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The Weekend Stream: July 13, 2024

July 13, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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, there’s rare jazz, country, pop standards and gospel, plus remixes of a Madonna hit and one of the most unexpected Disney covers you’ll ever hear. Madonna, Who’s That Girl EP (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) ¿Quién es esa niña? Madonna’s international chart-topping 1987 single – the title track to her first soundtrack album from the film of the same name, which she also co-starred in – is now available as…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

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Elton John, Eric Gale, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Snow, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Jaye P. Morgan, Madonna, Perry Como, Ron Carter, Simple Plan, Stanley Turrentine, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Tim Rice

The Weekend Stream: September 2, 2023

September 2, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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. It’s a full ’80s revival this week, including a rare Duran Duran track and some live cuts from Squeeze,and – whether you’re ready for it or not – a batch of Christmas catalogue titles. Duran Duran, Ball and Chain (Tape Modern/BMG) (iTunes / Amazon) Duran Duran are back in a big way this fall, set to release the album…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Art Blakey, Chet Atkins, Duran Duran, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Mickey & Sylvia, Squeeze, Stanley Turrentine, Tamar Braxton, The Art of Noise, Visage

Better Get Hit In Yo’ Soul: 60 Years of Impulse! Records Celebrated On New CD, LP Box Set

February 15, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

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 Sanders. On Friday, Impulse! and UMe announced a 60th anniversary celebration of the still-active label encompassing a new box…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Jazz

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Ahmad Jamal, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, Stanley Turrentine

Release Round-Up: Week of September 11

September 11, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Reba McEntire, Rumor Has It: 30th Anniversary Edition (MCA Nashville) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Exclusive Orange Vinyl: Wal-Mart Reba McEntire expands her 1990 album in a new anniversary edition with two bonus tracks on CD (an acoustic take of Bobbie Gentry’s “Fancy” recorded at the Ryman Auditorium and a dance remix of the song by Dave Audé) and one on vinyl (the acoustic recording). Read more here! The Duprees, The Coed Albums: You Belong to Me/Have You Heard (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Best…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Adam Wade, Fritz Reiner, Harry Nilsson, Johnny Maestro, Melissa Manchester, Reba McEntire, Stanley Turrentine, The Crests, The Dillards, The Duprees

Weavers of Dreams: Blue Note Expands Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series Through Fall

October 7, 2019 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

Back in February, we reported on Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet Reissue Series, a new initiative by label president Don Was and audiophile jazz expert Joe Harley that presents detailed vinyl reissues of Blue Note classics and overlooked titles from the label’s 80-year history. Each title is an all-analog affair, mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl at RTI, then housed in deluxe gatefold packaging. The first titles – Wayne Shorter’s Etcetera and Chick Corea’s Now He Sings, Now He Sobs – have been acclaimed by…

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Vinyl

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Jazz

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Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd, Gil Evans, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine

Super Strut: Cherry Red Collects Best of Creed Taylor’s CTI Label on “Cool Heat”

September 6, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Cherry Red’s Robinsongs imprint is turning up the Cool Heat with a new 2-CD, 25-track collection celebrating The Best of CTI Records and featuring many of the classic jazz label’s most renowned artists including instrumentalists George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, and Stanley Turrentine, and vocalists Nina Simone, Patti Austin, and Esther Phillips. Chances are, if you think of a jazz artist, it wouldn’t take many degrees of separation to reach Creed Taylor. The esteemed producer began his career at Bethlehem Records overseeing a roster including Herbie Mann, Charles Mingus, Carmen McRae,…

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Disco/Dance, Jazz, R&B/Soul

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Bob James, Esther Phillips, Eumir Deodato, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Nina Simone, Stanley Turrentine, Various Artists

Benson, Hubbard, Turrentine On June Slate From CTI Masterworks

June 27, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Earlier this year, Universal and Hip-o Select released a bold orange box set containing the first 6 LPs on the Impulse! label, all of which were produced by Creed Taylor. The ambitious producer didn’t stay long at Impulse!, however, departing for the greener pastures of Verve, then A&M, where he founded his CTI label. Following a highly successful series of CTI albums under the A&M imprimatur, Taylor’s mini-kingdom went the independent route and along the way practically defined the sound of seventies jazz. Sony’s Masterworks Jazz label quietly dropped four more CTI…

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Stanley Turrentine

Masterworks Jazz Continues “Cool Revolution” with a Quartet from CTI

March 4, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Chances are, if you think of a jazz artist, it wouldn’t take many degrees of separation to reach Creed Taylor. The esteemed producer began his career at Bethlehem Records overseeing a roster including Herbie Mann, Charles Mingus, Carmen McRae, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding. In 1956, he departed Bethlehem for ABC-Paramount, where in 1960 he launched the Impulse! label with artists like Johnson, Winding, Ray Charles and John Coltrane. It was at Impulse! that Taylor came into his own, emphasizing that jazz and popular music could indeed co-exist and overlap, and seeing…

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Jazz

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Don Sebesky, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine