Universal Music Group has licensed global catalogue rights to Frank Sinatra’s Reprise recordings from Frank Sinatra Enterprises.

The deal will see the release of a broad range of Sinatra titles under a new ‘Signature Sinatra’ imprint backed by marketing initiatives building towards what would have been the singer's 100^th birthday in 2015.

The multi-year agreement unites Sinatra’s Capitol albums from the 1950s with his Reprise LPs from the sixties for the first time, which Universal says creates “unprecedented opportunities ...