Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a number of rock legends!

Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 – the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs. For those who don’t need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP Highlights distillations are also available (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) !

Jeff Beck, Live+ (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Guitar hero Jeff Beck returns with a new live album culled from his 2014 tour. Two new studio tracks round out the set. Read more, including the complete track listing, here!

The Jeff Beck Group, Rough and Ready (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

If you prefer your Jeff Beck of a vintage variety, Vic Anesini has remastered this new edition of the 1971 Jeff Beck Group album for Iconoclassic Records! The reissue features the guitar slinger alongside Cozy Powell (drums), Max Middleton (keyboards), Clive Chaman (bass) and Bobby Tench (vocals).

The Knack, Zoom (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

The Knack’s 1998 “comeback” album, featuring Doug Fieger, Berton Averre, Prescott Niles and new drummer Terry Bozzio, gets the deluxe treatment by Omnivore! This set, kicking off a campaign that will see reissue of The Knack’s final three albums, adds five bonus tracks – four of which are previously unreleased!

Miles Davis, Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors’ Edition (Repackaging) (Amazon U.K.)

Sony U.K. shrinks down the 2010 box set by dropping the vinyl component. This repackaging includes 3 CDs and 1 DVD: two CDs with the original 94-plus minutes of music plus six bonus tracks, a third CD of Miles’ previously unissued performance at Tanglewood in August 1970 with Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Gary Bartz, and a DVD of a previously unissued performance in Copenhagen, November 1969, with Wayne Shorter, Corea, Holland and DeJohnette. The accompanying book features a 5,000-word essay by Greg Tate as well as notes by producers Michael Cuscuna and Richard Seidel plus dozens of rare photographs and record label memos.

Mariah Carey, # 1 to Infinity (Epic/Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD

The pop diva returns with this collection of nineteen chart-toppers. Read more here, including the full track listing.

Rare Earth, One World (Culture Factory) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Culture Factory continues its series from Motown rockers Rare Earth with One World, the band’s fourth studio album. Presented in a mini-LP replica sleeve, the 1971 album contains the hit “I Just Want to Celebrate.”

Thelonious Monk, The Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside/Concord) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

The Grammy-winning 1986 box set for the pianist-composer is reissued and repackaged. As before, it contains 153 tracks representing Monk’s entire output at Riverside Records as recorded between 1955 and 1961. The booklet offers liner notes, discographical annotation and more.

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.