ELMORE JAMES: Big Box of Elmore James (6CD Box)

A 6 CD set by the “King of Slide Guitars” – a true Blues legend. A no frills package at a really great price… Disc 1: You Know You’re Wrong, Round House Boogie, Rollin’ & Tumblin’ I Need You, Hawaiian Boogie,Stranger Blues, So Unkind, 1839 Blues, Poor Little Angel Child, Make My Dreams Come True, Dust […]

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MILES DAVIS QUINTET: Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (3CD)

A 3CD box set collection chronicling Miles’ musical evolution in the studio from 1966-1968 working with his “second great quintet,” the latest edition in Columbia/Legacy’s acclaimed Miles Davis Bootleg Series provides an unprecedented look into the artist’s creative process, drawing on full session reels including all rehearsals, partial and alternate takes, studio conversation and more. […]

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OPERA: Will children ever care about it?

Rupert Christiansen writes: What role opera should play in our educational system is a problem that has baffled and exercised me for my 25 years as a critic – and lover – of this great if beleaguered art form. My feelings are complicated by the fact that my own path to opera was entirely self-motivated. […]

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THE GRATEFUL DEAD: The Golden Road (12CD Box Set)

12 CD set with 15 1/2 hours of music, including 7 hours of previously unreleased material. Includes the Dead’s nine Warner Bros. albums, digitally remastered in HDCD for superior quality. Contains a new 2-disc set, Birth of the Dead, featuring rare and previously unreleased recordings from the band’s pre-Warner days. Includes a 100-page book chronicling […]

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