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Celebrate 40 years of huge hits with NOW That’s What I Call 40 Years – 100 tracks across 5 CDs - honouring the legacy with a selection of the best from 40 years of NOW. Take the journey from the first edition back in 1983, right up to the present day – making at least one stop at every year in between.

The 2010s are officially over, and what a decade it’s been! It’s time to reminisce over what the last 10 years had to offer with five discs covering all the top hits from Alan Walker – Faded, Labrinth feat. Emeli Sande – Beneath Your Beautiful and Zara Larsson – Lush Life to name a few.

Although pianist Bud Powell recorded some great albums elsewhere (most notably his first couple of sessions for Verve), on the whole his Blue Note records were his most significant and definitive. This four-CD set has all of the music from his five Blue Note albums, his two sessions for the Roost label, and all known alternate takes. Powell literally changed the way that the piano is played in jazz, and this magnificent set has more than its share of classics. In addition to the many trio performances, trombonist Curtis Fuller sits in on three numbers, there are a few solo cuts, and one date features Powell at the head of a quintet with trumpeter Fats Navarro and the young tenor Sonny Rollins. Although there are a few faltering moments in the later dates, this essential release (unlike the similar Verve reissue) is quite consistent.

Bloom begins with Junkie XL's terrific remix of the Afterglow track "World on Fire." He trashes the hopeful chording of the original nearly completely, instead floating Sarah McLachlan's vocals over a taut guitar line for an addictive mixture of tension and atmosphere…

From the most successful multi-label, multi-artist recorded music franchise in US history comes a commemorative new album for our 20th anniversary. Listen to the fan-voted 20th Anniversary, Volume 1 release today to see which fan-voted tracks made it onto the tracklist!