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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

August 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

Herb Alpert Is CD packshot

There are truly few in the music business like Herb Alpert. A trumpet player, songwriter, label co-founder, sculptor and philanthropist - Alpert is all these things and more, and they're all due to be on display in a forthcoming documentary, appropriately titled Herb Alpert Is..., slated to premiere October 1. Just one day later, a new overview of his storied musical career is due. The box set Herb Alpert Is..., to be released through his own Herb Alpert Presents label, will compile 63 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Hugh Masekela, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

December 11, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Casino Royale 50th

Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale/They came to save the world and win the gal at Casino Royale!  Six of them went to a heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot... Hal David's lyric captures just a small fraction of the insanity of Charles K. Feldman's 1967 Casino Royale, the big-budget comic extravaganza and cult favorite that was "too much...for one James Bond!"  And so, David Niven as James Bond was joined by 007s of all shapes and sizes (and genders!),

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Categories: Interviews, News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

February 22, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Herb Alpert Bullish

Last September, Herb Alpert delivered a major catalogue campaign with 25 classic titles on CD (plus a few select vinyl releases) from his solo and Tijuana Brass discographies.  Now, that campaign is continuing this Friday, February 24, with another three rare titles coming back to CD in newly-remastered editions from the original analogue tapes!  The new titles, all housed in digipaks, are: Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela (1978) - Soul, funk and jazz meet up on this first collaboration and fusion

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lani Hall

August 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

Herb Alpert Catalog Reissues

Herb Alpert is about to release his latest studio album, Human Nature, on September 30, and it looks to be an exciting set even by the high standards of the eternally youthful trumpeter.  His fourth album in three years, Human Nature features five original songs plus reworkings of Steve Porcaro and John Bettis' "Human Nature" (the 1983 Michael Jackson hit), Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Alfie" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," and a world premiere composition from Bacharach and Elvis Costello,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lani Hall

November 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beach Boys Party Uncovered and Unplugged

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up which continues this autumn's tradition of having each week packed with box sets from heavy hitters - in this case, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Queen, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, and they're still not all!  Plus: CD and vinyl reissues, anthologies, and much more! The Beach Boys, Beach Boys' Party: Uncovered and Unplugged (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The first disc of this 2-CD, 81-track set features the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jo Jo Gunne, John Coltrane, Lee Michaels, Love, Queen, Roger Waters, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Timi Yuro, Weather Report

October 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.  Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: a-ha, Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks

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