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May 17, 2022 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Hollywood Bowl 100

2022 marks 100 years of The Hollywood Bowl.  The famous amphitheater nestled in the Hollywood hills has hosted luminaries of every genre of music from classical to rock in its instantly familiar bandshell (actually two bandshells, as the first one from 1929 was demolished in 2003 and replaced with a larger model).  The Bowl has been featured in movies including the original A Star Is Born, Double Indemnity, Xanadu, and Beaches and cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and The Pink

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Count Basie, Donna Summer, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, John Barry, John Williams, L.A. Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Nat King Cole, Randy Newman, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Doors

October 20, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Story of Quincy Jones Anthology

Following the recent announcement of an Anthology box set for the Philadelphia International Records, record club Vinyl Me, Please has turned its attention to one of music's most famous multi-hyphenate talents: Quincy Jones.  The multi-instrumentalist-composer-producer-arranger-conductor's credits are too numerous to mention, but VMP's Anthology - due in January 2022 - provides a career overview bookended by two of his most acclaimed jazz recordings. The 12-LP box set The Story of Quincy

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Count Basie, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones

December 6, 2018 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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On December 7, Verve/UMe will release The Founder, a 4-CD box set in honor of Norman Granz's centennial earlier this year (August 6, 1918).  The collection will also be available as a digital download and on streaming services. The set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever. It presents a chronological overview of the first two decades of the jazz impresario's impressive career by way of recordings of the musicians he recorded. The booklet includes new liner notes by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anita O'Day, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Les Paul, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Mel Tormé, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz

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Granz plain

Verve/UME celebrate the career of a jazz impresario for the ages.  As founder of the Clef, Norgran and Verve labels, Granz helped bring jazz to the masses and launched the careers of many of the genre's brightest stars. The 4-CD set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever.  The booklet includes new liner notes by Tad Hershorn, author of Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice.  On the discs, you'll find incendiary performances by the likes of Coleman Hawkins

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Categories: Uncategorized Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anita O'Day, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Les Paul, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Mel Tormé, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz

April 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Teresa Brewer Bessie

In 1949, Teresa Brewer – born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio – released a 45 on the London label with the A-side “Copenhagen.”  But the A-side, performed with the Dixieland All-Stars, failed to launch Brewer to stardom.  That honor went to the flip – Stephen Weiss and Bernie Baum’s “Music! Music! Music!,” and soon, everyone was singing along to Brewer’s plea to “put another nickel in/In the nickelodeon.”  The perky Brewer returned to the million-selling chart-topper numerous times throughout her

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Teresa Brewer

September 15, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

sinatra basie swing

When Frank Sinatra met Count Basie, it was far from a clash of the titans.  No, the "historic musical first" that occurred between the grooves of Reprise 1008 in 1962 was more like a perfect union.  Both were Jersey boys, with Basie's formative years spent south of Hoboken, in Red Bank, New Jersey.  The men were unusually simpatico, similar in their enormous respect for musicians.  Though Basie titled a 1959 album Chairman of the Board, the title was later bestowed upon Sinatra.  When Basie put

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones

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