 |
|
RECENT/Upcoming RELEASES • Congratulations to Notable’s Chris Keup on co-writing and producing 5 tracks on PARACHUTE’s Losing Sleep album which made a TOP 40 debut on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart in May 2009. Chris’s work can be heard on “All That I Am”, “She Is Love”, “Under Control”, “Blame It On Me”, and “Words Meet Heartbeats”. www.weareparachute.com • EMI Music will release a brand new documentary 'Love Me Tender: The Love Songs of Elvis' by the end of July. EMI is also the producer of the highly succesfull concertregistration 'Elvis Lives' and the gospel documentary 'He Touched Me'. Love Me Tender: The Love Songs of Elvis is the first-ever in-depth look at the love songs of Elvis. This documentary explores the remarkable music that sparked such phenomenal devotion in the hearts of fans worldwide. Hosted by Golden Globe-nominated actress Ashley Judd (pictured below), Love Me Tender: The Love Songs of Elvis packs together 20 performances with interviews and other footage into a 90-minute DVD. Featured on the dvd is rare footage of Elvis performing the Cy Coleman classic, “Witchcraft”.
LATEST NEWS April 23, 2010 Theatre Royal Haymarket - Sweet Charity transfers to London’s West End for open-ended run. Tamzin Outhwaite, who plays the title role of Charity Hope Valentine, will lead the cast in the West End transfer of the Tony Award-winning musical, Sweet Charity. September 10, 2009 -- Los Angeles, Calif – New West Records today announced an upcoming concert to promote the release of The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs Of Cy Coleman an album of new recordings with an all-star line up of female singers including Fiona Apple, Patty Griffin and Madeleine Peyroux. The influential Grammy®, Emmy® & Tony® award winning songwriter and musician will be honored by many of the album’s singers at two unique live concert events featuring his classic songs in Los Angeles and New York. In Los Angeles on September 23rd at The Grammy Museum, select artists including Jill Sobule, Sara Watkins, Perla Batalla, Julianna Raye and others will be joined by Dave Palmer, the album’s producer and musical arranger. They will take part in an onstage interview with music critic Chris Morris, followed by an audience Q&A and acoustic performance. Part of the Museum’s acclaimed program, “The Drop,” the evening will conclude with an album signing and artist meet-and-greet. Visit www.grammymuseum.org for additional information. The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman, available September 15, 2009 from New West Records, is a provocative, cutting-edge album featuring inspiring interpretations by a select group of gifted contemporary female artists. Fiona Apple contributes two songs (her first new music in five years), alongside such artists as Missy Higgins, Madeleine Peyroux, Jill Sobule, Nikka Costa, Sara Watkins, Sam Phillips, Perla Batalla, Ambrosia Parsley and Patty Griffin, who sings a sultry version of the album’s Grammy® Award winning title song.
July 14, 2009 - Patty Griffin, Fiona Apple, & Missy Higgins perform 3 Cy Coleman classics on itunes exclusive ep. These tracks are offered as part of a complete your album promotion and were recorded during the sessions for the upcoming full length album, The Best Is Yet To Come, The Songs of Cy Coleman to be released September 15, 2009 worldwide via New West Records. Tracks featured are “The Best Is Yet To Come” (Patty Griffin), “Why Try To Change Me Now” (Fiona Apple), and “I’m In Love Again” (Missy Higgins). Special NY and LA concerts are being planned to coincide with the release of the full album this fall, details coming soon.
David Burnham, Jason Graae, Sally Mayes, Julia Murney, and Lillias White will star in The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman to be presented at Rubicon Theatre Company, July 9-August 2, with an official opening on July 19. It will be devised and directed by Tony Award winner David Zippel. The show will include as-yet unpublished Coleman works, along with songs from several of Coleman's musicals, including City of Angels, Sweet Charity, Barnum, The Life, Little Me, On the Twentieth Century and Will Rogers Follies. The show's creative team includes Billy Stritch (musical direction), Christopher Marlowe (associate musical direction), Don Sebesky (orchestrations), Lorin Latarro (choreography), Douglas W. Schmidt (sets), William Ivey Long (costumes), and Jonathan Burke (sound).
June 17, 2009 – Variety: A film adaptation of Cy Coleman's CITY OF ANGELS is headed to the screen, to be helmed by Director Barry Levinson ("Wag the Dog", "Good Morning, Vietnam"). The picture is one of many new projects to be produced by new company Unique Features, headed by former New Line Films principals Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Variety reported today.
CITY OF ANGELS, the late Cy Coleman's 1989 musical which took home 6 Tony Awards, will be adapted for the screen by original bookwriter Larry Gelbart. CITY OF ANGELS, the late Cy Coleman's 1989 musical which took home 6 Tony Awards, will be adapted for the screen by original bookwriter Larry Gelbart. Tony and Emmy Award winner Marc Shaiman, whose adaptation of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN opens this summer in Seattle, will music direct the film, adapting Coleman's legendary theatre score for the silver screen. Original lyricist David Zippel is also attached to the film. Unique Pictures will co-produce the film with PicturePlay Films. "Barry brought it to us, and the story of a writer of classic film noir detective stories, with the same actor playing both the writer and detective ... is as great an idea for the screen as it was the for the stage," Shaye told Variety.
"She Is Love" is the first single by new artist, Parachute VA The acoustic version of the track on their myspace page (www.myspace.com/weareparachute) has
Seduction, Sinatra Sings Love - Available now This new collection for love songs sung by the Chairman debuted at #23 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.
Sonia Pottinger Honored as "Friends of Reggae" Role Model When the Excellence In Music & Entertainment (EME) awards are presented come February 5 at the Gardens of the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, special tributes will be paid to two categories of entertainment notables. Firstly, Big Ship patriarch and reggae veteran Freddie McGregor, pioneering female producer Sonia Pottinger and legendary reggae/dancehall producer Lloyd 'King Jammys' James will receive a special Role Models Award, citing their significant contribution to the development of the industry. Also, R&B, hip-hop act Missy Elliott, crooner John Legend and upcoming acts Jazmine Sullivan and Estelle will be named International Friends of Reggae in recognition of their embrace of the reggae idiom through recordings and public endorsements. Conceptualiser Richie 'Richie B' Burgess explained that such recognition was part of the overall vision of the awards to keep alive the perspective of Jamaican popular music as an international medium and one with trmendous influence in shaping culture globally. Trailblazers like Frddie McGregor, Sonia Pottinger and King Jammys helped pave the way for our music to reach wider audiences and particularly in this case, the ears of our overseas friends who, having been moved by our sound and culture, have added their own expression and thus helped to secure even wider reach for our music among their peers. All four of the Friend of Reggae awardees have made recordings incorporating reggae/dancehall, and Missy Elliott, John Legend and - most recently -Estelle have performed in Jamaica. Burgess added that this year, the public will for the first time be allowed to influence winners as votes via the Internet - through the newly constructed website www.emeawards.com - are being accepted. This in addition to the points gained based on performance of the nominees in the weekly Jamaica Music Countdown. Voting continues until Saturday, January 31.
Then Was Then & Now Is Now, A tribute concert to Cy Coleman and EP release party, January 15, 2009, 8:30pm at Largo @ The Coronet Theater – Los Angeles CA. 6 song EP features Cy Coleman classics performed by Patty Griffin, Fiona Apple, Nikka Costa, Julianna Raye, Ambrosia Parsley, and Missy Higgins and will be available at the show or contact info@notablemusic.net. The Tribute Concert will feature the Dave Palmer Sextet, w/Fiona Apple, Nikka Costa, Sara Watkins, Sarabeth Tucek, Julianna Raye, Perla Battala, and other special guests.
Missy Higgins’s recording of Cy Coleman & Peggy Lee’s, “I’m In Love Again” and Where I Stood (tour edition ep) available now at This track was recorded for an upcoming tribute album to Cy Coleman for release in early 2009 and the first available to the public from the album. Missy Higgins follows up her 2 multi-platinum albums in Australia with this beautiful new ep and she will continue to tour the U.S. and Europe throughout the end of 2008 and early 2009.
Rocksteady Legend Alton Ellis R.I.P. Alton Ellis, The Jamaican singer known as “The Godfather of Rocksteady”, passed away Friday, October 10 at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He was 70 years old. Ellis rose to prominence in Jamaica as a ska singer in the early 1960’s recording for Clement “Coxsone” Dodd’s Studio One label, but his most influential contributions to Jamaican music came with his jump to Arthur “Duke” Reid’s Treasure Isle in the mid-60’s. It was there that Ellis pioneered rocksteady, which preceded reggae by slowing down the temp of ska, putting more direct focus on the bass, and aping the sweeter, lighter singing style of American R&B stars. Both solo and with his vocal group the Flames, Alton’s massive hits for Duke Reid included “Rock Steady”, “Cry Tough”, “Girl I’ve Got A Date”, “Dance Crasher”, “I Can’t Stand It”, and “All My Tears”.
NAMT Announces Cy Coleman & Wendy Wasserstein’s new musical, Pamela’s First Musical among its 2008 Selections The selections for the 20th Annual National Alliance for Musical Theater (NAMT) Festival of New Musicals, to run October 20-21 in New York, have been announced. The industry-only showcase has previously launched such hits as Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Drowsy Chaperone. Pamela’s First Musical, which features music by the late Cy Coleman, a book by the late Wendy Wasserstein, and lyrics by David Zippel, was based on Wendy’s 1996 children’s book about a young girl fro the suburbs who spends an unforgettable birthday with her eccentric, sophisticated Aunt Louise attending a lavish Broadway production and meeting all the glamorous, creative people who made it possible. The show was seen earlier this year at Town Hall in a star-studded benefit presentation starring Donna Murphy as Louise.
• SWEET CHARITY – Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Neil Simon’s classic musical is live on stage through May 18, 2008: Drury Lane Theater, Oakbrook Terrace IL. Box office: (630)530-0111. Starring Summer Smart as Charity , direction by Jim Corti & choreography by Mitzi Hamilton.
• Notable Music Publishing is proud to announce a worldwide administration agreement with legendary Jamaican record producer Sonia Pottinger and Push Music Jamaica. Los Angeles, CA – February 1, 2008 – Notable Music Publishing is happy to announce that they have entered into a worldwide administration agreement with Ft. Lauderdale Florida and Kingston Jamaica based record producer, record label owner, and music publisher, Sonia Pottinger. Sonia Pottinger, considered one of the top producers in Jamaican music history, was recently awarded the title of The Honourable Sonia Pottinger OD (Order of Distinction) by the Jamaican Government for her contribution to the Island Nation’s music, arts and culture. Ms. Pottinger is also a recipient of Raggaesoca Music’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Ms. Pottinger’s catalog includes her music publishing company, Push Music Jamaica and several successful labels including, Tip Top Records, High Note Records, Gay Feet, and Glory. Ms. Pottinger produced and released a truly impressive string of #1 singles and artists throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s beginning with Joe White’s “Every Night, “My Love For You”, and “Brown Eyes”. Several more #1 hit singles and artists followed including: Judy Mowatt (“I Love You”, “Too Good For Me”, “Come To Me”, and “I’m Alone”), Ken Boothe (“Lady With The Starlight”, “Say You”), Sonya Spence (“No Charge”), Marcia Griffiths (“Stepping Out of Babylon”, “Peaceful Woman”, “Dreamland”, “Survival”), The Melodians (“Little Nut Tree”, “Swing & Dine”), Delano Stewart (“That’s Life”, “Stay A Little Bit Longer”, “Dance With Me Baby”), Delroy Wilson (“Put Yourself In My Place”), Errol Dunkley (“You’ll Never Know”), Brent Dow (“Build Me Up”), Jackie Brown (“One Night of Sin”), three albums by Culture - Harder Than The Rest, Cumbolo, and International Herb (“This Train”, “Natty Never Get Weary”, “Stop The Fussing and Fighting”), Gaylads (“ABC Rocksteady”, “Hard To Confess”) and Bob Andy’s classic, “Lots of Love and I”. Ms. Pottinger was also the first to record and release Gospel music in Jamaica beginning with Otis Wright’s “Man From Galilee” on her Glory label. In 1975, Sonia purchased the Treasure Isle label and studio from its founder and Jamaican music giant, Arthur “Duke” Reid. Duke Reid, who ran one of the most popular sound systems in Jamaica in the 1950’s called Duke Reid’s The Trojan, formed the Treasure Isle label, which dominated the Jamaican music scene of the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Duke Reid as producer and label owner recorded and released some of the most important and influential Ska and Rocksteady records ever released including artists such as: U Roy (“Wake The Town”, “Rule The Nation”, “Wear You To The Ball”), Alton Ellis (“Girl I’ve Got A Date”, “Rocksteady”, “Cry Tough”) , The Paragons (“The Tide is High”), The Melodians (“I’ll Get Along Without You”, “You Don’t Need Me”, “Come On Little Girl”), The Techniques (“How I Wish It Would Rain”), Dennis Alcapone, Phyllis Dillon (“Perfidia”), and the Three Tops (“It’s Raining”). Ms. Pottinger and Duke Reid’s artist and song roster continues to thrive through numerous live concerts, revival Reggae compilations, film and television placements, and advertising campaigns throughout the world.
• Notable Music Publishing and Chrysalis Music Group are happy to announce a worldwide co-publishing agreement with songwriter/producer, Chris Keup. A recipient of ASCAP’s Sammy Cahn Award, Keup has written with and produced such artists as Jason Mraz, Graham Colton, Rachel Yamagata, Johnathan Rice, Missy Higgins, O.A.R., and Amy Correia. Chris’s songs have appreared in such films and tv shows as: The Heartbreak Kid, Love Monkey, Everwood, One Tree Hill, and The OC. • back in print: Vocal/Piano sheet music of Cy Coleman & Michael Stewart's Tony Award-winning musical, I Love My Wife! Also available through Hal Leonard Corp. are updated versions of Cy Coleman musicals: Barnum, City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, & Wildcat. Coming Fall 2007: Sweet Charity Deluxe Souviner Edition. www.halleonard.com • Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (Two-disc Special Edition DVD). On November 13, 2007 Clint Eastwood presents a documentary release on DVD of the extraordinary career of one of the greatest living singers in American popular music, Tony Bennett. Featured in the film is a rare performance of Tony and Bill Evans performing Cy Coleman's "When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)" from a 1970's Tonight Show appearance as well as Mr. Bennett's amazing band performing Coleman's "The Best is Yet To Come" from a recent concert in Monterey, CA. • From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Big Spender", from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed knew the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now he's crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that "tripled the world's total supply of singable tunes." This amazing book is available now via Random House. • Michael Buble's eagerly awaited album "Call Me Irresponsible" was released on May 1st. The Vancouver native, whose collective worldwide record sales are over 11 million units, recorded standards from a variety of eras including such greats as Cy Coleman ("The Best Is Yet To Come"), Leonard Cohen, Eric Clapton, Gamble and Huff, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer and others. As for the album, Buble says, "It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record is about". • Playboy After Dark DVD Box Set Collection IN STORES NOW: Watch Cy Coleman rubbing shoulders with Lenny Bruce, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr. and a host of party-goers on Hugh Hefner's 1959 TV show, Playboy's Penthouse & Playboy After Dark. 3-DVD Box Collection includes 51 musical performances and 6 full shows. Cy Coleman also wrote the theme song. USA Today 3 1/2 stars (out of 4) • BBC Legends Series: Cy Coleman Documentary Spring 2006. This documentary of Cy Coleman features interviews with Shirley MacLaine, Jim Dale, Michele lee, Michael Crawford, Lillias White, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Neil Simon, Tommy Tune, Lucie Arnaz, Chita Rivera, Tony Bennett, Larry Gelbart, Shelby Coleman and many more sharing their memories of the life and astounding career of Cy Coleman. Aired in the UK Spring 2006 and will soon make its U.S. debut.
|
|