|
|
|
The Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 (1924-1925)
|
|
|
The Sugar Hill Records Story { Various Artists }
from: Rhino / Wea
: :Easily the two most overused words in music criticism are essential and classic. That said, this five-CD box set is all that and a bag of chips to boot. Back in the late 1970s, the small Sugar Hill Records label changed the nature of the rap genre with the music, made with a live band, that they released--and the beats still sound on point today. This box set features tracks from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Sequence, the Sugarhill Gang, the Funky 4 + 1, and the Treacherous 3 (to ...
|
|
|
Lead Belly's Last Sessions
: essential recording:Leadbelly's Last Sessions is a remarkable document. Recorded over the course of three nights in 1948, approximately one year before his death, Sessions constitutes the only commercial recordings of Leadbelly ever made on magnetic tape. The sound here is still primitive by most standards, but it's a vast improvement over the quality of his earlier sides. On this four-disc collection, Huddie Ledbetter sets down as much of his repertoire as he could, from field hollers, blues, and country & western songs to children's tunes, ballads, autobiographical pieces, and popular ...
|
|
|
The Sun Records Story
:Album Description:The Sun Records Story documents in words, music and pictures the fascinating story of the meteoric rise of a small independent Memphis records label from its roots in blues and country to ground-breaking rock 'n' roll recordings. Major artists whose caree
|
|
|
The Illinois Jacquet Story
:Album Description:Jacquet was the tenor saxophonist who informed the world that something new in tenor sax stylings had been forged with his famous solo on Lionel Hampton's 'Flying Home' in 1942. The master of the Texas tenor style proves his versatility & command of the horn in this four CD set that ranges from stomping swingers to romantic ballads & hown-home blues performances. Among the supporting cast on this essential 79 track set are, Charles Mingus, Sir Charles Thompson, Johnny Otis, Shadow Wilson, Bill Doggett & Art Blakey. Includes 40 page ...
|
|
|
1946 to 1953
:Album Description:Jacquet was the tenor saxophonist who informed the world that something new in tenor sax stylings had been forged with his famous solo on Lionel Hampton's 'Flying Home' in 1942. The master of the Texas tenor style proves his versatility & command of the horn in this four CD set that ranges from stomping swingers to romantic ballads & hown-home blues performances. Among the supporting cast on this essential 79 track set are, Charles Mingus, Sir Charles Thompson, Johnny Otis, Shadow Wilson, Bill Doggett & Art Blakey. Includes 40 page ...
|
|
|
The Chess Box
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :He's celebrated for the syncopated beat bearing his name that has spanned rock & roll's entire history. Unfortunately, his namesake also gets him mislabeled as a one-trick pony. This two-disc set does much to remedy the situation, tracking 1955 through 1968 and featuring all the hits. However, The Chess Box also displays Diddley's rock and blues versatility, from the reggae-ish (before there was reggae) 'Crackin' Up' and the Who's onstage hard-rock anthem 'Roadrunner' to ...
|
|
|
The Specialty Story
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :He's celebrated for the syncopated beat bearing his name that has spanned rock & roll's entire history. Unfortunately, his namesake also gets him mislabeled as a one-trick pony. This two-disc set does much to remedy the situation, tracking 1955 through 1968 and featuring all the hits. However, The Chess Box also displays Diddley's rock and blues versatility, from the reggae-ish (before there was reggae) 'Crackin' Up' and the Who's onstage hard-rock anthem 'Roadrunner' to ...
|
|
|
The Complete Imperial Recordings
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :He's celebrated for the syncopated beat bearing his name that has spanned rock & roll's entire history. Unfortunately, his namesake also gets him mislabeled as a one-trick pony. This two-disc set does much to remedy the situation, tracking 1955 through 1968 and featuring all the hits. However, The Chess Box also displays Diddley's rock and blues versatility, from the reggae-ish (before there was reggae) 'Crackin' Up' and the Who's onstage hard-rock anthem 'Roadrunner' to ...
|
|
|
Texas Flood/Couldn't Stand the Weather/Soul to Soul
:Album Description:Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. :He's celebrated for the syncopated beat bearing his name that has spanned rock & roll's entire history. Unfortunately, his namesake also gets him mislabeled as a one-trick pony. This two-disc set does much to remedy the situation, tracking 1955 through 1968 and featuring all the hits. However, The Chess Box also displays Diddley's rock and blues versatility, from the reggae-ish (before there was reggae) 'Crackin' Up' and the Who's onstage hard-rock anthem 'Roadrunner' to ...
|
|