The Night Belongs to Jazz. Our Midnight Jazz series has become one of the most successful releases in the Magic Of Vinyl collection. With Midnight Jazz – Piano Greatest, we now turn the spotlight on the greatest pianists and the most unforgettable piano moments in jazz history. At the heart of this compilation are legendary artists and world-famous standards perfectly suited for the special atmosphere of the night. From gentle melodies to deeply emotional performances filled with elegance and...
Everlasting Gold. What began on the stages of Broadway grew into an extraordinary career: more than 145 million records sold, countless awards, and over six decades at the forefront of music and film. To this day, Barbra Streisand remains the only artist to have achieved at least one No. 1 album in the United States in six consecutive decades. Born in Brooklyn in 1942, she grew up under modest circumstances. Her exceptional talent became apparent early on: as a teenager she recorded her first...
The Song and Dance Man. Bob Dylan lives in that moment between a whisper and a cry, where words stop behaving — and begin to sing. He electrifies poetry, turns folk into upheaval and protest into pop, expanding what a song can be. Born in 1941 as Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, he finds his truth on the radio and arrives in New York at twenty — not to preserve folk, but to reinvent it. Greenwich Village becomes his laboratory, and Dave Van Ronk, the scene’s “janitor,” shows him that...
Kind Of Three. In 1959, Kind of Blue changed the world of music—not as an album, but as a moment of clarity, freedom, and depth. At its center stood three extraordinary voices: Miles Davis with his cool minimalism, John Coltrane with his spiritual intensity, and Bill Evans with his shimmering harmonic touch. This edition is not a reissue of Kind of Blue, but a look at the creative paths that brought these artists together—and then led them apart again. The recordings gathered here come from...
The King Of Cool. On a warm night in 1950s Las Vegas, neon lights shimmered across the desert sky as a man took the stage with effortless grace. Cigarette in hand, smile easy, voice smooth as velvet — Dean Martin sang as if the music were part of a conversation, as if every listener were an old friend. Born Dino Paul Crocetti in 1917 in Steubenville, Ohio, he was the son of Italian immigrants who dreamed beyond their steel-town life. He boxed under the name Kid Crochet, worked as a card...
The Art Of Crooning. On a cool evening in mid-century America, neon lights shimmered across the night, orchestras tuned their instruments, and a single voice rose beneath the spotlight — smooth, close, and unforced. This was the sound of the crooners: singers who turned intimacy into an art form. They didn’t command audiences with volume; they drew them in, as if every song were a private conversation between friends. Romance, polish, and elegance were their language, and their music became...
On The Road Again. In the mid-1960s, as folk and psychedelia were reshaping rock, a band from Los Angeles set out to revive the blues: Canned Heat. Founded by Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson and Bob “The Bear” Hite—both passionate collectors and scholars of old shellac records—the group stood for authenticity from the very beginning. Their name, borrowed from a 1928 song, hinted at the rawness from which they drew their power. Their breakthrough came in 1968 with the album Boogie with...
The Quiet Milestone. A summer day in June 1961, New York’s Village Vanguard: Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian step onto the small stage – and create music that endures. From these concerts came two albums that shaped jazz history: Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. The latter, named after Evans’s niece, is regarded as one of the most tender and moving recordings in the genre. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1929, Evans was a quiet revolutionary. Classically...
You Are My Candy Girl. In the late 1960s, when counterculture collided with commercial pop, a most unlikely band conquered the airwaves: The Archies. Born in Archie Comics and brought to life in the Saturday morning cartoon The Archie Show (1968), they were created as a marketing idea but soon became a genuine chart force. Under music supervisor Don Kirshner, who had shaped The Monkees, and with Brill Building songwriters Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, the project gained serious musical weight. The...
More Soul. At the beginning of the 1960s, soul music began to develop into a genre in its own right. The record labels Stax from Memphis and Motown from Detroit played an important role in this. Memphis and Detroit, the melting pots of a rich African-American musical tradition, released classics by Otis Redding, Booker T. & The MG's, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. After the great success of the first Soul Classics edition, Magic Of Vinyl presents more timeless soul treasures as limited...