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Impossible Dreamer: Joni Mitchell Collects “Joni’s Jazz” on New Box Set

June 25, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

What is jazz? The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer. On September 5, the legendary singer-songwriter’s Archives series continues with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni’s Jazz. These 61 selections – available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs – draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography with just a couple of exceptions (Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon) and reflect the breadth of the artist’s immersion into the jazz idiom in all its many varied forms. Last year, in her liner…

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Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, Kyle Eastwood, Wayne Shorter

Reissues…and Stuff Like That! Classic Quincy Jones Titles Due on Vinyl, SHM-CD This Summer

April 30, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

A cadre of titles from the discography of the late Quincy Jones – spanning nearly 25 years of his storied career – are coming back into print on physical formats thanks to the shared efforts of Universal’ Music Group’s teams in America and Japan. Coming June 6 are new SHM-CD pressings of seven of Jones’ LPs: This is How I Feel About Jazz (1957), The Quintessence (1962), Big Band Bossa Nova (1962), Walking in Space (1969), Body Heat (1974), Mellow Madness (1975), Sounds…and Stuff Like That!! (1978) and The Dude (1981). Each will be packaged in the usual style, as part of UMG’s “All of…

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Ashford and Simpson, Chaka Khan, Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, James Ingram, Lalo Schifrin, Leon Ware, Luther Vandross, Minnie Riperton, Patti Austin, Quincy Jones, Zoot Sims

Release Round-Up: Week of April 18

April 18, 2025 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Neil Young, Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise/NYA) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The concert film Coastal, documenting Neil Young’s 2023 solo concert tour, was released to cinemas yesterday; today, its soundtrack album arrives on CD, LP, and digital formats. The 11-track album includes Young favorites such as “I Am a Child,” “Expecting to Fly,” “Comes a Time,” and “Vampire Blues.” Dame Shirley Bassey, The Singer (Cherry…

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Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Donna Summer, Francois Hardy, John Cowsill, Kenny Dorham, Melanie, Neil Young, Patsy Cline, Richard Pryor, Shirley Bassey, The Rembrandts, Vicki Peterson

Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

April 2, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you’re wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share with you more than four dozen one-offs, archival…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, CHVRCHES, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

Refugee of the Roads: Joni Mitchell’s Latest Archives Box Takes Listeners to the End of the ’70s

August 8, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

Rhino’s Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label – Hejira (1976), Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) – today’s new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and studio material tied to those records. Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980), released October 4, will feature six CDs…

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Charles Mingus, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Jan Hammer, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Pat Metheny, T Bone Burnett

Dreamland: Joni Mitchell’s “The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)” Arrives in June

April 30, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums 1976 1980

Hot on the heels of the release of Joni Mitchell’s The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) in “Quadio” quadraphonic surround, another entry in the singer-songwriter’s acclaimed Archives series is on the way. On June 21, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will arrive on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing this chapter of Mitchell’s extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell’s hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode. Following the tour for 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery and restless creativity which…

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Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell

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Carefree Highway: Rhino Announces New Wave of Quadio Titles from Gordon Lightfoot, Spinners, America, Charles Mingus

October 16, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Rhino’s Quadio series, presenting original four-channel quadraphonic album mixes on Blu-ray, relaunched earlier this year with a quartet of titles from Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, J. Geils Band, and Jefferson Starship – watch this space for a review of all four releases tomorrow! Now, the label has unveiled the next batch of Quadio titles which are all available now exclusively through Rhino.com. This group is an even more eclectic one, with R&B (The Spinners), jazz (Charles Mingus), classic rock-pop (America), and pop-folk and country (Gordon Lightfoot). When The Spinners left Motown Records…

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America, Charles Mingus, Gordon Lightfoot, The Spinners

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2023 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Little Feat, Sailin’ Shoes: Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1972’s Sailin’ Shoes was the second album from the original Little Feat lineup of singer-guitarist Lowell George, drummer Richard Hayward, keyboard player Bill Payne, and bassist Roy Estrada. The LP spawned numerous signature songs which would later be covered by the band’s many fans, including “Sailin’ Shoes” (Van Dyke Parks, Robert Palmer), “Easy to Slip” (Bob Weir, Black Crowes), “A Apolitical Blues” (Van Halen),…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Charles Mingus, Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Matt Monro, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Sonny Rollins, Stewart Copeland, Straight No Chaser, The Lloyds, The Police

Farewell Farwell: Charles Mingus’ Last Works Chronicled in New Rhino Box Set

May 30, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Influential jazz composer-bassist Charles Mingus has been the subject of numerous collections over the years encompassing his various label affiliations. The 1997 box set Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 brought together his early discography for the Atlantic Records label; now, as part of the Mingus 100 festivities, Rhino is turning its attention to his second Atlantic period. On June 23, the label will release Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Recordings on 7 CDs, 8 LPs, and digital formats. The box collects new remasters of all seven of Mingus’…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 29

April 29, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of today’s new releases! Neil Young, Official Release Series Volume 4 (Reprise) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Greedy Hand Store A new box set brings together three of Neil Young’s ’80s albums, along with a rare EP making its widest release yet. Official Release Series Volume 4 runs the gamut of Young’s eclectic output in the ’80s – likely because it only covers his releases on his longtime home base of Reprise Records. (From 1982 to 1987, Young signed instead to Geffen Records.) The ’80s were a…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

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Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Sparks, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of April 22

April 22, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! T. Rex, 1972 [Various Formats] (Edsel) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Signed by Tony Visconti: Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Edsel is looking back on Marc Bolan and T. Rex’s prolific 1972 with a new box set available in 5 CD, 6 LP, and 2 LP formats. The all-encompassing 1972 includes The Slider album, Live at Wembley: The Matinee Show (plus two previously unreleased 1972 mixes from The Evening Show), an expanded Born…

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Bonnie Raitt, Brian May, Charles Mingus, Herb Alpert, Lani Hall, Rumer, T Rex

‘Mingus Three’ and More: Deluxe Edition of Jazz Bassist’s Album Includes Eight Unreleased Tracks

March 24, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Composer/bassist/pianist/leader Charles Mingus would have turned 100 on April 22, 2022. While the influential artist passed away in 1979 at the age of 56, his music has continued to inspire and influence countless musicians since. On April 22, Mingus’ actual birthday, Rhino will release a deluxe 2CD or 2LP edition of his 1957 album for Jubilee Records, Mingus Three, featuring eight previously unreleased performances. The release also commemorates Jazz Appreciation Month, held every April in the United States. Mingus Three, featuring the leader on bass, was a rare trio record for Mingus. …

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 11

June 11, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Black Sabbath, Sabotage: Super Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 4LP/7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com Rhino is expanding Black Sabbath’s 1975 album Sabotage to 4CD and 4LP/7″ proportions. The upcoming Super Deluxe Edition boasts a remastered version of the original album plus a complete live show from Sabbath’s 1975 tour. The vinyl version only includes a bonus 7-inch single of the single edit of “Am I Going Insane (Radio)” b/w “Hole in the Sky,” replicating…

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Short Takes: Acoustic Sounds Continues Verve, Impulse! Reissue Series; UMe Breaks Out Individual Traffic LPs from Box Set; Omnivore Collects Emitt Rhodes’ The Palace Guard

May 20, 2021 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Impulse! Records’ 60th anniversary celebration continues all year with Verve/UMe and Acoustic Sounds’ ongoing series of deluxe audiophile reissues drawn from the label’s storied catalogue. The full 2021 slate of releases – 2-3 per month through December – has been announced. It features some of the heaviest hitters from the Impulse! discography including Ray Charles, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane. A number of titles from the Verve catalogue will also be reissued including classic LPs from Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, and others. All titles in the…

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Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Emitt Rhodes, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, The Palace Guard, Traffic

Give It Up! Rhino, Run Out Groove Celebrate Black Music Month in June with Charles Mingus, Roberta Flack, Curtis Mayfield, The Time, More

May 11, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

On June 7, 1979, President Jimmy Carter recognized June as Black Music Month. Thirty years later, President Barack Obama, the first African-American to hold the nation’s highest office, commemorated the designation. He noted that the rich legacy of black music had encouraged citizens “to dance, to express our faith through song, to march against injustice, and to defend our country’s enduring promise of freedom and opportunity for all.” This June and into July, Rhino and sister imprint Run Out Groove will celebrate Black Music Month (or African-American Music Appreciation Month) with a…

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Charles Mingus, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Ray Charles, Roberta Flack, The Drifters, The Time, Zapp and Roger

Better Get Hit In Yo’ Soul: 60 Years of Impulse! Records Celebrated On New CD, LP Box Set

February 15, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Since its initial 1961 releases produced by founder Creed Taylor, Impulse! Records has been synonymous with excellence in jazz. “The House That Trane Built” was stylish both in packaging (with its distinctive orange-and-black color scheme and exclamation point) and content, with a remarkable artist roster boasting not only John Coltrane but Charles Mingus, Ray Charles, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Quincy Jones, McCoy Tyner, Gil Evans, Oliver Nelson, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hartman, and Pharoah Sanders. On Friday, Impulse! and UMe announced a 60th anniversary celebration of the still-active label encompassing a new box…

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Ahmad Jamal, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, Stanley Turrentine

The Second Disc’s Guide To Record Store Day Drop 2, September 26!

September 25, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

2020 has been a bit of a rollercoaster and Record Store Day 2020 is no exception: once scheduled in April, it moved forward a few months, and is now spread out across three Saturdays in the summer and fall. The Record Store Day Drop in August proved a success and round two, set for tomorrow, September 26, is sure to please fans of all genres and eras. It’s a diverse list full of exciting releases that you can only find through your local brick-and-mortar record store (or through their online storefronts as…

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