Apr 29, 2025 11:53 AM
Vocalist Andy Bey Dies at 85
Singer Andy Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with a four-octave range that encompassed a bellowing…
Hear Music, a record label and partnership between
Starbucks and Concord Music, announced Wednesday that legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is the most recent artist signed to the newly formed imprint.
Hear Music will release Shine, a 10-song collection that follows Paul McCartney’s Memory Almost Full as the second album released on the label. Starting Sept. 25, Shine will be available in the U.S. and Canada at both traditional retailers and Starbucks-operated locations. Other global markets will release the album the week of Sept. 24.
Shine is one of three new artistic endeavors launched by Mitchell this year. The first, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” a ballet based on Mitchell’s music, debuted with the Alberta Ballet in Calgary earlier this year with Mitchell serving as co-creator and artistic director. The second is a politically charged visual art exhibit by Mitchell that will debut in New York in the fall.
“It kind of slows down, but it’s still kind of productive in a way, because you have something that you can be inspired by,” Andy Bey said on a 2019 episode of NPR Jazz Night in America, when he was 80. “The music is always inspiring.”
Apr 29, 2025 11:53 AM
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