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Professin’ The Blues Around The World
Order Now Spanish blues radio program, La Hora Blues, praises Fiona Boyes and her new Professin’ The Blues recording in their Quarterly CD Review roundup, and they will be featuring the recording on their Friday, February 17th broadcast! “Fiona Boyes has gathered fourteen original blues and two covers “Baby Please Don’t Go” coming from Big Joe Williams and another song entitled “Face In The Mirror”. Fiona has recorded all songs in format of solo, duo…
Announcing a New Reference Recordings Website Experience!
If you haven’t visited our site in awhile, you may notice there have been some exciting changes! New Site-wide Security If you had our old site bookmarked, or are a frequent user, you may need to delete your old site bookmark and even clear your browser and computer cache (instructions on how to do that just in case). The reason for that is we have a brand new SSL Certificate that secures your entire experience…
2017 Blues Music Awards Nominations!
Cast Your Vote The Blues Foundation announced their 2017 Blues Music Awards Nominees, and RR artists Fiona Boyes, Doug MacLeod, and Jimi Bott, have all been nominated! Best Acoustic Album Eric Bibb – The Happiest Man in the World Fiona Boyes – Professin’ the Blues Jimmy “Duck” Holmes – Live at Briggs Farm John Long – Stand Your Ground Luther Dickinson – Blues and Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook) Vol I and II Best Acoustic Artist…
Pre-Order The new Adam Schoenberg Recording!
Now Available for Pre-Order! Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony • Finding Rothko • Picture Studies Michael Stern, music director; Kansas City Symphony Pre-Order Pre-OrderSays Schoenberg: “I have dreamt of having an orchestral disc of my music since first becoming a composer. This is an extraordinary gift, and I am thrilled to be sharing my music with all of you. The three pieces that you will soon experience embody my growth from student to professional composer. They…
RR at Bay Area Record Fair!
RR will be attending the Bay Area Record Fair this Sunday from 12-5pm at the Swedish American Hall. Make sure to come by our booth in front of the stage and say hello! If you’re in the area, make sure and purchase an early-bird ticket by Friday to get in one hour before general admission and beat the rush!
New Titles Coming Soon!
TWO new LPs coming June 2! Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This Two-LP 45rpm set on 200 gram pressings in a deluxe gatefold jacket! “In May, 2014, he was awarded not one but two Blues Music Awards in the categories of Acoustic Artist of the Year (after being nominated for this award for the past six years) and Acoustic Album of the Year for There’s A Time on Reference Records. His current Reference Record, Exactly Like…
Exciting News from Tucson
An exciting news release is out from Tucson which is of particular interest to RR fans wondering about what’s coming out in the near future: Composer Stephen PaulusPhoto by Sharolyn Hagen May 6, 2015 (Tucson, AZ)— Tucson Chamber Artists—soon to be True Concord Voices & Orchestra—announced it has received a major grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to support its upcoming concert debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City this September…
January RR News
Catch up on the latest in Reference Recording News! New 33 1/3 rpm LP RESPIGHI — Belkis, Queen of Sheba-Suite; The Pines of Rome Eiji Oue / Minnesota Orchestrai RM-1509 Grammy® Nominated: Best Engineered Album, Classical — Keith O. Johnson, Engineer “Dazzling orchestral colors,” is one one way to describe the music of Ottorino Respighi. “Belkis, Queen of Sheba” was conceived as an evening-long ballet with singing whose lavishness has kept it from view since…
Some News Bits
A few fun news-bits for you today: First, you might want to keep checking in at ReferenceRecordings.com as we work to implement some changes on the site. We’ve already unveiled a new feel to the homepage. And feel free to leave feedback on the changes either here or via Facebook and Twitter! Second, we’re happy to let you know that all of our Fresh! From Reference Recordings releases are now available as hi-res downloads on…
Weekend Bytes
Here are just a few of quick things that came across our radar over the weekend that we felt were worth sharing. Yamaha Disklavier ‘Lends a Hand’ To Mike Garson’s Acclaimed Bowie Variations CD: In crafting his latest release, The Bowie Variations, celebrated composer, pianist and session musician, Mike Garson, relied on the Yamaha Disklavier performance reproducing piano not only to unleash his creativity, but to singlehandedly compose and create works in ways previously unimaginable.…
FRESH! From Reference Recordings
FRESH! from Reference Recordings is a new offshoot of our respected 34-year-old independent classical and jazz audiophile label. Offering productions from all music genres, FRESH! will showcase artists and unique recordings that we think our fans and the wider market will enjoy. Most releases on FRESH! will not be recorded by the RR team, but RR will have input in the recording, editing, post production and/or mastering phases of production. FRESH! is part of our…
Happy 34th Birthday To Us!
It’s our 34th Birthday! So to celebrate we’re sharing some past, present and future! STEREOPHILE magazine online has just reprinted an historic 1989 interview (by editor John Atkinson) with our founder and President J. Tamblyn Henderson Jr. (click link to read). Reference Recordings was only 13 years old at the time, and doing great things. 2010 is our 34th year, and we’ve released about 100 more titles since that interview. We’re continuing our history of…
Joel Fan Concert Response and News
Last weekend, Joel Fan performed in Oakland, California, and a few of the Reference Recordings staff were able to make it to the concert. We were (as always) wowed by his extremely fine playing. Joel played an extremely difficult program and pulled it off tremendously! We especially enjoyed hearing him play the ferociously difficult Scriabin #5 and Schoenberg Opus 11 — both of which we had not heard him play before. Also during Joel’s visit…
100th Posting! News and Announcements from Reference Recordings
So, for our 100th posting, we thought we would enlighten our readers with some plans for the new year and beyond, as well as let you know what we’re up to right now! 1. It is 2010, and RR is now 34 years old and still getting better. Of course we have exciting new recordings in progress- watch for news as the year goes on about NEW artists for RR and NEW musical styles (Blues,…
Britten’s Orchestra Progress
We wanted to let our readers/followers know where we are at with the Britten’s Orchestra album. It is finished and the master has been sent to pressing! This is a cause for extreme excitement. We were racing the clock in order to make our deadlines so that the album will be released in November! So, this is good news for you as there won’t be any prolonged waiting. “Prof” Johnson had to pull an all-nighter…