| 1. Fille d'Enfer |
| 2. Jour de Brouillard |
| 3. Qu'est-Ce-Que Tu Crois? - Carla Bruni, Julien Clerc |
| 4. Laisse Faire la Musique et Danse |
| 5. Tu Viens Dans Ma Tête |
| 6. Avant Qu'on Aille au Fond des Choses |
| 7. De Quoi A-T-Elle l'Air Ce Soir? |
| 8. Mené Par le Bout du Nez |
| 9. Obsession |
| 10. Vagues |
| 11. Volons Vers la Lune - Julien Clerc, |
| 12. Bal des Adieux |
| 13. Pour Te Plaire |
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New, 2003 Studio Album from Julien Clerc. Selection of 13 American Jazz Standards with French Lyrics Written by Maxime Le Forestier, Alain Souchon, Carla Bruni, Benjamin Bioley and Jean-loup Dabadie.
This box set chronciles the bands starting, up to its monarch like ascent and then to its fall when Bonzo died. All the albums are here in a 10 Box Set. Dazed and Confused, Ramble On, Misty Mountain Hop, Black Dog, Rock n'Roll, Stairway To Heavan, Achille's Last Stand, Candy Shop Rock, Kashmir, and Ozone Baby all those juicy bits are here a song for each mood. Led Zep's influences are easily seen here, garage rock, psychedelia, progressive, Rockabilly, country and of course the greatest influence the Blues. I often wonder if there is in any truth in the myth the band sold their souls to the Dark One because such mind numbing talent is almost beyond the pale of reality. I'm telling you get this set no music lover will be disapponited. Absolutely Awesome. Has 4 bonus tracks never released "Baby Come On Home", "Travelling Riverside Blues", "White Summer/Black Mountain Side", and "Hey Hey What Can I Do?" all songs in the blues vein and take their place besides the other greats. There is also a book of liner notes written by Cameron Crowe that have bits of interviews with the band and info on some of the songs. All in all this is a must have for any Zep head or person who apperciates good music.
My only problem with this set is that my red aussie cattle dog ate the slipcase for Led Zeppelin III and IV and I cannot replace it. So I have a nice set with nice double slipcases and one eaten by my dog. At least she has taste huh? P.S. The cds are still good.
Unfortunately, the packaging for this set is absolutely atrocious. The box itself is pretty cool and even has a little door that slides away into the box (like an old garage door). Inside the box are 6 slots for the photo book/new liner notes and the 5 CD cases. Each CD case is a little hardback book that holds 2 CDs and the recreated liner notes from the original LPs. For example, Led Zeppelin I and Led Zeppelin II are housed in the same hardback book with original liner notes. Unfortunately, if you want to read the liner notes for II, you have to flip the booklet over and start from the back. This is just stupid and the idea should have been shot down at the very beginning as soon as someone realized it would require Presence to come before Physical Graffiti if you wanted to have both discs of PG in the same booklet. The next packaging problem is that the CDs are housed in paper slots inside the booklets. CDs are not meant to be housed in construction paper. It scratches them every time the CDs are removed or replaced. Another stupid thing about this package is that the original cover art is shrunk down to little more than a 2 inch square.
So what we have here is shrunken cover art on booklets that present Led Zeppelin's CDs out-of-order with upside down liner notes and construction paper sleeves that scratch the CDs. This is not exactly the packaging that music of this quality deserves.
The packaging designers for this project should be ashamed of themselves. It might sound silly to harp on about this, but when the boxed set costs as much as this one does, it should be presented in a manner that is attractive, logical, and pays proper tribute to the original LP packaging. And, of course, it should be presented in a way that doesn't scratch up the CDs!
What can I say...the wonderful musial selections to this great movie are all here...I suggest buying a copy now...if you are a Bourne fan.
One other note of interest...this sound track included Moby's song, "Extreme Ways" this time...an obvious oversight corrected from the last soundtrack
The soundtrack is mainly a combination of electronic and orchestral themes except for the last song by Moby, "Extreme Ways". Instead of basing the soundtrack on one or two main riffs, the pieces rely on multiple riffs. While in some respect I wished that John Powell could have expanded some of the pieces (like Gao), I was satisfied that there was enough genuinely unique material throughout.
Regarding the song-content on this album, there is mainly orchestral pieces as mentioned earlier. I did some research on-line and found that the song in the chase-scene of the first Bourne series, The Bourne Identity, is by Paul Oakenfold - 'Ready Steady Go'. Also, the club music in the second Bourne series, The Bourne Supremecy, is by Mocean Worker - 'IntoThinAir'. Two great artists that I hardly knew about before the Bourne series.
When I was a teen, back in 1965-66, my buddy and I pulled lyrics, chords, fingerpicking techniques and harmonies off the first three albums. Our first big performance was (needless to say) Sound of Silence as 10th graders.
What's fun is to hear how Paul Simon developed as a songwriter and guitar player through this sequence of albums, including the outtakes and demos.
Now, forty years later, I spend some my weekends hangin' at a local coffeehouse open mic where I hear teens singing, among other songs, some of these classic tunes by S&G.
This is the collection to own. The sound clarity is incredible compared to the vinyl sitting in my garage. And it's still impressive poetry in these lyrics.
Now if I could only locate my 10th grade singing buddy, we could sing these some of these tunes again as "old friends."
Before, I only had the S&G Greatest Hits and it was my favorite CD. The thing is, that every album they made plays like a greatest hits album. There are only two or three tracks that I skip over in the entire box. That's how high the quality is.
Buying the albums in this box definitely has advantages. The book has a nice summary of each album and complete lyrics. The album sleeves are really cool-looking and it feels like the CDs are brand new material. The box is nice and can almost be used as decoration.
These five CDs are some of my favorites. Simon and Garfunkel were true musical geniuses and every album they made is worthy of being owned.
Simon And Garfunkel, though their partnership was short lived, managed to create some of the most excellent pop songs of the sixties and early seventies. It's a shame they only lasted for five albums, because they could have done so many other great things together (but I guess their solo careers kind of made up for this.) Many compilations and collections of the band's work have been released over the years. In 2001, the band released its second box set, The Columbia Studio Recordings. How does it measure up? Read on for my review.
PROS:
-ALL FIVE OF THE CLASSIC COLUMBIA RECORDS ALBUMS ARE HERE. You get Wednesday Morning 3AM, Sounds Of Silence, Parsley Sage Rosemary And Thyme, Bookends, and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Each one has been remastered and sounds great.
-THE ALBUMS COME IN REPLICA LP CASES! This is great, because the covers and the back covers look identical to their original releases. Why can't all bands do the CD cases in their box set like this? It was an excellent idea.
-BONUS TRACKS ON EVERY ALBUM. There are a plethora of bonus tracks in this set, and many of them are previously unreleased. It's a shame these tracks have been so hard to come by over the years, but I'm happy to see them all together in one place!
-THE BOOKLET IS PRETTY HANDY. The booklet is rather lengthy, and has new liner notes, as well as lyrics to every song. This is a pretty convenient tool to have handy for learning about the band, or for learning the lyrics to their songs.
-FOR THE MOST PART, THIS PUTS THE OLD BOX SET, OLD FRIENDS, TO SHAME. Old Friends was only a three-disc set and lacked liner notes. And this set basically corrects all the flaws that the old set had.
-A GREAT VALUE. For one fairly low price, you get ALL of the duo's albums! This makes this set a great alternative to buying all of the albums separately.
CONS:
-ONLY THE FIVE STUDIO ALBUMS AND A FEW BONUS TRACKS. Because it's a studio recordings box set, the duo's live albums aren't included. This is a shame, because they were a pretty good live act.
-SOME MISSING STUDIO TRACKS. No, nothing's missing from the actual albums. However, there are several tracks that could have been bonuses on here that should have been included. For example, the alternate version of Mrs. Robinson from the Graduate soundtrack.
-WHY FIVE DISCS? The record company could easily have condensed this material onto considerably less discs. This would likely have resulted in a lower price.
OVERALL:
If you want to get all of Simon And Garfunkel's albums, you have a few choices on how to do it, but I think getting them all here is the obvious and best choice. Take my advice and get this set. No classic pop collection is complete without these classic albums.
It say's go for the "true love", settle for nothing else no matter what may be in store, because love that is "true" and as beautiful as their's was, is a rare thing!
I absolutely loved the ending.
I also loved that a movie CAN be truly wonderful, beautiful and touching WITHOUT grafic "sex scenes!" Also sadly a rare thing in movies today.
Ever seen "Hanover Street?" Equally beautiful. No SEX scenes either!
Angelfish
That's how you spell chicken!
This won't be a particularly helpful review because I don't "know" music. All I can say that ever since seeing The Blues Brothers, I have enjoyed listening to blues without knowing much about it. Favorites include Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson... and John Hurt.
He had a great voice. Cool vocals + cool lyrics = really listenable music. I am so greatful to my Yahoo!Music player for introducing me to him. :)
The recorded legacy of MJH falls into roughly five categories.
(1) his early 1928 recordings on the OKEH label which comprise around 20 tracks. Although they are quite listenable and of historical interest and importance they are not the most enjoyable of his recordings. (2) recordings from 1963 that are available on the Rounder label. The sound quality of these recordings is somewhat disappointing. For that reason alone I don't listen to them much except for the fact that they were heavily relied upon by people who transcribed his songs for instructional materials. (3) The Library of Congress recordings (also from 1963). These are perhaps the best. The sound quality is excellent and there is an informality to the sessions which makes it like having MJH as a house guest for the weekend determined to play you every song he knows. (4) The (these) Vanguard Recordings, which I think were recorded between 1967 and 1969. These rival and sometimes surpass the Library of Congress Recordings as far as the material goes. There is also a palpable sadness as you can detect a man near the end of his life aware of the fact that he may very well be making his final recordings. The audio engineers did a terrible job at Vanguard for a good deal of these recordings. How can you screw up recording just one guy with a guitar? If you try hard enough you can set the levels WAY off. That is how. (5) there is also a Live MJH CD from Vanguard. It's sound quality is pretty good and it is endearing to hear MJH talk to an audience, but I find it less compelling material wise than the studio recordings.
Listening to MJH makes you want to piick up the guitar and learn to play like him. The good thing about this is that if you really want to you probably can. Many of his songs have been transcribed and broken down in intructional books and DVDs. After going through a "beginning fingerpicking" DVD by Stefan Grossman you are probably ready to take on MJH.
Go for it!
And now for my question:
It's not obvious to me from the Vanguard website whether the boxed set is actually a newer digital remaster than the original digital re-masters from the mid 80s. As far as digital remasters go those ones were a bit of a disaster. When you put the disc into your player you would have to crank the volume on your stereo. As you might expect, the careless lack of attention to levels setting in the remastering process resulted in a mushy sounding guitar. I seem to remember that was also a problem with the vinyl Vanguard LPs, particularly the first one. Hopefully these CDs really are *new* remasters because most CDs re-mastered these days are remastered quite well.
My music management software for encoding MP3s has the capability of looking up CDs in an online database. Whenever I present it with copies of the old mid 1980s vanguard CDs it recognizes them as possibly being from the boxed set, so I hesitate to spring for the "new remasters" without really knowing if they are indeed recently remastered. Perhaps someone else could clear this up.
Combine that with the quality of Bird's playing on these tracks, and you can't beat it. There is such joy, emotion, and straight up fire in his playing it is easy to see how Bird burst on the scene and forever changed jazz (and for that matter American) music.
Having put out the best available set of Hot Fives, Kendall turns his attention to the second most important jazz recordings of all time - the Savoy and Dial sessions of Charlie Parker.
I am totally new to bebop, having cut my teeth on Coltrane and Miles Davis. This box set is like the New Testament of jazz - Charlie Parker and his compatriots had discovered a radically new way of playing jazz, bebop, in a series of low budget recordings that mark the Anno Domini of postwar music.
The centrepiece is the legendary Ko Ko session of November 1945 - with the war over, the ban on recording was lifted, and Parker could reveal his discoveries to the world. Ko Ko itself is possibly one of the three most important jazz cuts of all time (along with West End Blues and Body and Soul) - a dazzling improvisation entirely on chord changes, with no reference to the original melody ("Cherokee", by Paul Whiteman) at all!
JSP has seen fit to include excellent editions of all the Savoy and Dial master takes - that's right, ALL of them (although there has been some discussion over the fact that alternate takes have been substituted in some cases - presumably because Kendall prefers the alternates). The box also constitutes a studio archaeology - because fully two discs of the five contain material from BEFORE the epoch-making Ko Ko session. It includes, too, the notorious "Lover Man" session of 1946, when Parker was strung out, drunk out of his mind, and had to be held up to the mike - a slurred solo of genuine pain, unthinkable from the swing era.
This is the real deal - cheap, well packaged and well transferred - if you are starting out in bebop you cannot do better.
Parker was born Aug. 20, 1920, in Kansas City, Mo., and came to music while in junior high school. In the late '30s he jobbed around the city, honing his technique and tone. He first recorded with the Jay McShann orchestra in between 1940 and 1942. The early 1940 radio transcriptions and the later commercial sessions for Decca show Parker pushing at the edges of the swing parameters with an explosive gift for unexpected phrasing and twists.
His progress over the next two years was striking but largely undocumented, due to a recording ban imposed by the musicians union. By the time he resumed recording in 1944-'45, his dazzling improvisations at breakneck tempos ("Ko Ko," "Donna Lee," "Shaw Nuff") astonished young jazz players as profoundly as they threatened veteran ones, thus setting the new against the old and triggering the first major internecine musical controversy in jazz history.
But the battle deepened into a cultural as well as a musical war as Parker's penchant for hard drugs and hard living further defined bebop as an outlaw music with an implied lifestyle that many chose to follow.
The definitive recordings of Parker's career were made for Savoy between 1945 and '48 ("Now's the Time," "Thriving Of A Riff," "Billie's Bounce"), and for Dial from 1946-'47 ("Ornithology," "A Night In Tunsia," "Lover Man," "Scrapple From The Apple"). They sold poorly but were as profoundly influential to young post war players as Armstrong's Hot Sevens and early big band sides had been to musicians of the '30s. Even during his most innovating period Parker remained something of a mystery figure to the general public. His picture never even appeared on Down Beat's cover during his lifetime.
The third major chapter of Parker's work began in 1948, when Norman Granz began recording him in different contexts with a view toward taking his music to a wider audience. By now his major innovations were over and his repertoire had narrowed to small number of staples. But an album with string accompaniment produced a mother lode of brilliant new Parker solos that would be his last major work. He died in 1955 at the age of 35 of a combination of drug related medical problems.
In 1955, Parker was elected by the Readers to the Down Beat Hall of Fame, just following his death.
The Studio Chronicle 1940-1948 is a five-disc box set from the British label JSP detailing what producer Ted Kendall considers to be THE essential studio recordings of saxophonist Charlie Parker. Included here are not only the innovative bebop sides that made Parker a living legend, but also the early Kansas City swing recordings he appeared on while playing with the Jay McShann Orchestra. The result is a studio history of Parker's development from a struggling farm kid turned musician to the most important figure in jazz history next to Louis Armstrong. Given that these recordings are widely available, the real attraction here is the faithful-to-the-original remastered sound, the historically enlightening liner notes, and the overarching critical aesthetic that these are the Bird cuts to check out. Also, given that the tracks are presented with few repeats on discs in chronological order makes this better listening than Atlantic's Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948. Oddly though, the only place Kendall delineates what labels these tracks were originally released on - mostly Dial and Savoy - is in the track listing and there only by label numbers. Despite this confusing omission, Kendall has produced a superb collection that illuminates more than it overlooks.
This Truly dictionary of jazz in 5 CD's shows that CHARLIE PARKER'S MUSIC is magical music. It is irresistible music. Listen to it once and you will never stop.
His music sometimes begins to flow into your head, suddenly, during daily life. Once this happens, his music will sound in your head for good.
DRIFTING ON A REED...BIRD GETS THE WORM...LESTER LEAPS IN...
You just can't stop it.
Once Upon A Mattress OCR is by far the best out there. Don't get me wrong, the Revival Cast did a wonderful job (soundtrack at least) But There is something about Carol Burnett. She was meant to sing be Fred. But one thing that I didn't like is that "The Minstrel, the Jester & I" wasn't in this recording. But that is really the only problem I had with this.
My fav songs include:
In a Little While (because I sang it)
Yesterday I Loved You (again, I sang it)
Many Moons Ago
Shy
Would I recomend this CD? YES I WOULD!! I would shout it from the rooftops that people should by this CD! It's a funny, quaint little musical that people need to know about. I LOVE IT!
Later during the run of the show a friend of mine joined the chorus and when we talked about the experience, he told me that the joy that was on stage was similar to that felt by the cast and that was apparent on the album. They especially liked working with Ms. Burnett as she was a giving and caring actress.
I recommend this album to anyone who wants to spend some time just feeling good.
BUY THIS!
IT SOUNDS LIKE ENNIO MORRICONE, BUT I ALREADY TRY IT, AND DID NOT WORK.
THANKS, ANTONIO
New, 2003 Studio Album from Julien Clerc. Selection of 13 American Jazz Standards with French Lyrics Written by Maxime Le Forestier, Alain Souchon, Carla Bruni, Benjamin Bioley and Jean-loup Dabadie.
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As Basil Bunting wrote about Ezra Pound's Cantos, "There are the Alps... you will have to go a long way round/if you want to avoid them." Led Zeppelin's work is the central fact of 1970s rock & roll; in its loving homage to and shameless piracy from the blues, its glorious and wretched excess, its transformation of hippie and folk-rock graces into a foundation-shaking kaboom, and its offhanded myth-making, the band turned everything caught in its wake into a reaction to it--or against it. The three non-album tracks the box includes are grace notes rather than lost jewels, but the point of the set is to be a Rosetta stone of album rock, the stairway to a gaudy paradise that they constructed. --Douglas WolkCustomer Reviews:
Your one-stop Zep shop!.......2007-05-01
Glorious that just doesn't cut it, Speechless is more like it........2007-03-07
This box set chronciles the bands starting, up to its monarch like ascent and then to its fall when Bonzo died. All the albums are here in a 10 Box Set. Dazed and Confused, Ramble On, Misty Mountain Hop, Black Dog, Rock n'Roll, Stairway To Heavan, Achille's Last Stand, Candy Shop Rock, Kashmir, and Ozone Baby all those juicy bits are here a song for each mood. Led Zep's influences are easily seen here, garage rock, psychedelia, progressive, Rockabilly, country and of course the greatest influence the Blues. I often wonder if there is in any truth in the myth the band sold their souls to the Dark One because such mind numbing talent is almost beyond the pale of reality. I'm telling you get this set no music lover will be disapponited. Absolutely Awesome. Has 4 bonus tracks never released "Baby Come On Home", "Travelling Riverside Blues", "White Summer/Black Mountain Side", and "Hey Hey What Can I Do?" all songs in the blues vein and take their place besides the other greats. There is also a book of liner notes written by Cameron Crowe that have bits of interviews with the band and info on some of the songs. All in all this is a must have for any Zep head or person who apperciates good music.
Can't Get Any Better Than This.......2007-01-20
My only problem with this set is that my red aussie cattle dog ate the slipcase for Led Zeppelin III and IV and I cannot replace it. So I have a nice set with nice double slipcases and one eaten by my dog. At least she has taste huh? P.S. The cds are still good.
LED ZEPPELIN Collection.......2007-01-10
Worst packaging job ever........2007-01-07
Unfortunately, the packaging for this set is absolutely atrocious. The box itself is pretty cool and even has a little door that slides away into the box (like an old garage door). Inside the box are 6 slots for the photo book/new liner notes and the 5 CD cases. Each CD case is a little hardback book that holds 2 CDs and the recreated liner notes from the original LPs. For example, Led Zeppelin I and Led Zeppelin II are housed in the same hardback book with original liner notes. Unfortunately, if you want to read the liner notes for II, you have to flip the booklet over and start from the back. This is just stupid and the idea should have been shot down at the very beginning as soon as someone realized it would require Presence to come before Physical Graffiti if you wanted to have both discs of PG in the same booklet. The next packaging problem is that the CDs are housed in paper slots inside the booklets. CDs are not meant to be housed in construction paper. It scratches them every time the CDs are removed or replaced. Another stupid thing about this package is that the original cover art is shrunk down to little more than a 2 inch square.
So what we have here is shrunken cover art on booklets that present Led Zeppelin's CDs out-of-order with upside down liner notes and construction paper sleeves that scratch the CDs. This is not exactly the packaging that music of this quality deserves.
The packaging designers for this project should be ashamed of themselves. It might sound silly to harp on about this, but when the boxed set costs as much as this one does, it should be presented in a manner that is attractive, logical, and pays proper tribute to the original LP packaging. And, of course, it should be presented in a way that doesn't scratch up the CDs!
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Novelist Robert Ludlum's amnesia-plagued, tough-as-nails spy/assassin Jason Bourne again proves that success begats sequels, be they literary or cinematic. As he did for the saga's initial big screen installment, composer John Powell concocts an electro-orchestral fusion score that seasons its tense, bristling rhythms with dollops of melodicism, synth-atmospherics and staccato string figures. Those welcome touches hearken back to composer's similar work on the '03 action-thriller The Italian Job, with Powell initially evoking the film's exotic locales by employing a savory synth pop-meets-Eastern European palate. The tension-building rhythms and percussion flourishes familiar from Powell's other action-centric scores are the score's musical pulse -- even if they eventually upset the finely honed balancing act by boiling over into the familiar explosive cliches of all too many thriller scores. --Jerry McCulleyCustomer Reviews:
If you liked the original soundtrack, you will love this one!.......2007-05-31
What can I say...the wonderful musial selections to this great movie are all here...I suggest buying a copy now...if you are a Bourne fan.
One other note of interest...this sound track included Moby's song, "Extreme Ways" this time...an obvious oversight corrected from the last soundtrack
Excellent Listen.......2006-02-15
The soundtrack is mainly a combination of electronic and orchestral themes except for the last song by Moby, "Extreme Ways". Instead of basing the soundtrack on one or two main riffs, the pieces rely on multiple riffs. While in some respect I wished that John Powell could have expanded some of the pieces (like Gao), I was satisfied that there was enough genuinely unique material throughout.
Regarding the song-content on this album, there is mainly orchestral pieces as mentioned earlier. I did some research on-line and found that the song in the chase-scene of the first Bourne series, The Bourne Identity, is by Paul Oakenfold - 'Ready Steady Go'. Also, the club music in the second Bourne series, The Bourne Supremecy, is by Mocean Worker - 'IntoThinAir'. Two great artists that I hardly knew about before the Bourne series.
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- Lady Stardust
- Changes
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Rock N' Roll Suicide
- Suffragette City
- Five Years
- Queen Bitch
- When I Live My Dream
- Quicksand
- Team Zissou
- Untitled Track
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While The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou movie got mixed reviews, the soundtrack was universally hailed as excellent. The standout was Jorge, who not only had a role as an actor but also played a handful of Bowie songs solo with acoustic guitar, singing them in Portuguese it was a perfect combination of beautiful songs laid bare with a bit of exotic Brazilian spice to add fresh flavor. This collection features the whole of that Bowie session, which means Jorge's six songs from the soundtrack, seven other Bowie tunes and one playful Jorge original entitled "Team Zissou." Even though 2005 saw the release of his domestic debut Cru (which mostly featured his own songs and a band), Jorge found himself touring the U.S. in front of large crowds of 20-somethings who patiently waited for those Bowie songs. This album obviously gives the people what they want, and the good news is that the other versions are just as good as the ones that are on the original soundtrack. --Tad HendricksonCustomer Reviews:
Bowie fan.......2007-06-26
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Seu Jorge.......2007-05-12
"Repeat All".......2007-04-17
a little miffed...........2007-03-21
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A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations (1955 & 1981)
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ASIN: B00006FI7C Release Date: 2002-09-03 |
Tracks:
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3. Canon On The Unison
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 4
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 5
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 6. Canon On The Second
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 8
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 9. Canon On The Third
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 10. Fughetta
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 11
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 12. Canon On The Fourth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 14
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 15. Canon On The Fifth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 16. Overture
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 17
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 18. Canon On The Sixth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 19
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 20
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 21. Canon On The Seventh
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 22. Alla Breve
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 23
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 24. Canon On The Octave
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 25
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 26
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 27. Canon On The Ninth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 28
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 29
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30. Quodlibet
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria Da Capo
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- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3. Canon On The Unison
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 4
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 5
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 6. Canon On The Second
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 8
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 9. Canon On The Third
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 10. Fughetta
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 11
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 12. Canon On The Fourth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 14
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 15. Canon On The Fifth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 16. Overture
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 17
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 18. Canon On The Sixth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 19
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 20
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 21. Canon On The Seventh
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 22. Alla Breve
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 23
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 24. Canon On The Octave
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 25
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 26
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 27. Canon On The Ninth
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 28
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 29
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30. Quodlibet
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria Da Capo
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- Glen Gould Discusses His Peformances Of The Goldberg Variations With Time Page, August 22, 1982, Toronto, Canada
- Studio Outtakes From The 1955 Goldberg Variations Recording Session
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Glenn Gould's recording debut in 1955 of Bach's Goldberg Variations took the world by storm. His decidedly un-Romantic view, absolute technical skill, startling lucidity, and right-on rhythmic changes, combined with his eccentricities--audible humming, sometimes outrageously fast tempi--made him an instantly legendary pianist and elucidated Bach's music in a whole new way. Gould's final recording, 26 years later, was also of the Goldbergs. It's a more relaxed, sometimes much slower, more inward reading (although still very much his own, complete with oddly ferocious attacks and accents), in which he offers repeats of the first half of 15 of the Variations. Both performances are glorious, each in its own way, and this luxurious new set of three CDs is entertaining, a joy to hear, and revelatory; it belongs in any music lover's collection. The third CD is devoted to outtakes and chatter from recording sessions. At one point, Gould improvises "God Save the King" and exhibits how it turns into "The Star-Spangled Banner." And a long interview with critic Tim Page offers great insight into Gould's weird humor and unique outlook. A must-have collection. --Robert LevineCustomer Reviews:
Amazing playing but.......2007-07-14
Absolutely maddening.......2007-07-10
"Oddly ferocious attacks".......2007-05-08
One for the ages........2007-02-14
A Life-Affirming Adventure.......2007-01-06
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ASIN: B00005NKKU Release Date: 2001-08-21 |
Tracks:
- You Can Tell The World
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
- Bleecker Street
- Sparrow
- Benedictus
- The Sound Of Silence
- He Was My Brother
- Peggy-O
- Go Tell It On The Mountain
- The Sun Is Burning
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
- Bleecker Street
- He Was My Brother
- The Sun Is Burning
Tracks:
- The Sound Of Silence
- Leaves That Are Green
- Blessed
- Kathy's Song
- Somewhere They Can't Find Me
- Anji
- Richard Cory
- A Most Peculiar Man
- April Come She Will
- We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'
- I Am A Rock
- Blues Run The Game
- Barbriallen
- Rose Of Aberdeen
- Roving Gambler
Tracks:
- Scarborough Fair/Canticle
- Patterns
- Cloudy
- Homeward Bound
- The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
- the 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
- The Dangling Conversation
- Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
- A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into
- For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
- A Poem On The Underground Wall
- 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
- Patterns
- A Poem On The Underground Wall
Tracks:
- Bookends Theme
- Save The Life Of My Child
- America
- Overs
- Voices Of Old People
- Old Friends
- Bookends Theme
- Fakin' It
- Punky's Dilemma
- Mrs. Robinson
- A Hazy Shade Of Winter
- At The Zoo
- You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
- Old Friends
Tracks:
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
- Cecilia
- Keep The Customer Satisfied
- So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Boxer
- Baby Driver
- The Only Living Boy In New York
- Why Don't You Write Me
- Bye Bye Love
- Song For The Asking
- Feuilles-O
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Though the American folk movement of the early '60s would influence bands like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and a score of oh-so-sensitive '70s singer-songwriters, its two most looming successes during the decade--Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel--couldn't have seemed more disparate. While Dylan turned hard-left, outraging many a folk purist by zealously embracing rootsy blues-rock and its electrified cacophony, S&G veered toward the center, equally infuriating snooty pundits by embracing a Top 40 pop sense whose ostensible shallowness often belied its rich musical diversity. In retrospect, Simon and Garfunkel's career as a duo was remarkably brief (five albums in six years), if no less commercially potent (a slew of Top 40 singles, two Number One albums, and the requisite handful of Grammy Awards). This box set compiles digitally remastered versions of the original S&G albums, each expanded to include bonus tracks (mostly previously unissued demos with a few scattered outtakes, the quartet on Sounds of Silence the best of the lot) and a booklet featuring new notes for each album and song lyrics. It's a rewarding journey, wending from the almost slavish folk devotion of Wednesday Morning 3 AM through the greeting-card iconoclasm of Sounds of Silence, the madrigal-pop of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme to the increasingly impressionistic lyrical landscape of Bookends. It also covers the rich musical tapestry of Bridge over Troubled Waters, which foreshadowed Simon's own diverse solo career by embracing everything from the Everlys and Jan & Dean to Andean folk and R&B. --Jerry McCulleyCustomer Reviews:
Essential For Every Fan.......2006-07-09
Simon & Garfunkel.......2006-03-19
These songs are "old friends".......2005-07-02
When I was a teen, back in 1965-66, my buddy and I pulled lyrics, chords, fingerpicking techniques and harmonies off the first three albums. Our first big performance was (needless to say) Sound of Silence as 10th graders.
What's fun is to hear how Paul Simon developed as a songwriter and guitar player through this sequence of albums, including the outtakes and demos.
Now, forty years later, I spend some my weekends hangin' at a local coffeehouse open mic where I hear teens singing, among other songs, some of these classic tunes by S&G.
This is the collection to own. The sound clarity is incredible compared to the vinyl sitting in my garage. And it's still impressive poetry in these lyrics.
Now if I could only locate my 10th grade singing buddy, we could sing these some of these tunes again as "old friends."
An absolute must-own.......2005-04-28
Before, I only had the S&G Greatest Hits and it was my favorite CD. The thing is, that every album they made plays like a greatest hits album. There are only two or three tracks that I skip over in the entire box. That's how high the quality is.
Buying the albums in this box definitely has advantages. The book has a nice summary of each album and complete lyrics. The album sleeves are really cool-looking and it feels like the CDs are brand new material. The box is nice and can almost be used as decoration.
These five CDs are some of my favorites. Simon and Garfunkel were true musical geniuses and every album they made is worthy of being owned.
4.5 stars - An excellent set from the classic folk rockers.......2004-10-22
Simon And Garfunkel, though their partnership was short lived, managed to create some of the most excellent pop songs of the sixties and early seventies. It's a shame they only lasted for five albums, because they could have done so many other great things together (but I guess their solo careers kind of made up for this.) Many compilations and collections of the band's work have been released over the years. In 2001, the band released its second box set, The Columbia Studio Recordings. How does it measure up? Read on for my review.
PROS:
-ALL FIVE OF THE CLASSIC COLUMBIA RECORDS ALBUMS ARE HERE. You get Wednesday Morning 3AM, Sounds Of Silence, Parsley Sage Rosemary And Thyme, Bookends, and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Each one has been remastered and sounds great.
-THE ALBUMS COME IN REPLICA LP CASES! This is great, because the covers and the back covers look identical to their original releases. Why can't all bands do the CD cases in their box set like this? It was an excellent idea.
-BONUS TRACKS ON EVERY ALBUM. There are a plethora of bonus tracks in this set, and many of them are previously unreleased. It's a shame these tracks have been so hard to come by over the years, but I'm happy to see them all together in one place!
-THE BOOKLET IS PRETTY HANDY. The booklet is rather lengthy, and has new liner notes, as well as lyrics to every song. This is a pretty convenient tool to have handy for learning about the band, or for learning the lyrics to their songs.
-FOR THE MOST PART, THIS PUTS THE OLD BOX SET, OLD FRIENDS, TO SHAME. Old Friends was only a three-disc set and lacked liner notes. And this set basically corrects all the flaws that the old set had.
-A GREAT VALUE. For one fairly low price, you get ALL of the duo's albums! This makes this set a great alternative to buying all of the albums separately.
CONS:
-ONLY THE FIVE STUDIO ALBUMS AND A FEW BONUS TRACKS. Because it's a studio recordings box set, the duo's live albums aren't included. This is a shame, because they were a pretty good live act.
-SOME MISSING STUDIO TRACKS. No, nothing's missing from the actual albums. However, there are several tracks that could have been bonuses on here that should have been included. For example, the alternate version of Mrs. Robinson from the Graduate soundtrack.
-WHY FIVE DISCS? The record company could easily have condensed this material onto considerably less discs. This would likely have resulted in a lower price.
OVERALL:
If you want to get all of Simon And Garfunkel's albums, you have a few choices on how to do it, but I think getting them all here is the obvious and best choice. Take my advice and get this set. No classic pop collection is complete without these classic albums.
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The Notebook
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ASIN: B00023B1E4 Release Date: 2004-06-08 |
Tracks:
- Main Title
- Overture
- "I'll Be Seeing You" Performed by Billie Holiday
- "Alabamy Home" Performed by Duke Ellington
- Allie Returns
- House Blues/The Porch Dance/The Proposal/The Carnival
- Noah's Journey
- "Always And Always" Performed by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
- "A String Of Pearls" Performed by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
- On The Lake
- "Diga Diga Doo" Performed by Rex Stewart And The Ellingtonians
- "One O'Clock Jump" Performed by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
- "I'll Be Seeing You" Performed by Jimmy Durante
- Noah's Last Letter
- Our Love Can Do Miracles
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Based on Nicholas Sparks' novel, director Nick Cassavetes film spins the bittersweet tale of a 60-year romance, as seen from the polar perspectives of its promising youth and the travails of an old age cursed by Alzheimer's. Its soundtrack effectively echoes those polar dramatic concerns, with composer Aaron Zigler's gentle orchestral score largely giving voice to the character's melancholy present, while a rich, well-chosen slate of vintage material by Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller imparts a restless energy to their youth. There's a certain schmaltz to much of Zigman's work here, yet cues like "House Blues/The Porch Dance.." and "Noah's Journey" argue he's achieved something more elusive than mere melodramatic wallpaper with the deceivingly difficult task at hand; it can't be easy to have your work seasoned with the likes of Ellington's sassy "Alabamy Home" and Goodman's still-vibrant "One O'Clock Jump." Sharply contrasting versions of "I'll Be Seeing You" by Holiday and Jimmy Durante bookend the soundtrack, perfectly evoking the story's alternating shades of hope and fading nostalgia and framing Zigman's understated work in the bargain. --Jerry McCulleyAlbum Description
Based on the best selling novel by Nicholas Sparks ("A Walk To Remember", "Message In A Bottle"), "The Notebook" is the story of Noah and Allie, teenage lovers torn apart by WWII and Allie's parents' demands to marry a respectable lawyer. After 14 years apart, they meet again and rekindle their true love. Starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, and Gena Rowlands. The soundtrack is a propelling force. In addition to classic WWII era pieces, Aaron Zigman's score suites enhance the record with beautifully dramatic themes. Score performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony.Customer Reviews:
Touching.......2007-07-04
It say's go for the "true love", settle for nothing else no matter what may be in store, because love that is "true" and as beautiful as their's was, is a rare thing!
I absolutely loved the ending.
I also loved that a movie CAN be truly wonderful, beautiful and touching WITHOUT grafic "sex scenes!" Also sadly a rare thing in movies today.
Ever seen "Hanover Street?" Equally beautiful. No SEX scenes either!
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Pays music a complement. I love the classical pieces!.......2007-05-27
the Notebook soundtrack (Audio CD).......2007-05-13
Very Nice.......2007-03-30
A sweeping, emotional standout!.......2007-01-11
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The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt
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ASIN: B00004Z3VB Release Date: 2000-10-31 |
Tracks:
- Pay Day
- I'm Satisfied
- Candy Man
- Make Ma a Pallet On Your Floor
- Talking Casey
- Corrinna, Corrinna
- Coffee Blues
- Louis Collins
- Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight
- If You Don't Want Me Baby
- Spike Driver Blues
- Beulah Land
Tracks:
- Since I've Laid My Burden Down
- Moaning the Blues
- Stocktime (Buck Dance)
- Lazy Blues
- Richland Woman Blues
- Wise And Foolish Virgins (Tender Virgins)
- Hop Joint
- Monday Morning Blues
- I've Got the Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied
- Keep On Knocking
- The Chicken
- Stagolee
- Nearer My God To Thee
Tracks:
- Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home
- Boys You're Welcome
- Joe Turner Blues
- First Shot Missed Him
- Farther Along
- Funky Butt
- Spider, Spider
- Waiting For You
- Shortnin' Bread
- Trouble, I've Had It All My Days
- Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
- Good Morning, Carrie
- Nobody Cares For Me
- All Night Long
- Hey, Honey, Right Away
- You've Got To Die
- Goodnight Irene
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Gentle, graceful, subtle, sweet--these aren't descriptions generally applied to the blues, but they offer a sense of Mississippi John Hurt's uniqueness and enduring legacy. Rediscovered during the 1960s folk boom after last recording in the late 1920s, Hurt cut the three albums compiled here when he was in his early 70s. His conversational phrasing sounds as natural as breathing, while his ragtime-tinged fingerpicking on acoustic guitar reveals more complexity the closer you listen. Beyond blues classics like "Candy Man" (the sly sensualist wasn't referring to lollipops), Hurt's range encompasses everything from folkish narratives ("Talking Casey," "Spike Driver Blues") to Southern spirituals ("Nearer My God to Thee," "Farther Along"). Though Hurt died in 1966, shortly after the last of these sessions, the music still sounds so fresh, you can almost hear the twinkle in his eye. --Don McLeeseCustomer Reviews:
One of the great American musicians.......2007-03-22
Chicken is one amazing song.......2006-11-11
That's how you spell chicken!
This won't be a particularly helpful review because I don't "know" music. All I can say that ever since seeing The Blues Brothers, I have enjoyed listening to blues without knowing much about it. Favorites include Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson... and John Hurt.
He had a great voice. Cool vocals + cool lyrics = really listenable music. I am so greatful to my Yahoo!Music player for introducing me to him. :)
Classic Blues.......2006-02-28
A review and a question.......2005-12-27
The recorded legacy of MJH falls into roughly five categories.
(1) his early 1928 recordings on the OKEH label which comprise around 20 tracks. Although they are quite listenable and of historical interest and importance they are not the most enjoyable of his recordings. (2) recordings from 1963 that are available on the Rounder label. The sound quality of these recordings is somewhat disappointing. For that reason alone I don't listen to them much except for the fact that they were heavily relied upon by people who transcribed his songs for instructional materials. (3) The Library of Congress recordings (also from 1963). These are perhaps the best. The sound quality is excellent and there is an informality to the sessions which makes it like having MJH as a house guest for the weekend determined to play you every song he knows. (4) The (these) Vanguard Recordings, which I think were recorded between 1967 and 1969. These rival and sometimes surpass the Library of Congress Recordings as far as the material goes. There is also a palpable sadness as you can detect a man near the end of his life aware of the fact that he may very well be making his final recordings. The audio engineers did a terrible job at Vanguard for a good deal of these recordings. How can you screw up recording just one guy with a guitar? If you try hard enough you can set the levels WAY off. That is how. (5) there is also a Live MJH CD from Vanguard. It's sound quality is pretty good and it is endearing to hear MJH talk to an audience, but I find it less compelling material wise than the studio recordings.
Listening to MJH makes you want to piick up the guitar and learn to play like him. The good thing about this is that if you really want to you probably can. Many of his songs have been transcribed and broken down in intructional books and DVDs. After going through a "beginning fingerpicking" DVD by Stefan Grossman you are probably ready to take on MJH.
Go for it!
And now for my question:
It's not obvious to me from the Vanguard website whether the boxed set is actually a newer digital remaster than the original digital re-masters from the mid 80s. As far as digital remasters go those ones were a bit of a disaster. When you put the disc into your player you would have to crank the volume on your stereo. As you might expect, the careless lack of attention to levels setting in the remastering process resulted in a mushy sounding guitar. I seem to remember that was also a problem with the vinyl Vanguard LPs, particularly the first one. Hopefully these CDs really are *new* remasters because most CDs re-mastered these days are remastered quite well.
My music management software for encoding MP3s has the capability of looking up CDs in an online database. Whenever I present it with copies of the old mid 1980s vanguard CDs it recognizes them as possibly being from the boxed set, so I hesitate to spring for the "new remasters" without really knowing if they are indeed recently remastered. Perhaps someone else could clear this up.
John Hurt recordings should be a Schedule One drug.......2005-07-08
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Charlie Parker: A Studio Chronicle 1940-1948
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ASIN: B0000AJ5SR Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
Tracks:
- I Found A New Baby
- Body And Soul
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Lady Be Good
- Coquette
- Moten Swing
- Blues
- Swingmatism
- Hootie Blues
- Dexter Blues
- Lonely Boy Blues
- Get Me On Your Mind
- The Jumpin' Blues
- Sepian Bounce
- Cherokee
- My Heart Tells Me
- I've Found A New Baby
- Body And Soul
- Tiny's Tempo
- I'll Always Love You Just The Same
- Romance Without Finance
- Red Cross
- What's The Matter Now?
- I Want Every Bit Of It
- That's The Blues
Tracks:
- 4-F Blues
- G I Blues
- Dream Of You
- Seventh Avenue
- Sorta Kinda
- Ooh Ooh, My My, Ooh Ooh
- Groovin' High
- All The Things You Are
- Dizzy Atmosphere
- Salt Peanuts
- Shaw Nuff
- Lover Man
- Hot House
- Waht More Can A Woman Do?
- I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A Dream
- Mean To Me
- Hallelujah
- Get Happy
- Slam Slam Bues
- Congo Blues
- Takin' Off
- If I Had You
- 20th Century Blues
- The Street Beat
Tracks:
- Warmin Up A Riff
- Billie's Bounce
- Now's The Time
- Thriving From A Riff
- Meandering
- Ko Ko
- Dizzy Boogie
- Flat Foot Floogie
- Poppity Pop
- Slim's Jam
- Diggin' Diz
- Moose The Mooch
- Yardbird Suite
- Ornithology
- The Famous Alto Break
- Night In Tunisia
- Max Is Making Wax
- Lover Man
- The Gypsy
- Bebop
- Blues 1 7 2
- Yardbird Suite
- Lullaby In Rhythm 1&2
- Home Cooking 1
- Home Cooking 2
- Home Cooking 3
Tracks:
- This Is Always
- Dark Shadows
- Bird's Nest
- Cool Blues
- Relaxin' At Camarillo
- Cheers
- Carvin' The Bird
- Stupendous
- Donna Lee
- Chasin' The Bird
- Cheryl
- Buzzy
- Milestones
- Little Willie Leaps
- Half Nelson
- Sippin' At Bells
- Dexterity
- Bongo Bop
- Dewey Square
- The Hymn
- Bird Of Paradise
- Embraceable You
- Bird Feathers
- Klactoveedsedsteene
- Scrapple From The Apple
- My Old Flame
Tracks:
- Out Of Nowhere
- Don't Blame Me
- Drifting On A Reed
- Quasimodo
- Charlie's Wig
- Bongo Beep
- Crazeology
- How Deep Is The Ocean
- The Bird
- Repetition
- Another Hair-Do
- Bluebird
- Klaunstance
- Bird Gets The Worm
- Barbados
- Ah-Leu-Cha
- Constellation
- Parker's Mood
- Perhaps
- Marmaduke
- Steeplechase
- Merry-Go-Round
- No Noise 1 & 2
- Mango Mangue
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best set out there?.......2007-04-13
Tom Pethic.......2007-01-31
Sounds Great.......2005-12-02
Combine that with the quality of Bird's playing on these tracks, and you can't beat it. There is such joy, emotion, and straight up fire in his playing it is easy to see how Bird burst on the scene and forever changed jazz (and for that matter American) music.
Bravo Mr Kendall.......2005-11-20
Having put out the best available set of Hot Fives, Kendall turns his attention to the second most important jazz recordings of all time - the Savoy and Dial sessions of Charlie Parker.
I am totally new to bebop, having cut my teeth on Coltrane and Miles Davis. This box set is like the New Testament of jazz - Charlie Parker and his compatriots had discovered a radically new way of playing jazz, bebop, in a series of low budget recordings that mark the Anno Domini of postwar music.
The centrepiece is the legendary Ko Ko session of November 1945 - with the war over, the ban on recording was lifted, and Parker could reveal his discoveries to the world. Ko Ko itself is possibly one of the three most important jazz cuts of all time (along with West End Blues and Body and Soul) - a dazzling improvisation entirely on chord changes, with no reference to the original melody ("Cherokee", by Paul Whiteman) at all!
JSP has seen fit to include excellent editions of all the Savoy and Dial master takes - that's right, ALL of them (although there has been some discussion over the fact that alternate takes have been substituted in some cases - presumably because Kendall prefers the alternates). The box also constitutes a studio archaeology - because fully two discs of the five contain material from BEFORE the epoch-making Ko Ko session. It includes, too, the notorious "Lover Man" session of 1946, when Parker was strung out, drunk out of his mind, and had to be held up to the mike - a slurred solo of genuine pain, unthinkable from the swing era.
This is the real deal - cheap, well packaged and well transferred - if you are starting out in bebop you cannot do better.
Charlie Parker: The Dictionary of Jazz.......2005-09-11
Parker was born Aug. 20, 1920, in Kansas City, Mo., and came to music while in junior high school. In the late '30s he jobbed around the city, honing his technique and tone. He first recorded with the Jay McShann orchestra in between 1940 and 1942. The early 1940 radio transcriptions and the later commercial sessions for Decca show Parker pushing at the edges of the swing parameters with an explosive gift for unexpected phrasing and twists.
His progress over the next two years was striking but largely undocumented, due to a recording ban imposed by the musicians union. By the time he resumed recording in 1944-'45, his dazzling improvisations at breakneck tempos ("Ko Ko," "Donna Lee," "Shaw Nuff") astonished young jazz players as profoundly as they threatened veteran ones, thus setting the new against the old and triggering the first major internecine musical controversy in jazz history.
But the battle deepened into a cultural as well as a musical war as Parker's penchant for hard drugs and hard living further defined bebop as an outlaw music with an implied lifestyle that many chose to follow.
The definitive recordings of Parker's career were made for Savoy between 1945 and '48 ("Now's the Time," "Thriving Of A Riff," "Billie's Bounce"), and for Dial from 1946-'47 ("Ornithology," "A Night In Tunsia," "Lover Man," "Scrapple From The Apple"). They sold poorly but were as profoundly influential to young post war players as Armstrong's Hot Sevens and early big band sides had been to musicians of the '30s. Even during his most innovating period Parker remained something of a mystery figure to the general public. His picture never even appeared on Down Beat's cover during his lifetime.
The third major chapter of Parker's work began in 1948, when Norman Granz began recording him in different contexts with a view toward taking his music to a wider audience. By now his major innovations were over and his repertoire had narrowed to small number of staples. But an album with string accompaniment produced a mother lode of brilliant new Parker solos that would be his last major work. He died in 1955 at the age of 35 of a combination of drug related medical problems.
In 1955, Parker was elected by the Readers to the Down Beat Hall of Fame, just following his death.
The Studio Chronicle 1940-1948 is a five-disc box set from the British label JSP detailing what producer Ted Kendall considers to be THE essential studio recordings of saxophonist Charlie Parker. Included here are not only the innovative bebop sides that made Parker a living legend, but also the early Kansas City swing recordings he appeared on while playing with the Jay McShann Orchestra. The result is a studio history of Parker's development from a struggling farm kid turned musician to the most important figure in jazz history next to Louis Armstrong. Given that these recordings are widely available, the real attraction here is the faithful-to-the-original remastered sound, the historically enlightening liner notes, and the overarching critical aesthetic that these are the Bird cuts to check out. Also, given that the tracks are presented with few repeats on discs in chronological order makes this better listening than Atlantic's Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948. Oddly though, the only place Kendall delineates what labels these tracks were originally released on - mostly Dial and Savoy - is in the track listing and there only by label numbers. Despite this confusing omission, Kendall has produced a superb collection that illuminates more than it overlooks.
This Truly dictionary of jazz in 5 CD's shows that CHARLIE PARKER'S MUSIC is magical music. It is irresistible music. Listen to it once and you will never stop.
His music sometimes begins to flow into your head, suddenly, during daily life. Once this happens, his music will sound in your head for good.
DRIFTING ON A REED...BIRD GETS THE WORM...LESTER LEAPS IN...
You just can't stop it.
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Once Upon A Mattress (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
Marshall Barer Manufacturer: Decca U.S. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000002ONH Release Date: 1993-04-13 |
Tracks:
- Overture - Orchestra
- Many Moons Ago - Harry Snow
- An Opening For A Princess - Joe Bova and Ensemble
- In A Little While - Allen Case, Anne Jones
- Shy - Carol Burnett, Joe Bova And Ensemble
- Sensitivity - Jane White, Robert Weil
- The Swamps Of Home - Carol Burnett, Joe Bova And Ensemble
- Normandy - Harry Snow, Matt Mattox, Anne Jones
- Spanish Panic - Jane White
- Song Of Love - Carol Burnett, Joe Bova And Ensemble
- Quiet - Jane White And Ensemble
- Studio Dialogue - Carol Burnett
- Happily Ever After - Carol Burnett
- Man To Man Talk - Matt Mattox, Joe Bova
- Very Soft Shoes - Matt Mattox And Ensemble
- Yesterday I Loved You - Allen Case, Anne Jones
- Nightingale Lullaby - Ginny Perlowin
- Finale - Joe Bova, Matt Mattox, Jack Gilford And Ensemble
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Based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress opened in May 1959 and was a solid success, if not a huge blockbuster. It did well enough, in any case, to warrant a 1997 revival starring Sarah Jessica Parker. The show was far from revolutionary, but it provided a really fun vehicle for a cast of top stage personalities, including black actress Jane White, who played Queen Aggravain (a part originally written for comedienne Nancy Walker) in whiteface. But of course, Once Upon a Mattress's heart and soul was Carol Burnett, who, in her Broadway debut created the part of Princess Winnifred and delivered two of Mary Rodgers's best songs, the hilarious "Shy" and the spunky "Happily Ever After," which sounds a bit like Jule Styne at his most rhythmic. Burnett's timing and performance remain as sharp as they were 40 years ago. --Elisabeth VincentelliCustomer Reviews:
"Mattress" CD was excellent.......2007-01-09
an oldie but a goodie.......2006-03-15
Nothing like the original -- .......2006-01-30
Awesome.......2006-01-22
Once Upon A Mattress OCR is by far the best out there. Don't get me wrong, the Revival Cast did a wonderful job (soundtrack at least) But There is something about Carol Burnett. She was meant to sing be Fred. But one thing that I didn't like is that "The Minstrel, the Jester & I" wasn't in this recording. But that is really the only problem I had with this.
My fav songs include:
In a Little While (because I sang it)
Yesterday I Loved You (again, I sang it)
Many Moons Ago
Shy
Would I recomend this CD? YES I WOULD!! I would shout it from the rooftops that people should by this CD! It's a funny, quaint little musical that people need to know about. I LOVE IT!
I saw the original on Broadway.......2005-12-19
Later during the run of the show a friend of mine joined the chorus and when we talked about the experience, he told me that the joy that was on stage was similar to that felt by the cast and that was apparent on the album. They especially liked working with Ms. Burnett as she was a giving and caring actress.
I recommend this album to anyone who wants to spend some time just feeling good.
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Lady in the Water
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ASIN: B000GDH8O2 Release Date: 2006-07-18 |
Tracks:
- Prologue
- The Party
- Charades
- Ripples In The Pool
- The Blue World
- Giving The Kii
- Walkie Talkie
- Cereal Boxes
- Officer Jimbo
- The Healing
- The Great Eatlon
- End Titles
- The Times They Are A-Changin' - A Whisper In The Noise
- Every Grain Of Sand - Amanda Ghost
- It Ain't Me Babe - Silvertide
- Maggie's Farm - Silvertide
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For his fifth collaboration--and following the Oscar-nominated score for The Village--with director M. Night Shyamalan, James Newton Howard has delivered rather good work. Considering the supernatural tone of the movie, some of the composer's touches are predictable (a glockenspiel offering eerie punctuations, a huge choir suggestively going "oooh" and "aaah"), but he also demonstrates a sure sense of melody. Listen, for instance, to the various threads making up "Prologue." Despite the size of the orchestra at his disposal, Newton Howard always opts for subtle touches rather than wham-bam scary-movie effects. The most stereotypically actiony cue is "The Great Eatlon," but it's done as well as can be: it remains ominously restrained for quite a while, until the choir comes in to deliver an elegiac passage and the track switches to grandiose pomp. Tacked at the end of the CD are four Bob Dylan covers, including a gothic take on "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by A Whisper in the Noise, and Silvertide's rocking "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Maggie's Farm." --Elisabeth VincentelliCustomer Reviews:
Another great film score from James Newton Howard.......2007-01-29
Oh... Wow........2007-01-03
BUY THIS!
Recommended Lady in the Water Music CD.......2006-11-03
Help.......2006-10-23
IT SOUNDS LIKE ENNIO MORRICONE, BUT I ALREADY TRY IT, AND DID NOT WORK.
THANKS, ANTONIO
Simply brilliant!.......2006-10-18
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- Sur le Bout de la Langue [Import]
- Sya
- Taking It Home
- Tanz
- Tekit Izi [Import]
- The Best Collection II [Import]
- The Boston Edge
- Tony Esposito - Greatest Hits [Import]
- Tulear Never Sleeps
- Vancouver [Import]
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Dr. Zoom's Lone Star Good Time Band
Drums of the Earth V.1 [Import]
Complete 1953 Studio Masters [Import]