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1962: Aretha Franklin - The Great American Songbook |
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 Artist: Aretha Franklin Album: The Great American Songbook Label: Legacy Year: 1962 ; release: Feb 1, 2011 Format, MP3, VBR Size: 74,3 mb Total time: 57:41 AMG rating  Legacy released this 18-track disc less than two months prior to the 11-CD/one-DVD Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia. In a sense, The Great American Songbook is nothing more than a box-set sampler, but it shall remain an excellent overview of Franklin’s overlooked (or willfully ignored) early-‘60s releases, which were heavy on interpretations of songs written by the likes of Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, George and Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, and Irving Berlin. While she had not fully blossomed and was years away from the gutsier material of her commercial peak -- only “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” scratched the Top 40 -- her voice was nonetheless supremely expressive, rooted in her gospel upbringing and drenched in soul. She was no mere stylist; when she sings “Ooh, honey, I’d like to really melt your cold, cold heart,” there is as much fire as there is in any given line of “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman.” Even the earliest cuts here, taken from late 1960 and early 1961 sessions with the Ray Bryant Combo, are soul through and through. ~ Andy Kellman , All Music Guide |
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2007:Alan Lomax - Negro Prison Blues & Songs |
Music » Blues |
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 Artist: Alan Lomax Album: Negro Prison Blues & Songs Label: Legacy International Year: 2007 Format, bitrate: MP3@VBR Time: 1:09:34 Size: 99MB Arguably, there's more honesty and passion in this kind of recordings than in your typical musical performance. No personal interpretation per se, just a group of people with no recognizable past or future channeling ancient melodies and themes for no other purpose than, well, to do something. Paradoxically, the banality of the event is transcended and the harsh life these men led pours through the vocals. The essence of folk music, the celebration and passing on of tradition becomes something else in the crude conditions of a Mississippi prison. In any case, they're essential songs if you want to hear The Blues rather than blues music. ~ StonedWallaby, rateyourmusic.com |
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1996:Harmonica Fats And Bernie Pearl - Blow,Fat Daddy,Blow! |
Music » Blues |
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 Artist: Harmonica Fats And Bernie Pearl Album: Blow,Fat Daddy,Blow! Label: Bee Bump Records Year: 1996 Format, bitrate: MP3 @128kbps Time: 37mins Size: 46 Mb AMG Rating:  On their third album, the duo of Harmonica Fats and Bernie Pearl turn in a typically engaging set of acoustic blues. All of the songs on Blow, Fat Daddy, Blow! are originals, and it is to the duo's credit that they manage to sound respectful to tradition without being enslaved to it. Certainly, the quality of the material fluctuates somewhat -- not every song cuts as deep as the rootsy "Why Should I Holler?" or the powerful "Blues Kaddish" -- but the interaction between the two musicians is stellar. Pearl's guitar playing is subtly impressive and Harmonica Fats simply wails, making the set worthwhile for fans of good-humored, stripped-down blues. ~ Thom Owens, All Music Guide |
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1992: Dizzy Gillespie - To Diz With Love: Diamond Jubilee Recordings |
Music » Jazz » Latin » Afro-Cuban Jazz |
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 Artist: Dizzy Gillespie Album: To Diz with Love: Diamond Jubilee Recordings Label: TELARC Year: 1992 Format, FLAC bitrate: 781kbps Time: 55 min Size: 371MB His final recording, taken from a month he spent featured at the Blue Note in New York, matches the aging giant with such fellow trumpeters as Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Claudio Roditi, Wallace Roney, Red Rodney, Charlie Sepulveda and the ancient but still brilliant Doc Cheatham (who cuts both Gillespie and Faddis on "Mood Indigo"). Although he was no longer up to the competition, the love that these fellow trumpeters had for Gillespie (and some fine solos) makes this historic CD worth getting. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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2008:Various Artists - The Blues Roots Of The Rolling Stones |
Music » Blues » Modern electric blues » Blues-Rock |
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 Artist: Various Artists Album: The Blues Roots Of The Rolling Stones Label: Snapper UK Year: 2008 Quality: MP3@VBR ~160kbps Time: 60:39 min Size : 51.2MB It's hardly a state secret that the Rolling Stones started out as a blues cover band in 1962, and that the blues has always underpinned their long career, even as they flirted at different times with pop, disco, and reggae touches.
The blues was always the touchstone, and this 22-track collection dips into some of the band's obvious influences, beginning with the Muddy Waters track "Rolling Stone," a version of Robert Petway's "Catfish Blues" (which is also included here) that gave the group its name, and reaching through to songs like Robert Wilkins' "That's No Way to Get Along," which appeared on the Stones' Beggars Banquet album as "Prodigal Son," and Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," which the Stones' covered wonderfully on Let It Bleed.
Even setting the Rolling Stones connection aside, this set makes for a varied little survey sampler of the different strains of the blues, from the swampy, lazy malaise feel of Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee" to the blastoff electric slide guitar riff that drives Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" (one could make a strong case that this track exemplifies everything the Stones aspired to be) and the Bo Diddley roots of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," the song that first broke the Stones to an American audience. Again, it's no secret that these songs provided the template for the band that the Stones became, so in that sense this set isn't exactly revelatory, but hearing these original versions underscores just how strongly the Stones absorbed, expanded, and relied on the blues every step of the way. It is revealing, even if it isn't much of a surprise. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide |
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2010: Eric Clapton - Clapton |
Music » Blues » Modern electric blues |
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 Artist: Eric Clapton Album: Clapton Year: 2010 Label: Reprise Records Format: MP3; bitrate: 320 kbps Total Time: 01 h 01 min 59 sec Total Size:142mb Eric Clapton's new solo studio album, featuring Steve Winwood, J.J. Cale, Sheryl Crow, Allen Toussaint and Wynton Marsalis.It will be released on September 27, 2010 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. ~ cduniverse.com |
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1970: Eartha Kitt - Sentimental Eartha |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Eartha Kitt Album: Sentimental Eartha Label: See for Miles UK Year: 1970 ; release: 1995 Format, MP3 @ 320 kbps Time: 24.22 Size: 38.42Mb Eartha Kitt's Sentimental Eartha is a ten-track album of psychedelic-tinged love ballads. Standout tracks include three recorded earlier by Donovan: "Catch the Wind" (his debut single!), "Hurdy Gurdy Man," and "Wear Your Love Like Heaven," in which Kitt's smokey, sultry voice is used to optimum effect. The tracks on Sentimental Eartha also include another favorite from the 1960s, in this case "My Sentimental Friend" by Herman's Hermits. The rest of the disc includes lesser known inspirational and sentimental songs, all of which combine to make a well arranged and cohesive collection. Creative song selection makes this disc a true find. ~ JT Griffith, All Music Guide |
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2006: Eartha Kitt - Live From The Cafe Carlyle |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Eartha Kitt Album: Live From The Cafe Carlyle Label: DRG Year: 2006 Format: MP3@ 256Kb/s Time: 48.13 Size: 68.7Mb AMG rating At age 79, Eartha Kitt remains a remarkably vibrant performer, by the evidence of Live from the Cafe Carlyle, recorded at the tony Eastside Manhattan nightclub. Although she refers to her age, even jumping the gun by half-a-year and calling herself 80, Kitt betrays little evidence of it in a typical set full of witty and romantic songs, some of them rendered masterfully in different languages. "Come-On-A My House," a novelty hit for Rosemary Clooney when Kitt was just starting out in the early '50s, somehow comes out in Japanese, which actually seems to improve it. There's plenty of romance and not a little sex, at least by innuendo, as Kitt evokes such predecessors and departed contemporaries as Edith Piaf, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra. The small audience is audibly appreciative, but sometimes a little behind the performer's rapid-fire wit and taste for provocation. Even when she acknowledges her age with such closing songs as "September Song" and "It Was a Very Good Year," she does so only to affirm that she's still alive and capable; it's still a very good year, she proclaims. She has made a number of live albums, and in a sense, this is just another one. But when your reviews are good enough to reprint as liner notes (as happens here in notices from The New York Times, Variety, and others), a show clearly is worth preserving for posterity, and Live from the Cafe Carlyle is at once a late triumph, a reconfirmation of Kitt's ongoing abilities, and a master class in the art of nightclub performing. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi , All Music Guide |
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