Trini Lopez, “At PJ's” Special 50th Anniversary Numbered Limited Edition on 200g Vinyl

"...raw, energetic, live music - this is Trini at his absolute best…Wonderful songs, brilliantly performed that STAND THE TEST OF TIME...”

Exhibit Records announces the release of a Special 50th Anniversary Numbered Limited Edition album of Trini Lopez, "At PJ’s." The 200 gram vinyl record is beautifully presented in a sturdy old style gatefold jacket featuring the original album art work and for the first time includes the lyrics to all the tunes. The back of each album is foil-stamped with its unique number.

With the release of this album in April 1963 Trini Lopez became one of the biggest singing stars of the Folk Revival. Trini Lopez, "At PJ's" made it to #2 on the Billboard charts and stayed in the Top 40 for over a year. The album included the chart-topping "If I Had a Hammer" which reached number one in 36 countries and was a radio favorite for many years. The hit single sold more than 4 million copies and the album sold over a million and was awarded a gold record.

This was the album that made Lopez an instant success and the live party-a-go-go atmosphere of the record did much to put Trini's likable energy over the top. What Lopez did, at the head of a trio was to make folk-pop swing. Other songs include "This Land Is Your Land," and "Gotta Travel On." It could be surmised that by treating such material in this fashion, Lopez had a tiny influence upon the subsequent folk-rock movement...though, Lopez was more the all-around entertainer with a Latin lilt than he was a pure folk singer, so you also get "America" (from West Side Story), "La Bamba," Ray Charles' "What'd I Say," "Volare," and "When the Saints Go Marching In."

The emergent Exhibit Records has rapidly curated an eclectic catalog of classic recordings and gaining notice for exquisite mastering, high quality pressings and detail to the fine art of exceptional package design.

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Levon Been Pays Tribute to Late Father's Legendary Band The Call!

Xombiewoof Magazine got a chance to listen to this album in its entirety and we have to say this is one to have, not only is this album a stunning tribute from one amazing performer about another, it is a living tribute of a son’s love for his father.

 

Tribute to The Call

Much to the excitement of music fans worldwide, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Levon Been pays tribute to his late father, Michael Been, with an unforgettable live performance fronting his father's legendary band The Call in the upcoming live DVD / CD “The Call Live Tribute With Robert Levon Been” (available September 2nd, 2014 via Label Records/Lightyear/Caroline).

"It's difficult to sum up what this show meant to me, but it was also just such a natural primal reaction to wanting to share the music and the joy we felt playing these songs together with more than just the 4 of us. The very first time i played with Scott, Dickie, and Jim in rehearsal together there was such an overwhelming love for the songs and the spirit that it couldn't just end there. We had to take it as far as we could go, to create an echo that would carry us all.” - Robert Levon Been.

“What a joy it has been to reconnect with the band and the fans. I don't know how Robert pulled this off, but there were times during the show that I was not sure what year it was” – Jim Goodwin

The album is definitive and astounding, the collected works of musical genius with a foundation in total respect to his father’s work, Robert Levon Been brings an energy and excitement that is unparalleled in many tribute albums and will be the goal to meet for any future performers who dare to follow. In addition the DVD is full of great moments and behind the scenes information and footage.

While The Call (Michael Been, Tom Ferrier, Jim Goodwin and Scott Musick) got their official start in Santa Cruz, CA in 1979, its roots as a band go back to Michael Been's childhood in Oklahoma City, where seeing Elvis Presley perform on television changed the course of his life. That early interest in musical performance inspired his career, from the very beginning performing at the age of seven on local radio and television programs, to his eventual move to Chicago at the age of 16, where he was drawn into the blues scene by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Junior Parker. Been eventually made his way to California, where he connected with drummer Scott Musick, as well as Tom Ferrier (guitar, vocals) and Jim Goodwin (keyboards, vocals) to form The Call.

Despite having their initial demos rejected by all the major labels, the band found themselves in demand by nearly every major producer in America. The Call's debut album was ultimately produced by Hugh Padgham (David Bowie, The Police) and the band were suddenly opening acts for major artists including Peter Gabriel and Simple Minds. The Call was not atypical of their generation, but a voice that was herd and revered, to put in one word, Timeless.

 

Tribute to The Call

The Call were signed to Mercury, Elektra and MCA, and released seven critically acclaimed albums over the next eight years, featuring several iconic hit songs including “Let The Day Begin” and “I Still Believe (Great Design).” In 1997, after a seven year break, the band reformed to release the album Heaven & Back, before disbanding once more. Michael Been began serving as sound engineer for his son Robert Levon Been's band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, but passed away from a heart attack while working backstage at the 2010 Pukkelpop festival in Belgium.

Now after twenty years, The Call reunited at legendary Los Angeles venue The Troubador and gave an incredible live performance with Robert Levon Been stepping into his father's role and joining Musick, Ferrier and Goodwin for the one-of-a-kind event. For Robert - who grew up going out on the road with The Call anytime he had a break from school - the performance offered the chance to honor his musical legacy and perform nearly a dozen and a half songs from the band’s esteemed catalog. And for original members Musick, Ferrier and Goodwin, the show allowed them the opportunity to honor their friend and their own musical legacy while revisiting a bond they thought was gone forever.

“The Call was always about a deep spiritual connection and an examination of life from an intense personal perspective. Now, we have the son doing a tribute to his father that has taken it to a new level...a truly joyous noise after a 25 year silence.” - Jim Goodwin

“The Call Live Tribute with Robert Levon Been” will be available as a DVD+CD Deluxe Set on September 2nd 2014 and will also be available on CD, 180 gram double vinyl, and digitally (with 5 extra bonus tracks).

 

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BOB DYLAN'S THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11 SET FOR NOVEMBER 4 RELEASE BY COLUMBIA RECORDS/LEGACY RECORDINGS

Meticulously Restored for the First Time from Newly Found Original Tape Sources, Six Disc Set is Definitive Chronicle of Dylan's Legendary 1967 Sessions with The Band

Special Two Disc Edition, The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 Presents Highlights From The Basement Tapes Complete

Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (http://smarturl.it/BD_basement_amzn) on November 4. Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes – many found only recently – this historic six-disc set is the definitive chronicle of the artist's legendary 1967 recording sessions with members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band.

The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, a two-disc version of highlights from the deluxe edition, will also be released on November 4. This will also be issued as a 3 LP set on 180-gram vinyl.

Among Bob Dylan's many cultural milestones, the legendary Basement Tapes have long fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics alike. Having transformed music and culture during the early 1960s, Dylan reached unparalleled heights across 1965 and 1966 through the release of three historic albums, the groundbreaking watershed single "Like A Rolling Stone," a controversial and legendary 'electric' performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and wildly polarizing tours of the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Dylan's mercurial rise and prodigious outpouring of work during that decade came to an abrupt halt in July 1966 when he was reported to have been in a serious motorcycle accident in upstate New York.

Recovering from his injuries and away from the public eye for the first time in years, Dylan ensconced himself, along with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and, later, Levon Helm, in the basement of a small house, dubbed "Big Pink" by the group, in West Saugerties, New York. This collective, which would come to be known as Bob Dylan and The Band, recorded more than a hundred songs over the next several months including traditional covers, wry and humorous ditties, off-the cuff performances and, most important, dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan songs, including future classics "I Shall Be Released," "The Mighty Quinn," "This Wheel's On Fire" and "You Ain't Going Nowhere."

When rumors and rare acetates of some of these recordings began surfacing, it created a curiosity strong enough to fuel an entirely new segment of the music business: the bootleg record. In 1969, an album mysteriously titled Great White Wonder began showing up in record shops around the country, and Dylan's music from the summer of 1967 began seeping into the fabric of popular culture, penetrating the souls of music lovers everywhere. With each passing year, more and more fans sought out this rare contraband, desperate to hear this new music from the legendary Bob Dylan.

The actual recordings, however, remained commercially unavailable until 1975, when Columbia Records released a scant 16 of them on The Basement Tapes album (that album also included eight new songs by The Band, without Dylan).

A critical and popular success, The Basement Tapes went Top 10 in the US and UK, with John Rockwell, of The New York Times, calling it "one of the greatest albums in the history of American popular music," Paul Nelson, in Rolling Stone, praising the tracks as "the hardest, toughest, sweetest, saddest, funniest, wisest songs I know"' and the Washington Post noting that "...Dylan has to rank as the single greatest artist modern American pop music has produced." Robert Christgau gave the album an A+ rating in the Village Voice, where it topped the annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.

Over the years, the songs on The Basement Tapes have haunted and perplexed fans, with the recordings themselves representing a Holy Grail for Dylanologists. What's on the rest of those reels?

The Basement Tapes Complete brings together, for the first time ever, every salvageable recording from the tapes, including recently discovered early gems recorded in the "Red Room" of Dylan's home in upstate New York. Garth Hudson worked closely with Canadian music archivist and producer Jan Haust to restore the deteriorating tapes to pristine sound, with much of this music preserved digitally for the first time.

The decision was made to present The Basement Tapes Complete as intact as possible. Also, unlike the official 1975 release, these performances are presented as close as possible to the way they were originally recorded and sounded back in the summer of 1967. The tracks on The Basement Tapes Complete run in mostly chronological order based on Garth Hudson's numbering system.

Bob Dylan and his Band will be touring North America this Fall. Check bobdylan.com for details on August 27.

BOB DYLAN - THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11

(all songs written by Bob Dylan unless otherwise noted)

CD 1

• 1. Edge of the Ocean
• 2. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (written by Clarence Williams)
• 3. Roll on Train
• 4. Mr. Blue (written by Dewayne Blackwell)
• 5. Belshazzar (written by Johnny Cash)
• 6. I Forgot to Remember to Forget (written by Charlie A Feathers and Stanley A Kesler)
• 7. You Win Again (written by Hank Williams)
• 8. Still in Town (written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard)
• 9. Waltzing with Sin (written by Sonny Burns and Red Hayes)
• 10. Big River (Take 1) (written by Johnny Cash)
• 11. Big River (Take 2) (written by Johnny Cash)
• 12. Folsom Prison Blues (written by Johnny Cash)
• 13. Bells of Rhymney (written by Idris Davies and Peter Seeger)
• 14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue
• 15. Under Control
• 16. Ol' Roison the Beau (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 17. I'm Guilty of Loving You
• 18. Cool Water (written by Bob Nolan)
• 19. The Auld Triangle (written by Brendan Francis Behan)
• 20. Po' Lazarus (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 21. I'm a Fool for You (Take 1)
• 22. I'm a Fool for You (Take 2)

CD 2

• 1. Johnny Todd (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 2. Tupelo (written by John Lee Hooker)
• 3. Kickin' My Dog Around (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 4. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)
• 5. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2)
• 6. Tiny Montgomery
• 7. Big Dog
• 8. I'm Your Teenage Prayer
• 9. Four Strong Winds (written by Ian Tyson)
• 10. The French Girl (Take 1) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
• 11. The French Girl (Take 2) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
• 12. Joshua Gone Barbados (written by Eric Von Schmidt)
• 13. I'm in the Mood (written by Bernard Besman and John Lee Hooker)
• 14. Baby Ain't That Fine (written by Dallas Frazier)
• 15. Rock, Salt and Nails (written by Bruce Phillips)
• 16. A Fool Such As I (written by William Marvin Trader)
• 17. Song for Canada (written by Pete Gzowski and Ian Tyson)
• 18. People Get Ready (written by Curtis L Mayfield)
• 19. I Don't Hurt Anymore (written By Donald I Robertson and Walter E Rollins)
• 20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (written by Benjamin Lee Blankenship)
• 21. One Man's Loss
• 22. Lock Your Door
• 23. Baby, Won't You be My Baby
• 24. Try Me Little Girl
• 25. I Can't Make it Alone
• 26. Don't You Try Me Now

CD 3

• 1. Young but Daily Growing (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 3. The Hills of Mexico (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 4. Down on Me (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 5. One for the Road
• 6. I'm Alright
• 7. Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)
• 8. Million Dollar Bash (Take 2)
• 9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1)
• 10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2)
• 11. I'm Not There
• 12. Please Mrs. Henry
• 13. Crash on the Levee (Take 1)
• 14. Crash on the Levee (Take 2)
• 15. Lo and Behold! (Take 1)
• 16. Lo and Behold! (Take 2)
• 17. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 1)
• 18. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 2)
• 19. I Shall be Released (Take 1)
• 20. I Shall be Released (Take 2)
• 21. This Wheel's on Fire (written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
• 22. Too Much of Nothing (Take 1)
• 23. Too Much of Nothing (Take 2)

CD 4

• 1. Tears of Rage (Take 1) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
• 2. Tears of Rage (Take 2) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
• 3. Tears of Rage (Take 3) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
• 4. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1)
• 5. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2)
• 6. Open the Door Homer (Take 1)
• 7. Open the Door Homer (Take 2)
• 8. Open the Door Homer (Take 3)
• 9. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1)
• 10. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2)
• 11. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3)
• 12. All American Boy (written by Bobby Bare)
• 13. Sign on the Cross
• 14. Odds and Ends (Take 1)
• 15. Odds and Ends (Take 2)
• 16. Get Your Rocks Off
• 17. Clothes Line Saga
• 18. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)
• 19. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2)
• 20. Don't Ya Tell Henry
• 21. Bourbon Street

CD 5

• 1. Blowin' in the Wind
• 2. One Too Many Mornings
• 3. A Satisfied Mind (written by Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes)
• 4. It Ain't Me, Babe
• 5. Ain't No More Cane (Take 1) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 6. Ain't No More Cane (Take 2) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 7. My Woman She's A-Leavin'
• 8. Santa-Fe
• 9. Mary Lou, I Love You Too
• 10. Dress it up, Better Have it All
• 11. Minstrel Boy
• 12. Silent Weekend
• 13. What's it Gonna be When it Comes Up
• 14. 900 Miles from My Home (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 15. Wildwood Flower (written by A.P. Carter)
• 16. One Kind Favor (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 17. She'll be Coming Round the Mountain (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 18. It's the Flight of the Bumblebee
• 19. Wild Wolf
• 20. Goin' to Acapulco
• 21. Gonna Get You Now
• 22. If I Were A Carpenter (written by James Timothy Hardin)
• 23. Confidential (written by Dorina Morgan)
• 24. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1)
• 25. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2)

CD 6

• 1. 2 Dollars and 99 Cents
• 2. Jelly Bean
• 3. Any Time
• 4. Down by the Station
• 5. Hallelujah, I've Just Been Moved (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 6. That's the Breaks
• 7. Pretty Mary
• 8. Will the Circle be Unbroken (written by A.P. Carter)
• 9. King of France
• 10. She's on My Mind Again
• 11. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 12. On a Rainy Afternoon
• 13. I Can't Come in with a Broken Heart
• 14. Next Time on the Highway
• 15. Northern Claim
• 16. Love is Only Mine
• 17. Silhouettes (written by Bob Crewe and Frank C Slay Jr.)
• 18. Bring it on Home
• 19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 20. The Spanish Song (Take 1)
• 21. The Spanish Song (Take 2)

BOB DYLAN- THE BASEMENT TAPES RAW: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11

(all songs written by Bob Dylan unless otherwise noted)

CD 1

• 1. Open the Door, Homer (Restored version)
• 2. Odds and Ends (Alternate version)
• 3. Million Dollar Bash (Alternate version)
• 4. One Too Many Mornings (Unreleased)
• 5. I Don't Hurt Anymore (Unreleased) (written by Donald I Robertson and Walter E Rollins)
• 6. Ain't No More Cane (Alternate version) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 7. Crash on the Levee (Restored version)
• 8. Tears of Rage (Without overdubs) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
• 9. Dress it up, Better Have it All (Unreleased)
• 10. I'm Not There (Previously released)
• 11. Johnny Todd (Unreleased) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 12. Too Much of Nothing (Alternate version)
• 13. Quinn the Eskimo (Restored version)
• 14. Get Your Rocks Off (Unreleased)
• 15. Santa-Fe (Previously released)
• 16. Silent Weekend (Unreleased)
• 17. Clothes Line Saga (Restored version)
• 18. Please, Mrs. Henry (Restored version)
• 19. I Shall be Released (Restored version)

CD 2

• 1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Alternate version)
• 2. Lo and Behold! (Alternate version)
• 3. Minstrel Boy (Previously released)
• 4. Tiny Montgomery (Without overdubs)
• 5. All You Have to do is Dream (Unreleased)
• 6. Goin' to Acapulco (Without overdubs)
• 7. 900 Miles from My Home (Unreleased) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
• 8. One for the Road (Unreleased)
• 9. I'm Alright (Unreleased)
• 10. Blowin' in the Wind (Unreleased)
• 11. Apple Suckling Tree (Restored version)
• 12. Nothing Was Delivered (Restored version)
• 13. Folsom Prison Blues (Unreleased) (written by Johnny Cash)
• 14. This Wheel's on Fire (Without overdubs) (written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
• 15. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Restored version)
• 16. Don't Ya Tell Henry (Alternate version)
• 17. Baby, Won't You be My Baby (Unreleased)
• 18. Sign on the Cross (Unreleased)
• 19. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Without overdubs)

Musicians:  Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm

(Lead vocals are sung by Bob Dylan. Harmony and instrumentation are unknown because all involved were multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, and no records remain.)

More Information at http://www.bobdylan.com

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A Legacy of Jazz, Immortalized in the Moment, Live Forever

 

Music / Album Review of the Sony Legacy Landmark "Live at Newport" Performances from Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton, Exclusively Available for 1st Time Digitally on iTunes.

Article by Joseph Timmons: Xombiewoof Magazine

If you know anything about Jazz, where it comes from and how it began, you would be well versed in the importance of The Newport Jazz Festival. Since its inception as the "First Annual American Jazz Festival" in 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival set the standard for large scale outdoor summer music gatherings. Subsequent music festivals from Newport Folk through Montreux, Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Coachella and beyond have Newport Jazz to thank for establishing the concept and reality of a music community coming together for a shared outdoor concert experience.

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival this summer with the first digital release of six classic "Live at Newport" albums, available exclusively on iTunes: iTunes.com/NewportJazz.

Jazz impresario and Newport Jazz Festival founder George Wein called Duke Ellington's 1956 concert at Newport, "the greatest performance of Ellington's career," adding that the music "stood for everything that jazz had been and could be." The digital edition of Ellington at Newport: The Original Album restores the record to its original sequence while adding four live performances that first appeared on Duke Ellington and The Buck Clayton All Stars at Newport (a companion album released in 1956).

Additionally, two of the exclusive new releases: Ellington At Newport: The Original Album and The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Newport 1958--have been newly remastered in 24-bit and Mastered for iTunes, this ensures that the music is delivered to listeners with increased audio fidelity that more closely replicates what the artists, recording engineers and producers intended. The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Newport 1958, originally released on Columbia Records, has also been remastered and is now available for the first time digitally. Remastered in 24 bit for iTunes, Brubeck's concert performance is a tribute to the music of Duke Ellington.

Personally, I feel the true significance of this historic release is the masterful work of Duke Ellington is once again brought to a new generation that may not understand the value of what he, as a composer and performer did for a form of music that is now a foundation of so many art forms and has inspired bot only his contemporaries, but artists and generations to come. Let’s look at the list of albums; it is a timeline of critical importance to today’s Jazz music, and all music as a whole-

· Duke Ellington - Newport 1958

· Duke Ellington - Live At Newport 1958

· Ellington at Newport: The Original Album

· The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Newport 1958

· Lionel Hampton - Reunion at Newport 1967

· Ella Fitzgerald - Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall July 5, 1973

Unquestionably, these albums presented by Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment is both inspiring and exotic, like the voice of Ella Fitzgerald herself, Often referred to as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz," she was noted to have a vocal range spanning three octaves and a glimmer in her eye that would captivate anyone in her gaze, her renditions in Jazz would be the talk of the town. The percussion craftsmanship of Lionel Hampton and his styled tempos, rhythms and measures set precedence in Jazz, and the work of Dave Brubeck and later, The Dave Brubeck Quartet would change the face of Jazz forever, a music once referred to as “A Devils Jig”, due to these giants of performance, would become a standard for composition, performance and give birth to new musical formations with each following generation of artists inspired by their work, and that of the master himself, Duke Ellington.

With these six classic "Live at Newport" albums, now available exclusively on iTunes at iTunes.com/NewportJazz, you can personally own this treasured collection instantly, and quite affordably, no need to search them out, just one click away from a lifetimes work, that will last forever.

Be immortalized in the moment, this is what heaven sounds like, swing baby swing!

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Legacy Recordings Release Elvis: “That's The Way It Is” (Deluxe Edition),

SONY/RCA/Legacy Recordings Announce the Release of Monumental Definitive Edition of Elvis: That's The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition), the King’s 1970 Album & Concert Documentary, Presented Together for the First Time Ever in a Deluxe Box Set (8CD/2DVD).

That’s The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition) Includes Expanded Version of Original LP, Six Complete Shows from Elvis’ Electrifying Summer of ’70 Las Vegas Season.

Rare and Insightful Rehearsals, the 1970 Theatrical Edit AND the 2001 Special Edition of “Elvis: That’s The Way It Is,” 80-Page Booklet featuring Rare Photographs, Memorabilia and Recording Data.

In 1970, Elvis Presley fans were thrilled by the arrival of two cultural milestones: one an album, the other a full-length concert/documentary and each of them called Elvis: That’s The Way It Is. Since then, aficionados of Elvis have been clamoring for a package that included both the album and the film.

On Tuesday, August 5, 2014, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release That’s The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition), the most ambitious Elvis Presley restoration package ever created, bringing together—for the first time ever--the album, the theatrical and home video versions of the film, six full-length concerts (featuring previously unreleased performances), rehearsal highlights and other rare recordings in one astounding and essential package.  The result of an historic partnership between Sony Music and Warner Brothers Home Video, the deluxe set combines the video and audio assets of Elvis: That’s The Way It Is with unique and previously unreleased material.

A highly-collectible 8CD/2DVD box set, That’s The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition), marks the first time the 1970 documentary and album have been available in a single package, with bonuses including unreleased material, remixed and remastered audio and a new 80-page book detailing the entire event with facts, songwriter and musician interviews, and photos in a deluxe 8CD/2DVD box set. A 2CD Legacy Edition of Elvis: That's The Way It Is will also be available.  Elvis: That’s The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition) is available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.

Originally released on RCA Records in November 1970, Elvis: That's The Way It Is combined eight studio tracks, recorded in Nashville, and four live concert performances recorded in Las Vegas during Presley's 1970 "Summer Festival" season at The International Hotel in Las Vegas to create what the All Music Guide has called "…one of his best…" and "essential listening for Elvis fans, both die-hard and casual."

Though never considered a soundtrack album, Elvis: That's The Way It Is was initially released to accompany the first theatrical run of "Elvis: That's The Way It Is," a 1970 documentary feature, directed by Denis Sanders, which combined on-stage, off-stage and behind-the-scenes footage in Presley's first non-dramatic film since his 1956 Hollywood movie debut. In the documentary, Sanders captured and illuminated a pivotal moment in Elvis' transformation from teen idol to consummate showman, Memphis meets Vegas via Hollywood, the King's return to full concert performances after years of film stardom.

Elvis Presley had made a dramatic comeback two years prior to these shows in a transcendent NBC-TV special, which aired in December 1968. The International Hotel, then-newly-built and the largest live venue in Las Vegas, booked Presley for an unprecedented 57 show run in July 1969, a four-week-long residency that would raise the bar and set the standard for superstar entertainment in Vegas and beyond. "There are several unbelievable things about Elvis, but the most incredible is his staying power in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars,” Newsweek wrote of his incredible new approach to live performance at the time, while Rolling Stone lauded Elvis as “supernatural--his own resurrection.”

Early in 1970, Elvis returned to Vegas for a second engagement at the International, with RCA recording songs for the then forthcoming On Stage, February 1970.  Elvis was on a roll and making big plans--including a feature film--surrounding what would be his third Las Vegas engagement, scheduled for the summer of 1970

On June 4, 1970, Elvis arrived at RCA's Studio B in Nashville, where producer Felton Jarvis had assembled a hot new session band featuring Elvis' on-stage guitar legend James Burton. Five nights of recording generated material for no less than three future albums and four singles, including Elvis: That's The Way It Is and the essential Elvis Country album.

On July 14, rehearsals for the movie and live shows commenced at the MGM lot in Culver City, California. The Hollywood cameras rolled for five different rehearsals prior to the opening night on August 10, including augmentation run-throughs with the singers and the orchestra at the hotel. Unquestionably, Elvis was keen to broaden his repertoire for the film, as more than 60 songs were attempted during the period, far more than the usual average of 20 to 25 that would normally be chosen. Over the four nights filmed by MGM, Elvis and his band worked tirelessly, trying out a broad variety of musical styles, emphasizing his desire to share the wide range of music he loved with his audience. Director Denis Sanders captured the end result magnificently, providing fans throughout the world with their first glimpse of the new contemporary Elvis performing at the peak of his vocal prowess both in rehearsal and on the stage.

That's The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition) centers on the six complete shows recorded and partially filmed by MGM.  Two of the shows are released for the first time in their entirety; two more have only been available only through the mail-order Elvis fan-club network. The original RCA album is expanded with the four single sides from the period, and a selection of “fly-on-the-wall” outtakes from the June Nashville sessions that produced the majority of tracks for the album. Completing the audio section, a separate disc of insightful rehearsal highlights, featuring unusual song selections showcases both the hard work and the playful atmosphere that governed Elvis’ relationship with his musicians.

The original Elvis: That's The Way It Is includes fiery renditions of “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me,” previously a hit for Dusty Springfield; “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin,’” made famous by The Righteous Brothers, and a show-stopping rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” The original album and singles will fill Disc One of the new edition, with six CDs worth of concert performances and one of rehearsal takes from the Summer of '70 International Hotel residency.

That's The Way It Is (Deluxe Edition) puts the original RCA album and the 1970 MGM documentary feature together in a single package for the first time. It includes both the original theatrical DVD version (1970) and the re-edited and extended DVD version from 2000.

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DOXY RECORDS TO RELEASE “ROAD SHOWS, VOL. 3,” FIRST SONNY ROLLINS ALBUM UNDER NEW DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

 

DOXY RECORDS TO RELEASE “ROAD SHOWS, VOL. 3,”  - FIRST SONNY ROLLINS ALBUM UNDER NEW DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH SONY MUSIC MASTERWORKS/OKeh ON MAY 6. CD CONTAINS SIX TRACKS RECORDED IN JAPAN, FRANCE, AND THE U.S. BETWEEN 2001 AND 2012.

Since launching his Doxy label in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated studio album Sonny, Please, the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has been turning to his vast archive of his own concert recordings to compile superior performances for release in Doxy’s acclaimed Road Shows series. The selections in Volume 1 (2008) spanned nearly 30 years and included a trio track from the saxophonist’s 50th-anniversary Carnegie Hall concert, while Volume 2 (2011) focused primarily on his epic 80th-birthday concert at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

Road Shows, vol. 3, to be released May 6 as part of a distribution agreement with Sony Music Masterworks and its jazz imprint OKeh, draws its six tracks from concerts recorded between 2001 and 2012 in Saitama, Japan; Toulouse, Marseille, and Marciac, France; and St. Louis, Missouri. “Patanjali,” a recent-vintage Rollins composition, is given its debut recording on the new disc. The performances, says Rollins, “present parts of me I want to have presented.”

ROLLINS TO PARTICIPATE IN A GOOGLE+ HANGOUT, “SONNY ROLLINS MEETS HIS FANS,”MAY 5 AT 12:00 NOON EDT !

On May 5 at 12:00 noon EDT, Rollins will expand his forays into social-media territory (and CD promotion) by participating in an unprecedented video conference, “Sonny Rollins Meets His Fans,” broadcast live on YouTube and Google+. Ten members of Sonny’s global community of listeners and fellow musicians, chosen from the winners of a video contest on his Facebook page, will interact with Sonny, one by one, in real-time video, utilizing Google’s popular Hangout platform. Immediately after the live broadcast, the program will be available for viewing on demand on Sonny’s web site and Facebook page. In addition to the ten guests (each of whom will receive a copy of Road Shows, vol. 3), moderator Bret Primack will be choosing questions from Google+ viewers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOmclIi0CnU

“As one of the few jazz musicians able to fashion a career exclusively as a concert artist,” writes Bob Blumenthal in his CD notes, “[Rollins] has made his appearances events that blend the soul-baring seriousness of a ‘classical’ recital with the participatory release of a music that has always drawn on various kinds of call and response. At his best, which Rollins presents to us here and in the previous Road Shows, he rides the spontaneity of the moment into unique collections of moods, grooves, and feelings.”

Road Shows’ material reflects an artist who has become as enthralled by narrative lines as melodic. Noel Coward’s “Someday I’ll Find You” - which he first recorded on 1958’s Freedom Suite and then on Sonny, Please - takes him back to his boyhood days, when it was the theme for the long-running radio show, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons.

The infectious “Biji,” introduced on the 1995 album, Sonny +3, was written “back in the days when guys had nicknames like Rahsaan and Famoudou. I adopted Brung Biji as mine. It was sort of African style.”

“Patanjali” is named after the sage whose Yoga Sutras, he says, “lay down everything you need to know” about a discipline and philosophy that “has helped me get through life and kept me trying to be a better human being.”

The nearly 24-minute rendering of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s masterwork, “Why Was I Born,” is as moving as it is breathtaking - a monument to Rollins’s emotional powers. He won a 2006 Grammy for his version of it on Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert, performing it in Boston five days after the terrorist attack on New York, which forced him to evacuate his apartment.

“I’ve played it a lot,” he says. “So I was wondering whether I should put it out again. I decided to because it captured me going in certain directions I felt needed to be put on record. I actually had two versions to choose from. On one of them, everything was quite clean. On this one, I played something I might be the only one who likes. But I liked the groove and a lot of other things. It represents Sonny Rollins at a certain point of creation." 

Rounding out the program, there’s an eight-minute, stand-alone cadenza taken from a 2009 St. Louis show and a brief, album-closing dose of his perennial crowd-pleaser, “Don’t Stop the Carnival.”

Road Shows, vol. 3 was produced by Rollins and his longtime engineer, Richard Corsello. Trombonist Clifton Anderson and bassist Bob Cranshaw are heard throughout, joined on selected tracks by pianist Stephen Scott; guitarists Bobby Broom and Peter Bernstein; drummers Kobie Watkins, Perry Wilson, Steve Jordan, and Victor Lewis; and percussionists Kimati Dinizulu and Sammy Figueroa. “All of these people in my bands are top of the line in their own right,” says Rollins. “It’s a privilege and pleasure to play with them.” 

Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway, and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information, please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com.

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