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Davis & Coltrane — The Final Tour
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Live from California, it’s the Electric Flag
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The Best of Muddy Waters
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Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure
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The life, music and costumes of Stevie Nicks, rock’s still-reigning witchy queen
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Both Sides of the Sky , a new album from the Jimi Hendrix vaults
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1960s British folk quintet, Pentangle, get a new boxed set
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Sonny Rollins Goes Way Out West
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Author Roger Steffens on So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
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Rock Gods: Fifty Years of Rock Photography: By Robert M. Knight
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The Cable Guy
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Chet Baker in Germany, 1979
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Making the Grado
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The Gospel of Bob Dylan
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Best of 2017
Jazz
Davis & Coltrane — The Final Tour
Five legendary 1960 concerts given by Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Paris, Stockholm and Copenhagen are available for the first time in the latest volume in the award-winning Miles Davis Bootleg series By Harvey Kubernik In March, Columbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, released Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final […]
History
Live from California, it’s the Electric Flag
MVD’s new release pulls from live shows at L.A.’s Whisky A Go Go and San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom to showcase rock’s first “super-group” By Harvey Kubernik The Electric Flag was one of the premiere rock bands during 1967-1968, organized by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who had just left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The Electric Flag […]
Blues
The Best of Muddy Waters
Harvey Kubernik talks to Marshall Chess, Robbie Robertson, Andrew Loog Oldham and Bill Wyman about the legacy of Muddy Waters and the 60th anniversary of his debut album, The Best of Muddy Waters By Harvey Kubernik Few pieces of art have been as influential as Muddy Waters’ seminal debut album The Best of Muddy Waters, a humble piece […]
Funk
Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure
By RCN Staff Down Jazz Records has forwarded the funk. Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure, on sea-green vinyl, is the latest tentacle of the George Clinton P-Funk octopus of mammoth proportions. While the man himself continues to tour and excite new generations, his family of musicians — who have been the bulwark of […]
Books
The life, music and costumes of Stevie Nicks, rock’s still-reigning witchy queen
Gold Dust Woman is a cradle-to-golden years slog through the singer’s life Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks By Stephen Davis St Martin’s Press By Suzanne Rush Being a Stevie Nicks fan has always required that one reconcile the conflict between thinking that her Sisters of the Moon act was somehow simultaneously empowering […]
New Releases
Both Sides of the Sky , a new album from the Jimi Hendrix vaults
Many of these surviving studio recordings find Hendrix working with varying lineups of musicians — including surprises like Stephen Stills and Joni Mitchell By Richie Unterberger For a guy who only put out three true, studio albums during his lifetime, the Jimi Hendrix discography has become massive. Almost 50 years after his death, compilations of […]
Folk
1960s British folk quintet, Pentangle, get a new boxed set
Cherry Red release includes all six LPs and 45 bonus tracks By Richie Unterberger Along with Fairport Convention, Pentangle were the top British folk-rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. True, folk-rock was a label Pentangle were uncomfortable with, and there wasn’t nearly as much rock as folk in their sound. There was […]
Bebop
Sonny Rollins Goes Way Out West
By Armand Lewis In the 1860s, New York Trib-une editor Horace Greeley saw the opening and settlement of the American West as an unprecedented opportunity and famously wrote in an editorial “Go West, young man.” One hundred years later, people were still heeding that call. And in early 1957, up- and- coming New York saxophonist […]
Books
Author Roger Steffens on So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
The definitive oral history of one of the 20th century’s most important artists “If Bob Marley is Jesus in these times, Roger Steffens is Peter.” —Carlos Santana By Harvey Kubernik Ask reggae fans if they would buy a ticket to a panel discussion on Bob Marley by the key people in his life and career […]
Books
Rock Gods: Fifty Years of Rock Photography: By Robert M. Knight
By Harvey Kubernik Insight Editions is pleased to announce the recent publication of Rock Gods: Fifty Years of Rock Photography. This new, updated and revised edition displays the rich visual universe of Robert M. Knight’s work, replete with visions of guitar gods, monumental performances, and speaker-shaking solos that chronicle the greatest moments in the evolution […]
Audio
The Cable Guy
Meet Audio Envy’s Captain Payne By David Thomson Move over Jim Carrey, there’s a new audio cable guy out there who will happily hook you up at a value so affordable that it would be sacrilegious to your music, never mind downright disrespectful to your components, if you didn’t check him out… and you can, […]
Bebop
Chet Baker in Germany, 1979
By Armand Lewis There have been few lives as tortured, yet so prolific as Chet Baker’s. The lyrical trumpeter with the choirboy voice would record literally hundreds of albums while spending much of his life dealing with the horrors of addiction and other personal problems of his own making. Born in Oklahoma in 1929, this […]
AUDIO HONORS
Making the Grado
Meet John Grado of Grado Labs who is being honored at this year’s LA&OC Audio Society Annual Gala with the Founder’s Award By David Thomson Does being born into the oldest family-run, audio manufacturing business in the world give one the innate drive to continue in its tradition of excellence? Is it in the DNA? […]
Cult Stars
The Gospel of Bob Dylan
New: Bob Dylan -Trouble No More -The Bootleg Series Vol. 13/1979-1981 and Dylan’s John Wesley Harding Celebrates 50 Year Anniversary By Harvey Kubernik Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, has just issued Bob Dylan-Trouble No More-The Bootleg Series Vol. 13/1979-1981 this month. The deluxe nine-disc (8CD/1DVD) box set is […]
Kaplan's Korner
Best of 2017
KAPLAN’S KORNER Best Soundtrack LP The Man In The High Castle I was a fan of Man In The High Castle author Philip K Dick from an early, impressionable age, I am a fan of the Amazon series as well which takes place in 1963. The soundtrack is the alternative versions of American Pop hits […]
Lester Young “Pres” in Chicago
Bebop and Beyond by Armand Lewis There are very few people in the world who can claim to be true originals. But, while everything builds on what came before, someone had to be the first. The first “cool” sound. The first to...
World’s Rarest Beatles Record Discovered
After almost 50 years, a previously unknown “Hey Jude” surfaces by Gary Johnson From the end of 1968 through 1969, Capitol Records test marketed a line of 2-sided, 3.75″ flimsy flexible plastic records (genera...
The Tiniest Record Shop
Colin Trueman doesn’t see lack of space as a limitation at VOD Music by Jonathan Morrow In 2009, Graham Jones came out with the insightful book Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened to Record Shops? A few years later it b...
NEIL YOUNG
DURING HIS GOLD RUSH Author Sharry Wilson mines Neil Young’s music and life in her biography of the rocker, Young Neil By Harvey Kubernik Since 2012, Neil Young has issued the albums Americana, Psychedelic Pill, A Letter ...
Fancy CDs and Mountain Highs
KAPLAN’S KORNER CD Collector News Here’s a little something we should keep just between us. I don’t really want the word to get out because there is inefficiency in the market that we can exploit right now. But we got...
Four Brothers in Europe
By Armand Lewis In 1947, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre wrote a composition featuring a four-part harmony arrangement for the saxophone section of the Woody Herman Orchestra. Though Giuffre was not a member of Herman’s band ...
Before Tapestry
In 1967 Carole King joined the proto-folk group The City. Light In The Attic has reissued their 1968 album, Now That Everything Been Said By Harvey Kubernik The Light In The Attic record label in late 2015 reissued the Lou Adle...
Introducing Darlene Love
Her latest album features songs written by Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Perry, Jimmy Webb, Desmond Child and others By Harvey Kubernik Vocalist Darlene Love has released her first new album in decades, Introducing D...
Santana: The Universal Tone
Carlos Santana builds his legacy with a new album, Santana IV and a new memoir, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light By Harvey Kubernik For more than four decades—from Carlos Santana’s earliest days as a groundbre...
Taking A Spin
A PRINCE AMONG MEN I saw Prince open for the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1981. He got boo’d off the stage. I couldn’t understand why because to me he was the 2nd coming of Jimi Hendrix. And I’m, a Zappa ...
Jazz Ambassador
Dizzy Gillespie by Armand Lewis In the early 1950s, with the Cold War heating up to a fevered pitch, rhetoric on both the U.S. and Soviet sides ratcheted up the propaganda as well as the weaponry, with literally every aspect of...
Rolling Down the River with CCR
From the Fantasy vaults comes the Record Store Day 1969 Archive Box celebrating Creedence Clearwater Revival’s epic year by Stephen Phenow When we put our first garage cover band together, me and the gang wanted to cover ...
Marty Balin’s Back!
The Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship founder looks back while rocking on — with his new album, The Greatest Love by Harvey Kubernik Singer and songwriter Marty Balin the founder of Jefferson Airplane, hit maker of th...
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