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May 20, 2021 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

The Palace Guard All Night Long

Impulse! Records' 60th anniversary celebration continues all year with Verve/UMe and Acoustic Sounds' ongoing series of deluxe audiophile reissues drawn from the label's storied catalogue.  The full 2021 slate of releases - 2-3 per month through December - has been announced.  It features some of the heaviest hitters from the Impulse! discography including Ray Charles, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane.  A number of titles from the Verve catalogue will also be reissued

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Emitt Rhodes, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, The Palace Guard, Traffic

August 28, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! America, Half Century (America Records/Gonzo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 50th anniversary celebration of America rolls on with a massive new box set. Half Century is an expansive 7-CD/1-DVD box packed with rare and previously unreleased material from the beloved band featuring Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and the late Dan Peek. There's a slew of unreleased demos circa 1970; a remastered full-length radio session in Bremen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, Bettye LaVette, Bobby Rush, Dan Penn, Doug Carn, Elliott Smith, Jean Carn, Jean Carne, Joao Gilberto, Louis Armstrong, Metallica, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, The Allman Betts Band, The Awakening, Unicorn, Walter Bishop Jr.

July 28, 2020 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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Verve Label Group and UMe have announced a new collaboration with the audiophile reissue label Acoustic Sounds that finds the team offering up what's said to be "definitive audiophile grade versions of some of the most historic and best jazz records ever recorded."  It's set to launch this Friday, July 31, on August 28 with two classic duets albums: Stan Getz and João Gilberto's landmark Getz/Gilberto (featuring Astrud Gilberto) and the singular Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Joao Gilberto, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz

December 6, 2018 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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On December 7, Verve/UMe will release The Founder, a 4-CD box set in honor of Norman Granz's centennial earlier this year (August 6, 1918).  The collection will also be available as a digital download and on streaming services. The set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever. It presents a chronological overview of the first two decades of the jazz impresario's impressive career by way of recordings of the musicians he recorded. The booklet includes new liner notes by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anita O'Day, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Les Paul, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Mel Tormé, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz

July 17, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Jazz Loves Bernstein

August 25, 2018 will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, and while the maestro passed away in 1990 at the age of 72, he left behind a lifetime of remarkable music in multiple genres.  A number of classical releases have been issued for the Bernstein centennial, but a new entry concentrates on the popular side of the composer.  The 2-CD anthology Jazz Loves Bernstein, on the Decca Broadway label in association with Verve and UMe, collects 27 examples from the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Bob James, Diana Krall, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Tormé, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan

February 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities and Best of the Rest (Stax/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings boxes up a fourth volume of rare singles from the Stax vaults.  Volume Four lives up to its subtitle, collecting odds and ends from Stax and its various imprints by artists including not just the label's usual heavy hitters but also Big Star, Billy Eckstine, Delaney and Bonnie, and others.  80 pages of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Hillman, Mitch Miller, Nina Simone, Oscar Peterson, Ringo Starr, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Toto

October 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

The Astaire Story

A beloved collaboration between Fred Astaire and a clutch of legendary jazz musicians, The Astaire Story, is being rediscovered on CD for its 65th anniversary. "The history of dance on film begins and ends with Astaire," Gene Kelly once declared. The versatile performer, born Frederick Austerlitz in 1899, revolutionized the way footwork was shown on screen in more than two dozen films, with everyone from Rudolf Nuryev to Michael Jackson citing him as an influence. But Astaire was a capable

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Fred Astaire, Oscar Peterson

March 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

West Side Story Jazz

Last August, Steven Spielberg was asked to confirm rumors that he was planning to direct a new film adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story. The legendary filmmaker confessed, “Well, you know something, West Side Story is one of my favorite Broadway musicals and one of the greatest pieces of musical literature, my goodness, one of the greatest scores and some of the greatest lyrics ever written for a musical, so just let me put it this way: it’s on my mind.” The musical by librettist

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Stephen Sondheim, The Dave Brubeck Quartet

November 21, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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More than half a century after visionary music impresario Norman Granz founded his third and arguably most successful label, Verve Records, the label will be celebrated in style next month with a new book and a five-disc box set, The Sound of America: The Singles Collection. Granz had previously come to prominence in the jazz world a decade before, when he organized a diverse jam session of a concert at Los Angeles' Philharmonic Auditorium in 1944. This regular session turned into a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz

October 7, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

pablo reissues

When impresario Norman Granz founded the Pablo label in 1973, fusion, funk and Latin sounds were at the forefront of jazz.  Granz, founder of the Verve, Norgran and Clef labels, initially launched Pablo as a platform for his management clients Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass, but soon its roster was filled out with the equally starry likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan.  Granz’ new label was an instant success and a safe haven for traditional jazz in this period

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Tags: Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Stephane Grappelli, Zoot Sims

September 17, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The Band, LIve at the Academy of Music: The Rock of Ages Concerts (Capitol/UMe) This five-disc box set (four CDs and a DVD) features selections from The Band's famed four-night run in New York in 1971. Though these shows would create the live Rock of Ages album, this box instead features highlights from the shows on two discs (including guest appearances by Bob Dylan), another two discs of the complete soundboard mix of the final concert on New Year's Eve 1971, and a DVD with 5.1 surround mixes

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Matt Monro, Oscar Peterson, Roy Orbison, The Alan Parsons Project, The Band, The Grateful Dead, Vinyl

August 5, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Concord Music Group’s Original Jazz Classics line recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer’s famed Riverside Records label with five reissues from Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Wes Montgomery, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, and Cannonball Adderley and Milt Jackson.  (Expect a full review of all five titles soon!)  On September 17, the OJC series will turn its attention to the 40th anniversary of jazz impresario Norman Granz’s Pablo Records with the reissue of

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Categories: News Tags: Oscar Peterson

July 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

jazz at the bowl

The names of the greatest producers in jazz history still resonate today. The likes of Orrin Keepnews, Creed Taylor and Norman Granz (to name a mere three) all pioneered production and promotion styles that made their releases both identifable and enduring.  Next week will see the release on Hip-o Select of a major project by that third-named gentleman. Granz (1918-2001) founded five record labels in his lifetime, but none more renowned than Verve. That label was created by Granz in 1956, and

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Categories: News Tags: Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson

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