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May 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Truly something for everyone this week, from classic rock to live jazz and folk to...Christmas albums? Whitesnake, Greatest Hits (2022 Remix) (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Ahead of their farewell tour, David Coverdale has yet again revisited the Whitesnake catalogue through a series of remixes, this time pertaining

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Burl Ives, Christina Milian, Ernest Tubb, George Clinton, Grover Washington Jr., Herbie Hancock, John Schneider, Kenny Burrell, McCoy Tyner, One Way, Ray LaMontagne, Red Foley, Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs, The Format, Triumph, Whitesnake, Wu-Tang Clan

March 31, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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One of John Coltrane's most popular albums is getting reissued for its 60th anniversary. My Favorite Things was the jazz legend's fourth record for the Atlantic label, and one of the bestselling works of the genre. Its title track, a dazzling cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein's song from The Sound of Music, became a jazz radio staple and helped the album sell more than a half-million copies in the ensuing decades.The other three songs on the album come from the rich tradition of Great American

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner

May 19, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phyllis Hyman Old Friend

"Phyllis sat right in my class.  I can still see the pigtails."  In a 2016 interview with The Second Disc, Thom Bell shared his earliest memories of the late Phyllis Hyman (1949-1995).  The songwriter-arranger-conductor-producer would cross paths numerous times over the years with his childhood friend: first via Phyllis' hit recordings of his "Betcha By Golly Wow" and "Loving You - Losing You," and later, his own productions and songs for her.  "She was a lonely individual," observed Thom,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Barry Manilow, Grover Washington Jr., McCoy Tyner, Michael Henderson, Norman Connors, Pharoah Sanders, Phyllis Hyman

December 10, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Over the past few months you've probably heard us mention Vinyl Me Please. The subscription-based record club frequently partners with the major labels to create exclusive pressings from across genres. They also curate Records of the Month for subscribers - available in three tracks: Classics, Essentials, and Hip Hop - specially selected by their staff to spotlight albums of importance in pop, rock, soul, world music, jazz, and beyond.  This year, the offerings ran the gamut from The Stooges,

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Categories: Reviews Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Albert King, Buena Vista Social Club, Errol Garner, Erykah Badu, Gabor Szabo, Grateful Dead, John Mayer, McCoy Tyner, Otis Redding, Outkast, Sipritualized, Stevie Nicks, The Bar-Kays, The Stooges, The White Stripes

July 26, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Universal Music Group got off to a great start anthologizing the deep catalogue of Impulse! Records with a four-disc box set from Hip-o Select earlier this year. Today, that catalogue is revisited yet again, in the form of 28 albums from the jazz label's catalogue collected as two-on-one discs. The titles are pretty diverse, collecting sets from Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Alice Coltrane, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson and others. You can order each of the titles on Amazon here and

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Categories: News Tags: McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins

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