Blue Chiffon

Blue Chiffon Review

Japanese paper sleeve pressing. EMI. 2011.

Into The Blues

Into The Blues Review

Into the Blues is the album that Joan Armatrading was always meant to write. Immediately you can tell how much she enjoys playing the blues as her guitar belts out these 13 hits.

Migraine Blues

Migraine Blues Review

Migraine Blues by Fred Sheftell

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I Am the Blues

I Am the Blues Review

Japanese reissue packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. CBS/Sony. 2004.

On the Threshold of a Dream (Reis)

On the Threshold of a Dream (Reis) Review

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the original stereo mix of this 1969 classic from the UK Pop/Prog pioneers featuring nine bonus tracks including alternate mixes and extended versions of songs from the album, two songs recorded for John Peel's Top Gear and two songs recorded for The Tony Brandon Show. Previously released as an SACD disc, this regular CD issue features sleeve notes and rare photographs. 22 tracks. Decca

Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin's Complete Solo Piano Mu

Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin's Complete Solo Piano Mu Review

Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin's Complete Solo Piano Mu Feature

• Rhapsody in Blue
• Paul Bisaccia, Piano
• Paul Bisaccia

George Gershwin (1898-1937)?
Rhapsody In Blue?
3 Preludes?
2 Waltzes In C?
Rialto Ripples?
Merry Andrew?
Three-Quarter Blues?
Promenade?
Impromptu In 2 Keys
?The George Gershwin Songbook?
Swanee?
Somebody Loves Me?
My One And Only?
Who Cares?
I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise?
The Man I Love?
Strike Up The Band?
Sweet And Low Down?
Do It Again?
Fascinatin' Rhythm?
'S Wonderful?
Lady Be Good?
Do - Do - Do?
Nobody But You?
That Certain Feeling?
Clap Yo' Hands?
Liza?
I Got Rhythm
Total Playing Time 68:48

Rhythm & Blues

Rhythm & Blues Review

10 CD Wallet Box featuring the best of late 40s/early 50s rhythm & blues, jump blues, boogie blues and just plain ol' blues. 2005.

Last Night

Last Night Review

An album three years in the making, LAST NIGHT highlights 7 Blue Skies' love for rock music. The full length album combines their early aggressive edge, "Disappearing Act", with a new melodic maturity, "Last Night". Bringing to light the diverse musical influences of each member of the band, it balances the driving beat of "406" with the flowing harmonies of "Waiting" and "Exhausted". LAST NIGHT conveys 7 Blue Skies' signature alternative sound.

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Twentieth Century Blues: Songs of Noel Coward

Twentieth Century Blues: Songs of Noel Coward Review

Celebrate the genius of Noel Coward with fresh performances of his classic songs. Elton John, Marianne Faithfull and Sting, some of the most distinctive British voices of the last forty years, interpret the songs of the man who defined Britishness for an entire era.Songs: Twentieth Century Blues (Elton John), Poor Little Rich Girl (Suede featuring Raissa), Mad About the Boy (Marianne Faithfull), Marvelous Party (The Divine Comedy), Someday I'll Find You (Shola Ama), Sail Away, If Love Were All (Pet Shop Boys), I'll Follow My Secret Heart (Sting), There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner (Robbie Williams).

Blue Break Beats 1-4

Blue Break Beats 1-4 Review

Since its birth, jazz has influenced all forms of American popular music, right on up to the hip-hop scene that emerged in the late '70s. In the '40s, beboppers took the chord progressions of composers like George Gershwin and remade them into their own virtuosic masterpieces. Today, DJs and producers take the hippest bass-drum breaks, horn lines, and melodic snippets from the funkiest jazz cuts of the '60s and '70s to create new dance music. The Blue Note label has supplied the most durable grooves for hip-hop, and this four-CD set shows why--presenting the original songs that provided the foundation to some well-known hits. The fusion of jazz improvisation, R&B backbeats, in-the-pocket basslines, and catchy electric piano-organ fills with moog-ARP synthesizer effects spiced, drum-machine beats, and altered pitch controls demolish the so-called musical generation gap. Guitarist Grant Green's Latin boogaloo "Sookie Sookie" was an Us3 favorite, and his anthem "Ain't It Funky Now" was kick-started as Public Enemy's "Gotta Do What I Gotta Do." Another swinging example of musical exchange is the low-rider lilt that East L.A.'s Kid Frost puts on bandleader Gerald Wilson's "Viva Tirado." Lou Donaldson's versions of "Who's Making Love" and the Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing" get a gangster remake by the Nortorious B.I.G. and is bumrushed as the Brand Nubian's "Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down." Bobbi Humphrey's conga-style intro on "Jasper Country Man" is given a Compton-style makevover by Ice-T on "New Jack Hustler." Organist Jimmy McGriff's Southern-fried shuffle "Blue Juice" gets an uptown subway from the duo Black Sheep, and the church chords of Lou Rawls's cover of the Motown chestut "You've Made Me So Very Happy" are let out of Sunday school by the hip, heathen pyschedelics of De La Soul's "I Am I Be." The real star of this collection is the pioneering trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Donald Byrd. His bass lines were simply unbeatable, which is the reason why his tunes "Beale Street" and "Dominoes" continue to bob heads today. Add Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson, and Cannonball Adderley, and you have a party for the ages. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Singers and Songwriters: 1972-1973

Singers and Songwriters: 1972-1973 Review

When you want to know about a particular time in history, listen to the singer/songwriters. The ones heard here -- Don McLean, Carly Simon, John Denver, Paul McCartney, Jim Croce -- captured the hopes, dreams, and spirit of the early '70s. Highlights: Don McLean: American Pie * Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken * John Denver: Rocky Mountain High * Jim Croce: Time In A Bottle * Carly Simon: You're So Vain

Eat at Joe's

Eat at Joe's Review

When this North Carolina quintet went into the studio to make their gloriously rambunctious 1997 debut Rag-N-Roll, they were enthusiastic youngsters who knew nothing about the studio process. The result was an irresistible, rollicking blend of ragtime, old-time, blues, and bluegrass delivered with reckless abandon. Unfortunately, much of that loose and wild spontaneity is lost on this 1999 follow-up. Whereas Rag-N-Roll mixed in a variety of supercharged covers (ranging from Leadbelly to Professor Longhair to Jelly Roll Morton) with delightfully offhanded originals, Eat at Joe's contains 12 originals, mostly clichéd reflections about the road, the girl, and "the biz." (The one cover is a blistering but "hidden" version of Jimmy Martin's "Freeborn Man," ironically the record's most compelling cut.) The record does grow on you with repeated listens, but then again, the beauty of Rag-N-Roll was its immediacy--its ability to grab hold of you from the get-go. The Rags deserve credit for trying to mature and develop their sound and their songwriting, but in doing so, they've played away from their strengths. --Marc Greilsamer

To Our Children's Children's Children [Vinyl]

To Our Children's Children's Children [Vinyl] Review

Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this classic 1969 album includes five bonus tracks. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.

Blue Record

Blue Record Review

Blue Record announces the re-awakening of Savannah s rock giants BARONESS. The follow-up to 2007 s Red Album, Blue Record is an instantly-classic album, with all the peaks and valleys, textures, and nuances that timeless records yield over repeated listens. Deep and dark; Blue Record overflows with gossamer melodies and striking, earnest riffs that have become the band s signature. Swollen and Halo , Jake Leg , War, Wisdom, and Rhyme , The Sweetest Curse , are just a few of the tracks that are both instant and unforgettable, making Blue Record the most poignant moment in the BARONESS canon to date.

The Tokyo Blues

The Tokyo Blues Review

The music for this album was inspired by a recent Horace Silver tour of Japan (an unusual event in 1962). The band is the classic one with Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook, and the compositions are pure Silver. If the Japanese influence is reflected only in some melodic flavoring and reference to things Japanese in the tune titles, no matter. This is classic Silver at his best with the greatest band he ever led. Remastered by Rudy Van Gelder from the original analog tapes.

Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club

Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club Review

Weary and Wired , Marc Ford s first CD for the Blues Bureau International label, was a significant recording showcasing Marc s strength as a
singer/songwriter, fueled by large doses of his phenomenal guitar work that fans and reviewers compared to guitar masters such as Clapton, Hendrix
and Beck. After touring for much of 2007 in support Weary And Wired , Ford entered the studio earlier this year and delivered a blues infused set of original songs where his guitar is featured front and center. The advance feedback for Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club is that Ford has delivered his finest studio work to date.

In Prison: Afroamerican Prison Music from Blues to

In Prison: Afroamerican Prison Music from Blues to Review

No country in the world locks up more of its citizens than the USA and nearly half of the 2.2 million prisoners are African Americans. One out of eight African American men between 20 and 35 is in prison: a circumstance which has serious effects upon African American society and culture - not least upon it's music. This collection brings together work songs of the chain gangs, imprisoned bluesmen like Robert Pete Williams, the prison-soul of the Escorts, the enraged hip hop accusations of Tupac Shakur, Brand Nubian and K-Solo as well as prison songs by Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, the Last Poets, Nina Simone, the Temptations and more. Trikont. 2006.