The Music Pages | May 2009


	Cat. No.: 270 3869 Barcode: 0602527038698 Label: ABC Jazz CD Release Date: May			Mark Isaacs \| Tell It Like It Is ARTISTS Mark Isaacs James Muller Matt Keegan Brett Hirst Tim Firth TRACK LISTING [All tracks by Mark Isaacs] Minsk You Never Forget Love Homecoming Night Song: Part I Night Song: Part II Angel Tell It Like It Is Between the Shores With such praise as “his sound defines what jazz should sound like at the advent of the 21st Century”, this latest venture from jazz superstar Mark Isaacs is another sure-fire hit. Fresh from the success of his last album with ABC Jazz, Resurgence, this live album of originals is compelling and soulful: it is jazz composition at its very best. Tell It Like It Is is the kind of album that will please diehard jazz aficionados as well as those new to the sounds of modern jazz. Not to be missed. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 723 1406 Barcode: 0888072314061 Label: Concord CD Release Date: May			Ray Charles \| A Message From The People ARTISTS Ray Charles TRACK LISTING 1. Lift Every Voice And Sing 2. Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong 3. Heaven Help Us All 4. There'll Be No Peace Without All Men As One 5. Hey Mister 6. What Have They Done To My Song, Ma 7. Abraham, Martin And John 8. Take Me Home, Country Roads 9. Every Saturday Night 10. America The Beautiful A Message from the People is more totally Ray Charles than any album he has ever recorded. The embryo of this album began to form in his mind more than 20 years ago. The flicker of an idea was nurtured. Soon it became a compulsion. But what record company would feel as deeply about this project as he? Only his own. This album is being re-released as part of the year long release program from Concord Music Group following their exclusive arrangement with the Ray Charles Foundation to develop the artists post 1960 catalogue. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 723 1280 Barcode: 0888072312807 Label: Concord CD Release Date: May			Elvis Costello \| Secret, Profane and Sugar Cane ARTISTS Elvis Costello Jerry Douglas, dobro Stuart Duncan, fiddle Mike Compton, mandolin Jeff Taylor, accordion Dennis Crouch, double bass TRACK LISTING Down Among the Wine and Spirits Complicated Shadows I Felt the Chill My All Time Doll Hidden Shame She Handed Me a Mirror I Dreamed of My Old Lover How Deep Is the Red She Was No Good Sulphur to Sugarcane Red Cotton The Crooked Line Changing Partners Hear Music presents a new album from Elvis Costello produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Piersante during a three-day session at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studio. Joining Costello were Jerry Douglas (dobro), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Mike Compton (mandolin), Jeff Taylor (accordion) and Dennis Crouch (double bass), some of the most highly regarded recording artists and musicians in traditional American country music, Bluegrass and beyond. Several of these songs, including “Down Among The Wines and Spirits”, were given their first public performances during Costello’s acclaimed solo appearances as part of “The Bob Dylan Show” in late 2007. The album includes ten previously unrecorded songs. “Sulphur to Sugarcane” and “The Crooked Line”, were co-written with T Bone Burnett while, “I Felt The Chill” marks Costello’s second recorded songwriting collaboration with Loretta Lynn. Costello revisits two songs from his catalogue in string band style. Both songs were originally written for Johnny Cash. “Hidden Shame” was indeed included on Cash’s album, “Boom Chicka Boom”. T Bone adds his distinctive Kay electric guitar to several numbers, the only amplified instrument on the recording. Jim Lauderdale takes the close vocal harmony part throughout the record and Emmylou Harris contributed a third vocal part on the chorus of “The Crooked Line” on the final day of recording. The record concludes with the waltz, “Changing Partners”, a song made famous by Bing Crosby. The cover artwork of “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane” is an ink drawing by the renowned cartoonist, illustrator and author, Tony Millionaire. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 270 1619 Barcode: 0602527016191 Label: ABC Jazz/UCJ CD Release Date: Available Now			MELODY GARDOT \| My One And Only Thrill ARTISTS Melody Gardot TRACK LISTING 1. Baby I’m A Fool 2. If The Stars Were Mine 3. Who Will Comfort Me 4. Your Heart Is As Black As Night 5. Lover Undercover 6. Our Love Is Easy 7. Les Etoiles 8. The Rain 9. My One And Only Thrill 10. Deep Within The Corners Of My Mind 11. Somewhere Over The Rainbow http://www.universalmusic.net.au/apr09/melodygardot_myoneandonlythrill_hi.html http://www.universalmusic.net.au/apr09/melodygardot_myoneandonlythrill_lo.html WWW.MELODYGARDOT.COM Amazing though it is, the story of how Melody Gardot overcame the effects of a near-fatal accident to become one of the vocal sensations of 2008 is not the most extraordinary thing about the 23-year-old Philadelphia singer-songwriter. It is simply that here is a voice in a million; one that touches the soul. Melody’s debut album ‘Worrisome Heart’ introduced, in The Sunday Times’ words: “a remarkable talent by any measure”, with songs of quiet, wistful poetry in arrangements that “ooze after-hours sophistication”. Yet the follow-up, for release in April 2009, marks a substantial leap forward. ‘My One And Only Thrill’ is an intensely creative milestone, transcending genre distinctions of jazz and blues to offer a haunting personal musical statement that will appeal to all music-lovers. As with her acclaimed live shows she captures and holds her audience in the palm of her hand. These eleven songs, covering a wide range of emotions, are all her own except for an irresistible, Brazilian take on Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It would take a heart of stone to remain unmoved by the poignant title track My One And Only Thrill.And when the album is finished (as Irving Berlin wrote truly) the song is over, but the Melody lingers on . . . RETURN TO THE TOP