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September 21, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Back in April, Vinyl Me Please announced that jazz legend Herbie Hancock would be the focus of their next Anthology box set. The world has changed a lot since then and unforeseen production situations caused it to be set aside in favor of a Grateful Dead set. Well, now it's finally Herbie Hancock's turn. Today, the vinyl subscription service officially announced the upcoming release of The Story of Herbie Hancock as its next Anthology release. VMP's Anthology series considers the box set

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, VSOP, Wayne Shorter

February 28, 2019 By

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  To mark the occasion, Joe Harley and Blue Note president Don Was have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series and they've included Wayne Shorter's Etcetera as one of the new titles. The new reissue is all-analog, mastered from the original master tapes, pressed onto 180-gram audiophile vinyl, and housed

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Categories: Uncategorized Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Wayne Shorter

February 27, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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This year marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records, the legendary label that continues to deliver some of the most striking jazz music ever recorded.  In recent years, Joe Harley spearheaded an audiophile vinyl reissue series called Music Matters which included many Blue Note classics.  Over a decade has passed since the inception of that project and now, Harley and Blue Note president Don Was  have launched a new initiative called the Tone Poet Audiophile Reissue Series. The series

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Cassandra Wilson, Chick Corea, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter

December 11, 2018 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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It's coming on Christmas... and just in time for the holidays, Rhino has treated Joni Mitchell fans with a new, 8-LP box set, Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced.  Previously released in a 4-CD configuration in 2014, this Joni Mitchell-curated collection finds the celebrated songwriter, singer, and visual artist exploring the many contexts and definitions of love.  The result is a 53-song, four-act suite that craftily presents some of Joni's best work in a compelling

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Billy Idol, Billy Preston, David Baerwald, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, Thomas Dolby, Tom Petty, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter

March 4, 2014 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Venerable jazz label Blue Note Records celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, and they're celebrating well into the next year with an ambitious campaign that will see parent company Universal Music Group reissue dozens of titles on vinyl through 2015. Founded in 1939 by mogul Alfred Lion and musician Max Margulis, Blue Note started as your average traditional jazz label before 1947, at which point the company started to focus on innovations in the genre, namely bebop and hard bop.

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Categories: News Tags: Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Vinyl, Wayne Shorter

July 27, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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No sooner did your catalogue correspondent pop a very old disc of John Denver's 1985 Dreamland Express into the CD player than the news arrived that Dreamland Express would be collected along with 23 (!) other Denver LPs in Legacy's new The Complete Albums Collection.   But that's not all.  Following the first wave of releases which arrived just over two months ago, the catalogue initiative continues!  For the uninitiated, The Complete Album Collection box sets bring together an artist's entire

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Wayne Shorter

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