Universal Music Group got off to a great start anthologizing the deep catalogue of Impulse! Records with a four-disc box set from Hip-o Select earlier this year. Today, that catalogue is revisited yet again, in the form of 28 albums from the jazz label's catalogue collected as two-on-one discs. The titles are pretty diverse, collecting sets from Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Alice Coltrane, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson and others. You can order each of the titles on Amazon here and
Archives for July 26, 2011
Harrison and Shankar's "Concert For Bangladesh" Goes Digital
“It was such a unique thing. Everybody was so moved and touched. It had a special feeling apart from just a performance. Overnight everybody knew the name of Bangladesh all over the world.” So said Ravi Shankar about The Concert For Bangladesh, the 1971 performances he organized with George Harrison at New York’s Madison Square Garden that set the standard for all-star benefits to come. Monday, August 1, marks the 40th anniversary of The Concert, and in commemoration, Apple and EMI have
Can't Get You Out of My Box: Kylie Albums Collected in New U.K. Set
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT9WSwIT7g] Next up in our continued coverage of today's new catalogue releases is a new, semi-notable box set from pop star extraordinaire Kylie Minogue. Though the Australian singer/actress is unfairly known in the U.S. for two songs - a Stock-Aitken-Waterman-produced cover of Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" that hit No. 3 in 1988 and the slinky club track "Can't Get You Out of My Head," which hit No. 7 in 2002 - Minogue has rarely stayed away from the
Look Sharp! New Roxette Compilation in Stores Today
As previously noted on Twitter, we're doing something a bit different with the new catalogue releases this week: rather than do a big New Release Round-Up post, we're going to do smaller posts highlighting them through the day. Why? Simple: a lot of these releases, taken on their own, are small but of enough interest to not get swept under the rug of a mega-post as such. Plus, there aren't really a whole heck of a lot of major reissues out this week anyway. We begin with a new compilation from
The Adventure Begins With Safan's "Remo Williams" and Mancini's "Moneychangers"
Raise your hand if you remember the golden age of the television miniseries! Once upon a time, the miniseries was king: Rich Man, Poor Man, QB VII, North and South, Roots, The Thorn Birds. Sprawling novels were translated into multiple evenings of rich, dramatic television, with the small screen taking advantage of a length that even big screen fare couldn’t offer. One such miniseries was 1976’s The Moneychangers, based on a novel by Arthur Hailey (Hotel, Airport) and scored by the same man