The 5x platinum-selling album in the U.S., Face Value, was the debut solo album released by Genesis drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released in February 1981 by Virgin Records. The album…

AllMusic marks Charles Mingus' Blues & Roots as a rejoinder to the critical carping that the virtuoso bass player and accomplished jazz pianist and bandleader and his evocative music "somehow…

Michael Fremer and Robin Wyatt announce Rufus Reid Presents Caelan Cardello LP! here In his long, distinguished career, veteran bassist Rufus Reid has played and recorded with the likes of Kenny…

This session is a model of the emotionally intense ballad programs featured on Prestige's Moodsville subsidiary. The great Kenny Burrell receives a major assist from saxophone patriarch Coleman…

On April 7, 2020, John Prine died a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic after a storied career as a singer/songwriter. His first album, John Prine, released in September 1971, marked the beginning of…

180-gram vinyl 7LP box set Mastered AAA by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes Pressed at Quality Record Pressings Despite various reissue formats over several decades, the seven…

Of Booker Ervin's nine Prestige albums, this one is special because it presents him exclusively in the contexts of standard songs. Ervin's aggressiveness, his ferocity, his incomparable Texas…

"How sad, if timely: this stunning reissue of the 1994 live album arrived in the very week that trumpeter Masekela passed away. One of the most successful ambassadors ever for African music, his…

Now on 45 RPM LP, mastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan Smith from the analog tapes Plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings Deluxe "tip-on" gatefold jackets by Stoughton Printing "Dean's voice…

Acoustic Sounds customer Alan Hendler has this to say about the first three RCA reissues: "Just received your new vinyl of Scheherazade, Pictures and Pines and Fountains of Rome. After listening I…