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December 6, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Story of Cadet Records

Following recent releases celebrating The Comedy Store, Ghetto Records, and the Philadelphia International label, the Vinyl Me, Please record club has announced the next title in its lavish Anthology series.  The Story of Cadet Records, with eight albums spanning the halcyon era of 1968-1972, is available for pre-order now. Cadet Records emerged in 1965 as the successor to Argo Records, the jazz imprint of Chicago-based rhythm-and-blues label Chess Records.  When brothers and co-founders

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Dorothy Ashby, Etta James, Muddy Waters, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection, Shades of Brown, Terry Callier, The Harold Land Quintet

June 25, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead Skull and Roses

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses): 50th Anniversary Edition (Grateful Dead/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Dead.net (B&W Vinyl) Rhino continues its series of 50th anniversary reissues for Grateful Dead with the band's 1971 self-titled live album with the famous "Skull and Roses" cover.  The centerpiece of the reissue is more than hour of

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Evans, Deniece Williams, Etta James, Frankie Valli, Goo Goo Dolls, Grateful Dead, Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jennifer Nettles, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, The Rubinoos, The Yardbirds, Toto, Victor Herbert

April 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Nina Simone Montreux Years

Since 1967, the annual Montreux Jazz Festival has brought fans to Switzerland to enjoy world-class music from top-tier artists.  Over the years, the festival's purview has expanded beyond pure jazz; Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Elton John have all played there as well as Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and Herb Alpert.  Numerous concert albums have been recorded at Montreux, among them sets from Alice Cooper, Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter, Ella Fitzgerald, and Chick Corea.  Now, BMG is adding to that

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Etta James, Nina Simone

July 1, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

BTTF 35 Mondo

On July 3, 1985, mass audiences got to take a trip Back To The Future thanks to the year's top-grossing film. For its 35th anniversary, the film and music fans at Mondo are bringing the film's classic soundtrack back to vinyl with a cool twist: an unused piece of front cover artwork courtesy of the series' beloved poster artist. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's time-travel fantasy found Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), an average California teen in 1985, accidentally transported 30 years into the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Huey Lewis and The News, Lindsey Buckingham, Phil Collins

December 14, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

etta james complete private rock box

Etta James and Sarah Vaughan: by any and all accounts, two formidable women of song.  Now, these late legends are both receiving the deluxe treatment from Legacy Recordings on two box sets as part of the Complete Albums series. Though Etta James' most enduring recordings were made during her sixteen years (1960-1976) at Chess Records, including her oft-imitated but never-topped perennial "At Last," the former Jamesetta Hawkins recorded for over fifty years in a variety of genres for a variety

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Etta James, Sarah Vaughan

July 18, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

etta queen of soul

When Argo Records crowned Etta James The Queen of Soul on the cover of a 1964 LP, Aretha Franklin hadn't yet staked claim to that title.  Revisiting that album today, Etta's status as royalty still seems unassailable.  Thankfully, we have that opportunity thanks to Kent Records via its new expansion of Queen of Soul with fourteen bonus tracks added to the original LP's ten songs.  Plus, Kent has delivered a new release from one of the undisputed kings of soul: Clarence Carter.  The Fame Singles

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Clarence Carter, Etta James

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