Still a-Live [Import]

Still a-Live [Import]

Track Listings

1. Reac Prendre A Vivre

2. Ca Vient, Ca Meurt

3. Instinct De Mort

4. Fait Ou On Te Dit De Faire

5. J'ai Vu Dieu

6. Tout Ce Qui Est Bon Est Mal

7. Roll Over Beethoven

8. That's All Right Mama

9. Prefabrique

10. Tous Ces Visages

11. Tounga !

12. L'elite

13. On Leche, On Leche, On Lynche

14. Le Mitard

15. Antisocial

16. Le Temps Efface Tout

17. Police Milice

18. Lutter Sans Cesse

19. Bosser 8 Heures

20. Les Templiers

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Aliens
Sound Effect - The Nostromo
Alien
A.I.
Armageddon
Sound Effect - Apollo 13 Lift-off
Apollo 13
Back To The Future
Battle Beyond The Stars
Battlestar Galactica
The Black Hole
Contact
Capricorn One
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Dune

Tracks:

Galaxy Quest
Sound Effect - Dogfight in Space
Enemy Mine
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Heavy Metal
Independence Day
E.T.
Judge Dredd
The Last Starfighter
Lifeforce
Sound Effect - Crash Landing
Lost In Space
Mars Attacks
The Matrix
Predator
The Right Stuff

Tracks:

Moonraker
Robocop
Silent Running
Sound Effect - Alien Organism
Species
Stargate
Starship Troopers
Starman
Star Trek - TV Theme
Star Trek: The Motion Picture End Title
Klingon Attack
Sound Effect - Warp Drive
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Tracks:

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Sound Effect - Transporter Crew
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Theme
Star Trek First Contact
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Sound Effect - Battle Stations
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - The Flag Parade
Anakin's Theme
The Adventures of Jar Jar
Duel of the Fates
The Time Machine
Things to Come
The Thing From Another World
War of the Worlds
When Worlds Collide
Total Recall
You Only Live Twice
Superman

Customer Reviews:

The penultimate collection ..........2006-12-07

Generally I agree with Strategos in his ecstatic Spotlight Review above. It is a joy to here some of the most memorable themes and cues from some of the most memorable science fiction and fantasy movies (re)recorded in great sound and in lavish (re)orchestrations, played by renowned classical orchestras, namely the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra, no less.

I have always had a weak spot for (good, or maybe even intelligent) science fiction/fantasy and film music, especially its way of evoking mystery, grandure and wide open spaces. Call it a weakness if you want. But it was maybe really kick started off, for as far as I can remember, with Star Trek. But especially Star Trek II, III and IV - essentially a trilogy - because of their very romantic but very warm, human core, set on the broadest canvasses of unlimited and mysterious outer space. But then there was the music for adding that essential extra dimension of emotion and atmosphere. I am happy that much of the music on this album is from the Star Trek series and films, often equaling or sometimes even outclassing the original recordings.

This kind of music (for the movies) should be seen as an art on its own rights with its own merits and qualities. As such, the musical sequences on these CD's are a beautifully played cross section of some of the most evoking orchestral music for science fiction/fantasy film ever created. And I very much like the nicely blended, wide and deep orchestral soundpicture with enough reverberation to evoke a sense of wide open spaces.
I am quite thrilled by tracks like the evocative music from Dune, truly transporting one to the vastly sands of Arrakis (the music is wonderful, but to my great regret I think the movie itself is a flawed masterpiece at best, alas.). And then there is the very different, goofy music for Ghostbusters (memories of childhood), the spoofy but electrifying music from Mars Attacks (lovingly parodist music, this, with not a little touch of irony) and the happily adventurous, forward driving Theme from Galaxy Quest ('Never give up, never surrender!'), now also used for the internet-based fan-series Star Trek: The Hidden Frontier. On the other side of the spectrum we have the atmospheric music for Enemy Mine (an underestimated 'little' movie), the Theme from The Right Stuff (actually science FACT, not fiction, this film, just like Apollo 13, of course), the eerily attractive music for Species, the original End Title for Alien (not used in the theatrical version of the movie, where it was replaced by music from howard Hanson's Second Symphony), the exquisitely exotic music for Stargate, the sweet and warmly sympathetic, beautifully re-orchestrated, theme for Starman, the title cue for Star Trek: TOS (much more melodiously played than the original! If only a series nowadays could continue to be as thought provoking and as original as Star Trek was during its launch, fourty years ago ...) and a truly overpowering End Titles Suite from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I especially like the thrillingly grandiloquent rendition here of the music for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. And how nice it is to hear the (thematic) similarities between James Horner's music for The Wrath of Khan, his great break-through as a film music composer, and his (two years) earlier music for Battle Beyond the Stars (which did indeed help him earn the job for writing the music for Star Trek II) ...

But on the 'down side', if one is looking for - for example - the gorgeously expansively played End Titles from Cocoon, it is not included here: one has to acquire the album that 'kicked it all off', so to say, namely 'Space and Beyond', also on Silva Screen. I was very pleased also with the inclusion on that album of some of the music from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, namely where one of the characters, Tasha Yar, in one of the episodes (Skin of Evil) is saying goodbye to her crewmmates: sweetly sentimental and simple music which I have always wanted to own on CD. I guess that a few cues from the other two sequals ('Alien Invasion: Space and Beyond II' and 'Space3: Beyond the Final Frontier') didn't make it onto this 4 CD collection-album as well, but I guess that it would be the 'better part of the bargain' to opt to buy this 'The Science Fiction Album' instead of buying all three albums separately. Well, of course it is for yourself to ultimately decide what you really want ;-)

If I were to nitpick (which is not easy with such a marvellous project as this one), then I would say that while all music is performed with magnificent grandure and with style, some of it is not performed as crisply and as technically 'on the spot' as some of the original recordings: ensemble is a little slack and the playing somewhat stilted sometimes, losing some of the edge and the originality of the writing. ET and Star Wars spring to mind, but then the soundtracks for Star Wars are traditionally recorded with the magnificent London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro John Williams himself, and these superior recordings (especially the ones for Episode I, II and III) can't really be bettered, IMHO. Likewise for the music from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I believe that in the end one really has to resort to the ultimate reference, namely the original recording (which is true in many other instances of 'original recordings'), and then the 20th anniversay colector's edition of this soundtrack on Columbia/Legacy (truly unmissable, this veritable classic of sci-fi/film music soundtracks!).

But all in all this 4CD-collection amounts to probably being the penultimate high quality sci-fi music album collection (I certainly know of no other project that comes as close quality as well as quantity wise), with some of the most memorable musical moments from classic to modern sci-fi/fantasy film captured in lavish orchestrations.
Collection-wise: five *stars*. Playing: generally four *stars*, sometimes more. The recording quality: five *stars*. The music (qualified on its own merits as film music) and its (re)orchestrations: generally five *stars*. In the end this is all highly recommended, and certainly not to be missed by science fiction and fantasy film music fans. Klaatu barada nikto.

Muisic of the Spheres.......2006-11-06

You wonderful four disk collection of SF music. It startsa up the the grand master of SF music, 2001: A space Odyssey all the way to Superman. This is all American SF music and several themes I would have liked to have included are not there. All in all though, a collection you will enjoy.

The Ulllllltimate Sci-Fi Music Collection.......2005-10-23

If one person gives great gifts, it's the illustrious Codemaster Talon. I've received a fair number of gifts in my lifetime, but so far, my older sister's take the cake. Take this one for instance. I'm real big on orchestral music, to the point where I listen to them more than any other kind of music. I've got orchestral versions of video game themes, orchestral soundtracks to truck-loads of anime shows (Big O, Escaflowne, and Giant Robo are incredible), and could probably spend the rest of my life just trying to study the nuances of all the classical music I've got. Being such a huge fan of orchestral music, I also have come to believe that orchestra music produced for movies and television is the new classical music (or as someone once said, Mozart would be making music for movies if he were alive today). Being a huge sci-fi fan, that kind of music has always been particularly near and dear to my heart. But were I to buy each and every soundtrack for every sci-fi I liked it would cost quite a bundle, and would include a lot of sub-par music along with the grandiose and fantastic main and memorable themes. That's where this beauty comes in.

The moment I ripped off the shrink-wrap and popped it into my cd player was a moment of great trepidation. Believe me when I tell that I've seen my fair share of sub-par orchestral recording in my lifetime. Very often they are in those big super-packs of music, and suffer from poor direction, improper mastering, and sometime even pathetic orchestration (or worse yet have something sounding like a cheap synthesizer and a kazoo in place of a full orchestra). I needn't have worried though. This sucker is fantastic.

Many people who are not audiophiles will probably miss the point of this cd collection. It is not the original versions of the pieces. It is re-orchestrations, mostly by the phenomenal Prague Symphony Orchestra. Many of these themes didn't sound all that hot in there original versions because they were low budget films or were not recorded in high-fidelity. Here they are given the full treatment, mastered with the most loving care imaginable. Often the version found in these cds is SUPERIOR to the original.

Remember the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Of course you do. But how many times have you heard a cheap imitation of the original version from the movie, starting too low in volume and ending too high (and missing the essential pipe-organ that gives it that extra oomph)? Well, this first track in the entire collection is not only everything it should be instrumental and timing-wise, but it also has been oh-so-carefully adjusted during the mastering process so that at no time is the music either too low or too high in volume (surely a benchmark for every other recording ever to be made of the piece).

Or what about the theme from the (at-the-time) uber-creepy The Black Hole? The orchestration of this piece of music goes from tiumphant to terrifying and back again, with a splendor and cleanness that I CERTAINLY don't remember being in the original recording.

Then there's the new version of the theme from Independence Day, complete with a violin solo, a far more electrifying ending climax, and a chorus so thunderous that you feel like applauding at the end. Simply indescribable. Kind of like the MIND-BLOWING rendition of the theme from The Last Star Fighter. This has been one of my favorite themes for a long time now, but I've never heard it played like this. I think the original version of the theme is something like 1 minute long, but this new version doesn't just fade out (HAHAHAHA!!!!) THIS version is THREE minutes long, goes through the main theme THREE times, with the final strains being so triumphant and joyous I could not help but feel an electrifying charge the first dozen or so times (come to think of it, I still feel that way). This is superior to the original in EVERY way. AWESOME.

And let's not forget the incredible new rendition of Stargate with it's heavy use of clarinets (for Egyptian effect!) and a triumphant new ending (completely lacking the chanting from the original version. This version is so different that for the first minute it is very hard to tell that it is in fact Stargate. But then the main theme kicks in, and then you get this incredible flute solo for my favorite part of theme (the whole thing is played slower, but arguably more powerfully than the original). My goodness. At first I found the thing so different I didn't like it. But then I listened to it again. And again. And again.

I could go on and on, talking about the fantastic new rendition of Moon Raker, the ear-popping Battlestar Galactica, the classic Star Trek (First Contact has a minute or two of the theme from Star Trek:The Motion Picture before going into the main theme), or the sweet renditions of music from the Star Wars movies (or the music from E.T.).

I have to mention though that this collection was not picked based merely on what people want, or on what is popular. No, the people who made it obviously thought a GOOD music collection was better than a popular one. That's why you get a heartbreakingly beautiful theme from A.I. instead of the main theme. It's why you get music from movies that you probably never gave a second thought to the music (because the movie was lousy). It's why you get Armageddon, Judge Dredd, and Robocop (who would have guessed their music was so COOL when there was all that crazy action and bad-acting going on on-screen).

I said it before and I'll say it again. This cd-set was mastered with tender-loving-care, and it shows BIG-TIME. High-fidelity the likes of which I have not seen since the days when cds were brand-new in the world. Dolby Surround. Perfectly balanced. BEAUTIUFL orchestrations. About the only thing that makes me scratch my head is the weird sound-effect tracks (Oooookay.....). Other than that, it's PERFECT. Obviously they could not include every sci-fi theme ever (no one can), but this collection is REALLY GOOD. A lot of great themes that got away (forgotten gems :), new versions of old favorites, and under-appreciated classics aplenty, but ALWAYS the full and complete versions with nothing cut-out (the theme from Dune is quite extended).

If you love movie music (and sci-fi movie music in particular) you MUST buy this awesome collection). It is not the original recordings. Almost always the new ones are better (if they aren't better they're just equal). This is what you have been waiting for. I for one am going to be buying quite a few cds from this company in the future. Give your ears the treat they deserve. Buy it NOW.

SciFi Album gift.......2005-07-20

I bought the Science Fiction Album as a gift for my son who is twenty-one years old. He is a musician, and also a huge fan of many SciFi shows and movies. I thought this would be the perfect thing for him and I was right. He loves it!

Away From to be a Collectible Peace.......2004-12-16

If you like Sci-Fi movies and want a compilation of their important scores, this is the CD-set to buy. But let me warn you about that very few songs in the cds are from the original soundtracks. Most of them is re-recorded by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. But the sound quality of cds are very good, because they have HDCD and Dolby Surround labels. This set is away from to be a collectible peace, but it is a good general compilation of favorite Sci-Fi movie scores.

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Lerner & Loewe Songbook
Wouldn't it be lovely?
A Successful Sequel
Delightful Listening

Lerner & Loewe Songbook for Orchestra
Frederick Loewe , and Erich Kunzel
Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003D0E
Release Date: 1994-01-25

Tracks:

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Wouldn't It Be Loverly - With A Little Bit Of Luck - Et Al.
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Customer Reviews:

Lerner & Loewe Songbook.......2006-02-24

If you like Percy Faith's music, you'll like this one. He quit recording and died much too young. But while he lived, he recorded some great music.

Wouldn't it be lovely?.......2005-09-26

This CD represents some of the best of Broadway done in a great pops style. There are five orchestral suites, one each for the following: 'Camelot', 'My Fair Lady', 'Gigi', 'Paint Your Wagon', and 'Bridgadoon'. They are all arranged for orchestra by Robert Russell Bennett, save that for 'Paint Your Wagon', which was arranged by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra director Erich Kunzel.

The works of Lerner and Loewe were a mainstay of Broadway for decades in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, but it was during the late 50s and early 60s that their true glory days took hold. The presidential term of John F. Kennedy gained the nickname 'Camelot' in part because of the influence of the Lerner and Loewe production going on at the start. The songs contained in these suites are instantly recognisable by many, as the Lerner and Loewe songs have become so well known that many know the songs better than the musicals or the composers from which they come. 'I Could Have Danced All Night' and 'Wouldn't It Be Lovely' come from 'My Fair Lady', 'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' from 'Gigi' - these are but the most of famous of the familiar tunes.

There are a lot of pieces here that the listener will appreciate, both in remembering old pieces or in learning new nuances to the tunes.

This particular disc by Telarc has a feature called 'Spatializer', which gives a three-dimensional quality to the sterophonic sound, enhancing regular players and working well with surround-sound systems, too. The Cincinnati Pops are expert at this kind of music, having produced dozens of CDs of popular music and modern composers of musicals, film music, and pops-oriented major compositions.

This is a fun disc to have.

A Successful Sequel.......2005-08-03

This CD is a follow-up to the Rodgers & Hammerstein Songbook for Orchestra (1991) from the same team. It is a thoroughly successful sequel: I believe anyone who enjoyed the R&H will enjoy this one as well. If I am very slightly less enthusiastic about this one than the R&H, it's not because of any shortcoming of Kunzel, the Cincinnati Pops, or Telarc, all of whom are at the top of their form. Rather it's because Frederick Loewe, for all his undoubted expertise, is not quite in the same class as a composer with Richard Rodgers. But that's asking a lot, since Rodgers was the American musical theater's leading light. Lerner & Loewe's musicals were second only to R&H's during the golden age of the American musical, and their My Fair Lady is by any standard one of the best musicals ever staged. If Loewe did not create as many unforgettable numbers as Rodgers, he nevertheless wrote many delightful songs and much enjoyable music. This CD features five orchestral suites, ranging in length from 9 to 18 minutes (total playing time 68:06), from Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), Gigi (film 1958; staged 1973), and Camelot (1960). The arrangements (all but one by Robert Russell Bennett) are expert. The performances are masterly (if perhaps lacking in just a tad of the infectious brio that the same team brought to R&H). And Telarc's robust sound (recorded 1993) would be hard to improve on. Warmly recommended.

Delightful Listening.......1998-12-05

Some of the nicest and nearly forgotten music (Paint your Wagon & Brigadoon) is nicely compiled here. It will make you want to listen to the full soundtracks again, but for a quick tour of Lerner & Lowe, it is very nice.

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Wondrous, beautiful playing - Stunning, vibrant recording
piano jazz trio
Possibly his best album
Still Live is one of the best by this trio
Still LIve

Still Live
Keith Jarrett Trio with Gary Peacock and Jack De Johnette
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000260CN
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

My Funny Valentine
Autumn Leaves
When I Fall In Love
The Song Is You

Tracks:

Come Rain Or Come Shine
Late Lament
You And The Night And The Music
Extension/Intro/Someday My Prince Will Come
Billie's Bounce
I Remember Clifford

Customer Reviews:

Wondrous, beautiful playing - Stunning, vibrant recording.......2007-03-04

How to convey the incredible music and inspired music-making here? Words that might give an adequate impression might be: vibrant, ecstatic, sparkling, explosive, swinging, lyrical, poetic, and maybe plenty more besides..., but you would already getting the idea by now.

I couldn't agree more about the stunning performance of 'My Funny Valentine' noted by the reviewer below - it is absolutely spellbinding. It is truly superb, and for me it's simply one of the most moving and magical performances I've experienced in a lifetime of music.

This whole record shimmers with a radiance of some kind. There's an almost electric buzz in the air from start to finish, and it is superbly captured on this recording by ECM's first maestro of the recording art: engineer Martin Wieland. What a beautiful recording!

And what astonishing performances by these great, great players. I've got umpteen recordings by this trio, and yet this one is one of the very finest. It's a very special album indeed. Electrifying performances and pristine, sparking sound. Highest recommendation.

piano jazz trio.......2007-01-24

One of the all time favourite records!
Have been listening to it for years, never got tired of it.

Possibly his best album.......2004-12-24

Possibly the best album Jarrett has ever put out. This would be a great CD to give anyone to introduce them to this jazz piano great. His trio is in top form as they add their unique flavor to these enduring jazz standards. There is not a single bad song on this album. Great for jazz neophytes, fans, and curious listeners alike.

Still Live is one of the best by this trio.......2004-06-24

The best albums by the Standards Trio, in my opinion, is the live recordings. That's where the intimacy and the spontanity has top priority, and that's what makes good music even better. The first disc begins with "My Funny Valentine", followed by the often played "Autumn Leaves" and "When I Fall In Love", and finally "The Song is You". The second disc is also standards only, excluding a short "Extension" and an "Intro".

If you're not new to the trio, you won't be surprised to learn that the form is the same as ever, but that the music is fresh, and that under the immediate layer (the output as such) there's a symbolic layer hidden. That's how _I_ hear the trio: The structure, the melody, the notes, the drums means something more than just mere sound. A philosopher names Schopenhauer once said that "music is the only art form which created direct contact to the world." Call me crazy, but I like the music not for the melody of the songs themselves, but for the deeper thoughts hidden under the surface.

"Still Live" is one of the best by the trio (as I have said), but not the best. If you want the best, go for "Up For It". But "Still Live" is still better than many other by the trio, so buying these two discs won't be a bad decision. However, newcomers should propably start elsewhere.

Still LIve.......2003-06-29

As a trained Musician with 20 years of playing and touring experience with many Jazz ensembles and big bands, and with experience on stage with well known pros, I can say with assuredness, this is one of the finest, most sensitive Jazz albums I've ever heard. The introduction to My Funny Valentine alone will send chills up your spine. For P2P folks, this is one that's hard to find and well worth the money to own.

Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

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Robeson on wax
The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation
A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving
Robeson at his best
some of the greatest songs of the last century

Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

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Release Date: 1997-12-09

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Balm in Gilead
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Quiet Flows The Don: From Border To Border
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The Purest Kind Of Guy
Joe Hill
The Peat-Bog Soldiers
The Four Insurgent Generals
Native Land
Song Of The Plains
Cradle Song
Within Four Walls
By An' By
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
John Henry
Water Boy
My Curly Headed Baby
Mah Lindy Lou
Wagon Wheels
The House I Live In
Showboat: I Still Suits Me
Sylvia
Showboat: Ol' Man River
Porgy And Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So

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There was nothing like the Robeson sound, ever. To describe his deep, rich, perfectly equalized instrument is futile. Go instead to "Balm in Gilead," the opening track, and see if you can listen to the last pianissimo phrase without falling to pieces. Robeson was at his best when the music was slow and the words contained spiritual or social messages. Faster, lighter fare like Kern's "I Still Suits Me" or Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" find the serious-minded singer out of his element, lacking irony and swing. "Old Man River," though, gets a simple, dignified treatment. It's Songs of Free Men, though, that will just keep Robeson's artistry rolling along, especially in Sony's astonishing transfers. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

Robeson on wax.......2007-06-19

I found this album in a thrift store last week, for a couple of dollars. It's the original pressing on four 78 RPM records, in a gatefold format. It's in pristine condition. I really bought it for the incredible cover art, although I hope to be able to listen to it in this format at some point.

The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation.......2004-09-24

Put this on your stereo and if it is good enough the depth and richness of Robeson's voice will make your fillings rattle and your chest rumble. The power of his voice is awesome. This CD is superbly recorded with no audible noise at normal listening levels.

A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving.......2002-09-01

"Red diaper babies" have greeted this disc with nostalgic joy, and it captures a time and an aesthetic and a political belief with precision. Anyone interested in the emotional life of the pro-Soviet left of the 1940s should buy this disc. It's something like Henry Wallace set to music. There is much more to Robeson than that, however, and Sony has given us Robeson whole: there are songs by American masters of the musical, there are labor songs, religious songs, as well as the kind of faux-folk songs which the butcher supreme Josef Stalin encouraged and which were not taken seriously inside the USSR (except at gunpoint!!) but which were taken up by dupes around the world. This is Robeson at his least savory - willing propagandist for a vile mass murderer. Songs such as "Native Land" (fittingly, Robeson is referring to the Soviet Union) and the Red Army song are the equivalent of the "Horst Wessel Song", anthems of murder, and it is difficult to listen to the worst of them without retching. On the other hand, Robeson's commitment to American folk culture was real. "Balm in Gilead" is deeply beautiful; "John Henry" is heroic; "By an' By" is both resigned yet hopeful. "Joe Hill" captures an era in labor history. Anyone interested in American popular song should hear these. Turning to Broadway, his "Old Man River" is very fine, though Robeson changed the lyrics for political reasons and Leonard Warren has done the song better. I disagree with the editorial reviewer: "I Still Suits Me" is wonderfully playful and shows Robeson using his gorgeously rich voice to tease and poke fun. However, Marc Blitzstein's "Purest Kind of a Guy" is beyond saving - another example of Robeson recording an unworthy song by a political fellow-traveller. Ugh. But for every miss there are two hits. Robeson performs Mendelssohn's Elijah with nobility, and sings his favorite song, "Water Boy", with joyous pride: "There ain't no hammer that's on these mountains that rings like mine, boys, that rings like mine."
No one need have any fears about the mono sound quality. The orchestra in the second half of the program is at times a little dwarfed by Robeson's voice, but it generally sounds clean and colorful, and the great artist's voice rings like no other.

Robeson at his best.......2000-05-12

It's hard to believe that most of these recordings pre-date the advent of magnetic tape: the CD transfer is superlative. The songs and performance are beyond reproach. Notable is the imaginative packaging in miniature 'record album' format, complete with the original cover art, and a replica of the original Columbia record label applied to the CD.

In response to a previous question: Robeson's performance of Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) can be found on the Vanguard LP entitled "Robeson" (VRS-9037).

some of the greatest songs of the last century.......2000-05-05

In the 1940s, before rabid McCarthyism and racism had taken its toll on him, Robeson made these wonderful recordings of spirituals, classics and pop tunes. Accompanied by the solo piano of the incomparable Lawrence Brown, or by an orchestra, the songs ring out with pride, dignity, skill and unmatched integrity. The shameful treatment that Robeson was subject to from American authorities certainly seem grotesquely absurd to a modern listener. The wonderful version of "The House I Live In" included on this cd should forever kill off any suspicion that Robeson did not love his country deeply. This album ought to be heard by millions of people, world wide. Robeson's voice is nothing less than a glorious high point in 20th century music, and it's hard to think of any recording capturing it to greater advantage.

Still Valentine's Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco

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Sandy Bull: the best guitarist/string player you never heard of
Fond memories of a pioneer

Still Valentine's Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco
Sandy Bull
Manufacturer: Water
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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E Pluribus Unum
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Live at the Fillmore East
John the Wolfking of L.A.

ASIN: B000FMH8FI
Release Date: 2006-10-09

Tracks:

Introduction
Bouree
No Deposit, No Return Blues
Manha de Carnaval
Improvisation for Oud 1
Electric Blend 1
Improvisation for Oud 2
Memphis, Tennessee
Electric Blend 2

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Sandy Bull: the best guitarist/string player you never heard of.......2007-07-20

I was in college in the SF bay area in 1966 or 1967 when I first heard Sandy Bull on the radio...(KSAN, maybe?) when the DJ played "Blend", the longest song I had ever heard on the radio to that time. I was mesmerized, stupefied even...I was a guitar player myself, and he quickly entered my Pantheon of guitar gods. My only disappointment about Sandy Bull was that I never had the opportunity to see him live, and in fact, by the time he made the recording at the Matrix, he was probably compromised by a long-time drug addiction, and parts of this recording seem to evidence that. Notwithstanding, his skill was prodigious and he influenced many other players. The re-issue called "Re-Inventions" has a great deal worth listening to, and would make a great companion to this live recording.

Fond memories of a pioneer.......2007-01-03

Sandy Bull made fine music. He played a variety of guitar-related string instruments and wove dreamscapes with them. This album is not the place to be introduced to his work, nor is it the best of his work. For a fan, I am one, it is an interesting bit of lore, a curiosity. Try one of his all-too-few Vanguard releases, especially "Inventions" if you want to hear Sandy in full.

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GREAT CD GREAT BAND

Still Live
The Clarks
Manufacturer: High Wire Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Let It Go

ASIN: B000FILVXC
Release Date: 2006-06-20

Tracks:

Better Off Without You
You Know Everything
Bona Fide
Maybe
Rise And Fall
The Letter
On Saturday
Hey You
Shimmy Low
Fast Moving Cars
Nothing's Wrong Nothing's Right
Boys Lie
Hell On Wheels
Butterflies
Let It Go
Gypsy Lounge

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GREAT CD GREAT BAND.......2006-06-22

the clarks are not a new band by any means if you know their music you know that their lyrics are well written and you know about the great pop hooks in their song makeup.if you don't well here is your chance to hear a polished hardly known band in a live show in there home base .with their loyal fan base in tact
and a set of some of their best songs.this band is just too good to be unknows and thats all there is to it .check it out i highly advise it.

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these 2 are classics

Still Alive and Well/Captured Live!
Johnny Winter
Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004T2JQ
Release Date: 2002-03-09

Tracks:

Rock Me Baby
Can't You Feel It?
Cheap Tequila
All Tore Down
Rock & Roll
Silver Train
Ain't Nothing to Me
Still Alive & Well
Too Much Seconal
Let It Bleed

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Bony Moronie
Roll With Me
Rock & Roll People
It's All Over Now
Highway 61 Revisited
Sweet Papa John

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these 2 are classics.......2003-05-19

if you like johnny winter, you must already have these two; at his peak with his gibson firebird; i was in high shool in the 70's and these two were a key component; if you are reading this, you already know: if there is a rock and roll heaven, johnny winter and these albums are there

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Yay for Sam
Real, honest, wonderful.

perfecT
Sam Shaber
Manufacturer: Brown Chair
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Eighty Numbered Streets

ASIN: B00005AT82
Release Date: 1999-01-09

Tracks:

Invisible Woman
All of This
Perfect
Hush-A-Bye
Rooftop
Honey
Sometimes it Hurts
Bomb Threat in New Rochelle
City Lights Lament
Rain and Sunshine
Playing House
Frere Jacques
Mary-Anne
Quaalude III
Walkin' at Night

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This '99 LIVE release, "perfecT" (with a capital T and tongue planted firmly in cheek) was voted #7 out of 1800 titles at CD BABY.com. It captures the range and essence of this dynamic performer, from its title track lamenting and laughing over her imperfections, to "All of This," her hometown anthem simmering with an infectious energy.

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Yay for Sam.......2002-03-17

Sam Shaber is a wonderful songwriter, singer, guitar player and performer. I enjoy listening to all her cds (this one in particular) and seeing her live whenever I can. She is reinventing contemporary folk music, as far as I am concerned- going back the basics of being down-to-earth, telling great stories (some of which you'll even hear on this album), and writing lyrics and music that could stand on its own- but combining them to create some great art and some great fun. She's also very new york/east village cool but chill- if you know what I mean.

Real, honest, wonderful........2001-06-08

This is a great CD, it really captures what's she's like live and on stage. Sam is a dynamic, thoughtful and entertaining performer, and I would highly recommend joining her email list, (www.samshaber.com) not just to see where she's performing, but to get a chuckle out of her wonderfully entertaining ramblings.

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Ferron at her best
not a still life
Absolutely fabulously brilliantly just beautiful.

Not a Still Life
Ferron
Manufacturer: Cherrywood Station
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Testimony

ASIN: B000006LOP
Release Date: 1994-07-26

Tracks:

Introduction
Light of My Life
Shadows on a Dime
Our Purpose Here
I Am Hungry
Ain't Life a Brook
I Know a Game
Call Me Friend
Snowin' in Brooklyn
I Never Was to Africa
Higher Wisdom
Dear Marly
Cart
Shady Gate
Harmless Love
Testimony
Wind's All a Whisper

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Ferron at her best.......2007-01-15

Next to "shadows on a dime", which is out of my price range; this is my second favorite Ferron CD. I saw her in the mid 1980's in the Bay Area and then in Ukiah, CA last winter (February of 2006).
Her life is a miracle put to music; plus her song writing and lyrics pull my heart strings.
I love this CD.

not a still life.......2001-12-16

Every song on this CD has depth and sincerity. I attended a concert in Tampa several years ago, and Ferron featued several of the songs from this album. She really focussed my interest into feminist and ecological issues..I misplaced the CD and really must replace it in my collection. For anyone not familiar with her music this CD is a great place to start! She is a true poetess.

Absolutely fabulously brilliantly just beautiful........2001-03-27

I think Ferron is one of those people that have the most power when they're the least, well, powered. Throw her on a stage with just a guitar and...words me fail me. Gorgeous lyrics, too.

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