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MILES IN FRANCE is the eighth installment in the celebrated Miles Davis Bootleg Series and this edition focuses on the birth of the Second Great Quintet in 1963 and 1964. The music heard here represents the sound of an end and a beginning coming through at once. The set contains 5 separate performances of the Miles Davis Quintet spread over 6 CDs and the energy and depth of feeling in the transcendent playing hint at the special relationship Miles and the group had with the French nation that embraced them in a way their homeland would not. It contains over 4 hours of revelatory, unreleased live music featuring Miles backed by George Coleman (on the 1963 recordings), Wayne Shorter (on the 1964 recordings), Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. This set expands on the 1964 live album MILES IN EUROPE which documented the Miles Davis Quintet's performance at the Festival Mondial du Jazz in Antibes in July 1963. The audio has been lovingly mixed and mastered in the highest quality possible.

Bob Dylan - The 1974 Live Recordings, New 431-Track Collection Of The Artist's Arena Performances With The Band, To Be Released Across 27 Discs On Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings, September 20.<br/><br/>Deluxe Box Set Features 417 Previously Unreleased Performances, Newly-Mixed Recordings And Liner Notes by Elizabeth Nelson.<br/><br/>Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release The 1974 Live Recordings on Friday, September 20, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's return to touring that year. Featuring all professionally recorded shows from the artist's 1974 performances backed by The Band, the collection will be available as a deluxe box set across 27 CDs. The 1974 Live Recordings offers fans 417 previously-unreleased Bob Dylan live tracks - including 133 recordings newly mixed from 16-track tape, and every single surviving soundboard recording - along with new liner notes by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson. <br/><br/>Bob Dylan's 1974 Tour marked his first time touring live in eight years and reunited him with The Band - who had become widely renowned in their own right since backing the artist nearly a decade earlier. Booked into arenas for the first time ever, Bob Dylan and The Band performed 30 dates in 42 days (often playing two sets per day) before an average audience of 18,500 - helping set a new standard for what rock concerts could look and sound like. And in front of those crowds, they brought an energy that Rolling Stone's Ben Fong-Torres described as "searing and soaring, unified and precise...excellent in itself." Music critic Robert Christgau compared the sound to Bob Dylan "running over his old songs like a truck." <br/><br/>Tour '74 kicked off January 3, 1974, at Chicago Stadium - the largest indoor arena in the world at the time it was built - with a tense and combative rip through ultimate deep-cut "Hero Blues," an acoustic-gone-electric outtake from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan sessions, that he had scarcely performed before - or since. Additional rarities - like a wildly-reinvented "Ballad Of Hollis Brown," "Song to Woody" (not performed since 1962) and Planet Waves outtake "Nobody 'Cept You" - would be well received in the tour's first nights. "We were booed off of every stage in Europe," The Band's Robbie Robertson recalled to Newsweek of their previous run together. "What happened tonight in Chicago is so reassuring for us."<br/><br/>The reception wasn't the only thing that had changed since Bob Dylan and The Band last toured together in 1966. Since then, The Band had released six LPs, played Woodstock and other famous stages, and recorded a series of historic sessions with Bob Dylan - from The Basement Tapes to Planet Waves. For his part, Bob Dylan had effectively retired from the road altogether following a 1966 motorcycle accident, yet was still "widely regarded as the most influential and significant star in the last 10 years of American popular music," according to The New York Times.<br/><br/>Though they might not have known it at the time, Bob Dylan and The Band were at the vanguard of a new era. Tour '74 would help create the template for the major rock tour, and codify many of its shared experiences - from the sight of audiences holding up lighters en masse (as captured in the iconic cover image for Before The Flood), to the bright flash of the house lights during a show's signal moment, in this case their performance of "Like A Rolling Stone." Likewise many songs performed live for the first time on Tour '74 - "All Along The Watchtower," "Forever Young" and the show's eventual opener-and-closer "Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" - would take on a life of their own.<br/> <br/>At the outset, the 1974 Tour was captured on a stereo soundboard mix, on both 1?4" tape and cassette. By tour's end, Asylum Records' David Geffen had commissioned recordings on multitrack tape, the standard at the time, for eventual release on Before the Flood. The 1974 Live Recordings includes it all - the cassettes and 1/4" tapes, and the shows that were recorded on 16-track tape, newly-mixed for this collection.

Volym 12 i Bob Dylans hyllade Bootleg serie med exklusiva inspelningar. Denna 6CD Deluxe box fokuserar på inspelningarna till de legendariska albumen in Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited och Blonde On Blonde, som kom att säkerställa Bob Dylans rykte som oöverträffad låtskrivare och artist. Boxen innehåller studio inspelningar som inte tidigare släppts. Såsom inte tidigare publicerade sånger, inspelningar från repetitioner samt alternativa tagningar från inspelningarna av albumen. Alla inspelningar överförda och mixade från originaltaperna.<br/><br/>The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Deluxe Edition låter oss för första gången to del av dessa eftersökta inspelningar. På 6CD finns ej tidigare presenterade Dylan sånger, inspelningar från repetitioner samt alternativa tagningar av hans välkända låtar och desssutom hela sessionen för "Like A Rolling Stone" samt mycket mer. <br/><br/>Den innehåller också en bok med hundratals unika och ej tidigare visade foton och memorabilia kommenterade av Bill Flanagan och Sean Wilentz.<br/><br/>Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited och dubbelalbumet Blonde On Blonde skrevs och spelades in under en period av 14 månader (från Januari1965 till Mars 1966) och betraktas allmänt som tre av de mest viktiga och inflytelserikaste albumen under 60-talets musikaliska guldålder. Dylan spelade in albumen med producenterna Tom Wilson (Bringing It All Back Home, "Like A Rolling Stone") i New York och Bob Johnston i New York (Highway 61 Revisited) and Nashville (Blonde On Blonde).

Blue Öyster Cult: Columbia albums 1972-88 (Rem) [16 CD + DVD]

Springsteens "The Ties That Bind: The River Collection" är en omfattande tillbakablick till The River-eran - 52 låtar på fyra CDs med en mängd outgivna skatter samt fyra timmar tidigare outgivet filmat material samlade i 3 DVD:er. <br/> <br/>Boxen består av: original/dubbelalbumet The River; första officiella singelalbumsläppet av The River; en CD med 1979- och 1980-års studiotagningar; en dubbel-DVD med tidigare outgivet, nyklippt flerkamerafilmat material från Springsteens omtalade spelning i Tempe, Arizona (1980); filmat material från turnérepetitioner; den nya dokumentären "The Ties That Bind" om The River och sist men inte minst en bok innehållandes 200 foton samt en essä skriven av amerikanske författaren och journalisten Mikal Gilmore. <br/> <br/>The River är Springsteens femte album och släpptes den 17 oktober 1980. Dubbelalbumet nådde amerikanska Billboardlistans förstaplats. <br/> <br/>"The River: Single Album" är 10-spårsplattan som Springsteen spelade in 1979 som en uppföljare till 1978-års Darkness on the edge of town men som aldrig släpptes. <br/>"The songs lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have. So we went back in the studio," säger Springsteen i boken "Songs".<br/> <br/>Sju av tio titlar på The River singelalbum kom tillslut med på The River (original/dubbelalbumet) med en del alternativa låttexter och arrangemang. Med inspelningar som "Cindy" och en rockabilly version av "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)". Nu släpps singelabumet The River för första gången. <br/> <br/>Den fjärde CDn I boxen är "The River: Outtakes" som spänner över hela 1979- och 1980-års The River-sessions och skildrar djupet och variationen av Springsteens verk under denna tidsperiod. <br/>Elva av låtarna har aldrig förr släppts och är till stor del helt okända t.o.m. bland fansen som länge behandlat Springsteens outgivna material som skatter i lönndom. <br/> <br/>De elva låtarna ("Record One") är mixade av Bob Clearmountain och mastrade av Bob Ludwig. Ytterligare elva inspelningar ("Record Two") från "Tracks"-boxen och "Essential"-boxen har plockats för att samla samtliga rariteter.<br/> <br/>"The Ties That Bind" är en ny 60-minuters dokumentärfilm producerad av Grammy- och Emmybelönade Thom Zimny, skildrande Springsteen som reflekterar över skapandet av The River. <br/>Åskådaren får följa Springsteens berättelser blandat med akustiska solon och dåtida konsertmaterial på Springsteen med band, innan- och utanför studion. <br/> <br/>Sista videokomponenten är Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: The River Tour, Tempe 1980 en ny film producerad av material från 1980. Filmen innehåller 24 låtar, 2 timmar och 40 minuter på 2 DVDs från Springsteens konsert på Arizona State University i Tempe, Arizona (5 november 1980). Ansedd som en av Springsteens mest omtalade spelningar med tidiga liveversioner med över hälften av The River-låtarna. <br/> <br/>Med är också en 20 minuters film från Springsteen och The E Street Bands repetitioner från september 1980 i Lititz, Pennsylvania. Klippt av Zimny och mixat i Stereo & 5.1 surround av Bob Clearmountain mastrat av Bob Ludwig.

The original double album included 22 tracks, selected from the two shows Dylan played at the legendary Budokan hall in Tokyo on February 28 and March 1, 1978 during his first ever tour of Japan. Fast forward to 2006, when our Japanese office found the original multi-track tapes to both full shows in their archives. It's taken 17 long years since then but we are now finally getting ready to release all 58 songs from the two nights that were recorded in a fantastic new mix by the original engineer Tom Suzuki and with new artwork by the original art director Teruhisa Tajima. <br/><br/>All songs from the two shows Dylan played at the legendary Budokan hall in Tokyo on February 28 and March 1, 1978 during his first ever tour of Japan. All 58 songs from the two nights were recorded in a fantastic new mix by the original engineer Tom Suzuki and with new artwork by the original art director Teruhisa Tajima.<br/><br/>4-CD box set including 58 songs, 36 of which are previously unreleased. This will be a stunning 12x12 inch box set with a 60-page book including tons of unseen photography, a copy of the original 20-page tour book, ticket stub replicas, two posters and two facsimile print ads.<br/> <br/>Note: this release is not part of the Bootleg Series.

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at Time Out of Mind, Dylan's mid-career masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release on September 30, 1997. Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions featuring Dylan (vocals, guitar, and piano), Daniel Lanois (guitar and organ), Tony Garnier (bass) and Tony Mangurian (drums and percussion) through incandescent live renditions (also previously unreleased) showcasing Dylan and his touring ensemble channeling the songs on-stage from 1998-2001.