Box sets of jazz and R&B reissues by Sonny Rollins, Mavis Staples and more have made this spring a bumper harvest for musical discoveries.
In the Spotify Era, when anyone can assemble a playlist of their favorite songs by an artist, there’s really no reason for those staples of the vinyl and CD eras: greatest hits albums. But that doesn’t mean that old music can’t be assembled into useful, even revelatory packages—even in physical form. Sometimes, especially in physical form.
Though he lacks the mythology surrounding John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, Rollins was just as important a post-bop saxophonist. After getting sober in 1955, he stepped up to a new level of virtuosity, able to turn his long solos into inexhaustible fountains of ideas and inventions. In fact, he had so much to say on his horn that he decided to perform without a chordal instrument such as keyboard or guitar so that he could shift keys and ideas without waiting for anyone to catch up.
Feldman is perhaps best known for bringing more than 10 Bill Evans albums to light for the first time. But a new Evans package comes not from Feldman but from Verve as part of its Acoustic Sound Series to reissue many of its classic jazz albums on audiophile vinyl pressings.is taken from a 1964 studio session by Evans and saxophonist Stan Getz with Ron Carter and Elvin Jones. It wasn’t released till 1973, and it’s that version that’s now being released with refurbished sound.
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