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Verve Label Group/UMe Announces Chad Kassem-Supervised All-Analog Classic Jazz Reissue Series
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 11, 2020  |  First Published: Jun 11, 2020  |  97 comments
June 11, 2020—Verve Label Group and UMe announced today the July 31st launch of a new “audiophile grade”, all-analog reissue series supervised by Acoustic Sounds CEO Chad Kassem, featuring iconic titles from the Verve, Impulse!, Philips, EmArcy and Decca catalogs.

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Album Reviews
Verve/ Folkways Folk/Blues Classic Licensed From Smithsonian
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 01, 2011  |  1 comments

Talk about a confusing pedigree: though the jacket reproduces an "electronically reprocessed for stereo" edition of this album, the tape used is  mono, thank goodness.

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Verve/Acoustic Sounds To Release Out of the Cool  (Impulse AS-4) Cut From Original Master Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 10, 2021  |  First Published: Feb 10, 2021  |  63 comments
This essential, musically groundbreaking and sonically spectacular Gil Evans album recorded by RVG in 1960 and released February of 1961 will soon be issued as part of the Verve/Acoustic Sounds series, cut AAA using the original master tape.

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Verve/UMe Readies Two Nina Simone Albums For Third Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series Installment
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 24, 2020  |  First Published: Sep 24, 2020  |  0 comments
Even as the Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/UMe of Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Ballads are set for October 9th release, the label announced today pre-orders for the third installment in the series: two classic (and much needed and welcomed at this time) 1965 Nina Simone albums: I Put A Spell On You and Pastel Blues slated for November.

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Verve/UMe Releases Individually Nina Simone Philips era Vinyl Box Set Albums
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 03, 2016  |  First Published: Oct 03, 2016  |  0 comments
Nina Simone's Philips catalog, recorded between 1964 and 1967 includes much of her most essential recordings.

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Verve/UMe-Acoustic Sounds Series Launches Impulse! 60th Anniversary May 14th With Two Essential Titles, Announces More 2021 Impulse!/Verve Greats
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 26, 2021  |  First Published: Apr 26, 2021  |  35 comments
Los Angeles—April 26, 2021 — Verve/UMe’s Acoustic Sounds series celebrates Impulse!’s 60th anniversary, releasing May 14 two of the four titles that originally launched the iconic orange and black label:

• Ray Charles – Genius + Soul = Jazz
• Gil Evans Orchestra – Out Of The Cool

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Verve/Ume/Acoustic Sounds Announces 2022’s Remaining All-Analogue Releases
Michael Fremer  |  May 05, 2022  |  First Published: May 05, 2022  |  43 comments
Los Angeles – May 5, 2022- Verve/Ume and Acoustic Sounds announces the following titles coming throughout the year followed the April 29th release John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (Impulse!, 1963).

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Album Reviews
Very First Jazz Messengers Record + Bonus Tracks
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2011  |  0 comments

It's easy to make a case for buying this double mono LP reissue of a 1956 Columbia release—unless you're not a jazz fan.

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Album Reviews
Veteran Alt Rock Group Delivers Eclectic Mix
Michael Fremer  |  May 01, 2007  |  0 comments

It’s not often that a rock band remains together for more than 20 years and releases consistently swell records along the way, but Yo La Tengo has managed to do that, in part because Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley have beat the odds twice: managing to stay together throughout both as bandmates and husband and wife.

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Album Reviews
Veteran Blues Guitarist Returns To Studio After Five Year Hiatus
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 01, 2006  |  0 comments

Veteran blues guitarist Walter Trout is obviously well known within blues circles and among blues fans I asked, but the name doesn’t elicit much of a response outside the blues core.

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