Lara Solnicki - Whose Shadow?

www.larasolnicki.com lara@larasolnicki.com “Whose Shadow?”- Independent, released March 30, 2014- is the second album by acclaimed Canadian jazz vocalist, composer and poet Lara Solnicki. 

This fanciful, eclectic album featuring Lara's compositions, along with more traditional jazz fare, jazz arrangements of classical music− Maurice Ravel and Henry Purcell, art pop− Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Norma Winstone/Jimmy Rowles … and more. 

Produced by George Koller, it features an all-star cast of many of Canada's finest jazz artists. It was recorded by Grammy nominated engineer Jeremy Darby at The Canterbury Music Company, with: Lara Solnicki− vocals, compositions and arrangements, Mark Kieswetter − piano, rhodes and arrangements, George Koller −acoustic and electric bass and arrangements, Ted Quinlan− guitar, Nick Fraser−drums, John Johnson&minu s; tenor and soprano sax, flute and bass clarinet, Lina Allemano− trumpet, Ernie Tollar− bansuri flute and Davide DiRenzo –percussion. 

It was mastered by award winning engineer and producer David Travers-Smith. Stanley Péan, French Canada’s premier jazz host, Host of Quand le jazz est là, (Radio Canada/Espace Musique), has written the bilingual liner notes. 

"She has emerged from the Canadian scene with a spellbinding voice... with boldly unique style and a vocal attitude of her own. Solnicki has been rightfully labeled a vocal purist with tremendous tonal control and naturally sings any jazz arrangement with relative ease. 

Lara's voice is riveting, [she] brings a refreshing and exciting tone to each selection. With exceptional tonal control and her mastery of inflection, Lara Solnicki has without doubt, charted her vocal journey, affirming her position as a world class jazz singer.

 "− Everett. R. Davis, All About Jazz "Great vo ice, great musicians and a great choice of music." − Jim West, President, Justin Time Records

Larry Griffith's Big Legged Woman (With Good Credit)

Published on Oct 22, 2013 Larry Griffith's Big Legged Woman (With Good Credit) Rome Forum Civic Center 10/18/13 Rome GA Larry Griffith - Guitar/Vocals Rashaan Griffith - Keyboards/

Merrell Fankhauser's - Radio and publication correction for "Calling From A Star" Book release

Hi Kenny,

I appreciate the plug for the book but it wont be out by next month, hopefully in November, I will let you know.

Also the part about Wipe Out : I was only seventeen when I joined The Impacts, and our album was out 8 months before The Surfaris version of the song. Our LP was recorded Sept. of 62' and was in stores in L.A. by end of Oct. 62. The Surfaris single didn't come out till end of May 63', and they had the same producers ! In fact Richard Delvy who ended up managing The Surfaris and co produced and published them, was in our session and was learning the music biz from the other older producer Tony Hilder who produced us and other groups on Del Fi.

Later when Delvy worked with The Surfaris and signed their Wipe Out single to Dot, he was asked by Dot to give them an album, he went in the studio with his group "The Challengers" and some studio musicians and recorded an album that included a version of our "Blue Surf", and gave it to Dot as by The Surfaris ! He then took the money and ran..... That's the true story that's in my book, history must be correct ! The Surfaris were only on two songs on the album !

Next Tuesday I go in for a biopsy on an anomaly on my chest wall they noticed in a recent CT Scan, want to make sure its not related to the Melanoma on my shoulder... Sure wish you had made it to the Palmdale gig... You are always welcome here.
Hope this finds you doing good.

Best,
Merrell

Merrell Fankhauser's "Calling From A Star" Autobio coming to a book store near you

 

ARROYO GRANDE, CA (IFS) --  Internationally renown rock superstar, Merrell Fankhauser is releasing his new autobiography "Calling From A Star" this next month.  

From the book "Vinyl Knights" by Kenneth Howard Smith, "Merrell was eighteen years old at that time, and had been recording up the coast with a group called the Impacts.  They had recorded this album called "Wipe out", surf music and stuff.  The Beatles had been in the United States for almost two months now, and the Beach Boys were right up there with them.  "Wipe Out" by the Surfaris was going to the top of the charts, and Merrell was telling everyone that he had wrote this song.  Well, no one believed him at all.  I just happened to be shopping at a local Woolworth store, and they had just received a bend full of cut-out records, and sure enough, there were ten albums from this group the Impacts on Del-Fi Records, and there was Merrell Wayne Fankhauser's name as big as life."

 

You can get the story from KDTN Radio One's Blogtalk Show.

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Walking The Line with Johnny Cash from Dyess Arkansas to memphis Tennessee

MEMPHIS TN (IFS) -- This is Elvis Week in Memphis, TN. This is were 500,000 people from all over the world pour into Memphis to celebrate Elvis' musical holiday week, that includes the greats like Cash, Carl Perkins, Sam Philips, and the many other artists that created the birth of rock music. I happen to watch to many documentaries on the birth of rock music. It gives me a heartburn, when other journalists use words like "Southern Rock", and crazy stuff like that. It's like saying "Rock, Rock". It was also doing the recording of Wilson Pickett's version of "Hey Jude" that Greg Allman's guitar solo created the birth of the Allman Brothers Band and "Southern Rock." So here's to Elvis week in Memphis and to a recording industry icon that shaped the business of music, with RCA Records and paying Sam Philips $36,000 for his masters and a life on the silver screen. Special thanks goes to Colonel Tom Parker for pushing the envelope.

Parker and Smith makes a stop at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

CLEVELAND OH (IFS) -- When you get a chance to lobby for a cause, you have to be there in person, and that means making an appearance at this prestigious location for the sake of music promotions and conferencing at the basic level of the music business.

The week was filled with various artists and guests who wanted to touch bases with the music industry, as internationally renown songwriter Kenneth Howard Smith whose former Motown Records catalog is presently under the control of Sony ATV-EMI Music and who pulls double duty as CEO and president of SDC OmniMedia Group that control a heavy internet radio presence with their SDC Radio Networks.

As a single internet playlist that ranks as one of the oldest and most requested stations that has KDTN Radio One receiving over 500 recordings per week worldwide attempting to get on one of the seven stations in the broadcasting groups slots, Smith still spreads the word that there is always room for one more good song.

With international former high school student athletes counselor, Karen Andrea Parker, the pair managed to squeeze in a couple of parties at the Great Lakes with artists, future students with plans for getting scholarships to various colleges and friends in the area.  The dynamic duo ended up at the Taste of Chicago, where they sample foods from many of the city's great restaurants and music from Alo Bac and the Wailors.

If you are heavy into the political scene, SmithBits Talk Radio features Smith's podcasts for various issues in the world and local news communities on a monthly bases, and KDTN BlogTalk Music Radio that goes into the depth of the new artists and their music.

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