Listening Party: 50th Anniversary Legacy CDs Sketches of Spain, Time Out, Mingus Ah um.

In addtion to four live performance, exclusive offerings and giveaways, J&R’s celebration of Record Store Day will feature an Advance Listening Party of 50th Anniversary Legacy CDs on the 2nd Floor of J&R Music World, 23 Park Row, 12 noon, Saturday, April 18th.

In celebration of the 50th anniversaries of their recording, Columbia/Legacy is releasing special Legacy Editions of Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, Miles Davis’ Sketches Of Spain and Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um. All three are slated for a May 26 release and excerpts of all three will be played at J&R, Saturday.

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The Time Out Legacy Edition will feature two CDs and a DVD. The DVD features a new 30-minute documentary on the making of Time Out, including footage of Brubeck illustrating selections from Time Out at the piano. The audio portion of this package features over 90 minutes of music, including an entire second disc of previously unreleased live recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival from 1961-’64.

Sketches Of Spain was released in 1960, but recorded in ‘59. The two-CD Legacy Edition of this collaboration between Gil Evans and Davis features more than two hours of music: the original album along with rehearsal and alternate takes previously heard only on the 1996 set Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, plus the lone live performance by Davis with Evans, “Concierto De Aranjuez” performed at Carnegie Hall on May 19, 1961.

The two-CD Mingus Ah Um features more than two-and-a-half hours of music, including Mingus Ah Um and its sequel, Mingus Dynasty, in their entirety, plus four bonus tracks from the sessions and three alternate takes.

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