Filed under: News , New Music Third Man The neverending fountain of song known as Jack White has released the latest installment of Third Man Record's Blue Series. The ongoing collaborative project, which has featured the likes of Stephen Colbert , Insane Clown Posse and John C. Reilly , will now add one more icon to it's hallowed halls: Tom Jones . The 7-inch single will feature a new rendition of 'Jezebel,' a tune also taken on by Edith Piaf and Anna Calvi , and a cover of Howlin' Wolf's 'Evil.' Both songs feature White's Raconteurs mates Jack Lawrence and Patrick ...

More than any others, jazz musicians are acutely aware of where the music came from, and how they fit within it. This is just as true of the singers as the instrumentalists. Whether making a personal statement about their musical roots or taking the next step in the progression, where they came from informs the work of many jazz artists. I am fortunate to have some remarkable examples of this. Macy Chen : The Wandering Songstress [ purchase ] Macy Chen’s connection is deeply personal, and After 75 Years is one of the most unusual packages I have ever received. The package ...

Dans mon dernier message, je déplorais le fait que je n’avais pas d’information sur Chris Gorman. Quelques jours après sa publication, quelqu’un m’affirmait que Chris Gorman n’était autre que Christian Simard, ex-membre de Morse Code. Avant que je puisse demander à cette personne d’où provenait sa source, je recevais un deuxième courriel disant que Chris Gorman s’appelait en réalité Normand Drolet. Qui croire dans les circonstances? Avant que je puisse entreprendre d’autres recherches un troisième courriel vient conclure ce court débat. Dans ce courriel, on m’apprend que Chris Gorman est bien ...

The Kills – Last Goodbye Ten years into their existence, The Kills have unplugged the buzzsaw guitars and turned instead to hypnotic, break up ballad piano. Alison Mossheart delivers Last Goodbye with the bitter rasp of a rock n roll Edith Piaf, and maye, just maybe she’s talking about the band itself when she sings “I can’t rely on a dime a day love that don’t go anywhere.” Whatever the case, this is a simple, classic piece of songwriting- bare, heartfelt and true.     Pixie Lott – Kiss the Stars Really fucking bad. I know, I know it’s a ...

The Telegraph : The great jazz musician Miles Davis has received the official stamp of approval from the U.S. Post Office. Linn’s Stamp News announced that stamps honoring Davis and French singer Edith Piaf would be issued in 2012 as part of a joint issue with France. “This is a fitting honor,” said Lee Barham, chairman of the steering committee for the Miles Davis Jazz Celebration. “Miles Davis was one of the greatest jazz musicians and trumpet players in the world. Before Michael Jackson and Presley">Elvis Presley, there was Miles Davis.” Read and comment. From thetelegraph.com.

Miles Davis and Edith Piaf will get stamps in their honor in both countries.

More than 20 years after his death jazz legend Miles Davis is being honored by the US Postal Service with his very own stamp This year the Kind of Blue trumpeter will be immortalized in a collection of musically-themed stamps that will also honor the singer Edith Piaf according to The...

Amy Ziff’s recommendation: “I’m inspired by so many artists, including Joni Mitchell, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, Francoise Hardy, and some of today’s artists such as JD Samson, Jane Siberry, Tracy Bonham, Sia, to name just a few. One of my favorite groups is The Barry Sisters. I respond to their expression of truth [...]

Using his angelic voice to fuse a multitude of genres and tones Clash explores a talent too good for this world. 1. A product of the Greenwich Village folkie circuit, Buckley lived modestly, choosing to mix and live amongst the communes and squats where he found what he called “the last real writers, artists, expressionists; people I could relate to, people unafraid of society’s mores and dictates, willing to take a chance.” 2. Buckley has appeared as a guest artist on several other recordings than his own. He can be heard singing ‘Jolly Street’ on the Jazz Passengers album ...

ectype \EK-tahyp\, noun: A reproduction; copy. As opposed to prototype, ectype originally meant “wrought in relief” in Greek. Its roots are ec, a variant of “ex,” and týpos, a “figure on a wall.” Computer a machine for downloading porn "oh no, the computer broke, i ejaculated all over the keyboard" Trivia In 1619, what fee was a planter in the Jamestown colony charged if he selected a wife from the first shipload of marriageable women transported to the New World? 120 pounds of tobacco, which was the currency of the young Virginia colony. The price was raised to 150 pounds ...

Marion Cotillard has become that rarest of things, the heavily-accented superstar. While she'd cropped up in Hollywood fare like "Big Fish" and "A Good Year" before, her Oscar victory in 2008 for Edith Piaf biopic "La Vie En Rose" catapulted her onto the A-list, and since then she's mixed blockbuster fare like "Public Enemies," "Contagion" and "Inception" with smaller home-grown projects like "Little White Lies" and "The Last Flight," while somehow finding time to have her first child with partner Guillaume Canet a few months back. Next year sees examples at both ends of the scale, with a ...

Neil Rasmus, BFA On Tuesday, Nov. 8, around 80 lucky guests gathered at La Grenouille, a cozy French restaurant on New York's Upper East Side, to partake in an evening hosted by Vanity Fair, jewelry designer Solange Azagury-Partridge and Martha Wainwright . The evening's entertainment included the singer-songwriter performing three songs from 'Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record' along with selections from her own repertoire. The intimate affair consisted mainly of Wainwright's friends and family, including her brother Rufus , who formed a cheering section at the top of the stairs to support her ...

To describe Camille Dalmais as simply a singer-songwriter would be akin to calling Jimi Hendrix simply a guitar player: a criminal understatement that seriously betrays a level of innovation many recording artists can only dream of. Hyperbole? Mais non. The human voice is to Camille what the Stratocaster was to Hendrix: an instrument offering an endless source of inspiration and improvisation, sometimes beyond the realms of our imagination. Handclaps, stamping feet, chest-slaps and a myriad of vocal sounds including screams, whispers, low drone notes, beatboxing and spontaneous vocal play throughout live and recorded performances have marked the French artist out ...

Bonjour, mes amis! French phrase for a French band. The French make pretty decent music and I know this because having taken French since 7th grade I’ve been exposed to more French music than the average American (a là Nelson: ha ha!). There’s great music from eras gone by (i.e. Edith Piaf, Juliette Gréco, Serge Gainsbourg) and the tradition has been continued in the form of modern bands/artists like Phoenix, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Alexandre Desplat. But these artists all have cemented careers so it’d be nice to start off with some French up-and-commers.  I discovered ...

Morrissey is an icon of British music. As outspoken as he is lyrically adroit, the former Smiths frontman is as used to making waves as he is records. Ryan Dooley holds the mic for Stoke hopefuls All The Young, who were personally invited by Morrissey to support him earlier this year. As All The Young put the finishing touches to their debut album, Ryan got in touch with his new friend and mentor to learn a little bit more about him... Ryan: The last time we met was at our gig in London at the Proud Galleries. We were pretty ...