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Bob Dylan

Born: May 24, 1941

Who would ever imagine recordings by Billie Holiday, the Clash, the Sons of the Pioneers, Aretha Franklin, Charles Mingus and the White Stripes all on the same album? If the mixture of jazz, punk, country-western, soul and rock sounds radical in an era of rigid musical segregation on commercial radio, it's only fitting that we have a genuine musical revolutionary to thank for the new package: Bob Dylan. In his role as DJ on satellite radio broadcaster XM for nearly two years, Dylan has been playing a mixture of these sounds. The problem is you can't hear the show unless you subscribe to XM. Ace Records, the imaginative reissue label in England, has come up with the next best thing

The Bootleg Series Volume 21: To Be Likened Later, Spring 65: The Forgotten Gil Evans Sessions

By Bob Dylan

Label: April 1st Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD 1: Studio Chatter; Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (partial); Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (complete acoustic take); Studio chatter; Ballad of Hollis Brown; Gil takes notes; Ballad of Hollis Brown (Gil’s piano version); More chatter; Farewell Angelina; Gil’s excitement; Bob responds; Mr. Tamborine Man (acoustic takes 1 &2); Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Chatter. CD 2: Gil Explains to Assembled Musicians; Warm-up; Fingerprint Smile (false starts, takes 1-4); Breakdown; Stardust; Orchestra run through; Stardust; Spoken word Straight Street; Studio chatter; Love Minus Zero/No Limit (full orchestration); Days of Us Not Forgotten. (snippet); Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes (false start); Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes (takes 1-3); Chatter; Ballad of Hollis Brown. CD 3: Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (orchestral version); Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (master take); Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes (master take); Fingerprint Smile (takes 1-4); Dylan break down; Chatter; Days of Us Not Forgotten (version with trumpet); Gil gets down to business; Chimes of Freedom (warm up); Chimes of Freedom (take 1). CD 4: Chimes of Freedom (master); Chatter; Days of Us Not Forgotten (breakdown); Farewell Angelina (run through); Farewell Angelina (master); Joshua Gone Barbados (Dylan solo); Joanna’s Bracelets (whole session); Gil’s Interlude; Chatter.

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Volume 21: To Be Likened Later, Spring 65: The Forgotten Gil Evans Sessions

by Mike Jurkovic
April 1, 2024

Veteran producer Tom Wilson was never a man known to shun aside inspiration. Prior to finding himself at the eye of the Bob Dylan hurricane, Wilson had not only founded Transition Records, but gave the world Sun Ra's unruly, post-bop big band debut Jazz by Sun Ra (Transition, 1957), Cecil Taylor's defiant and quixotic Jazz Advance ...

Christian Parker: Change Is Now - A Tribute To The Byrds

by Doug Collette
March 23, 2024

Christian Parker's Change Is Now is as laudable in its own way as its predecessor, a combination reimagining and expansion of Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia, 1968), the Byrds' first full-length foray into the fusion of rock and country music. Subtitled A Tribute to the Byrds, this sequel overseen by the resident of Elmore James' New ...

The Jazz Cruise 2024

by Katchie Cartwright
February 21, 2024

Celebrity Summit The Jazz Cruise Miami, Labadee, Puerto Plata, St. Thomas January 18-25, 2024 Founded by Anita E. Berry in 2001, The Jazz Cruise has been offering patrons a yearly action-packed weeklong jazz experience at sea with some 100 world-class musicians in 200 hours of programming ...

Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Love Sick; Dirt Road Blues; Standing In the Doorway; Million Miles; Tryin' to Get to Heaven; 'Til I Fell in Love With You; Not Dark Yet; Cold Irons Bound; Make You Feel My Love; Can't Wait; Highlands. Disc 2: The Water is Wide; Dreamin' of You; Red River Shore - version 1; Love Sick - version 1; 'Til I Fell in Love with You - version 1; Not Dark Yet - version 1; Can't Wait - version 1; Dirt Road Blues - version 1; Mississippi - version 1; 'Til I Fell in Love With You - version 2; Standing In the Doorway - version 1; Tryin' to Get to Heaven - version 1; Cold Irons Bound. Disc 3: Love Sick - version 2; Dirt Road Blues - version 2; Can't Wait - version 2; Red River Shore - version 2; Marchin' to the City; Make You Feel My Love - version 1; Mississippi - version 2; Standing in the Doorway - version 2; 'Till I Fell in Love with You - version 3; Not Dark Yet - version 2; Tryin' to Get to Heaven - version 2; Highlands. Disc 4: Love Sick; Can't Wait; Standing in the Doorway; Million Miles; Tryin' to Get to Heaven; 'Til I Fell in Love with You; Not Dark Yet; Cold Irons Bound; Make You Feel My Love; Can't Wait; Mississippi; Highlands. Disc 5: Dreamin' of You; Red River Shore - version 1; Red River Shore - version 2; Mississippi - version 1; Mississippi - version 3; Mississippi - version 2; Marchin' to the City - version 1; Marchin' to the City - version 2; Can't Wait - version 1; Can't Wait - version 2; Cold Irons Bound - live; Tryin' to Get to Heaven - live.

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 2020-2023

by Robert Middleton
December 26, 2023

In the 72 Jazz Thrillers series we've gone from 1969 to 2023, an expansive 54-year journey. From the jazz vanguard of Bitches Brew to the dynamic movie soundtrack of Roy's World, from the sublime guitar of Bill Frisell to the singing guitar of Charlie Ballantine, the thing that all these jazz albums have in common is ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2023

by Martin Longley
December 21, 2023

Dom Omladine / MTS Dvorana Belgrade, SerbiaOctober 24-29, 2023 Following the financial turbulence of 2022's Belgrade Jazz Festival, this year's edition, the 39th, resounded with a sturdier sureness, getting back to a confident momentum. Its programme was as reliably impressive as ever, particularly in the quality of its international bookings. We ...

Cat Power: Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert

by Doug Collette
December 10, 2023

There have been some splendid tributes to Bob Dylan and his singular songcraft in recent years, specifically Bettye LaVette's Things Have Changed (Verve, 2018) and Chrissie Hynde's Standing in the Doorway (BMG, 2021). But, stirring as both of those are, neither is as ambitious or eccentric as Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall ...

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At The Hollywood Bowl – August 18, 1967

by Doug Collette
November 18, 2023

The archiving of Jimi Hendrix' vault has apparently reached the point where what happens on a given release is less important than when it happened. So it is with Live At The Hollywood Bowl--August 18, 1967, the setlist for which is similar to that of his ground-breaking June '67 performance at Monterey Pop, one ...