When the Awakening formed in the early 1970s, they combined veterans of Chicago’s R&B sessions and jazz players affiliated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The sextet drew on these diverse sources for its 1972 debut album, Hear, Sense and Feel, which is being reissued domestically this month as part of Real […]
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Two overlooked Ornette Coleman albums from the late 60s finally get reissued
Ornette Coleman’s live albums Ornette at 12 and Crisis, both featuring his pubescent son Denardo on drums, receive their first-ever CD editions.
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‘(Until Then) I’ll Suffer,’ classic late-60s soul from Barbara Lynn
A gem from an essential new anthology of the Texas soul great’s Atlantic recordings
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New jazz rarities from the tastemakers at Dusty Groove
A new partnership with reissue label Real Gone Music yields three terrific reissues from the vaults of Prestige.
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Best Band Revived by Reissues
These Zion power-pop pioneers seemed moribund a couple years ago, but a spate of reissues and a fantastic new studio album, all released in 2012, have revived them in a major way.
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Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap at Metro
Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap, Disappears play Rainbo, and more