Father of the Delta Blues: Selections From Paramount Recordings

Sahib's Jazz Party is an album by saxophonist/flautist Sahib Shihab, recorded live at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, around the same time that he relocated there in 1963. Shihab is joined by flugelhornist Allan Botchinsky, guitarist Ole Molin, drummer Alex Riel, and 17-year old bass prodigy Niels Henning Orsted Pederson. The recordings showcase Sahib’s diversity and dexterity as a player, including his openness to the avant-garde style, expanding on the bop era playing he is known for. The audio has been remastered by Dave Gardner and pressed on audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany.

Tracklist:

A1 4070 Blues
A2 Charade
B1 Conversations, Part I
B2 Conversations, Part II
B3 Conversations, Part III

Eramus Hall was a soul/funk group from Detroit, whose debut “Your Love Is My Desire" became one of the most sought-after records of the modern soul era, coveted by DJs and record collectors alike. The group only recorded the one album for Westbound Records, home of funk heavyweights Funkadelic and Ohio Players, before moving to Capitol for their second and final album in 1984. After a definitive reissue of Eramus Hall's debut album, Org Music and Westbound Records have teamed up again to release a full LP worth of rare and previously unreleased tracks, including some of their earliest demos. Joel Martin, who produced the group’s output for Westbound, has overseen the mixing of the unearthed material, over four decades after he originally recorded them. The record will be pressed on color vinyl with a package that features never-before-seen photos and newly penned liner notes.

Tracklist:

A1 Determination
A2 Dance To Our Music
A3 Life Has Meaning
A4 Nice Smooth Easy
B1 Do The Rock
B2 Who’s Makin Love
B3 Mr. Softy
B4 Better Days

Dawg ’90 is the debut release on David’s Grisman’s acclaimed Acoustic Disc label, originally released in 1990 on cassette and CD formats. The album is a collection of original tunes featuring the David Grisman Quintet and special guests Mark O'Connor and Matt Glaser on fiddle. It was nominated for a Grammy in the country instrumental category, Grisman's first ever nomination for his own music. Thirty four years later, the album is finally receiving its first ever vinyl pressing with a deluxe 2xLP release, exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2024.

Tracklist:

1 Pupville
2 Chili Dawg
3 Mad Max
4 O'Banion's Wake
5 Dawg Daze
6 Lil' Samba
7 Learned Pigs
8 Gypsy Nights
9 Hot Club Swing
10 Sativa
11 Telluride
12 Blue Midnight
13 Opus 38
14 EMD

Revered singer Johnny Bragg wrote and recorded classic 1950s R&B hits, such as “Just Walkin’ in the Rain” (as lead vocalist of the Prisonaires) and “Rollin’ Stone” (fronting the Marigolds), while serving time at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. For years, the recordings collected here lay dormant and unheard in a garden shed in Nashville. Unearthed and assembled to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s acclaimed exhibit Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, these cuts are a rich trove encompassing previously unreleased songwriting demos, band rehearsals, and live recordings that, fortunately, Bragg preserved on tape in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s a time capsule of classic Nashville R&B, now available for the first time in any format.

Tracklist:

A1 Take Away the Heartache (Let Me Love Again)
A2 She’s Mine
A3 Is It True, Darlin’?
A4 I’ll Never Forget You
A5 I Saw It Coming
A6 If This Is a Dream (Let Me Dream On)
A7 It Isn’t Right
A8 Rock It, Shake It
B1 Hurt and Lonely
B2 I’ve Got to Stop Trying
B3 It’s Been a Beautiful World (Since I Found You)
B4 Let’s Rock, Let’s Roll
B5 If It’s Over
B6 You Know It Ain’t Right
B7 How Great Thou Art

Cecil Taylor 'Live At The Cafe Montmartre' has been lauded by critics as a landmark performance, "among the greatest live recordings in jazz” (Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings). The recordings capture Taylor in peak form, supported by the great Sunny Murray on drums and Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, at the famed Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen on November 23, 1962. The set is among very few recordings documenting Taylor’s playing between 1962 to 1966. The set has been remastered by Dave Gardner for a double LP pressing at Pallas Group in Germany on audiophile-grade vinyl, including updated package artwork.

Tracklist:

A1 Trance
A2 Call
A3 Lena
B1 D Trad, That's What
C1 What's New
C2 Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
D1 Lena (Second Version)
D2 Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (Second Version)