Release Round-Up: Week of May 10
Aerosmith, Tough Love: Best of the Ballads (Geffen/UMe) Geffen augments the craziness of American Idol host/Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler (who has a solo single out today) by putting out a...
View ArticleDave Brubeck Digitally “Digs Disney” On New Legacy Edition
It was prescient that the cover of the November 8, 1954 edition of Time was devoted to jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck. Just five years later he and his Quartet would release Time Out, the...
View ArticleCome to the Pop Market, Part Two: Box Sets Planned For Brubeck, Holiday,...
Yesterday we reported on eight new box sets drawn from the Columbia and RCA Victor archives and available through Sony’s PopMarket site. While those titles dedicated to Earth Wind & Fire, Electric...
View ArticleAll In Good Time: Final Brubeck Quartet Concert Arrives From Legacy
Time has been very good to Dave Brubeck. The legendary jazz pianist and composer, 90 years young, has both a Kennedy Center Honor and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award under his belt, and his 1959...
View ArticlePaul McCartney, Little Richard, Dave Brubeck Due From Concord on Record Store...
What do Paul McCartney, Dave Brubeck and Little Richard have in common? All three will be recipients of exclusive, limited edition Record Store Day releases from our friends at Concord Records. Since...
View ArticleBowie, McCartney, Joplin, Springsteen, Clash, Davis, Small Faces, More Lead...
We’re just three weeks away from Record Store Day on April 21, and following individual announcements from fantastic labels like Omnivore Recordings, Concord Records, Sundazed Music and Rhino/Warner...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of September 11
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Tarkus: Deluxe Editions (Razor & Tie) Full review coming soon, but you should know that these are 2-CD/1-DVD sets featuring unreleased...
View ArticleCast Your Fate to the Wind with New “Very Best of Jazz” Collections From...
What makes a legend most? When it comes to the legends of jazz, Concord Music Group has that answer for you. Earlier this year, Concord launched The Very Best Of, a new series of “Jazz 101”...
View ArticleThat Old Black Magic: Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck Cast a Spell on “Live 1962″
What happens when two legends collide? Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will have the answer for you with the May 28 premiere release of Bennett and Brubeck – The White House Sessions: Live 1962...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of May 28
Wings, Wings Over America: The Paul McCartney Archive Collection (MPL/Hear Music/Concord) Paul McCartney’s first great U.S. tour was chronicled brilliantly on this 1977 live album, and it’s been...
View ArticleReview: Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck, “Bennett/Brubeck: The White House...
It was a Tuesday afternoon in Camelot when giants met. These giants weren’t the types who resided in the clouds atop beanstalks, of course. These were giants of a decidedly more earthy variety. It...
View ArticleCherry Red’s él Heads to the Sixties for Pop Art, Bossa Nova, and Singing Celebs
What made the swinging sixties swing? Cherry Red’s él label continues to explore the various corners of early 1960s pop music with a trio of releases that, in large part, offer answers to that very...
View ArticleLovely Day: Aretha, Sly, Andy, Marvin and Billie Headline “The Brazil...
Well, summer is officially upon us! Already there’s talk about which songs will be anointed the perfect summer jams for 2014 – songs by artists like Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea and the ubiquitous...
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