Miles Davis' 1954 Sessions Collected on New Craft Recordings Compilation

By Mike Duquette | August 21, 2024 | 1 Comment

Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, […]

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Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Detects 'Foul Play,' La-La Land's Big Sale

By Mike Duquette | August 20, 2024 | 4 Comments

If you're a catalogue soundtrack enthusiast, you're usually always ready to take a chance again on a new pressing of an old favorite. Intrada's latest reissue is about to make that idea as literal as possible: a new remix and expansion of Charles Fox's score to the 1978 comedy Foul Play. Written and directed by Colin […]

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Two Sides of Cornbread: New Compilation Plays Tribute to Unsung Minneapolis Legend

By Mike Duquette | August 19, 2024 | 0 Comments

The name Cornbread Harris might only resonate with the most devoted acolytes of Minneapolis, Minnesota's rich history of R&B music. A new compilation, produced by Harris' biographer, aims to change that. Anthology is an eight-track look into the musical career of James Harris, Jr., better known as Cornbread - a key figure and forefather in […]

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The Weekend Stream: August 17, 2024

By Mike Duquette | August 17, 2024 | 7 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got digital EPs from Daryl Hall and U2 and expanded albums from Dan Hartman and Akon; bet you'd never hear those artists in one sentence! As an Amazon affiliate, we […]

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In Memoriam: Peter Marshall (1926-2024)

By Joe Marchese | August 16, 2024 | 19 Comments

Peter Marshall celebrated the new millennium with the release of his album Boy Singer.  The album was the first full-length recording in over thirty years from the longtime Master of The Hollywood Squares, but not the last.  Over the course of an extraordinary career spanning nine decades, Marshall made his mark in every arena of […]

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