Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Melissa Manchester, Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7" Singles (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The timeless songs of Melissa Manchester are collected on a new, comprehensive anthology from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. Through the Eyes of Love: The Complete Arista 7″ Singles brings together 43 songs and 157 minutes of beautiful music on two CDs, including such all-time hits and
We've told you about the first batch of Real Gone Music's releases for September, including the Second Disc Records collection of Melissa Manchester's Arista singles. Now, we've got the final two releases on Real Gone's September slate to share. First up, due on September 8, is an expanded edition of 1988's He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The group began when Will Smith ("The Fresh Prince") and Jeff Townes ("DJ Jazzy Jeff") met at a party where Townes
FiveFour, the jazz-oriented sister label of Cherry Red’s él imprint, had lain dormant since 2008 following releases by some of the genre’s greatest artists including Bill Evans, Buddy Rich and Milt Jackson. Founder Mike Alway has just reactivated FiveFour, however, and the label has just relaunched with three long out-of-print titles drawn from the Sony Music archives: Ornette Coleman’s Chappaqua Suite (1965), The Gary Burton Quartet’s In Concert (1968) and a two-fer from Luis Bonfá: The New