Christy Baron - I Thought About You (180G One Step Pressing Vinyl LP) - VINYL LP

The final album recorded by the late double-Grammy-winning Chuck Mangione, Everything for Love, was the flugelhorn maestro's second outing for Chesky Records, a New York tag renowned for it's audiophile-quality recordings and for cutting it's artists live in what producer David Chesky described as Inchreverberant spacesInch using a single microphone. Recorded in St. Peter's Church, Chelsea, New York, in 2000, Everything for Love reunited Mangione with some of the musicians who had played with him in the '70s - saxophonist/flutist Gerry Niewood, guitarist Grant Geissman, and bassist Charles Meeks - and featured mostly original material. Highlights include 'Peggy Hill,' which Mangione composed for the animated sitcom King Of The Hill; 'Slo Ro,' a portrait of Mangione's wife Rosie; and the album's only cover, a soulful, gospel-tinged rendition of the hymn 'Amazing Grace,' where Mangione takes the listener to church. Everything for Love is a fitting musical epitaph for Mangione, who died in 2025. The album will be reissued in 2026 on SACD Hybrid Stereo and 180g One-step Pressing Vinyl LP as part of the Chesky Original Masters series. Album Tracks 1. LP Side One 2. Peggy Hill 3. Slo Ro 4. Amazing Grace 5. LP Side Two 6. Seoul Sister 7. Viola 8. I Do Everything for Love

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989's Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram's debut for Chesky Records, a New York tag renowned for it's high-resolution audiophile recordings. Caram was mentored by the legendary bossa nova pioneer Antônio Carlos Jobim, who joined his protege on two of the album's fifteen cuts, playing piano and singing background vocals on Caram's versions of his classic songs 'Meditation' and 'Anos Dourados (It Looks Like December).' Another star cameo came from the Grammy-winning Cuban-American reed player Paquito D'Rivera, who plays saxophone and clarinet on the tracks 'La Cumbia' and 'O Que Vier Eu Traço.' Accompanied by pianist/composer/producer David Chesky, flutist Steve Sacks, bassist David Finck, and percussionists Carlos Alberto de Oliveira and Café, Caram's sinuous vocals and syncopated fretwork showed she was an authentic new voice continuing the bossa nova tradition. The album is reissued on SACD Hybrid Stereo in 2025. Details 1. Rio After Dark 2. Alagoas 3. Meditation 4. Viola Fora de Moda 5. Summer Days 6. La Cumbia 7. Anos Dourados 8. Renovaçào 9. Rainbow 10. O Que Vier Eu Traço 11. Sem Legenda 12. Forever 13. O Tempo E O 14. Lugar 15. Serrado 16. You've Got a Friend

Patricia Barber's 6th studio album is a fascinating collection of classic cover songs shaped by her inimitable downtempo intimacy into startlingly affective journeys through the human condition. Working with her band of the time (bassist Michael Arnopol and drummer Adam Cruz, augmented by star turns from guitarist Charlie Hunter, bassist Marc Johnson, and drummer Adam Nussbaum), Barber creates an atmosphere of austere trepidation that allows her long-time engineer Jim Anderson to hang her haunted vocals directly over top. Like all great jazz albums, Nightclub puts the highlighted artist front and center while carving out plenty of space for the supporting players to give emphatic support. Impex's 1STEP process provides the perfect showcase for Anderson's peerless audio immersions. Nightclub was originally digitally recorded on a Sony 3348 multi-track and mixed through a Neve analog console to both digital and analog mix-down masters. Bernie Grundman used the analog mix-down tapes to assemble a new analog cutting master exclusively for our 1STEP. Coupled with the incredibly detailed VR-900 vinyl formula, there is instrument detailing to spare, a Mariana Trench noise floor, and incredibly-focused low end. There is simply no better way to enjoy Barber's cool renditions of timeless classics than this one (including the exclusive, never-before-released bonus track InchWild Is the WindInch). Limited to 7,500 pressings, so preorder now before this Club closes for good. Album Tracks 1. Bye, Bye Blackbird 2. Invitation 3. Yesterdays 4. Just for a Thrill 5. You Don't Know Me 6. Alfie 7. Autumn Leaves 8. Summer Samba 9. All or Nothing at All 10. So in Love 11. A Man and a Woman 12. I Fall in Love Too Easily 13. Wild Is the Wind