Just Arrived [Import]

Track Listings

1. Island Girl

2. Why Should I Get Jealous?

3. Love, I Don't Want Your Love

4. NYC

5. Something Special

6. Time to Get With It

7. Love Secret Agent

8. Let Me Up-Off My Knees

9. Do What You Want, Be Who You Are [*]

10. Come on With It [*]

11. Heaven in the Afternoon [*]

12. Heaven in the Afternoon [*][Instrumental]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Just Arrived was originally released on TK Records in 1980, following the success of the 12'' Heaven In The Afternoon. It is essentially a smooth soul album but has some interesting production such as the reggae influence on album opener 'Island Girl' and the bone theme on 'Love Secret Agent'. The Album includes 4 bonus tracks which were originally released prior to the album 'Do What You Want', 'Be What Your Are', an Hall & Oates track was released complete with 'Come On With It' as a 7 inch single on Marlin in 1977 and 'Heaven In The Afternoon'. EMI. 2005.

Just Arrived,Lew Kirton,EMI Int'l,Pop,R&B,R&B/Soul,Smooth Soul,Soul,Soul/R & B,Urban

Customer Reviews:

It's wonderful to have Bernstein back, but the performances fall short.......2006-11-26

These 1953 mono recordings catch Bernstein a decade after his famous debut with the NY Phil. and five years before he became their youngest-ever condcutor. It's great to hear that warm, comforting voice again, although his analyses--especially the longest one devoted to the Brahms Fourth--aren't as polished as they would become. He gets pedagogical at times and runs us through a rote example-and-explanation formula. Even then, howeer, colorful Bernstein touches peek out, and we are reminded of the man who taught an entire generation to venerate classical music.

For me, the performances themselves fall short. They were often recorded in a rush, sometimes late at night after a summer concert. I know that the Stadium Sym. is actually the NY Phil., but they don't sound particularly fine, and Bernstein's interpreatations, though vigorous, often border on the slapdash. Plowing through Beethoven's 3rd, Dvorak's 9th, Schumann's 2nd, Brahms' 4th and Tchaikovsky's 6th, I found few sparks of originaity, much less genius. This is a tough admission from one of LB's geat admirers, but there you are. The original recorded sound is also a bit thin and harsh.

Come back Lennie, we need you.......2006-02-22

This box is worth its price just for the five talks. Bernstein at this stage had a teaching style rather more stilted than the chatty sage of later years, but the combination of authority, insight and infectious enthusiasm is unique. Entertainingly offhand about the New World, he's at his best on the music he reveres most, i.e. Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, the first movement of whose Fourth Symphony gets a particularly in-depth analysis that left me yearning for more. Practically anyone could enjoy and learn from these talks - they're fascinating fun without a whiff of down-dumbing. When the classical and the popular cross over nowadays, the results are usually compromised and crass, but with Bernstein there doesn't even seem to be a gap to be crossed over - just a passion to share these wonders with as many people as possible. We need his all-embracing talent and vision today more than ever.

Then there are the performances. I'm not the biggest fan of mono symphonic recordings, but these positively leap down your ears, unmannered, committed and electric. It's hard to believe what was achieved under the hasty recording conditions described in the booklet. The sound is a little fierce, but good enough to make this set a wonderful gift for any open-minded but symphonically ignorant acquaintance. I can easily imagine it turning someone on to classical music.

For Bernstein enthusiasts, it's like owning a gold mine.......2005-06-19

This new album set is something that I had heard of, but never dared to hope would be released on CD. It consists of Leonard Bernstein's very first recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (the "Eroica"), Dvorak's "New World Symphony", Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Brahms' Fourth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony. They are all conducted by Bernstein and played beautifully by an orchestra which bills itself as the New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra, but which is really the great New York Philharmonic, using the name that they gave themselves during summer concerts.

The performances are a revelation, because they demonstrate conclusively that Bernstein did not always "exaggerate" or "overinterpret" great music, as critics frequently claim. His performances here are very, very direct and straightforward, more like Fritz Reiner or Toscanini than like Bernstein.

If this album contained only Bernstein's early performances of these symphonies, it would be interesting, but it might not really attract that much attention, since he re-recorded all of these pieces in stereo in later years, and with the same orchestra.

What makes this set so valuable is that it contains his long out-of-print lectures on these symphonies, and far from what the previous reviewer claims, they never become boring and monotonous. No musician in our time, or maybe even in the history of music, was a better or more articulate and sensitive lecturer on music than Leonard Bernstein. His legendary appearances on the "Young People's Concerts" did more for the appreciation of classical music than all the "Beethoven's Wig" albums combined. (If you don't know what "Beethoven's Wig" is, check it out and shudder at how far music appreciation has fallen since Bernstein's death.)

Bernstein had a unique ability to make classical music accessible to everybody, without ever condescending to the listener or cheapening the music. His lectures on this album, previously only available to 1950's Book of the Month Subscribers (except for part of the Beethoven lecture, which is the only one that Bernstein did re-record in stereo), are invaluable both to music students and to those who are willing to listen. All of the lectures included cover all four movements of the symphonies discussed, except for the Brahms; that one is just as extensive as the others, but it covers only the first movement of the symphony.

However--be warned, the lectures do have a flaw that the symphonies themselves do not, and that is why I have subtracted one star.

The symphony recordings are obviously remastered from magnetic tape, but the lectures have been transferred from LP's. Thus, you will be able to hear an occasional click or pop from time to time, and there is a clearly audible "skip" on the Brahms lecture. It is NOT the CD being defective, or the laser beam on your player skipping; it is clearly the lecture recordings themselves. Deutsche Grammophon, which released this CD set, is very honest about the source of the transfers to compact disc, and is to be commended for this. (They mention it in the last page of the accompanying booklet.) But this shouldn't deter anybody from buying this enormously important Bernstein set.

Bernstein's Early American Recordings.......2005-04-02

The most recent batch of DG's "Original Masters" box sets boasts several titles that will leave classical collectors rejoicing, "Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings" foremost among them. This 5CD set features Lenny in his earliest recorded performances of some of his trademark works -- Beethoven's 3rd, Dvorak's 9th, Schumann's 2nd, Brahms' 4th and Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphonies. Bernstein would later re-record all of five these symphonies with the NYPO (btw, the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York IS the NYPO) to greater acclaim for Columbia, but these early accounts capture a brilliant young conductor at the threshold of greatness. Also after each performance, Bernstein offers a musical analysis, simplifying what the listener just heard as only he could, which is again something the conductor would become famous for in years to come. Well then, if this is such a great set, why the four-star rating? First, while the performances sound very good, these are 1953 mono recordings and the casual fan needs to be aware that analog and digital stereo recordings of these works by the conductor do exist, and are generally preferable. Second, the musical analysis is a nice touch, but certainly does not warrant repeated listenings, as does the music. In fact, nearly half of the contents of these five discs is LB talking, and it could have been filled with music instead, or simply sold as a less expensive 3CD set. However, these shortcomings aside, "Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings" is another outstanding release in a fine series.

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....just arrived
Short Apena , and Gorge Trio
Manufacturer: Wallace
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000KC8ON8
Release Date: 2006-11-21

Tracks:

Port 1
Port 2
Port 3
Port 4
Port 5
Port 6
Port 7
Port 8

Product Description

"Just unloaded on this ground (ours?) seemingly not very hospital, aggressive, saturated with contradictory sound energies, this album with the extraterrestrial paces, even of apocalypse learnedly put in scene by packing, arrive, it is there, and already the feeling to see it fleeing in front of us...Imperceptible passage of a music given birth to in the pain of an obsessional and attractive work on the sound matter, rusted, triturated, fissured of all shares by this strange conclave - two Italian groups between post rock'n'roll and noise confronted here - joined together three days lasting of the autumn 2001 in the hell of a studio of recording around electric guitars, low, percussions, of stray Rhodos and magnetic tapes. The assembly of the whole required a few additional years to lead to this intranquille result... Distant voices remixées and drowned in a slipping music and insituable, starters of sound organization disturbed and shorted-circuit with measurement of advanced on these barred spaces of obstacles: the listener sees himself unceasingly constrained, questioned, aspired even in this strange adventure of multiple and quartered listenings. For which chooses to be thus let pass on the body to the length of these thirty-six minutes of resistance to the idea even of music like pastime , the test can be moulted in interest, even, at the price of other efforts still, in one seizing experiment of déconditionnement... It is here clearly about experimental music, looked for ways, disappeared, found a few seconds, but where the feeling of delivery A seems it refused until the end. All opposite of what the current language could name with a certain degree of cynicism sound ecology." - Mathias Dreyfuss - Octopus

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Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak
Dvorak
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000069HGK
Release Date: 2002-09-17

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Just Arrived
Lew Kirton
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

R&B | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0007M427I
Release Date: 2005-04-04

Tracks:

Island Girl
Why Should I Get Jealous?
Love, I Don't Want Your Love
NYC
Something Special
Time to Get With It
Love Secret Agent
Let Me Up-Off My Knees
Do What You Want, Be Who You Are [*]
Come on With It [*]
Heaven in the Afternoon [*]
Heaven in the Afternoon [*][Instrumental]

Album Description

Just Arrived was originally released on TK Records in 1980, following the success of the 12'' Heaven In The Afternoon. It is essentially a smooth soul album but has some interesting production such as the reggae influence on album opener 'Island Girl' and the bone theme on 'Love Secret Agent'. The Album includes 4 bonus tracks which were originally released prior to the album 'Do What You Want', 'Be What Your Are', an Hall & Oates track was released complete with 'Come On With It' as a 7 inch single on Marlin in 1977 and 'Heaven In The Afternoon'. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

Originally Released on Tk Records in 1980, Following the Success of the 12" Heaven in the Afternoon. It is Essentially a Smooth Soul Album but Has Some Interesting Productions Such as the Reggae Influence on Album Opener Island Girl and the Bond Theme on Love Secret Agent. Much of the Writing and Production is Credited to Clarence "blowfly" Reid. This Has Been Out on CD Before on Expansion Records with the Tracks in a Jumbled Up Order. This is the Album in Its Original Running Order plus Four Bonus Tracks which were Originally Released Prior to the Album: Do What You Want, Be What You Are, a Hall and Oates Track was Released Complete with "Come on with It" as a 7" on Marlin in 1977, and "Heaven in the Afternoon" 12" and Instrumental which Remains Another Favourite Amongst the Soul Supremos.

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Breakin the Bank
Pat Kain
Manufacturer: Real Nigga Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CADF0K
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

Intro
Real Nizzle
Sippin on the Third Coast
Interview
Southside Pit
Make a Million
Breakin the Bank
Radio Interview
We Be Dippin
Real Nigggas Dont Stop
Fuck Intro
I Want U to Fuck Me
Ooohweeee
Big P Dawn
Got Away with Murder

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"SONG 4 EVERYONE!"

Just Arrived
Gasper & Dukes
Manufacturer: Ariana Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA9CAC
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Customer Reviews:

"SONG 4 EVERYONE!".......2006-08-13

THIS IS A GREAT RECORD.
WHAT A COLLECTION OF SONGS.
THESE RECORDINGS WILL NEVER BECOME DATED.
THE 4TRK RECORDINGS STAND TALL NEXT TO THE STUDIO STUFF,
GREAT VOCALS, GOOD MUSICIANSHIP, SONGS THAT STAY WITH YOU.
IF YOU LIKE THE MUSIC OF, HALL & OATES, SEALS & CROFTS,
AMERICA, NEIL YOUNG, THE BEATLES, YOU WILL LIKE THIS STUFF,
FIND IT, BUY IT, ENJOY IT!!!!!!!