Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, Letter to You (Columbia) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black with white swirl: Bruce Springsteen Online Store 2-LP grey: Your Local Record Shop The Boss returns with a new, long-awaited album featuring The E Street Band.  Produced by Springsteen and his frequent collaborator Ron Aniello, it features original songs as well as his first recordings of three compositions he wrote early in his career but never officially released: “Janey Needs a Shooter,” “If I Was the Priest,” and “Song for Orphans.”  Letter…

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Funky Mama: Hard-To-Find Roland Haynes Album “2nd Wave” To Be Reissued by Real Gone Music

The deep-dive into Black Jazz Records’ catalogue continues! Real Gone Music has announced new CD and vinyl reissues of Roland Haynes’ only album, 2nd Wave, due on October 23.  The hard-to-find album features notable jazz sidemen like the ace rhythm section composed of drummer Carl Burnett (whose credits include Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi and Gene Harris and The Three Sounds), and bassist Henry ‘The Skipper’ Franklin (who’s recorded with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Hugh Masekela, and many others).  The star of the album, though, are the dual Fender Rhodes keyboards played by…

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