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April 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Smackwater Jack LP

A cadre of titles from the discography of the late Quincy Jones - spanning nearly 25 years of his storied career - are coming back into print on physical formats thanks to the shared efforts of Universal' Music Group's teams in America and Japan. Coming June 6 are new SHM-CD pressings of seven of Jones' LPs: This is How I Feel About Jazz (1957), The Quintessence (1962), Big Band Bossa Nova (1962), Walking in Space (1969), Body Heat (1974), Mellow Madness (1975), Sounds...and Stuff Like

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Chaka Khan, Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, James Ingram, Lalo Schifrin, Leon Ware, Luther Vandross, Minnie Riperton, Patti Austin, Quincy Jones, Zoot Sims

November 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream Sally May

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got Beach Boys covers with some fascinating history related to the band, a tribute to one of the greatest musical icons we lost this year, a new single from a legend of R&B and much more - plus a call to action to help a family in need. California Music, Don't Worry Baby EP (RCA) (iTunes / Amazon) One of the most unusual

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bartees Strange, Brian Wilson, Frantique, John Williams, Madonna, Quincy Jones, The Beach Boys

November 4, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Quincy Jones Walking in Space

Quincy Delight Jones was just 14 years old when he introduced himself to Ray Charles.  Though the pianist-singer was just two years older, he was already an inspiration to the younger musician.  Charles had the gift of synthesizing the various strains of music - jazz, folk, country, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, and gospel, among them - into a sound both wholly new and wholly American.  Jones was struck by how Charles overcame adversity, and their shared ethos became one which shaped young

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Categories: News Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks Tags: Quincy Jones

September 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Frank Sinatra LA Is My Lady

Start spreading the news!  Frank Sinatra may have taken John Kander and Fred Ebb's timeless "(Theme From) New York, New York" to the charts, but the Chairman of the Board also had a soft spot for the City of Angels.  In 1984, he teamed with the legendary Quincy Jones, fresh off a little 1982 album called Thriller, to craft what would become the final solo studio album of Sinatra's extraordinary career.  On October 25, Frank Sinatra Enterprises and UMe will reissue L.A. Is My Lady in a remixed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones

April 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week's super-sized post-Record Store Day lineup includes more: more remixes, more covers, more Mancini and yes, more Taylor Swift. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (Republic) (iTunes / Amazon) Can you really call this a reissue? Pop's most ubiquitous

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Anthony Perkins, Arturo Sandoval, Beck, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, David Byrne, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, INXS, John Williams, Keith Richards, Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Madonna, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Paramore, Quincy Jones, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg, Stephen Stills, Taylor Swift, The Chicks, The Lumineers, Tom Jones, U2, Willie Nelson

July 29, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Big things happening in this column: two big box sets from a legendary prog-turned-pop outfit, rare mixes from one of pop's most legendary performers, tons of remixes from a soulful producer/performer and 200(!) classical titles from a legendary British label. Whew! Genesis, Archive #1 (1969 - 1975) /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: ABC, Al Jarreau, Ashford and Simpson, Babyface, Barry Manilow, Barry White, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, El DeBarge, Genesis, Gloria Estefan, James Ingram, Madonna, Mike Rutherford, Miles Davis, Mya, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pulp, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Ronald Isley, Siedah Garrett, Steve Hackett, Stevie Wonder, Tevin Campbell, The Art of Noise, Tony Banks

September 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 13 Comments

Thriller 40 packshot real

It's hard to know what a Michael Jackson event release looks like today. For one, the King of Pop is very much dead; for another, November's impending release of Thriller 40 is the third reissue of the bestselling album. Are the vaults empty? Is the estate stingy? (This is, after all, the same Jackson estate that bizarrely changed the font on the cover, got very defensive about it, yet changed it again, with a new slipcase. Also, the upcoming Mobile Fidelity vinyl edition may have gotten the

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones

May 16, 2022 By The Second Disc 14 Comments

Thriller 40 packshot

"Darkness falls across the land / the midnight hour is close at hand..." OK, maybe that's pushing it a little, but today Legacy Recordings did announce a forthcoming 2CD expansion of Michael Jackson's landmark Thriller for its 40th anniversary. The world's best-selling album spun off seven of its nine songs as Top 10 singles in America and helped win the King of Pop a record-setting eight Grammy Awards in one night. (Let's not forget that the eighth was for a storybook album based on E.T. the

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Eddie Van Halen, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Toto

October 20, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Story of Quincy Jones Anthology

Following the recent announcement of an Anthology box set for the Philadelphia International Records, record club Vinyl Me, Please has turned its attention to one of music's most famous multi-hyphenate talents: Quincy Jones.  The multi-instrumentalist-composer-producer-arranger-conductor's credits are too numerous to mention, but VMP's Anthology - due in January 2022 - provides a career overview bookended by two of his most acclaimed jazz recordings. The 12-LP box set The Story of Quincy

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Count Basie, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones

June 18, 2021 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Ray Charles True Genius

Ray Charles formed Tangerine Records in 1962 as part of the creative freedom he earned by jumping from Atlantic Records to ABC-Paramount.  In addition to many of his Charles' own recordings, Tangerine issued music from Louis Jordan, Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Scott, Ike and Tina Turner, and other artists championed by The Genius.  The label closed in 1973 when Charles departed the ABC roster, but the Ray Charles Foundation has recently reactivated it for a special 6-CD anthology celebrating its

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Billy Joel, Chaka Khan, Eric Clapton, Hank Williams Jr, Lou Rawls, Milt Jackson, Norah Jones, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson

February 15, 2021 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Impulse Music Message and The Moment

Since its initial 1961 releases produced by founder Creed Taylor, Impulse! Records has been synonymous with excellence in jazz.  "The House That Trane Built" was stylish both in packaging (with its distinctive orange-and-black color scheme and exclamation point) and content, with a remarkable artist roster boasting not only John Coltrane but Charles Mingus, Ray Charles, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Quincy Jones, McCoy Tyner, Gil Evans, Oliver Nelson, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hartman, and Pharoah

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Ahmad Jamal, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, Stanley Turrentine

December 11, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Santa Claus the Movie OST

Following La-La Land Records' recently-announced mega-slate of Black Friday releases, Spain's Quartet Records label has revealed its own impressive line-up of end-of-the-year reissues. The label has brought out the heavy hitters - including Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, and Quincy Jones - for an exciting group of limited edition soundtracks. Below, you'll find Quartet's own write-ups for each title, with pre-order links to the label as well as to Screen Archives

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone, Enrique Iglesias, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Quincy Jones, Ron Goodwin

November 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Melissa Manchester Mathematics

Melissa Manchester announced her independence from Arista Records when she signed to MCA Records after nearly a decade with Clive Davis' famous label.  At Arista, Manchester had established herself as one of the finest singer-songwriters of her era (or any other!) as well as a first-class pop interpreter.  At MCA, she reinvented herself further by jumping headfirst into the world of dance-oriented synthpop, Hi-NRG, and new wave.  1985's Mathematics bore the period's hallmark of multiple big-name

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Craig Safan, David Shire, George Duke, Melissa Manchester, Quincy Jones

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We've got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won't want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

May 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Wes In the Beginning

Never-before-heard music by Wes Montgomery isn't easy to come by.  Montgomery - an influence to George Benson, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Metheny and every great guitar man in between - didn't enter a recording studio until 25 years of age, didn't record as a leader until another ten years had elapsed, and was dead ten years after that, felled by a heart attack at age 45. His body of work can neatly be divided into three distinct periods at different labels: Riverside (1959-1964), Verve (1964-1966) and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Monk Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery

September 10, 2012 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

the adventurers ost

It’s not quite time yet for the long goodbye to new announcements for 2012, but for Quartet Records, it is time for The Long Goodbye.  John Williams’ score to Robert Altman’s 1973 film leads off another group of essential new buys for soundtrack fans and collectors.  Quartet is pairing The Long Goodbye with a late-period Henry Mancini classic, the score to Blake Edwards’ 1988 comedy-western Sunset.  But that’s not all.  Kritzerland has a true "wow" release with a gloriously restored stereo

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Quincy Jones

August 28, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Frank Zappa, Official Reissues #15-26 (Zappa Records/UMe) FZ's 1972-1979 discography, almost entirely sourced from original analog masters. (Joe breaks it all down for you here!) Various Artists, A&M 50: The Anniversary Collection (A&M/UMe) Three discs of hits and favorites from a most eclectic of major labels. Elvis Presley, A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings (Follow That Dream) The King's complete Sun tenure, with single masters, alternates, live takes and more -

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Quincy Jones, Sheryl Crow, Simon and Garfunkel, Squeeze, The Brecker Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Police

May 9, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Great catalogue music often arrives in the unlikeliest of places.  Universal Music Classics and Jazz’s German division has created the budget Jazz Club label, celebrating artists from the various labels under the Universal umbrella.  And though its titles may not be available at your local shop, they’re well worth seeking out, offering plenty of material not available elsewhere.  Two of the most recent Jazz Club releases are of a particularly rare vintage.  Wir Lieben Bacharach! collects 18

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Categories: News Tags: Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones

November 22, 2011 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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If you don’t know the name Neal Hefti, you undoubtedly know the man’s music…whether it’s the indelible, insinuating, harpsichord-and-brass theme to The Odd Couple, or the frenetic, groovy Batman theme from the Caped Crusader’s campy television show.   And Quincy Jones, the man known as Q, needs no introduction.  Like Hefti a veteran of jazz and big band, Jones’ trailblazing productions on landmark albums such as Michael Jackson’s Thriller (to name just one) ensured his place in the pantheon. 

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones

November 4, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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With the release of another major holy grail in the world of soundtrack collecting yesterday, it's worth pointing out another four awesome archival titles that may have been lost in the shuffle this past week. First, Intrada's latest batch of catalogue soundtrack releases, announced Monday, bring to light two underrated gems from two very different composers. First up, after years of waiting, is an official release to the score to the 2003 sci-fi cult-classic The Core. Composer Christopher

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Quincy Jones

September 15, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

sinatra basie swing

When Frank Sinatra met Count Basie, it was far from a clash of the titans.  No, the "historic musical first" that occurred between the grooves of Reprise 1008 in 1962 was more like a perfect union.  Both were Jersey boys, with Basie's formative years spent south of Hoboken, in Red Bank, New Jersey.  The men were unusually simpatico, similar in their enormous respect for musicians.  Though Basie titled a 1959 album Chairman of the Board, the title was later bestowed upon Sinatra.  When Basie put

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones

March 29, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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UPDATE 4/4: We now have confirmation on the track lists for each set! Original post: Next week, another batch of ICON compilations will be released by Universal Music Group. This is particularly interesting, considering that all of the track lists for these upcoming sets have yet to be revealed. Indeed, pre-order links on Amazon and other sites don't even have all of these track lists, or cover art, finalized. (This is doubly ironic considering another batch of ICON titles is slate for May,

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Categories: News Tags: Quincy Jones, Sublime, The Who

February 26, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The next batch of Universal's ICON series is out in a few days, but we're already seeing more on the horizon. Two Icon country titles are coming out on March 22: one by Josh Turner, who enjoyed his biggest hit on the country charts last year with the No. 1 single "Why Don't We Just Dance," and Billy Currington, who's racked up an impressive nine Top 10 singles on the country charts since his debut in 2003. But that's not all - April 5 is going to see another batch of ICON discs from all

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Categories: News Tags: Quincy Jones, Sublime, The Who

November 18, 2010 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we reflect on well-known albums of the past and the reissues they could someday see. This week, Quincy Jones' latest mingling with a new generation of artists leads to a recollection of the first (and best) time he did it. Last week saw the release of Q: Soul Bossa Nostra, the first full-fledged studio album by Quincy Jones since Basie and Beyond back in 2000. Now, Q is one of the greatest figures in pop and soul music alive today. He's

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Categories: News Tags: Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Reissue Theory

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