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Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time (1975) {2013 Japan Mini LP K2HD Mastering IECP-10266}
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© 1975, 2013 Victor Japan / Atomhenge / Cherry Red | IECP-10266 | K2HD Mastering
Rock / Prog Rock / Space Rock / Art Rock

This Japanese edition features the UK original cover design with eight-panel sleeve, including an inner bag. Also features regular edition cardboard sleeve. CD features remastering using the 1975 original UK stereo master. Hawkwind's fifth studio album found the band enjoying a rare oasis of stability after the multitudinous personnel shifts of the past five years. Only the recruitment of a second drummer, Alan Powell, disturbed the equanimity of the lineup that created the previous year's Hall of the Mountain Grill, although it would soon be time to change again.

Paolo Fresu - 5 Original Albums (2016) {5CDs Set Blue Note rec 2005-2007}
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© 2005-07, 2016 Blue Note / Universal Music Italia | 0602557224900
Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Creative / Trumpet / Flugelhorn

At the beginning of the '80s, trumpeter Paolo Fresu attended the Siena Summer Jazz Seminars and amazed Enrico Rava with his creativity, talent, and technique. Over the next ten years, he became a major player on the Italian scene, first with his own quintet (which is still going), then branching out in a variety of projects. After finishing his Conservatory studies, he became a teacher at the same Jazz Seminars in Siena; he lives half the year in Paris, from where he coordinates the major Time in Jazz Festival he created in his hometown. His discography numbers an astonishing 130 titles since he's been invited to play all over Europe in a variety of projects, from contemporary music to straight jazz, from dance to jazz/folk fusions.

The Quatuor Ébène timed this round-the-world Beethoven cycle to coincide with Beethoven's 250th birthday in 2020, beginning a worldwide tour and fortunately completing it before the outbreak of the pandemic in that year. The cycle was recorded in Philadelphia, Vienna, Tokyo, São Paolo, Melbourne, Nairobi, and finally Paris. CD buyers get a combination of travelogue and set of work descriptions, but it's not clear that the performances were influenced in any way by the globetrotting. This is, however, a very strong Beethoven set, with full-blooded performances perhaps unexpected from a group that made its name with French quartet music.

David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii (2017) {2xDVD9 NTSC Set Sony Music 88985467419}
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© 2017 David Gilmour Music / Columbia / Sony Music | 88985467419
Rock / Progressive Rock

45 years after Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour filmed ‘Live At Pompeii’ in the legendary Roman Amphitheatre there, he returned for two spectacular shows, part of his year-long tour in support of his No.1 album ‘Rattle That Lock’. The performances were the first-ever rock concerts for an audience in the stone Roman amphitheatre, and, for two nights only, the 2,600 strong crowd stood exactly where gladiators would have fought in the first century AD.

During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it…

Neil Diamond - 50th Anniversary Collection (2017) {3CD Set Capitol} (Complete Artwork - 8-panel digipak with 28 page booklet)
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© 2017 Neil Diamond / Universal Music / Capitol Records | 00602557349412
Rock / Adult Contemporary / Soft Rock / AM Rock

The 50th Anniversary Collection from Neil Diamond, is a celebratory music package marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic, Grammy Award-winning and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame member's first hit 'Solitary Man' plus 49 additional hits. 'Solitary Man' began his trajectory as a legendary songwriter, prolific musician and celebrated performer with a time span that has now marked five decades and counting. The exclusive 3 CD package includes 50 songs that range 50 years in Diamond's career. Under the supervision of Diamond, the forthcoming anniversary set will include his own handpicked songs and a carefully booklet with new liner notes.

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Volume 31 - Uptown Theatre, Chicago, Il, 12/3/1979 (2019) {3CD Set Rhino R2-573509}
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© 1979, 2019 Rhino / GD Prod. | R2-573509 | HDCD
Rock / Classic Rock / Psychedelic / Folk Rock / Jam Band

Hold on to your hat, we're coming in strong with one from the Windy City that'll have you movin' and shakin' from start to finish. DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 31: UPTOWN THEATRE, CHICAGO, IL 12/3/79 signals a true rebirth of the Grateful Dead, reimagining classics and foreshadowing their 80s sound. This is as much in part due to freshly-minted member Brent Mydland bringing the organ back in as it is to Jerry finding new vivacity with his custom Tiger guitar. New guy, new guitar - it all makes for a heck of a good time!