Big Machine Records UK will release a 3 CD Greatest Hits collection from the music of hit TV show Nashville on October 6th, to coincide with the Season 5 finale airing in the UK and the release of the Nashville Season 5 DVD. Tracks on the collection will be favourites taken from across the soundtracks to seasons 1-5.

The group’s second album from 1997 contains 16 tracks, inc. 3 originals done in the style of Django Reinhardt, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France & gool ‘ol American jazz – the group is comprised of 3 guitars, violin & bass. Recorded at David Lange Studios, Edgewood, Washington. Includes liner notes by Jim Hilmar. Personnel includes: Stephanie Porter (vocals); Neil Anderson, Dudley Hill, Shelley Park (guitar); Michael Gray (violin); Pope Firman (bass).

RCA Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 2017 holiday season with the release of "Elvis Presley - Christmas with Elvis and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" on Friday, October 6.

As Dean Rudland points out in Ace's 2014 reissue of Lonnie Liston Smith's 1974 set Cosmic Funk, Smith himself views this LP as a transitional effort, capturing him between his pioneering work with Miles Davis' electric group and the exploratory Expansions. This suggests it perhaps isn't a cohesive album and, true enough, it's a record where the good ideas are sometimes suggested rather than developed. Much of the record showcases the smooth vocal stylings of Smith's brother Donald, who leads on a vocal version of John Coltrane's "Naima," lends a bit of a supper club vibe to "Beautiful Woman," croons through "Peaceful Ones," and dives into the thick, overlapping grooves of the title track. That opening song is one of the few tracks that emphasizes funk, otherwise the cosmic reigns, as the group usually getting spacy all the while never quite leaving the earth.