Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (1981) {2006 Nonesuch Remaster}

Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (1981) {2006 Nonesuch Remaster}

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© 2006 Nonesuch Records / Warner | 79894-2

Avant-Garde / Electronic / Experimental / Alternative / Ambient

When the David Byrne / Brian Eno collaboration My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was first released in 1981, Rolling Stone called it “an undeniably awesome feat of tape editing and rhythmic ingenuity.” It was widely considered a watershed record for future genres from world music to electronica, and almost 25 years later, the influence of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is evident in music ranging from The Bomb Squad’s productions for Public Enemy to Moby, Kruder and Dorfmeister, and Goldie. Nonesuch reissued the album—remixed, remastered, and with seven bonus tracks—on its 25th anniversary, in 2006. In keeping with the original spirit of the album, and in line with Creative Commons licenses, all the multitracks from two of the songs on the album will be available for download at bush-of-ghosts.com. Users will be able to remix the tracks and upload to the site, listen, and rate others remixes and upload videos they have made themselves. The site will also feature archival press from the original album release, essays, photos from the original sessions, polaroids taken by David Byrne and a video made by Bruce Conner for the song "Mea Culpa" which is also included on the CD itself.

John Medeski, Matthew Shipp - Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (2006) {Thirsty Ear Recordings}

John Medeski, Matthew Shipp - Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery (2006) {Thirsty Ear Recordings}

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© 2006 Thirsty Ear Recordings | THI 57172.2

Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Piano / Organ

Scotty Hard initially made his reputation in the rap world, but since 2000 or so he's been doing at least as many jazz gigs (if not more), contributing heavily to albums by Sex Mob and Medeski, Martin & Wood. Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery is Hard's first jazz release, put out as part of Thirsty Ear's illustrious Blue Series Continuum. The album is constructed from performances of an amazing all-star group: Matthew Shipp and John Medeski on keyboards, free jazz giant William Parker on bass, and Nasheet Waits on drums, with additional contributions from DJ Olive and percussionist Mauricio Takara.

Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble - African High Life (1963) {Blue Note Connoisseur CD Series}

Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble - African High Life (1963) {Blue Note Connoisseur CD Series}

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© 2006 Blue Note / Capitol | Connoisseur CD Series | 0946 3 59440 2 0

International / Jazz / World / African Traditions / Highlife

African High Life is the debut album by Nigerian drummer and percussionist Solomon Ilori recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was reissued on CD in 2006 with three bonus tracks recorded at a later session. It seems strange that Blue Note, a label generally associated with bop, hard bop, and the early avant-garde, would have released an album like African High Life. It didn't really fit in with Blue Note's back catalog and -- perhaps as a result -- the label didn't tread these waters again for a number of years. Regardless, this is a very enjoyable if not essential album of traditional African highlife music set to dance tempos.

Jack Teagarden - Jazz Great (1954) {2014 Japanese Bethlehem Album Collection 1000}

Jack Teagarden - Jazz Great (1954) {2014 Japanese Bethlehem Album Collection 1000}

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© 2014 Solid Records / Bethlehem | CDSOL-6132 | LP BCP-32

Jazz / Swing / Trombone

Reissue. Features the latest remastering. Includes a Japanese description, lyrics. Features original cover artwork. The album definitely lives up to the title, and features the mighty Jack Teagarden in a number of small group settings – all with a straight ahead punch that gets away from some of the gimmicks of his other 50s sessions! Teagarden's trombone is still one of the sharpest instruments of his generation of jazz – and Jack works here with a mix of players that includes Jimmy McPartland on trumpet, Edmond Hall on clarinet, Dick Cary on piano, Walter Page on bass, and Jo Jones on drums. Most arrangements are by Cary – and Jack sings just a bit, in that wonderfully raspy style of his. Titles include "Misery & The Blues", "Bad Acting Woman", "Meet Me Where They Play The Blues", "Music To Love By", and "High Society".

Goffredo Petrassi - Piano Concerto, Flute Concerto, La Follia Di Orlando Ballet Suite (2014) {Naxos}

Goffredo Petrassi - Piano Concerto, Flute Concerto, La Follia Di Orlando Ballet Suite (2014) {Naxos}

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© 2014 Naxos | 8.573073

Classical / Contemporary Classical / Concerto

Petrassi’s long creative life was marked by ceaseless absorption of ideas and by constant invention. His Flute Concerto is notable for its boldness of design and the surprise of its unorthodox sound world, where instruments rotate in block form. The Piano Concerto is more overtly virtuosic, even showing some influence from Prokofiev. The orchestral suite drawn from the ballet La follia di Orlando (The Madness of Orlando) is often clothed in Petrassi’s experimental orchestral sonorities. ‘The rehabilitation of Italian twentieth-century music by the Naxos label continues unabated: the latest release is this remarkable collection... that any genuine Petrassian will rush to purchase’.

Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland - Jazz Is Universal (1961) {2012 Japan 24-bit Remaster} [Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series]

Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland - Jazz Is Universal (1961) {2012 Japan 24-bit Remaster} [Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series]

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© 2013 Atlantic / Warner Japan / Rhino | WPCR-27191 | Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series

Jazz / Modern Big Band / Progressive Jazz

Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. Some big bands started outside the U.S. One notable example was the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band—which was formed in '60 by American expatriate drummer Clarke, Belgian pianist Boland and former Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode. The band lasted just over 10 years and recorded more than 20 albums. Solos were spread among the 13 all-star musicians, and the band's charts were often intricate and laced with European flavor. Charts were most often written by Boland, a classically trained composer who spent a chunk of the '50s in the U.S. The band's first album was Jazz Is Universal (Atlantic), recorded in December 1961 in Cologne, Germany. As the Atlantic album's liner notes by public relations maven Bob Altshuler point out, musicians from seven countries were in the band—six from the U.S., two from England while one each from France, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey and Austria.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Junk Culture (1984) [2CD] {2015 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition}

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Junk Culture (1984) [2CD] {2015 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition}

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© 2015 Virgin Music / Universal | 4701075

Synth Pop / New Wave / Alternative Dance / New Romantic

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark will reissue its fifth album, 1984′s pop comeback Junk Culture, in February as a two-disc Deluxe Edition that will find the original album fully remastered and supplemented by a disc of the era’s B-sides, extended remixes and five previously unreleased songs and demos. The bonus disc features 10 B-sides and remixes, plus two previously unheard songs (“All or Nothing” with Paul Humphreys on vocals, and “10 to 1,” an unreleased song featuring lyrics later used in “Love and Violence”), plus three previously unreleased Junk Culture demos.

Blue Mitchell - Bring It Home To Me (1966) {2014 Japan SHM-CD Blue Note 24-192 Remaster}

Blue Mitchell - Bring It Home To Me (1966) {2014 Japan SHM-CD Blue Note 24-192 Remaster}

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© 2014 Universal Japan / Blue Note | BN 75th The Masterworks | TYCJ-81052

Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Music / Trumpet

Features the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD player) and 24 bit remastering. Genius work from trumpeter Blue Mitchell – one of his most solid sides as a leader from the 60s, and a well-deserved treasure in the Blue Note catalog! The album's quite different than the straight soul jazz of Blue's early days on Riverside – or the more arranged dates of the late 60s – and it features him moving in a soulful, lyrical, modal style – quite similar to Horace Silver in conception, but with a fresh execution that's mighty nice – and which marks Mitchell as one of the fresher trumpet voices of his generation!

David Chaim Smith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn - The Dream Membrane (2014) {Tzadik Spectrum Series TZ 4004}

David Chaim Smith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn - The Dream Membrane (2014) {Tzadik Spectrum Series TZ 4004}

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© 2014 Tzadik | Spectrum Series | TZ 4004

Avant-Garde / Dark Ambient / Experimental / Mystical / Jewish

This fabulous collaborative musical project features the legendary magus David Chaim Smith reading selections from his mystical text The Awakening Ground along with the magical creator of Dark Ambient music Bill Laswell on bass and drones, and John Zorn on shofar and alto saxophone. Evocative and meditative, this is a rare and unique project that synthesizes Kabbalah, Mysticism and the hypnotic swirls of Dark Ambient music.

Bob Dylan - Side Tracks (2013) [2CD] {Japan Blu-spec MiniLP Remaster}

Bob Dylan - Side Tracks (2013) [2CD] {Japan Blu-spec MiniLP Remaster}

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© 2013 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music Japan | SICP-30519~20

Rock / Folk Rock / Roots Rock / Songwriter

Japanese original release of "Side Tracks," which was originally released as bonus CDs for "The Complete Album Collection Vol.1." Features cardboard sleeve artwork faithfully replicating the LP which was released for "record store day." Also features the high-fidelity Blu-spec CD2 format (compatible with standard CD player). Uses the latest remastering which was used for "The Complete Album Collection." The liner notes include new Japanese translations of lyrics. Released on the Black Friday edition in 2013 Record Store Day brouhaha, Bob Dylan’s Side Tracks is a 30-track journey into the deeper cuts of the legendary musician’s catalogue. In essence – It stands as an alternate history, a left-of-center greatest hits collection from an artist whose best songs sometimes are the stray cats and orphans left as B-sides or recording room scraps. Most everything here has appeared elsewhere on compilations like the incomparable Biograph, but by stripping the record of Dylan’s well-known songs, it provides a deeper look into his metamorphosis from nasally folk artist to his current status as a gravel-voiced elder statesman.

Herbie Hancock - Quartet (1981) {2009 Japan Blu-spec Remaster}

Herbie Hancock - Quartet (1981) {2009 Japan Blu-spec Remaster}

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© 2009 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | SICP 20120

Jazz / Bop / Post Bop / Piano

Reissue features the high-fidelity Blu-spec CD format (compatible with standard CD players). This is an extremely symbolic album, for Herbie Hancock and the V.S.O.P. rhythm section essentially pass the torch of the '80s acoustic jazz revival to the younger generation, as personified by then 19-year-old Wynton Marsalis. Recorded during a break on a tour of Japan, a month before Marsalis made his first Columbia album, the technically fearless teenaged trumpeter mostly plays the eager student, imitating Miles, Freddie Hubbard, and Clifford Brown, obviously relishing the challenge of keeping up with his world-class cohorts.

Brian Eno - The Drop (1997) {All Saints Records}

Brian Eno - The Drop (1997) {All Saints Records}

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© 1997 All Saints Records | ASCD32

Electronic / Ambient / Avant-Garde / Experimental

The Drop finds Brian Eno replicating the floating, trancy sound of Neroli, creating a shimmering collection of ambient music. Although The Drop illustrates that ambient doesn't all sound the same -- it can be soothing and scary, sometimes both at once -- the album doesn't particularly hold the listener's interest, as the shifting electronic soundscapes never reveal any substantial compositions. It's intriguing for a while, but by the time the 74 minutes of The Drop have finished, the album has made little lasting impression.

Midge Ure - Fragile (2014) {Hypertension}

Midge Ure - Fragile (2014) {Hypertension}

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© 2014 Hypertension | HYP 14302

Rock / Pop / New Wave

Midge Ure, mastermind of Ultravox, founder of Band Aid & Live 8, Grammy Award Winner & Brit Award Winner presents his new studio album 'Fragile'. 'Fragile' is the first collection of new, original music from Grammy and Brit award winning musician Midge Ure in over a decade. "I have recorded various things over that period" Ure states "a covers album of favourite songs, a few live CD's and of course the latest Ultravox album Brilliant, so I haven't been slacking. I just never felt the need to write and release an album just for the sake of it". 'Fragile' is a culmination of influences garnered from a lifetime in the music business and shows elements of Ure's musical journey displaying his accomplished guitar work (Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy) and the electronics and technology he has utilised since the late 1970's (Visage, Ultravox).

Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 (1988) [2CD] {1995 Ryko Remaster Complete Series}

Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 (1988) [2CD] {1995 Ryko Remaster Complete Series}

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© 1995 Rykodisc / The Zappa Family Trust | RCD 10563/64

Rock / Jazz Rock / Experimental Rock / Art Rock

Official Release #52. In his contract with Ryko, Frank Zappa had to put together 12 CDs worth of live material for the series You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore. The fact that he decided to devote two of them (all of Vol. 2) to a Helsinki concert from 1974 illustrates how good and representative he thought it was -- and he was right. This two-CD set features the 1973-1974 band (Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson) near the end of their tour, in a concert in faraway Finland on September 22, 1974 (there were actually two concerts performed that day and, as usual, Zappa edited the best moments together).

Miles Davis - Collectors' Items (1956) {2009 Prestige RVG Remasters Series}

Miles Davis - Collectors' Items (1956) {2009 Prestige RVG Remasters Series}

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© 2009 Concord / Prestige | 0888072312227 | Prestige RVG Remasters Series | 24-bit remaster | P 7044

Jazz / Bop / Cool / Hard Bop / Trumpet

From the new liner notes: “The session of March 16, 1956 is one of most beautiful, laid-back, floating-on-a-cloud experiences one can have. The first time I listened to it, I replayed it three times. Side note: ‘Vierd Blues’ is the same piece that appears on Miles’s Trane’s Blues, and there credited to John Coltrane, as it was when Trane first recorded it on a Kenny Drew session, years before. Until it was combined with the 1956 date, the Miles-Bird-Sonny session lay in the vaults. Meanwhile, on May 15, 1953 Bird and Dizzy Gillespie recorded their famed Massey Hall concert in Toronto. When that record was issued ‘Charlie Chan’ was used as Bird’s pseudonym. That’s how it came to be used for Collectors’ Items.”