Big Top

Big Top

Track Listings

1. Candy Stick

2. Can I Be You

3. Merry-Go-Round Man

4. Poser

5. Face

6. Loving Love

7. Ride

8. Little Girl Gaze

9. Big Top

10. Hey Joe [Hidden Track] - Big Top

Tracks:

Oklahoma!: Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' - John Raitt/Franz Allers
On The Town: New York, New York - Michael Kermoyan/Adolph Green/John Reardon/Cris Alexander & Chorus/Leonard Bernstein
Annie Get Your Gun: I Got The Sun In The Morning - Doris Day/Franz Allers
Fiddler On The Roof: If I Were A Rich Man - Topol/Gareth Davies
West Side Story: Tonight - Larry Kert/Carol Lawrence/Max Goberman
The Sound Of Music: The Sound Of Music - Mary Martin/Frederick Dvonch
My Fair Lady: On The Street Where You Live - Jerry Lanning/Theodore Saidenberg
Annie: Tomorrow - Andrea McArdle/Peter Howard
The Music Man: Seventy-Six Trombones - The Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams
Anything Goes: You're The Top - Eileen Rodgers/Hal Linden/Julian Stein
Bye Bye Birdie: Put On A Happy Face - Dick Van Dyke/Elliot Lawrence
Mame: Open A New Window - Angela Lansbury & Cast/Don Pippin
Strike Up The Band: Strike Up The Band - The Chestnut Brass Co.
Sweet Charity: Hey, Big Spender - Helen Gallagher/Thelma Oliver/Fan-Dango Girls/Fred Werner
Bells Are Ringing: Just In Time - Judy Holliday/Sydney Chaplin/Milton Rosenstock
Gypst: Together, Wherever We Go - Ethel Merman/Jack Klugman/Sandra Church/Milton Rosenstock
Cabaret: Cabaret - Jill Haworth/Harold Hastings
Phantom Of The Opera: The Music Of The Night - The Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams
Show Boat: Ol' Man River - William Warfield/Franz Allers
A Chorus Line: What I Did For Love - Priscilla Lopez & Cast/Don Pippin
A Little Night Music: Send In The Clowns - Glynis Johns/Harold Hastings

Customer Reviews:

Great to Hear All those great Voices from the Past.......2007-07-05

I just wanted to confirm what the first reviewer had to say about this CD. To hear Ethyl Merman, Mary Martin, Andrea McCardle etc. singing their trademark songs brought a lot of memories from the mid-centry musical theater back again. The last song by Glynis Johns is especially poignant.
You certainly can't beat the price!

A Good One!.......2006-11-10

This is a very good CD, mostly because it's the original artists. I've had some that were re-recorded by no name artists that were ghastly. This one is a really good one--including the sound quality. If I had one wish, I would wish it were longer!

Under the Big Top: 100 Years of Circus Music

Average customer rating:

perfect circus party music
Memories of Happy Times
Perfect!!!
Great cd!
just like being there

Under the Big Top: 100 Years of Circus Music
Great American Main Street Band , and Traditional/various
Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002SKA
Release Date: 1993-01-19

Tracks:

Entry Of The Gladiators
Memphis The Majestic March
Caesar's Triumphal March
Miss Trombone (A Slippery Rag)
The Cantonians March
Broadway One-Step
Wedding Of The Winds (Waltz)
Honey Boys On Parade (March)
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Jungle Queen (Oriental Two-Step)
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Fan-Tan (Chinese March Characteristique)
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Circus Echoes (Galop)
Storming Of El Caney
Barnum & Bailey's Favorite (March)

Customer Reviews:

perfect circus party music.......2007-05-19

I purchased this for my daughter's 1st birthday party, and it was fabulous background music for the event.

Memories of Happy Times.......2007-04-11

Being a professional performer myself, I really enjoy listening to this music from the circus. It really puts you in a positive mood for the rest of the day no matter what happens. I will often play it when driving to one of my performances to put me "in the mood". I am so glad to have it on CD since my cassette of this item is rather frail. Highly recommended

Perfect!!!.......2006-11-18

I used this CD in a mix for a Big Top themed company picnic. The music was awesome and provided great atmosphere music and made you feel like you were at a real circus.

Great cd!.......2006-02-26

I ordered this so that I could use it at a circus-themed birthday party for one of my friends, and I am absolutely crazy about it! Even before it arrived, I became addicted to the songs; I would get on here and listen to the samples almost every day. After it arrived, not only was I delighted to find that the cd is great quality, but I was also delighted to discover just how great the musicianship is! One of my favorite features is that the little leaflet tells which songs are traditionally played with what kinds of acts, and as I listened, I was amazed at how fitting they each were. I can't decide which tune is my favorite and they are all really catchy. The only problem I have had with this cd is just that--- the catchiness. :) I have been whistling the songs "Clownette", "Wedding of the Winds", "The Booster" and "Broadway One Step" for about three or four days, unable to get them out of my head (my poor friends!). But it's totally worth it! :) I hope you will love this fantastic cd as much as I do!

just like being there.......2005-09-27

This group of performers is smaller and more intimate than the Eastman Wind Ensemble which recorded "Screamers," and therefore feels more like part of a smaller circus traveling the backroads, and performing at schools or in church parking lots. The musical content is just as well done, and just as pleasing. It makes a great compliment to "Screamers."

What a treasure of old style, authentic Americana this music presents. If you haven't been to this smaller type of circus in person, you've certainly seen it in the movies. And this puts you right in the front row. The liner notes are great, as you can picture the sequence of the performers; from their grand entrance, to the finale, with the clowns slipping in here and there.

Wonderful music. I am very happy that I now own it. And I become happier each time I listen to it!

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Nice collection, but...
Merle at his best

Circus Music from the Big Top
Merle Evans Circus Band
Manufacturer: Legacy
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Tracks:

Triumphal March (The Grand Entry)
The Walking Frog (Used For Performing Seals)
Embossing The Emblem (Performers On The Trampoline)
The Booster (Music Accompanying The Unforgettable Clowns)
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Dusty Trombone (Music At The Intermission)
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Thunder And Lighting (Acrobats With Feats If Strength)
Siamese Parade (The jugglers Perform)
Valse Bleue (The Flying Trapeze Acts)
The Southerner (The Tent Is Made A Fairyland Of Clowns)
Walsenburg Galop (The Grand Exit With Chariots Galloping Around The Big Top)

Customer Reviews:

Nice collection, but..........2002-09-21

This collection of exciting arrangements wonderfully executed by professional players is unfortunately marred by old technology and carelessness. The short, twenty nine minute CD seems to be copied from an LP. The pops, clicks, distortion and glitches are all there. At one point you can even hear the annoying pitch wow commonly heard on LPs pressed out of round. The tone arm is obviously being dragged right and then left as the off center groove dictates the key.

Should Legacy International ever locate the master tapes and produce a cleaner version of "Circus Music from the Big Top," I will be first in line to buy. Frankly, Merle Evans deserves better--much better.

If you are adding to a collection of circus music, you do need these arrangements. However, if you are just beginning a circus music library, your first purchase should be "Screamers" from Frederick Fennell. It delivers over an hour of expertly performed circus marches recorded with precision.

Merle at his best.......1998-08-24

Merle evans was the greatest since sousa. please come out with more of his albums. Harvey Esto

Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 1: Film & Television Music

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Great compilation - and that's just the first half.
The best of Elfman!!!
Great Collection, A LIttle Too Eclectic
What Great Music
super

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ASIN: B000002OEB
Release Date: 1990-10-15

Tracks:

Excerpts From: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Excerpts From: Batman
Excerpts From: Dick Tracy
Excerpts From: Beetlejuice
Excerpts From: Nightbreed
Excerpts From: Darkman
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Excerpts From: Midnight Run
Excerpts From: Wisdom
Excerpts From: Hot To Trot
Excerpts From: Big Top Pee Wee
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Excerpts From: Tales From The Crypt
Excerpts From: Face Like A Frog
Excerpts From: Forbidden Zone
Excerpts From: Scrooged

Customer Reviews:

Great compilation - and that's just the first half........2005-09-14

I first got this on cassette in the summer of '94 and listened to it every day, drawn by its thematic range and compositional depth. And that was just side-one.

Elfman pioneered the sound that drives today's movie adaptations of comic-books and darker-themed children's stories. Side-One kicks things off with a rollicking, hyper-cartoonish theme from the first Pee-Wee movie - the one where Pee-Wee searches for his beloved bike. Elfman's theme contains layers of different rides - on tightropes, highways, in the middle of a NASCAR rally - which rudely yet melodically crash into each other.

The Batman entry actually contains several pieces - the opening credits, the extended sequence in the cathedral and the climax - which show Batman's darkened extreme at its "Frank Miller" best. (Dir. Tim Burton couldn't sustain the mood in the next sequel, and the franchise took a turn towards the camp of the TV series with the next 2 movies.)

The theme for "Dick Tracy" is perhaps the most romantic on this disc, a quality that surpasses the theme's comic-book origins, but ends on an ironic note that's pure Elfman.

"Beetlejuice" (opening & closing credits) gives Elfman's childish ID a chance to stretch its legs, or in this case, slam-dance.

"Nightbreed" is an enigma wrapped in a dark mystery, and that's just Elfman's score. Elfman's work on this movie is as good as the movie wasn't, having a more powerful narrative than the script - easily the best track on the entire disc, one likely to exceed the movie in its dose of chills.

"Darkman" doesn't quite rise to the occasion, though the score may be hobbled by the movie itself, which seldom surpassed one of the many "Batman" clones of the early 1990's. "Darkman" (the movie, I mean) excelled as a parody of many comicbook staples (the wronged hero, the relentless villain, the scientific breakthrough with just one flaw), but not enough to escape being largely anonymous. Within those constraints, it's still a moving if scary piece.

When is Elfman not like Elfman? When he was in the mid-late `80's and scored "Back to School" (A Rodney Dangerfield vehicle) and "Midnight Run". Horns in "School" bring it closer to Elfman's over-the-top style, while "Run" sounds like a love-theme for the run-down, out-of-the-way parts of America that seldom appear in Elfman-movies. "Run" is a fun score for a fun movie - it's nothing like Elfman's previous work but it perfectly captures the on-the-road-without-a-map craziness of the movie.

To this day, I don't know why I never ventured to Side-two, but it's irrelevant. Even half this disc is worth it

The best of Elfman!!!.......2005-09-05

I was obsessed about getting this CD right from when I heard about it. I found it at the library and was so excited about it, and it didn't let me down. In fact, it was a lot better than I expected. It's a fun and creepy (strange mix, but it really works!) collection of Danny Elfman's film and television soundtracks. The first track, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, is probably my favorite. Also, I really like Batman and Wisdom. Batman is creepy and dark, and Wisdom is just weird, in the best possible way.
I'd recommend this to anyone who likes film music, or everyone who is even the tiniest bit an Elfman fan. It's amazing!

Great Collection, A LIttle Too Eclectic.......2003-08-19

You should be able to tell from the movies and TV shows listed here whether or not you'd be interested in this collection. It's a little too eclectic for my tastes (hence only 4 stars) but better than volume 2. I think thatthe miscellaneous collected ites here along with the previously unreleased stuff should make this worth buying. Especially if you're a fan of Elfman's movie soundtrack work.

What Great Music.......2003-05-11

I fell in love with the music of Danny Elfman when Beetlejuice came out. There was something different about the music that he made. When Edward Scissorhands, and then Nightmare Before Christmas - I knew this man was a musical master. Its the verbal form of surrealism.

super.......2003-04-17

What a great CD. Danny's music is so original and inventive. this CD contains his pre 90's quirky, gothic music. it's all very well written and beautifully orchestrated. batman and darkman contain some really excellent long, dark, gothic cues that really take u away from reality. in my opinion no one, apart from howard shore, is as inventive and original as danny in the world of filmmusic. he far surpasses the repetitive works of williams or horner. buy this, and volume two, and keep supporting one of the greatest film composers of all time.ohh...and buy fellowship of the ring and two towers by howard shore....amazing work!

Jojo's Circus: Songs from Under the Big Top!

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Great CD
Great fun for JoJo fans
Another Fun Collection of Songs

Jojo's Circus: Songs from Under the Big Top!
Original Soundtrack
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Jo Jo's Circus Theme Song
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Customer Reviews:

Great CD.......2007-01-08

My Jojo fans love this CD! It is really cute and you get lots of songs. A good purchase!

Great fun for JoJo fans.......2006-03-16

My son received this as a gift for his fourth birthday. He listened it to practically first thing after he opened it. He also has listened to it for several nights in a row as he's going to bed. He can even remember which episode most of the songs relate to!

The songs are all very short - none more than a minute and a half - but with 30 songs, that still makes for a decent length CD. I would have liked the "Spotlight Moment" song to be the last track on the CD, but am glad it's on there at all.

Great gift for any JoJo fan!

Another Fun Collection of Songs.......2006-01-26

"JoJo's Circus" is the amazing hit show on Disney Channel featuring a clown-girl named JoJo, her pet lion Goliath and her friends and family in Circus Town. It's bright, colorful, fun and has great music. Now here's another album featuring songs from the show.

"Songs From Under the Big Top!" has thirty songs from the show. Finally included is a vocal version of the "Spotlight Moment" Theme Song, heard when JoJo is carted up on stage to tell everyone what she learned. Personal favorites on this CD include the extremely fun "Jump For Joy," "Wash Your Hair," "Roar," "Hoop Jump," "Bathtime" and "Go To Sleep." The songs are in all sorts of styles that will keep listeners engaged and entertained. The album artwork and insert artwork is great, although there are no included song lyrics. There is a coupon included for $2 off certain other Playhouse Disney CDs, however, though that offer may be expired by the time you read this review.

The main disappointment with this album is that a fair number of the songs on it were also on the original "JoJo's Circus" album. These are still great tracks, but I don't see the point of recycling material when there are still so many other songs from the show they could have included. It's not enough to keep this from being a great CD, though.

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Not what you're thinking.
A Gotta Get!!!
Percussion Madness
The world's best latin-american percussionist- in full swing
Unbelievable

Top Percussion
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In the history of recorded music, there are a few albums that define a genre. Among them are Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Miles Davis's hypnotic Kind of Blue. In that select realm, timbalero Tito Puente's 1957 Top Percussion is the most influential Latin jazz recording of all time. Simply put, this date is a once-in-a-lifetime summit meeting of Cuban and Puerto Rican master percussionists of Afro-Cuban music: Mongo Santamaria, Franciso Aguabella, Willie Bobo, and Julito Collazo. Together, these masters explore the endless folkloric inventions and dimensions of Cuba's complex drum music-- from the Afrocentric bembe/Santeria syncopations of "Eleguara" and "Obatala Yeza" to the clave-coded "Mon Ti," "Four by Two," and "Conga Alegre." The "hit" is the cool cha-cha "Ti-Mon-Bo," named for Tito, Mongo, and Bobo. Like their African musical forefathers, Tito Puente and his compatriots have delivered an ancestral drum message that has danced and entranced musicians and listeners for years. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Customer Reviews:

Not what you're thinking........2007-07-05

A lot of people have preconceptions about Afro-Cuban music and what it should sound like. This CD will correct this. The bulk of this CD is no polished studio product. No, when I listen to this CD, aside from a few tracks, I feel as though these musicians have existed for hundreds of years, and one day a studio sort of seemed to be built around them, and they just sort of shrugged as they played as they have always played.

In some ways, the raw nature of this CD is very appealing. As I have said, it is definitely REAL. At times however, it can get old. The majority of the tracks consist of a vocal leader doing call and response with other singers as percussion rhythms fill the surrounding musical space. Often times there are so many instruments, and the recording technology so primitive, that the music often becomes a mess of indistinguishable racket where the listener can barely pick out the Downbeat. I feel as though some of the tracks with more diverse orchestration would be top notch if we could properly hear what each instrument is doing.

My favorite tracks of this album are those at the end. There, the most care is taken to preserve each instrument's personality.

If you're Latino or African and want to know more about your roots, listen to this CD. If you're a drummer or percussionist and want to hear some rhythms you don't encounter in the typical Western musical tradition, listen to this CD. If you like Ricky Martin, leave this CD alone.

A Gotta Get!!!.......2007-03-23

Recorded in 1957, this is truly an unbelievable record, and a wonderful introduction to both Latin percussion and the Afro/Cuban folkloric tradition. Though Puerto Rican by birth, Tito was an initiate to the Cuban Santeria religion, and in this album he pays homage to the spiritual and musical roots of the Mambo and Cha Cha styles for which he became most famous. Tito, Mongo, Willie Bobo, Julito Collazo, etc., all play at an unsurpassed level of virtuosity and creativity, maintaining a dizzying array of poly-rhythms that provide a virtual catalog of the West African rhythms that filtered through Cuba to become the Latin music we know and love today. As honest, beautiful, and interesting a record as any Tito Puente made. An absolute must for anyone with even the slightest interest in Latin music, drumming, Cuban culture and experience, Tito Puente, or even rhythm in general. Go get it!!!

Elequara
Bragada
Obatala Yeza
Alaumba Chemache
Oguere Madeo
Obaricosu
Four By Two, Part 1
Conga Alegre
Ti Mon Bo
Mon-Ti
Hot Timbales Night Ritualmusicians:

Tito Puente (timbales) Bobby Rodriguez (bass) Jimmy Cobb (drums) Mongo Santamaria, (percussion) Willie Bobo, (percussion) Francisco Aguabella, (percussion) Enrique Marti (percussion) Julito Collazo (percussion, background vocals) Marcelino Guerra, (vocals) Mercedita (vocals) Evaristo Baro (bass) Gene Quill, (alto saxophone) Allen Fields (alto saxophone) Marty Holmes (tenor saxophone) Joe Grimm (baritone saxophone) Francis Williams, (trumpet) John Frosk, (trumpet) Gene Rapetti, (trumpet) Doc Severinsen, (trumpet) Jimmy Frisaura (trumpet) Eddie Bert, Bob Ascher, (trombone) Sonny Russo (trombone) Alvin Gellers (piano) Barry Galbraith (guitar)

Percussion Madness.......2006-06-28

Muy buen album de la serie de la RCA sobre Tito, recomiendo tambien el trabajo CUBAN CARNIVAL de esta misma, es muy bueno aunque soy más del trabajo: PUENTE IN PERCUTION sacado años despues por el sello ALEGRE, en compañia de Willie Bobo y Santamaria nuevamente. Ritmos tradicionales de cuba acopañado por los grandes. Como te extraño Tito.....

The world's best latin-american percussionist- in full swing.......2003-03-07

In case anyone had any doubts -- at all -- that Tito could play the real, hardcore, pure Afro-Cuban percussion, then this album should settle that question. With Mongo Santamaria and several other percussion heavyweights on board, Tito pounds away on some of the toughest-sounding rhythm work imaginable. The second half of the album gets funkier and more slinky, with a subtle, jazzy bass added into the mix. This is a killer instrumental album, formidable and funky in every aspect. Recommended!

Unbelievable.......2003-02-06

A truly unbelievable record, and a wonderful introduction to both Latin percussion and the Afro/Cuban folkloric tradition. Though Puerto Rican by birth, Tito was an initiate to the Cuban Santeria religion, and in this album he pays homage to the spiritual and musical roots of the Mambo and Cha Cha styles for which he became most famous. Tito, Mongo, Willie Bobo, Julito Collazo, etc., all play at an unsurpassed level of virtuosity and creativity, maintaining a dizzying array of poly-rhythms that provide a virtual catalog of the West African rhythms that filtered through Cuba to become the Latin music we know and love today. As honest, beautiful, and interesting a record as any Tito Puente made. An absolute must for anyone with even the slightest interest in Latin music, drumming, Cuban culture and experience, Tito Puente, or even rhythm in general. Go get it!!!

Puttin' on the Ritz: The Great Hollywood Musicals

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If you like great musicals you'll love this!

Puttin' on the Ritz: The Great Hollywood Musicals
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Customer Reviews:

If you like great musicals you'll love this!.......2007-03-20

Eric Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops have done it again. This is a spectacular collection. It makes you feel like getting dressed up with a lot of glitz and glam and going dancing. Though I must admit that Fredrica Von Stade's rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" will definitely touch your heart.

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Nashvilles' Best Kept Secret
SCW RULE
One Of The Best Rock/Blues/Funk/Soul Jam Bands Ever

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Customer Reviews:

Nashvilles' Best Kept Secret.......2002-12-30

To those of you out there who have never heard the beautiful, soulful,kickin, sounds of Nashvilles Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, I feel sorry for you!!! I was first turned on to the band in '93 with their self titled debut, and immediatly was blown away by the tightness and uniqueness of the sound. From the opening riff in "Ride the Tide" I was hooked!!! Live Vol. 1&2, recorded at 328 Performance Hall, Nashville Tn.,Feb. 12, 2000, was a benefit concert for the Matthew Butler Foundation,which provides training and support for people with disabilties, to live normal lives. The lucky fans who were there were treated to three full sets of the Wheelies, performing all three studio albums, in running order. Disc 1 features the self titled first album.. after an intro from jazz great Jimmy Hall the band tears into "Shakin the Blues" and the SCW prove that they are as tight a live unit as a studio band.. I can't really pick a favorite track because they are all great... Disc 2 features tracks from the Magnolia disc, which is one of the best rock albums of the '90s. Again every track smokes!!! Several tracks are omitted from each album , and the entire third set was never released because the band felt they may have had too many "spirits" that evening. Bottom Line: SCW's are the best live band out there... hands down!! Do yourself a favor and buy all their releases...PEACE!!

SCW RULE.......2001-09-30

A great live effort from a great band, they will always be one on my favorite bands.

One Of The Best Rock/Blues/Funk/Soul Jam Bands Ever.......2001-07-03

It's a mystery to me (and all the other Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies fans that I've met at their live shows since 1993) why this band is not more popular. While the music on their studio albums is some of the most soulful ever recorded, hearing them live is an almost religious experience. This double CD set is a perfect testament to their dedication and power. Rick White and Bobby Watkins are two of the best duelling lead guitarists that you've never heard of. Steve Burgess is one major league funky bass player and Terry Thomas does some things on his drumkit that defy description. As incredible as these four masters are, the lead singer, harp player and sometimes guitarist is a phenomenon unto himself. Imagine Jim Morrison mixed with Stevie Ray Vaughan then add a dash of Joe Cocker having a drink with Marvin Gaye and you've got the near holy vocals of Mike Farris. When he sings, you feel like God is standing backstage listening in. This 2 CD set captures their live show as well as possible without actually standing right in front of the stage. While every song is worth extended replays, stand-outs include "Leave Your Pride", "I Found Love", "Magnolia" and (my personal favorite) "Father Speaks". I can't say enough about this album. You will be very pleased by what you hear.

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The Piano Music of Billy Mayerl

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0009SC7HM
Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

I Prelude
II Merlin The Wizard
III The Sword Excalibur
IV Lady Of The Lake
V Guinevere
VI The Passing Of Arthur
I Almond Blossom
II A Temple In Kyoto
III The Cherry Dance
April's Fool
Harp Of The Winds - Aeolian Harp
Marigold - A Syncopated Impression
Railroad Rhythm - An Impression
Shallow Waters - An Interlude
From A Spanish Lattice - A Southern Tone-Picture
Song Of The Fir Tree - A Swedish Impression
Nimble-Fingered Gentleman - A Syncopation
Evening Primrose
I Ace Of Clubs
II Ace Of Diamonds
III Ace Of Hearts
IV Ace Of Spades
The Joker - A Further Contribution To four Aces

Tracks:

Mistletoe
Autumn Crocus
Hollyhock
White Heather
l English Dance
ll Cricket Dance
lll Harmonica Dance
Bats In The Belfry
Green Tulips
Sweet William
Parade Of The Sandwich-Board Men
Hop-O-My-Thumb
Jill All Alone
l Willow Moss
ll Moorish Idol
lll Fantail
IV Whirlgig

Tracks:

Filigree
l Cobweb
ll Muffin Man
lll Clockwork
Siberian Lament
l Meadowsweet
ll Japonica
Alpine Bluebell
Beguine Impromptu
l The Ring Master
ll Clowning
lll Entrance Of The Trick Cyclists
lV Dancing Horses
V Trapeze
Honky-Tonk
l Misty Lawn
ll Amber Leaves
lll Hollyberry
Romanesque
l Wedding Of An Ant
ll Ladybird Lullaby
lll Praying Mantis
lV Beetle In The Bottle
Leprechaun's Leap

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UNIQUE-This is an amazing definition of JAZZ
It Dosen't Get Any Better Than This
Jazz Snobbery?
j.b. collector no.1 from holland
Long overdue!

Soul on Top
James Brown
Manufacturer: Verve
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

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Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music
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Ballads: James Brown
The Payback
Love Power Peace

ASIN: B0001KAA7W
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

That's My Desire
Your Cheatin' Heart
What Kind Of Fool Am I?
It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World
The Man In The Glass
It's Magic
September Song
For Once In My Life
Every Day I Have The Blues
I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
There Was A Time

Customer Reviews:

UNIQUE-This is an amazing definition of JAZZ.......2006-05-28

I 've never been a fan of JB, but listening this masterpiece has changed my opinion about him completly. The included version of 'It's a man..." is pure energy and just blew me away. It's a record I can listen to over and over again.

It Dosen't Get Any Better Than This.......2006-04-12

Big Band, Classic standards, and James Brown is a win-win situation. After listening to this CD, I found out what more than 50 years in the business can do. This a rare find and need more air-play to be appreciated. The don't make music like this anymore.

Jazz Snobbery?.......2004-12-16

I don't get the other reviewers here. Is this album somehow superior becase it's ostensibly a jazz album rather than funk or R & B? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big jazz fan, but does the presence of a BIG BAND make James more acceptable as a "real musician?" Indeed, does a big band or having primarily jazz musicians make something "jazz?" I don't think so. This is a synthesis that doesn't always work, where JB sounds great DESPITE the weighty band backing him. At other times, there's a restraint that befits a big band setting, but doesn't show off "The Pride of Atlanta's supreme talent.

I like the album for the variety, and because I simply love James Brown. He could take "Happy Birthday" out of the banal and into the funkified. But please, let's watch how we label this music. By the way, this is NOT the first time that JB released "There was a Time." Check out Disk 1 (Volume 1) of JB's "The Foundations of Funk," it's right there. Other recommendations: "Love, Peace, and Power," his increible live recording that rivals his great "Apollo" work.

j.b. collector no.1 from holland.......2004-09-30

a release on c.d. that i was waiting for for years. a one time project james brown with big band orchestra. a fine album that shows the "other" more jazzy side of the godfather of soul.
mr. brown gives classic tunes his own j.b. twist and even brings in some of his own classics. master saxman maceo parker is there to. this c.d. version has extra tracks to the original and a beautiful picture of j.b. that was not on the original vinyl release. what can a say ?? a "must have" to my opinion.

ron roelofsen (www.greatest-jamesbrown-videotradinglist.com)

Long overdue!.......2004-08-24

James Brown with a big, BIG band...OUCH!!!

We all know what a gifted performer the Godfather of Soul has been through the years. So, by listening to this CD (recorded in 1969 and long out of print), I've come to realize that Mr. Soul has a lot of jazz sensibilities in him.

Backed by the screaming Louis Bellson big band, James tears his way through a collection of standards, jazzed-up covers of his own hits, and two original tunes, "The Man in the Glass" (forgot the composer), and "I Need Your Key to Turn Me On," for which Mr. Drums (Bellson) wrote the words, music, and Brown's right-on monologue.

"September Song" is best performed the way Kurt Weill wrote it (as a plaintive ballad), but Brown tears this classic apart as only he can. Ditto "Your Cheatin' Heart." Brown's hits "It's a Man's, Man's World," "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "There Was a Time" (not part of the original LP - shame) get added horsepower from Bellson and company.

All in all, this project was a welcome surprise to these ears, thanks to the contributions of Mr. Soul, Mr. Drums, and the rock-solid big band charts of the sorely missed Oliver Nelson.

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