Roger Waters: Ca Ira (There Is Hope) Sony
Contemporary Opera
Original Soundtrack Grey's Anatomy Hollywood
TV Soundtracks, Indie Pop, Indie Electronic, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Original TV Soundtrack Veronica Mars Nettwerk
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, TV Soundtracks, Alternative Pop/Rock
Sean Paul The Trinity Atlantic
Dancehall, Hip-Hop
Regis Philbin The Regis Philbin Christmas Album Hollywood
Traditional Pop, Christmas, Holiday, Celebrity
Emma Roberts Unfabulous and More Sony
Teen Pop, TV Soundtracks
NOTE: THIS DISC PURPOSELY CORRUPTED
Three 6 Mafia Most Known Unknown Sony
Hardcore Rap, Southern Rap, Dirty South
Various Artists 100 Years of Jazz Guitar: Swinging on Strings Legacy
Mainstream Jazz, Hard Bop, Fusion, Swing, Bop
Various Artists Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads Smithsonian Folkways
Appalachian Folk, Field Recordings, Traditional Folk
Various Artists Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story Rhino
College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, New Wave, American Punk, Club/Dance
Neil Young Prairie Wind [Bonus DVD] Reprise
Singer/Songwriter, Country-Rock, Soft Rock
- New Album Releases, Week of 9-27-2005
- Published: September 27, 2005
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a friend of mine who is a Coltrane fanatic is absolutely slobbering about the Monk/Coltrane release.
Big Al: "Tastiest of box treats this week, The Complete Library of Congress Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton. Sweet."
You said it. As a Jelly Roll fanatic, I'd have to own it, but it's... $97!?!
oy. Those GREEDY ASSHOLES!
Oh well, I already have almost all the music Jelly made (on various CDs), but if anyone wants to get Shark a present to celebrate the virgin birth of a mythological diety associated with the winter solstice, I'll be glad to accept this.
Thanks in advance,
S
p.s. that first Gretchen Wilson cd is quite good. don't trust big al on this.
ALL Coltrane fans should be slobbering over this release - it's the only official live document of Monk and Coltrane together. Up until now, all that existed were really shoddy bootlegs. This is a major jazz release, for certain, and is one of the treasures dug up in the Library of Congress earlier this year. Too bad the Miles Davis Complete Cellar Door box has been delayed from release today, because it, the Monk/Coltrane, and the new Brad Mehldau would have made a great bunch of new jazz to listen to this week. I'll have to "get by" somehow with just Mehldau and Monk/Coltrane's albums.
ALL Coltrane fans should be slobbering over this release - it's the only official live document of Monk and Coltrane together.
What about this one?
hey, anybody know where there's a detailed track listing for that jazz guitar box? amazon is pathetic on this one.
Here. They don't have sound samples up yet, but they might have some in a week or two.
Hmmm, "Manic Depression"? I guess it does have a bit of swing in it...
thanks!
hey, it is a pretty wide-ranging selection though. Charlie Christian to Derek Bailey.
Let's talk a little guitar (pronounced GEE-tar).
Buddy. Guy.
I just bought the album and have listened to about 2/3 of it.
The best cuts are the ones without the guests (although Keith Richards manages to stay out of the way on "The Price You Gotta Pay"). Buddy Guy... still getting it done.
I also picked up the new Ryan Adams CD. I haven't listened to any of it yet. Some good stuff out there this week.
Shark, re: the expensive Jelly Roll box, that's why God made libraries. This is just the kind of thing they're really good for. You might want to put in a special request for purchase, then copy them bad boys. You don't end up with the purty books and packaging, but for the price of a few blank CDs, hey.
I've been waiting for that new Blackalicious album for forever.
And that jazz boxset sounds awesome. Even if it only has one track from Django Reinhardt.
I'm surprised Al's list didn't include this new releases...
mercyme- The Christmas Sessions
BarlowGirl- Another Journal Entry
David Crowder Band- A Collision
Steven Curtis Chapman- All I Really Want for Christmas
Project 86- ...And The Rest Will Follow
I've got me a Blackalicious album coming.
Those other albums didn't show up on AMG's list.
Monsieur Saleski, if that first Gretchen Wilson album is so good, why don't you have a review up for it?
Al —
re Neil Young: now it's one thing if you like Harvest (I personally think it's one of his worst albums, but that's beside the point). But how is that approach (and it's four Harvest style records if you include Comes A Time) is any more MUSICAL than his other approaches?
click right here big al.
JR, that set is actually just Coltrane sitting in with the band, but not from Coltrane's time actually in Monk's quartet. So, technically, yes, there is a document of them together, but it's not the quartet he was a part of. Niggling details, yes, but still . . . . I haven't heard the set you link to, but it's got a reputation of being extremely low quality.
Michael, generally the more electricity involved, the less effort it seems that Young puts into the composition and thinking things through. When he's doing these Crazy Horse albums with 10 minute songs, it tends to be a lot of half-assed jacking off. Whereas the Harvest albums appear to me to reflect more real effort.
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*scrolling down list...*
"The Regis Philbin Chrismas album is out this week!?!?!?!?
*grabs car keys, thermos of decaf coffee, sticky bun, and pack of Rollos, bursts out the door*
...one hour later...
*bursts into house, rips the new Ryan Cabrera cd out of the boombox, throws it against the wall, smashing it into thousands of glistening pieces. Gently and lovingly removes Regis Philbin Christmas cd from jewel case womb, and tenderly places it into boombox. Presses play, and...*
"Yes, YEs, YES, YESSSSSSS, Oh, oh, oh, Yes!!!!! God bless us, everyone!!!!!!"
*falls to the ground, clutching CD case to chest, gently stroking it and protecting it from any heathen that would do it harm*