BOBBY DARIN
SEEING IS BELIEVING
20 Classic Performances of the Legendary Entertainer
Available for the First Time Ever on DVD

Featuring His Biggest Hits Like:
"Mack The Knife," "Dream Lover," "Splish Splash" and "Beyond The Sea"

Plus Duets With Connie Francis and Bobbie Gentry

"Of the handful of people who could do it all, nobody did it all the way Bobby Darin did. And when it came to singing, any kind of song he wanted to sing, he could sing."
- Seeing Is Believing producer, Joel Dorn

DR. JOHN
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME: LIVE AT TIPITINA'S MARDI GRAS '89
Volume Two from "The Rebennack Chronicles"

The Legendary Night Tripper Captured "Live"
In A Historic New Orleans Performance

Musically speaking, there are few events as highly anticipated as the venerable Mac Rebennack, aka, Dr. John, performing "live" in New Orleans. Perhaps the greatest living musician from the Crescent City, the Doctor's hometown appearances always prove to be a full-scale celebration of New Orleans culture and people. Add Mardi Gras night at Tipitina's into the mix and the stage is set for an intangible X-factor to enter the musical equation. Proof of that resounds in the forthcoming, Right Place, Right Time: Live At Tipitina's Mardi Gras '89, a single disc set capturing the one and only New Orleans Night Tripper, Dr. John, on Mardi Gras night 1989 at the hallowed Big Easy music venue, Tipitina's. Right Place, Right Time is Volume Two of "The Rebennack Chronicles" on Dr. John's Skinji Brim imprint distributed through HYENA Records and produced by Joel Dorn.

ISWHAT?!
The Life We Choose

Don't adjust the speakers. That is the legendary riff to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" skronking on tenor saxophone underneath the spitfire rhymes of Napoleon Maddox. And the old man getting the led out on the horn who looks one part Henry Threadgill and one part Grady Wilson is Jack Walker--a little known avant-jazz sage from Lincoln Heights (a section of Cincinnati best known as the original stomping ground of the Isley Brothers). Together the unlikely pairing form ISWHAT?!, the groundbreaking hip-hop duo from Cincinnati.

SKERIK'S SYNCOPATED TAINT SEPTET
HUSKY

In a recent observation on the state of jazz in the 21st century, music journalist Milo Miles wrote, "By now, it's a simple fact: funk and hip-hop are the foundation for jazz that gospel and blues used to be." It's a discerning statement that cuts to the chase, and in the process, quite possibly frames the current standard for modern jazz and the new generation of audience that's fast developing along with the music. If indeed the case, then June 27, 2006 is cause for celebration when Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet arrives with its new album Husky on HYENA Records.