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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Miles Davis.....Birth of the Cool
Birth of the Cool is the first important leader date from Miles Davis, one of jazz's most seminal figures and farsighted practitioners. Having made his reputation in large measure from playing with bop giant Charlie Parker, Davis confounded expectations when he embraced the "cool" arranging style of Gil Evans, an arranger for Claude Thornhill's band. Evans, who was employing unique voicings by adding French horns and tuba to Thornhill's instrumentations, also emphasized a diminished use of vibrato in both reeds and brass, producing a drier, "cool" sound. Two of Evans's arrangements, "Boplicity" and "Moon Dreams," appear on the album. Also involved are baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, who contributed such outstanding tunes as "Jeru" and "Venus de Milo," and Modern Jazz Quartet pianist John Lewis. The result is a date that has withstood the tests of time, fashion, and Davis's own extraordinary growth as a performer. An enhanced set, The Complete Birth of the Cool expands the original issue with previously bootlegged live recordings of Davis's nonet at the Royal Roost in New York in 1948. Although the sound quality is far from perfect, the performances are remarkable, and worth the additional expense for the serious fan. --Fred Goodman..Amazon.com
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Bo Diddley.....Hey! Bo Diddley / Bo Diddley
There are any number of excellent Bo Diddley compilations that cherry pick the man's work and if you merely are after a concise overview, several do the job perfectly. This 24 track release from 1995 would seem to be an excellent starting point as it comprises complete reissues of two albums from 1962 and 1963 and furthermore has a strong sprinkling of those very titles that reappear on so many collections. The first 12 tracks comprise the album Hey! Bo Diddley, released in the UK on Pye International in April 1963, and the second 12 made up the album Bo Diddley which followed 5 months later.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Fats Domino Collection...40 Original Hits
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr. is an American pianist and singer-songwriter of Louisiana Creole descent. He had 35 records in the U.S. Billboard Top 40, and five of his pre-1955 records sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.
Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 hits, and his record sales were reportedly surpassed only by Elvis Presley. During his career, Domino sold more than 65 million records. His musical style was based on traditional rhythm and blues, accompanied by saxophones, bass, piano, electric guitar, and drums.
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Greatest Hits: Walking To New Orleans
Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino
Early Imperial Singles 1950-52
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Jerry Lee Lewis..........Sun Essentials
Lewis developed his style early, mixing boogie-woogie, rock, gospel and rhythm and blues. As a youth he was expelled from university for playing 'worldly' music. He moved to Nashville in 1955 - only to be told his music was not country enough. He wound up at Sun Records, where he worked as a session man for, among others, Carl Perkins. It was during a recording session with Perkins, that they were joined in the studio for an impromptu jam by Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. The resulting tapes - made by the engineer as a 'souvenir'- were released as the Million Dollar Quartet.
In 1957 he shook the world with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire" and looked set to have a stellar career, however his private life became public and everything changed. While touring in Europe, news circulated of Lewis' marriage to his thirteen year old cousin (once removed), the resulting backlash caused the cancellation of the tour and an almost complete halt to Lewis career in the States. He was reduced to playing small clubs for small money, while his records struggled to get airplay. Even the subterfuge of an instrumental record, released under the name The Hawk, was rumbled, and in 1963 his contract with Sun ended. New releases for another label barely troubled the charts. Forced to look further afield, Lewis returned to Europe, where he recorded Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, the album is regarded amongst the best live rock n' roll recordings made, and stands as a testimony to his performing verve.
Despite the problems surrounding his private life, complicated by drink and drugs, Lewis carved a successful career in country music, with a steady stream of top thirty country albums. However, he probably never got the opportunity to fulfill his potential and achieve the status of his peers, such as Elvis. Lewis' contribution to music was recognized in 1986, when he was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, he is also a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, and in the top thirty of Rolling Stone Magazine's Greatest Artist of All Time list. A biopic of Lewis' life was released in 1989.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Johnny Cash.......The Sun Years
Many will be most familiar with Johnny Cash through the recent biopic of his life, Walk the Line. But for a life as well lived as Cash's, the film is only the tip of the iceberg. Johnny Cash was one of the real characters of twentieth century American music. His personality and talent helped him find fans across musical genres, inspiring artists in country, blues, alt country, indie rock, alt rock and even hip-hop. He worked with many well known artists covering an array of genres, including artists like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson as one fourth of The Highwaymen, and others such as Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and U2.
His long career spanned more than 50 years and encompassed many different artistic mediums including writing, acting, and a prolific recording career. In his lifetime Johnny Cash released well over 70 albums, including more than 50 studio albums.....(text from Amazon)
This 3CD collection contains 82 tracks of the classic Sun sessions recordings including alternate and demo tracks
His Sun Years
Sun Years (Mcup)
Wanda Jackson.....Queen of Rockabilly
Wanda Jackson has said that she was never as consciously committed to rockabilly or rock & roll as her career direction would seem to indicate; she spent years walking a tightrope between traditional country and rock & roll, just trying to carve out a niche for herself and earn a living, and rock & roll was as new to her as it was to most country music fans in 1954-1955. In keeping with the sensibilities of the era, as the daughter of white working-class Texas-born transplants to Oklahoma (and then to California -- around Bakersfield, natch -- and back to Oklahoma), blues and R&B, as something that she would do herself or allow herself to be influenced by, were mostly alien to her when she began exploring the music (with help and encouragement from Elvis Presley) in 1955.
Luckily, the King of Rock & Roll was correct in his assessment of Jackson as a natural, and she became the Queen of Rockabilly at a time when Janis Martin was "the Female Elvis" and Brenda Lee was some child mutant doing rock & roll with some success. Jackson even recorded with a mixed-race band, the Poe Cats (including Big Al Downing), beginning in early 1958, and the records were amazing, although they didn't start selling seriously until 1960, when a DJ started playing "Let's Have a Party," a three-year-old track off of her 1957 debut LP, and Capitol got it out as a single. She was suddenly on the pop charts, as a unique voice and personality by then, and her career, which had started to coast, was suddenly thrown into high gear.
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Rockin With Wanda
Vintage Collections
Guitar Success System - The Only Guitar Course You'll Ever Need!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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Chuck Berry......The Chess Box
You've got a signature guitar riff that other giants (think Rolling Stones) have based entire careers on. Songs such as "School Days" told teen tales as though they were novels. "Too Much Monkey Business" is where Bob Dylan discovered poetry and rap music found a contemporary starting point. "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Back in the USA"--the titles alone evoke unparalleled rock atmosphere. If this three-CD set contains less unreleased ephemera than the usual box, it's because there are so many essentials to squeeze in. This one's got 'em all, A to Z. --Ben Edmonds (Amazon review)
1955 To 1958
1-1 Maybellene 2:18
1-2 Wee Wee Hours 3:02
1-3 Thirty Days 2:21
1-4 You Can't Catch Me 2:42
1-5 No Money Down 2:56
1-6 Downbound Train 2:49
1-7 Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2:15
1-8 Drifting Heart 2:47
1-9 Roll Over Beethoven 2:22
1-10 Too Much Monkey Business 2:53
1-11 Havana Moon 3:06
1-12 School Day 2:40
1-13 Rock And Roll Music 2:30
1-14 Oh Baby Doll 2:36
1-15 I've Changed 3:04
1-16 Reelin' And Rockin' 3:15
1-17 Rockin' At The Philharmonic 3:21
1-18 Sweet Little Sixteen 3:10
1-19 Johnny B. Goode 2:37
1-20 Time Was 1:56
1-21 Around & Around 2:38
1-22 Beautiful Delilah 2:13
1-23 House Of Blue Lights 2:24
1-24 Carol 2:46
1958 To 1964
2-1 Memphis 2:10
2-2 Anthony Boy 1:52
2-3 Jo Jo Gunne 2:45
2-4 Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller 2:20
2-5 Merry Christmas Baby 3:11
2-6 Run Rudolph Run 2:43
2-7 Little Queenie 2:40
2-8 Almost Grown 2:18
2-9 Back In The U.S.A. 2:27
2-10 Betty Jean 2:29
2-11 Childhood Sweetheart 2:42
2-12 Let It Rock 1:45
2-13 Too Pooped To Pop 2:33
2-14 Bye Bye Johnny 2:03
2-15 Jaguar And Thunderbird 1:50
2-16 Down The Road Apiece 2:13
2-17 Confessin' The Blues 2:07
2-18 Thirteen Question Method 2:12
2-19 Crying Steel 2:32
2-20 I'm Just A Lucky So And So 2:50
2-21 I'm Talking About You 1:48
2-22 Come On 1:48
2-23 Nadine (Is It You?) 2:35
2-24 Crazy Arms 2:12
2-25 You Never Can Tell 2:40
2-26 The Things I Used To Do 2:40
2-27 Promised Land 2:20
1964 To 1973
3-1 No Particular Place To Go 2:41
3-2 Liverpool Drive 2:53
3-3 You Two 2:08
3-4 Chuck's Beat 10:35
3-5 Little Marie 2:34
3-6 Dear Dad 1:48
3-7 Sad Day, Long Night 2:42
3-8 It's My Own Business 2:10
3-9 It Wasn't Me 2:32
3-10 Ramona Say Yes 2:40
3-11 Viva Viva Rock'n'Roll 2:00
3-12 Tulane 2:36
3-13 Have Mercy Judge 2:38
3-14 My Dream 5:56
3-15 Reelin' And Rockin' (Live) 7:02
3-16 My Ding-A-Ling (Single Edit, Live) 4:16
3-17 Johnny B. Goode (Live) 3:13
3-18 A Deuce 2:32
3-19 Woodpecker 3:33
3-20 Bio 4:22
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