The Lee Bros.

You don't have to be southern to cook southern.

You don't have to be southern to cook southern.

Anthology: The Warner Bros. Years is a comprehensive anthology of Jaco Pastorius' output for the label, in 2 CDs, including collaborations with Airto Moreira and Mike Stern, as well as the previously unreleased "Donna Lee" from The Birthday Concert, available for the very first time. Accompanying the discs is a 16-page booklet, featuring a comprehensive essay by Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary And Tragic Life Of Jaco Pastorius, and photos by Shigeru Uchiyama.

Anthology: The Warner Bros. Years is a comprehensive anthology of Jaco Pastorius' output for the label, in 2 CDs, including collaborations with Airto Moreira and Mike Stern, as well as the previously unreleased "Donna Lee" from The Birthday Concert, available for the very first time. Accompanying the discs is a 16-page booklet, featuring a comprehensive essay by Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary And Tragic Life Of Jaco Pastorius, and photos by Shigeru Uchiyama.

SoulMusic Records' top-tier stewardship of Dionne Warwick's catalog continues with Sure Thing: The Warner Bros. Recordings 1972-1977, a six-disc package that neatly fits beside the label's likewise comprehensive Déjà Vu: The Arista Recordings 1979-1994. Warwick was positioned for success with Warner. With seven masterly Top Ten pop hits spanning seven years to her credit, the singer had left Scepter Records to sign what Variety reported in 1971 as the most lucrative recording contract signed by a female artist. Warner rolled out the proverbial red carpet. Despite the involvement of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the songwriting/production team behind all of those Scepter smashes, 1972's Dionne got the era off to a slow start. A bad omen of sorts was that its one charting single was neither produced nor written by Warwick's then-seemingly inseparable partners (who soon split).

After six years with Decca, during which they sold millions of records, Bill Haley And His Comets signed with Warner Bros - at that time a relatively new record company - in 1960.

The Brecker Brothers, Michael and Randy, were one of the most successful of the jazz/fusion groups that arose in the 1970s, recording six bestselling albums for Arista between 1975 and 1981. For their acclaimed debut, the siblings recruited all-star players including David Sanborn, Chris Parker, Harvey Mason, Sr., Bob Mann, Ralph MacDonald, Don Grolnick and Will Lee. Integrating their taste for jazz, fusion, R&B, funk and pop, the recording features their hit single, “Sneakin' Up Behind You” and the emblematic “Skunk Funk”. Widely received, the album reached the top five on Billboard’s Top Jazz albums.