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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).

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För att fira 50-årsjubileumet sedan Simon & Garfunkel skivdebuterade släpps denna box innehållande alla 11 album som släppts på Columbia Records. Boxen innehåller 12 CD i vinyl replicas samt en fin 48-sidig bok. Albumen som ingår är: Wednesday Morning, 3.A.M., Sounds Of<br/>Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, The Graduate (soundtrack), Bookends, Bridge Over Trouble Water, Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, The Concert in Central Park, Old Friends Live On Stage, Live From New York City 1967, Live 1969.

All In features all of the band's Sony albums on thirteen CD's. The set also includes a previously unreleased Live In Tokyo EP from their 1980 tour, along with a brand new album with new and previously unreleased music titled Old Is New.

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