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The Birth Of Soul : The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959
: essential recording:Though this is not the most recent Ray Charles box set collection, it may be the best. That's because it focuses on Ray's great growth in the 1950s, particularly his days with Atlantic Records. The set opens with Ray still in a Charles Brown, smooth-voice, mellow-piano mode, but in short order, he discovers his own identity. From the good time of 'It Should Have Been Me' on disc one, though the orgiastic 'What'd I Say, Parts 1 & 2' on disc three, the man they call 'The Genius' rocks, ...
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Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five
: :Think five discs and 131 songs is too much Louis Jordan? Not a chance. Not for a man who so consistently and so definitively achieved the elusive and delicate combination of musicianship and accessibility. Not for a man who paved new and vital musical roads without ever losing his sense of style or his appetite for fun. Covering Jordan's historic (not to mention commercially successful) Decca tenure (1938 to 1950), this amazing collection finds the alto sax player, songwriter, and singer building blues and swing into a hot mix that came ...
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Hooker
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: HOOKER,JOHN LEETitle: HOOKERStreet Release Date: 10/31/2006DomesticGenre: BLUES TRADITIONAL :There's perfect symmetry in the way this four-disc anthology opens with a raw, solo acoustic 1948 rendition of John Lee Hooker's signature tune, 'Boogie Chillen',' and then closes a half-century later with Eric Clapton teaming with Hooker on the same tune. Though the Mississippi bluesman who relocated to Detroit has been justly celebrated for his spellbinding repetitions and primal incantations, this comprehensive set shows just how much more range and depth there was to ...
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Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
from: Sony
:Album Description:Seventy-eight guitar classics are put together in 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR, a remarkable 4-CD anthology that yields the absolutely definitive jazz guitar collection ever assembled. The set spans the years 1906 to 2001, from the ragtime banjo of Vess Ossman (originally recorded on an Edison cylinder) to the diaphonous chords of Bill Frisell. In between, virtually every major figure of the jazz guitar weighs in, from Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian to Les Paul, Tal Farlow, and Wes Montgomery, and right up to Jim Hall, Grant Green, ...
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The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson
: :Rice Miller, 'Sonny Boy II', began his association with Chess Records in 1955, when he was already at least 45 years old. His exuberant yet dynamic and intricate playing brought the harmonica from the Delta to Chicago, influencing every harp blower since. He developed his rough and wild, hard-swinging, juke-joint style during extensive travels throughout the South. These 45 potent Chess recordings are more refined and urbanized than his earlier Trumpet work, but still capture the excitement of those early sides. Included are remakes of Trumpet classics such as 'Eyesight to ...
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Led Zeppelin Box Set, Vol. 2
: :Rice Miller, 'Sonny Boy II', began his association with Chess Records in 1955, when he was already at least 45 years old. His exuberant yet dynamic and intricate playing brought the harmonica from the Delta to Chicago, influencing every harp blower since. He developed his rough and wild, hard-swinging, juke-joint style during extensive travels throughout the South. These 45 potent Chess recordings are more refined and urbanized than his earlier Trumpet work, but still capture the excitement of those early sides. Included are remakes of Trumpet classics such as 'Eyesight to ...
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The Classic Years 1927-1940
: :Rice Miller, 'Sonny Boy II', began his association with Chess Records in 1955, when he was already at least 45 years old. His exuberant yet dynamic and intricate playing brought the harmonica from the Delta to Chicago, influencing every harp blower since. He developed his rough and wild, hard-swinging, juke-joint style during extensive travels throughout the South. These 45 potent Chess recordings are more refined and urbanized than his earlier Trumpet work, but still capture the excitement of those early sides. Included are remakes of Trumpet classics such as 'Eyesight to ...
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The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: HOPKINS,LIGHTNIN'Title: COMPLETE PRESTIGE/BLUESVILLE RStreet Release Date: 10/17/1991DomesticGenre: BLUES TRADITIONAL essential recording:Lightnin' Hopkins, the seminal Texas bluesman, was rediscovered in the 1960s when the folk revival made folk and country-blues musicians hot news. This seven-CD set includes much of Hopkins's work during that period, though he recorded for so many different labels that getting everything is well-nigh impossible. This is a good start, though, including as it does some concert recordings in addition to studio reissues and interviews. Hopkins's mastery of mood ...
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The Collection
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: HOPKINS,LIGHTNIN'Title: COMPLETE PRESTIGE/BLUESVILLE RStreet Release Date: 10/17/1991DomesticGenre: BLUES TRADITIONAL essential recording:Lightnin' Hopkins, the seminal Texas bluesman, was rediscovered in the 1960s when the folk revival made folk and country-blues musicians hot news. This seven-CD set includes much of Hopkins's work during that period, though he recorded for so many different labels that getting everything is well-nigh impossible. This is a good start, though, including as it does some concert recordings in addition to studio reissues and interviews. Hopkins's mastery of mood ...
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All the Published Sides
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: HOPKINS,LIGHTNIN'Title: COMPLETE PRESTIGE/BLUESVILLE RStreet Release Date: 10/17/1991DomesticGenre: BLUES TRADITIONAL essential recording:Lightnin' Hopkins, the seminal Texas bluesman, was rediscovered in the 1960s when the folk revival made folk and country-blues musicians hot news. This seven-CD set includes much of Hopkins's work during that period, though he recorded for so many different labels that getting everything is well-nigh impossible. This is a good start, though, including as it does some concert recordings in addition to studio reissues and interviews. Hopkins's mastery of mood ...
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