Welcome to MyLoveOfJazz WordPress. Let’s start discussing Jazz!!! My first topic is actually a contest that will include two Jazz compliation giveaways donated by BMG. I will choose one lucky winner to receive Nina Simone’s “Free To Be: The Nina Simone Story” and one luckiy winner to receive another donated compilation: “Miles Davis 50th Anniversary of Kind Of Blue. Please provide your wish to be that lucky winner. Only one person chosen for each. Last day for entering will be December 10, 2008. The winner of the drawing will be announced December 12, 2008. I hope to have more contests giveaways in the future. One last note, the contest is only open to the continental Unites States of America. Sorry:(
Many Thanks to Bob Hoch, Director, Digital Marketing Sony/BMG Commercial Music Group
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Details of the compilations:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
SUPER-DELUXE 12-INCH SLIPCASE BOX SET CONTAINS:
• Two CDs (original album plus studio sequences, false starts, and alternate takes from 1958-59 sessions, plus 17-minute “So What” live in Holland, 1960)
• DVD: newly-produced documentary featuring superstars of jazz
• 60-page ‘perfect-bound’ 12×12 full-color book, tons of photos
• 180-gram blue vinyl 12-inch LP– first time ever in a Legacy box set
* Box set memorabilia: 3-page hand-written liner notes by Bill Evans; reproduction of 1959 Columbia promo brochure; six 8×10 photos; and 22x 33 foldout poster
Nina Simone - To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
• 3 CD Career Retrospective (1957-1993) including her work for Bethelem, Colpix, Philips, RCA, CTI and Elektra
• PLUS a 30 minute never-before-released documentary on DVD
• 54 songs , 8 previously unreleased tracks (*see below) including some never recorded elsewhere
• Nearly 4 hours of music
• Includes all chart hits (U.S. and U.K.) and her most famous signature songs
• Many unique and rare live recordings of her classic repertoire and the greatest album tracks from her entire career
• Liner notes include track-by-track commentary from Simone biographer, David Nathan, and introduction by Ed Ward, NPR’s “rock & roll historian” and Fresh Air correspondent
• Never-before-seen photos from her family archives, recording session and performances
