Trumpeter/bandleader Donald Byrd began his career as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers while still pursuing his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music. Upon graduating from both institutions, Byrd played with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and a host of jazz's finest leaders. By 1958, he was leading his own quintet. Twenty years later, however, much had changed for Byrd and the sound of jazz. After a nearly twenty-year association with the venerable Blue Note
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man: Third Man Issues Rare Bob Seger Tracks for Record Store Day
A fantastic feature on NPR recently set classic rock fans' hearts aflutter with a serious deep dive on Bob Seger, whose catalogue is famously absent from much of the digital music space. His classic albums were belatedly issued on iTunes several years ago, don't exist on streaming services, and are even disappearing from record stores (other than, perhaps, 1994's Greatest Hits album, the best-selling catalogue title of the 2000s, or the more recent Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never
I Just Want to Make Love to You: El Reissues Two From Ann-Margret
"Baby, come and swing with me!" When that invitation was extended by the flame-haired siren known as Ann-Margret, who could resist? Cherry Red's El label has recently reissued two of the sultry entertainer's classic RCA Victor albums on one CD: Songs from The Swinger and Other Swingin' Songs, and the soundtrack to her starring vehicle, The Pleasure Seekers, to create one happily nostalgic musical time capsule for fans of music and movies alike. Ann-Margret Olsson of Valsjobyn, Sweden
Time Fades Away: Neil Young's 'Official Release Series Discs 5-8' Finally Due on CD
Neil Young is heading back to his archive for a new box set--one that puts an in-demand album on CD for the first time after a near 45-year wait. Official Release Series Discs 5-8 continues the packaging of Young's classic Reprise albums as part of his own personal archival series. (These four albums were collected on vinyl in 2014; Official Release Series Discs 1-4, covering 1968's self-titled album through 1972's Harvest, bowed in 2009 while Official Release Series 8.5-12, spanning The
Hunters and Collectors: Can to Compile Singles
German avant-garde pioneers Can will issue a new compilation this summer collecting every single side they released during their pivotal career. The Singles, to be distributed by Mute Records in partnership with the band's longtime label Spoon Records, features 23 tracks on CD or triple vinyl. It features their best-known tracks, like "Vitamin C," "I'm So Green," "Spoon," "Mushroom" and "Moonshake," as well as lesser-known songs and edits that never made it onto an album. (A prime example is
Release Round-Up: Week of April 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! B.J. Thomas, New Looks from an Old Lover-The Complete Columbia Singles (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) New Looks from an Old Lover - The Complete Columbia Singles from B.J. Thomas gathers up all of the A and B sides the singer recorded for that label during his tenure there in the 1980s including the No. 3 Country hit "Two Car Garage" and two No. 1s: "Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love" and "New Looks from an
Hot Blooded: Foreigner Celebrate Four Decades with New Compilation
Just a little over four decades ago, on March 8, 1977, Foreigner hit record shelves. The album was the self-titled Atlantic Records debut of the band consisting of Mick Jones, Lou Gramm, Dennis Elliot, Al Greenwood, Ian McDonald and Ed Gagliardi. The record would become a smash-hit, eventually going 5X platinum and launching Foreigner into superstardom right out of the gate. To celebrate this anniversary, Rhino is releasing a new 2-CD and 2-LP compilation entitled 40 on May 19. Foreigner
Time Chill: A Retrospective
This first-ever solo collection for Chicago's Robert Lamm as a solo artist brings together fifteen tracks (five of which are previously unreleased) drawn from his diverse recordings beginning in 1999. One track has been culled from his beautiful collaboration with America's Gerry Beckley and the late Carl Wilson as Beckley-Lamm-Wilson; among the other highlights, you'll find a previously unheard cover of Bobby Hebb's timeless "Sunny" and a solo re-interpretation and remix of Chicago's classic
Supremes A'Go-Go: Expanded Edition
The Supremes' landmark, chart-topping 1966 album (with "You Can't Hurry Love" and "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart") gets lavishly expanded on two remastered CDs. This release has got it all: mono and stereo mixes of the original album, a whopping 29 bonus tracks (24 of which are heard here for the first time!) and not one, but two booklets, including a replica of the group's souvenir tour program from 1966! Bonus cuts include outtakes of covers of The Miracles ("Mickey's Monkey"), Jackie
You Should Be Dancing: Bee Gees Release First Compilation Under New Catalog Deal
The first Bee Gees catalog title under the group's new deal with Capitol is a new compilation due later this month, it was announced today. Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits collects 21 of the Australian trio's greatest hits from 1966 to 1987, all personally selected by Barry Gibb. In his introduction in the package, Barry Gibb (the group's sole surviving member) writes, "These songs, I feel, are the songs that Maurice, Robin, and I would be most proud of." While it's not terribly
Release Round-Up: Week of March 31
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring some of the most hotly-anticipated sets of the year! Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night [Various Editions] (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD/1DVD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album featuring "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" returns in a variety of formats including a 3-CD/1 DVD/1 LP version (with the original
Ooh Baby: Ace Collects Third Volume of Rare "Manhattan Soul"
Over the first two volumes of Manhattan Soul, Ace Records' Kent imprint has dug up some of the finest - and indeed, rarest - soul tracks to come out of the Big Apple in the 1960s. For the third installment of the series, the label has again tapped the vaults of Florence Greenberg's Scepter and Wand Records, plus rival label Musicor, for a definitive chronicle of some of the most urbane R&B of the decade. Though these outfits were based in New York, productions sometimes came from other
Chuck
Before shuffling off this mortal coil earlier this year at the age of 90, the rock-and-roll pioneer Chuck Berry left behind his first new album in almost 40 years, featuring almost all new material written by the legend. Chuck was recorded around his home base of St. Louis, and features the local group that has backed him on 200+-dates over the past two decades. The group includes his children Charles Berry Jr. (guitar) and Ingrid Berry (harmonica), plus Jimmy Marsala (Berry's bassist of forty
Americana
Legendary Kinks frontman-songwriter Ray Davies returns with his first solo album in a decade, named after his acclaimed 2013. Davies wrote and arranged Americana, based on themes explored in his memoir, and was joined by co-producers Guy Massey and John Jackson, and The Jayhawks as his backing band. In addition to new Davies songs, the album also features brief spoken-word passages from the book, to create a musical autobiography of Davies' time in America. Available on CD, LP, and DD.
More Tomorrow: Esoteric Reissues Two From Unicorn, David Gilmour-Produced Band
What would it have sounded like if Pink Floyd's David Gilmour had produced the Eagles? One possible answer comes via his work with the British band Unicorn. Despite the patronage of the psychedelic rocker, Unicorn took many of its cues from the American West Coast. Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is remastering and expanding two albums from Unicorn, 1976's Too Many Crooks, and 1977's One More Tomorrow. Both titles are due this Friday, March 31, in the United Kingdom, and one week
Years
Real Gone is reissuing the debut album from singer-songwriter Marc Jonson. Years, released on Vanguard in 1972, has never been reissued on CD and features a light psyche/folk baroque sound. As a songwriter, Jonson has seen his songs covered by such artists as Robert Gordon, The Roches, Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega and The Smithereens. He has performed on several Disney albums and released two more solo albums and, in 2015, a collections of songs written over the years with David
Honeybeat: Groovy '60s Girl-Pop
Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl Pop, curated by Sheila Burgel from the Sony archives and released on Real Gone Music, features 19 songs from nine different labels, nearly a third of which have never been released on CD. While some tracks come from known artists such as Little Eva, Skeeter Davis and even Nichelle Nichols (who had a brief music career during her time on Star Trek), most are definitely of the "hidden treasure" variety. Burgel's notes feature interviews with many of the artists and the
Ends With And
1990s noise-pop group Helium releases Ends With And, a new compilation which collects 19 rare tracks across two LPs, including B-sides, EP and compilation tracks (two of which are by Mary Timony and Ash Bowie's Led Byrd side project) and four unreleased demos, including the unheard song "Golden Bridge." Available on vinyl and download/streaming. The compilation will be joined by vinyl reissues of 1995's The Dirt of Luck and 1997's The Magic City (the latter as a 2LP set with the EP No Guitars,
It's All Over Now [CD]
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. More than 40 years after it was recorded, legendary pub rock outfit Brinsley Schwarz's final studio album It's All Over Now is finally hitting record stores! Recorded in 1974, the album sat unreleased as the band's members went their separate ways. But now, U.K. label Mega Dodo, which released a live collection from the band in 2015, will release an official version of It's All Over Now with ten
California: Deluxe Edition
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blink-182's 2016 album California gets a quick reissue - but it amounts to a bonus of a complete new album! California will be expanded with a 12-track bonus disc, including the new single "Parking Lot," a Japanese bonus track ("Hey I'm Sorry") and an acoustic rendition of "Bored to Death." It's available on CD and vinyl, and color LP variants are available through the band's official store.
Gotta Be Cruel to Be Kind: Brinsley Schwarz's Final Album Released This Spring
More than 40 years after it was recorded, legendary pub rock outfit Brinsley Schwarz's final studio album It's All Over Now is finally hitting record stores in the spring. The venerable London quintet, comprised of Nick Lowe (vocals/bass), Ian Gomm (vocals/guitar), Brinsley Schwarz (guitar), Bob Andrews (keyboards) and Billy Rankin (drums), had endured their share of trials and tribulations throughout the 1970s. A disastrous pre-release publicity campaign in America, ending with a disastrous
Got Love If You Want It: More Record Store Day 2017 Essentials
Record Store Day's 10th anniversary couldn't be anything less than big. And with articles devoted to April 22's RSD releases from David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Omnivore Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Prince, Warner Music Group and Real Gone Music, you might wonder what there's left to say before the big day. But you'd be wrong! We've scoured the list to find another 23 must-have titles hitting the vinyl racks at fine independent music stores next month. Which of these favorites are on
Groovin': Playback Records Reissues Lost Jazz-Soul Classic From Sue Barker
After an auspicious initial slate of releases including On Broadway: The Songs of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, The Complete Steve and The Board, and I Want, Need, Love You! - Garage Beat Nuggets from the Festival Vaults, Australia's Playback Records has returned with another pair of essential releases. Both of these feature artists from Down Under, but are universal in their appeal. Today we spotlight the lone LP release from Sue Barker. (And don't miss our coverage of those initial releases
Review: Pink Floyd, "1970 DEVI/ATION"
For some fans, Pink Floyd begins with Dark Side of the Moon, the band's 1973 opus. But in reality, that classic was the culmination of roughly eight years of musical experimentation. Last year's massive box set The Early Years traced the evolution of the Floyd up through DSOTM through CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, vinyl singles, and printed memorabilia reproductions. Now, Pink Floyd Records and Sony have released six of that giant collection's seven components into individual book-style releases (one
Helium Discography Rising with New Vinyl Reissues
More than two decades after '90s noise-pop outfit Helium disbanded, Matador Records is celebrating their influence with a pair of vinyl reissues and a new rarities compilation due this spring. Formed in Boston, Helium underwent a variety of lineup shifts before signing to Matador, where the group was comprised of vocalist/guitarist Mary Timony, a singer in the fantastic tradition of Deborah Harry and Kim Gordon; bassist Ash Bowie, and former Dumptruck drummer Shawn King Devlin. Catchy singles
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