Bill Evans, Live at Ronnie Scott’s, 2020 on Resonance

Recorded back in July of 1968, this is Evans with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette at London’s landmark Ronnie Scott’s club. Resonance Records itself is part of the non-profit Rising Jazz Stars Foundation.

The trio in this form had a month long residency in 1968 at the club. The recording here was made by DeJohnette himself, so the sound quality varies a bit from the normal professional recordings of the era, but it is worth it for the playing here. Essentially like a quality “audience” bootleg pressed professionally to vinyl.

My copy – via a private sale – is the 2xLP Record Store Day 2020 edition, in mono, cut by Bernie Grundman and pressed at RTI. It includes an 11 page booklet with tributes and interviews (including DeJohnette and Gomez, as well as Chevy Chase).

The Replacements, The Pleasure’s All Yours: Pleased to Meet Me Outtakes & Alternates, 2021 on Sire

Released as part of Record Store Day 2021, these are outtakes and alternate versions of songs from Pleased To Meet Me released on vinyl for the first time.

Some (most?) of these tracks have been released elsewhere: the expanded CD edition of Pleased To Meet Me or the All for Nothing / Nothing for All 2xCD compilation. Nice to get them on a vinyl release.

My copy via Academy Records in NYC.

This Year’s Record Store Day Doctor Who Release Is First Doctor Story, The Rescue

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2026/02/13/this-years-record-store-day-doctor-who-release-is-first-doctor-story-the-rescue/

What a load of shit. Record Store Day crushes indie artists and labels trying to press vinyl as they get put behind the majors. Also, it mostly features major label dreck that is mostly unwanted. It also requires small indie stores to take on stock they don’t want to get the titles they do. RSD sucks. #RecordStoreDay

‘I Didn't Want to Own It’: How Record Store Day's Co-founder Rejected the Business Model - SPIN
https://www.spin.com/2026/02/i-didnt-want-to-own-it-how-record-store-days-co-founder-rejected-the-business-model/