My 2012 Record Store Day Vinyl Jazz Gems

My 2012 Record Store Day Vinyl Jazz Gems! Miles Davis - Forever Miles and Bill Evans - Live at Top of the Gate

Don't Forget About The Fifth Annual Record Store Day Saturday April 21, 2012

We're always looking forward to National Record Store Day every April. This Saturday is the Fifith Annual Record Store Day. Although we buy vinyl and support our local record stores frequently throughout the year, there is always something special about that one Saturday in April where independent record stores and crate diggers around the world come together to celebrate the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. So grab your list and get to diggin'. Below are a few vinyl records that we'll be diggin' for this Saturday at our local record store. Happy Record Store Day!

Postal Service to Issue Miles Davis Stamp

More than 20 years after his death, jazz legend Miles Davis is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with his very own stamp. read more

Miles Davis Quintet :: LIVE in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 - 3CD/DVD

In the 1960s Miles Davis toured Europe several times with some of the greatest bands he ever led. As the first title in a projected series of boxed sets Sony/Legacy introduces MILES DAVIS QUINTET - Live In Europe 1967 - The Bootleg Series Vol.1 featuring Miles Davis Second Great Quintet featuring WAYNE SHORTER, HERBIE HANCOCK, RON CARTER and TONY WILLIAMS -- arguably the single greatest small group ensemble in jazz history.

The recordings from their 1967 European tour are some of the only existing documentation of the band performing compositions from the extraordinary series of studio albums they made between 1965-1967 -- E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer and Nefertiti. Now fans can hear live versions of Agitation (from E.S.P.), Footprints" and "Gingerbread Boy ( from Miles Smiles), Masquelero" (from Sorcerer ) and Riot" (from Nefertiti); PLUS, Miles revisits some of the earlier classics he had been performing for years -- Round Midnight , On Green Dolphin Street , I Fall In Love Too Easily and No Blues -- all in strikingly different interpretations from the original studio versions. Seeing this band in action only further emphasizes their near supernatural rapport.

DVD Track listing:1. Agitation, 2. Footprints, 3. I Fall In Love Too Easily, 4. Walkin , 5. Gingerbread Boy, 6. The Theme, 7. Agitation, 8. Footprints
9. Round Midnight, 10. Gingerbread Boy, 11. The Theme