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Release Round-Up: Week of April 28

April 28, 2023 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Stephen Stills, Live at Berkeley 1971 (Omnivore/Iconic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Box: Stephen Stills Webstore Omnivore and Iconic Artists are serving up a previously unreleased 14-song live album drawn from Stephen Stills’ concerts at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, CA, on August 20 and 21, 1971. Culling songs from his solo catalogue as well as that of Buffalo Springfield and CSN(Y), Stills opened with an acoustic set and closed with an…

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Release Round-Up

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Ace of Base, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Rickie Lee Jones, Rush, Smokey Robinson, Sonny Stitt, Stephen Stills

They Say It’s Wonderful: Sonny Stitt Outtakes Arriving From Run Out Groove, Voting Open for Next Title

December 19, 2018 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Every month, Run Out Groove Vinyl lets music fans vote on a new high-quality vinyl release selected from the Warner Music vault. Last month, three jazz recordings — Chick Corea’s Tones for Joan’s Bones, The George Wallington Quartet’s The Prestidigitator , and a set of Sonny Stitt outtakes — were in the running. Jazz fans selected Sonny Stitt’s Lone Wolf: The Roost Alternates to be the next limited-edition, numbered LP release by Run Out Groove. The album is available for pre-order now through January 8 direct from the label. Sonny Stitt made…

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Vinyl

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Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Cher, Sonny Bono, Sonny Stitt, Sonny and Cher, The Meters

A Granz Old Time: Verve/UMe Honors ‘The Founder’ On New Box Set

December 6, 2018 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

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 Tad Hershorn, author of Norman Granz: The Man Who…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Run Out Groove To Offer One of Three Jazz Classics As Next Title

November 29, 2018 by Sam Stone | No Comments

The Second Disc recently reported that The Fire Theft’s debut is slated as the next Run Out Groove release. Always looking forward, the label has announced that polls are open to decide the next release in the queue, which will be one of three jazz titles. The first contender is The Prestidigitator by The George Wallington Quintet. From 1943 to 1953, pianist George Wallington built up an impressive resume, collaborating with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Kai Winding, Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, and many others. The bands he led from 1954 to 1960 included…

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Chick Corea, Sonny Stitt, The George Wallington Quintet