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Analogue Launches Audiophile Reissue Series for Prestige Label with Davis, Rollins, Coltrane

December 20, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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With a brand-new decade just around the corner, and his finger on the pulse of the bustling, inventive New York City jazz scene, Bob Weinstock must have been reasonably confident that day in 1949 when he christened his record label "New Jazz."  But he set his sights even higher when he renamed the label "Prestige" a year into its operations.  That lofty moniker, of course, proved prescient when Prestige became home to the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and

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Categories: News Tags: Miles Davis, SACD, Sonny Rollins

The Fifth Day of Second Discmas

December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to Week 2 of Second Discmas!  We hope you've got your dancing shoes on, because today's prize is bound to get you right onto the floor! Thanks to our amazing friends at Light in the Attic, two lucky winners will each receive a copy of Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest in Funk and Soul 1965-1975!  This electrifying CD illuminates another side of the rich musical landscape of Seattle, Washington, long before the dawn of grunge!  The new 2011 reissue of the original, acclaimed 2004

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Categories: News Tags: Second Discmas

Second Discmas, Week One: And The Winners Are...

December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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And the winners are… With our second week of exciting giveaways about to kick off later today, it’s about time to reveal the winners from our first week of Second Discmas! Without further ado, here we go! Congratulations to… Charles K. of Cleveland, OH, and Jose M., winners of Ben Folds’ The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective! Jeffrey R. of Los Angeles, California, Rich D., Jake H., Kenneth R., and Anthony "Anth", winners of Billy Joel’s Piano Man: Legacy Edition! Edward O., Richard

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Tags: Billy Joel, Miles Davis, Phil Spector, Second Discmas

The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 16 (#25-21)

December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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We're nearing the Top 20 of our 100 Greatest Reissues list, taking Rolling Stone‘s list of the greatest albums of all time and investigating their many pressings and expansions as the catalogue industry has grown. Today, journey to the past with a quintet of California rock heroes, one of rock-and-roll's early pioneers and the once-and-always Mr. Dynamite!  Plus: a Beatle and a star of the Motown stable make intensely personal statements on their own! 25. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (Warner Bros.,

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Categories: News Tags: Stevie Wonder, TSD Buyers Guide

Kritzerland Wraps Up 2011: Orson Welles on "Trial", and Les (Baxter) Is More

December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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2011 may be coming to a close, but the Kritzerland label still has a couple of surprises up its sleeve.  The label this morning announced its final two releases of the year, and both are offbeat gems: Lex Baxter's scores to two Edgar Allan Poe offerings (Roger Corman's 1963 The Raven and the Vincent Price-starring 1970 television special An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe) and Jean Ledrut's score to Orson Welles' 1962 film The Trial, described by the Citizen Kane director as "the best film I ever

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Les Baxter

Catch a Wave! Reunited Beach Boys Confirm 50th Anniversary Concerts, Reissues and New Studio Album

December 16, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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2011 was, undoubtedly, the year of SMiLE. 2012, though, will bring an even bigger smile if you're a fan of The Beach Boys.  What once seemed impossible is, indeed, happening.  Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks will reunite for a new studio album, concert dates and a series of catalogue reissues from Capitol and EMI, including a career-spanning box set.  The celebration will start with an April performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, kicking

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Categories: News Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

"Chimes of Freedom" Flashing for Bob Dylan and Amnesty International

December 16, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Let's face it, Bob Dylan tributes aren't exactly uncommon. That said, one of the most ambitious albums of its kind is coming down the pike, set for January 24 release. Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan is a specially-priced 4-CD set containing 73 Dylan songs in renditions from an incredibly broad array of artists. Most of the tracks were recorded specifically for this project, but since a handful are previously unreleased tracks of an older vintage (and Dylan's own 1964 released take of

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Pete Seeger, Sting

The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 14 (#35-31)

December 15, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to Part 14 of our look at the many reissues of the 100 greatest albums of all time, as selected by Rolling Stone in 2003! We’ll explore the various versions of these classic albums on compact disc, letting you know which audio treasures can be found on which releases. In today’s group, we meet a guitar-playing alien, bring it all back home with Bob Dylan and his Band, and let it bleed with Mick and Keef! 35. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Dylan, Ramones, The Band, The Rolling Stones, TSD Buyers Guide

Frank's Triumphant "Concert Sinatra" Reissued, Remixed and Expanded

December 15, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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When Frank Sinatra took the microphone at Stage 7 of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio in Hollywood, California, on February 18, 1963, it wasn't for a film shoot. Sinatra selected the one-time home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford for its fine acoustics and natural reverberation as he prepared to record his ninth album on the Reprise label, The Concert Sinatra.  The title wouldn’t refer to an actual Sinatra concert, but rather Sinatra singing with a full concert orchestra.  Nelson Riddle would be

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UPDATE 12/15: Amazing Grace: Glen Campbell's "Jesus and Me" Anthology Reissued and Expanded, Joined by "Home for the Holidays"

December 15, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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In a career spanning nearly fifty years, there's little musical ground that Glen Campbell hasn't covered.  He's explored bluegrass, country and pop, played on many of the most famous records of all time as a session guitarist and "Wrecking Crew" member, and even served a brief stint as a Beach Boy.  A steady stream of reissues has reminded listeners of Campbell's mightiest accomplishments, and despite the admission of an Alzheimer's diagnosis, the singer recently recorded an acclaimed new album

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Gospel, Pop Tags: Glen Campbell

The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 13 (#40-36)

December 14, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's the lucky thirteenth part of our look at the many reissues of the 100 greatest albums of all time, as selected by Rolling Stone in 2003! We’ll explore the various versions of these classic albums on disc, letting you know which audio treasures can be found on which releases. In today's group, we get the blues, meet the Brits, head to Laurel Canyon and fall in Love!  40. Love, Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967) Welcome to the Top 40!  Released just months after the so-called Summer of Love,

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Categories: News Tags: Love, Muddy Waters, The Beatles, TSD Buyers Guide

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Leonard Cohen, "The Complete Columbia Albums Collection"

December 13, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

leonard cohen complete

Welcome to our Second Disc Holiday Gift Guide, in which we review some titles we might have missed over the past few weeks!  The titles we’re spotlighting in this occasional series just might be candidates on your own holiday shopping list! It’s hard to believe that Leonard Cohen was once tarred with the infamous “New Dylan” brush, even though he was in rather rarefied company alongside other “New Dylans” like Loudon Wainwright III and even Bruce Springsteen.  Sure, both Mr. Cohen and the

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets Tags: Leonard Cohen

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Have Yourself a Real Gone Christmas

December 13, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to our Second Disc Holiday Gift Guide, in which we review some titles we might have missed over the past few weeks!  The titles we're spotlighting in this occasional series just might be candidates on your own holiday shopping list! ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and what better way to alleviate holiday stress than with the sounds of the season?  Terrestrial radio stations are sending holiday music over the airwaves earlier with every passing year, and by now, it’s hard to turn the dial

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Rolling Stones, "Some Girls: Deluxe Edition"

December 12, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to our Second Disc Holiday Gift Guide, in which we review some titles we might have missed over the past few weeks!  The titles we’re spotlighting in this occasional series just might be candidates on your own holiday shopping list! In a vintage clip that brings one of the biggest laughs in Martin Scorsese’s 2008 concert film Shine a Light, Mick Jagger tells an interviewer that he doesn’t anticipate getting old as a Rolling Stone…yet, nearly fifty years after the band first formed,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 10 (#55-51)

December 9, 2011 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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In Part 10 of our TSD Buyers Guide, which counts the reissues of the albums in Rolling Stone‘s 100 greatest albums of all time (as selected in 2003), we pay homage to early rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues pioneers, look at two very different albums from 1970, and head down for Memphis for some seductive soul! 55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley (RCA Victor, 1956) Well, it’s one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go! With such words was a revolution born! Those

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Categories: News Tags: Ray Charles, Simon and Garfunkel, TSD Buyers Guide

Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Who, "Quadrophenia: Super Deluxe Edition"

December 8, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

quadrophenia deluxe

Welcome to our Second Disc Holiday Gift Guide, in which we review some titles we might have missed over the past few weeks! The titles we're spotlighting in this occasional series just might be candidates on your own holiday shopping list! It was a most unusual moment on June 6, 1993 when the winners of the Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical were announced. John Kander and Fred Ebb, the Broadway legends behind Cabaret, Chicago and “(Theme From) New York, New York,” picked up the statuettes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Who

The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 8 (#65-61)

December 7, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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We continue our look at the many reissues of the 100 greatest albums of all time, as selected by Rolling Stone in 2003! We'll explore the various versions of these classic albums on disc, letting you know which audio treasures can be found on which releases. It's a marvelous night for a "Moondance" before we go "Back to Mono," roll with the Stones and then take in latter-day classics from the 1980s and 1990s! 65. Moondance, Van Morrison (Warner Bros., 1970) Van Morrison’s 1968 Warner Bros.

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Categories: News Tags: Phil Spector, The Rolling Stones, TSD Buyers Guide, U2, Van Morrison

Holiday Tunes Watch, Part 4: Starbucks to "Let It Snow" With Dylan, Diamond, Aretha, Elvis and More

December 7, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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With each holiday season inevitably comes a new Christmas-themed compilation CD from Starbucks, combining rare and familiar tracks from artists new and old, designed as the perfect accompaniment for that venti skinny Peppermint Mocha!  2011’s entry in the annual series, Let It Snow, features Michigan singer/songwriter Rosie Thomas’ recording of the Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn title song, along with fifteen other tracks.  Some tracks are from the “usual suspects” (Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley) and others

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Categories: News Tags: Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, The Ronettes

Review: Neil Diamond, "The Very Best of Neil Diamond"

December 6, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

They don’t make ‘em like Neil Diamond any more.  Then again, did they ever make ‘em like Neil Diamond?  When the self-described solitary man of lean, tough Bang Records rockers like “Cherry, Cherry” and “Kentucky Woman” eventually gave way to the literally glittering superstar of such dramatic fare as “I Am…I Said” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” it became all too easy to forget the man’s C.V. as a singer, songwriter and producer.  Diamond discovered world music some 15 years before his friend

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: Neil Diamond

Come to the Sunshine: Now Sounds Expands, Remasters Harpers Bizarre's "Feelin' Groovy"

December 6, 2011 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Leon Russell might have been reluctant to return to his pop music roots when producer Lenny Waronker invited him to sit in the arranger's chair for Harpers Bizarre's 1967 debut album.  But in retrospect, a Master of Time and Space must have been involved in any LP that listed among its credits Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Paul Simon, Richard Rodgers and Sergei Prokofiev!  The California quintet's Feelin' Groovy long-player is still one of the boldest, most imaginative and most fun debut albums

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Harpers Bizarre, Randy Newman, The Beau Brummels, Van Dyke Parks

Motown Magic: The Marvelettes, Smokey Robinson Album Anthologies Continue

December 5, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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There’s Motown magic in the air! Though the year is drawing to a close, the fine folks at Hip-o Select are making sure that there are plenty of sounds from the Motor City to fill the stockings of even the most discerning music collectors. The label has just announced the continuation of two series of comprehensive archival releases. The 4-CD set Forever More: The Complete Motown Albums Vol. 2 collects the remaining output of the marvelous Marvelettes, the first girl group to make a splash at the

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Categories: News Tags: Smokey Robinson, The Marvelettes

Flashback With The Bee Gees' "Main Course"

December 5, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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When Warner Music Group’s Rhino arm announced its licensing of the Bee Gees catalogue in 2006, hopes were high, and the campaign’s initial release certainly didn’t disappoint. The Studio Albums: 1967-1968 contained expanded mono/stereo editions of the group’s first three “canon” albums with a generous amount of unissued tracks. The promise of more collections to come from the Brothers Gibb archives was particularly enticing. Then, the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Fever came and went, with

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The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 5 (#80-76)

December 2, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's almost the weekend, and we've got the perfect set of tunes to rock your Saturday and Sunday!  It's Part 5 of our first-ever official Second Disc Buyers Guide, in which we look at the 100 greatest albums of all time, as selected by Rolling Stone in 2003, through the filter of when and how these classic albums have been reissued, remastered and repackaged. If you've ever wondered to yourself which versions of these albums to buy for certain bonus tracks and the like, we're your one-stop

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Categories: News Tags: Neil Young, The Clash, The Zombies, TSD Buyers Guide

Holiday Tunes Watch, Part 2: Andy Williams' Favorite Things Collected For 2011

December 1, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Early in November, Andy Williams took the stage at his Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri and announced to the crowd that he is fighting bladder cancer.  "I do have cancer of the bladder," Williams, 83, told the shocked crowd. "But that is no longer a death sentence. People with cancer are getting through this thing. They're kicking it, and they're winning more and more every year. And I'm going to be one of them."  He received a standing ovation upon announcing his intention to return to

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Holiday Tunes Watch, Part 1: New Bing Crosby "Christmas" Collection Offers Up "Sessions" and More

December 1, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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What would Christmas be without the voice of Bing Crosby? And with radio stations going all-Christmas earlier and earlier each year, chances are you've already lifted your seasonal spirits with Crosby's famous recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," still the biggest-selling single of all time. Or perhaps you've heard "Jingle Bells," with The Andrews Sisters vocally supporting Crosby.  But Crosby's holiday catalogue runs quite deep.  Last year, Collector's Choice Music and Bing Crosby

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Categories: News Tags: Bing Crosby

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