NEW MUSIC
Cleopatra – Columbia (Speakers Corner)
Neil Diamond – Home Before Dark
Cleopatra LPs Nico – All Tomorrow’s Parties Limited to 300 copies. Artwork included on promotional Album Flat. No actual LP jacket included. Comes with collector’s pin and patch. A best-of compilation from one of the most enigmatic and profoundly influential females in psychedelic rock music, Nico! Features hypnotic versions of cult classics such as “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” “Janitor Of Lunacy,” “Femme Fatale,” “Sixty Forty” and more! LP = ACLP 2055 $16.98
Tangerine Dream – The Vintage Years Anthology A special, limited edition vinyl box set featuring 10” reissues of the band’s first incarnation (The Ones), their 1972 epic classic “Ultima Thule” (Parts 1 and 2”), plus a 12” of highlights of their career. A dream come true for electro-ambient fans. Tracks selected by TD founder Edgar Froese with detailed personnel listings. LP = ACLP 2577 $29.98 (Limited Edition three LP box set)
Home Before Dark is the long awaited new album from legendary artist Neil Diamond. Home Before Dark was produced by Rick Rubin, who also produced Diamond’s critically acclaimed 12 Songs. “Like Johnny Cash’s Rubin-produced American Recordings series, Home Before Dark cuts the music down to its essence, scrapping the overproduction that has marred Diamond’s albums since the Eighties.” – Rolling Stone LP = ACOL 15465 $19.99
Miles Davis – Jazz At The Plaza Vol. 1 Recorded at a Columbia press party in 1958, this spontaneous LP features the Miles Davis Sextet that had the giant talents of John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans. Their performances of “Straight, No Chaser” (mistitled here “Jazz at the Plaza”), “My Funny Valentine” (Davis’ feature), “If I Were a Bell” and “Oleo” are consistently exciting. LP = ACOL 32470 $10.00 LP = ACOL 32470H $15.00 (180 gram)
Miles Davis – In A Silent Way
Columbia LPs Charles Lloyd – Discovery! Charles Lloyd’s recorded debut as a leader was made while he was a member of the Cannonball Adderley Sextet. Doubling on tenor and flute, Lloyd teamed up with pianist Don Friedman, either Eddie Khan or Richard Davis on bass, and Roy Haynes or J.C. Moses on drums. This out-of-print LP has among its highlights “Little Piece” (dedicated to Booker Little), “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Sweet Georgia Bright,” and the initial full-length version of “Forest Flower.” Lloyd’s Coltrane-inspired sound was already in place, and his flute playing was becoming distinctive. The music is essentially melodic but advanced hard bop, a strong start to an important career. LP = ACOL 9067 $10.00 LP = ACOL 9067H $15.00 (180 gram)
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With In A Silent Way, the elements of popular music, blues and electronics that had been implicit in Miles Davis’ previous recordings now came center stage, and the trumpeter never looked back again. In A Silent Way is Miles’ Birth of the Cool/Miles Ahead/Kind Of Blue for the rock generation. LP = ASON 26947 $29.99 (import)
Columbia (Pure Pleasure Records) LP Duke Ellington – Ellington Uptown Recorded in December 1951 and 1952, Ellington Uptown joins stunning, extended works of recent vintage (“A Tone Parallel to Harlem,” “The Liberian Suite,” “The Controversial Suite”) with fresh looks at such bona fide classics by Ellington and alter ego Billy Strayhorn, as well as “Perdido,” co-written by longtime star valve trombone soloist Juan Tizol. LP = APPR 4639 $34.99
RECOMMENDED Geffen LP Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold As Love January of 1968 brought Axis: Bold As Love, an album that expanded Jimi’s six-string flame with celestial clarity and also brought his rapidly evolving songwriting gift to the fore. It was recorded at Olympic Studios in London. After the U.S. release of Are You Experienced and American tour dates that left jaws dropped, anticipation was very high about the next Jimi Hendrix album. Many fans and critics consider this follow up, Axis: Bold As Love, his best collective effort. Released in November of 1968, it immediately garnered high praise for it’s incredible performances and innovative engineering by Eddie Kramer. The album was to spawn many hits including “Up From The Skies,” “If 6 was 9,” “Spanish Castle Magic,” “Little Wing,” and “Castles Made of Sand,” among others. Again joined by Noel Redding’s bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. LP = AGEF 11601 $24.98 (Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound)
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Columbia (Speakers Corner) LPs Miles Davis – Miles Smiles Except for the taping of a live performance at the Portland Festival, Miles Davis’ discography for 1966 only lists the recordings made for the LP Miles Smiles. How strange when one considers the usual large output of Miles and his ensembles for Columbia Records in the Sixties. The bass player Ron Carter was best suited for the complicated rhythm part and remained Miles’ “number one” in a quintet which gave a new interpretation to compositions by Wayne Shorter and jazz hits such as “Freedom Jazz Dance” by Eddie Harris and Jimmy Heath’s “Gingerbread Boy.” Every second of the nine-minute-long “Footprints” by Shorter is an absolute highlight, while the drumming of the young Tony Williams in “Freedom Jazz Dance” is full of vitality, with a quick pulse and even described as “threatening” in the liner notes. This music is neither “new stream” nor “old guard” but good modern jazz according to Anthony Tuttle. That’s exactly what Miles Smiles was upon its release 40 years ago – and that’s what it is to this day! LP = ACOL 9401 $34.99