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December 9, 2022 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Cheap Trick Live at the Whisky

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COMCheap Trick, Live at The Whisky 1977 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 4CD set compiles a quartet of Cheap Trick's complete, uncut shows recorded at the Whisky-a-Go-Go in Los Angeles in the summer of 1977. It's limited to just 2,000 copies and chronicles when Robin Zander, guitarist/songwriter Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Jardine, Cheap Trick, David Crosby, Donald Byrd, Hugh Jackman, Journey, Little River Band

April 22, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Donald Byrd and Blackbyrds Jazz Funk Collection

Donald Byrd was well-versed in the art of reinvention. The trumpeter/bandleader 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. But in the years to come, the sound of music would shift radically. Byrd would change with it. His

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Donald Byrd, The Blackbyrds

October 7, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

AndrewHill BlackFire

Back in February, we reported on Blue Note Records' Tone Poet Reissue Series, a new initiative by label president Don Was and audiophile jazz expert Joe Harley that presents detailed vinyl reissues of Blue Note classics and overlooked titles from the label's 80-year history.  Each title is an all-analog affair, mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl at RTI, then housed in deluxe gatefold packaging. The first titles - Wayne Shorter's Etcetera and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd, Gil Evans, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine

April 13, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Donald Byrd Love Has Come Around

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

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Donald Byrd, Isaac Hayes

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