Philip Glass- Glass Box : A Nonesuch Retrospective (10 CD, 2008)

  

Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is considered one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century. His music is also often controversially described as minimal music, along with the work of the other "major minimalists" La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich.

Glass has distanced himself from the "minimalist" label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures". Though his early mature music shares much with what is normally called "minimalist", he has since evolved stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a "classicist", pointing out that he is trained in harmony and counterpoint and studied such composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Nadia Boulanger.

Glass is a prolific composer: he has written works for the musical group which he founded, the Philip Glass Ensemble (with which he still performs on keyboards), as well as operas, musical theatre works, ten symphonies, eleven concertos, solo works, chamber music including string quartets and instrumental sonatas, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.

VA- Pioneers Of The Electric Guitar (3 CD, 2013)

 

If you're looking for a collection of how the electric guitar changed a number of music genres, this is it. This collection does a good job across the entire gamut of the electric guitar, and how it was used in several genres. Included are good/great examples of blues, r&b, jazz, r'n'r, and even a little c&w. The digitally remastered sound is very good overall. The jump from genre to genre can be a bit jarring at times, but marveling at how the electric guitar can so easily fit into so many types of music makes the genre a non-issue. A good example is Disc 2. From "Maybelline" (Chuck Berry), to "Hide Away" (Freddie King), to "Have Guitar-Will Travel" (Scotty Moore Trio), to "West Coast Blues" (Wes Montgomery), to "Out Of Limits" (The Marketts), to "Taking Off" (Milton Brown And His Musical Brownies), To "Miss Ann's Tempo" (Grant Green), to "Guitar Bustin'" (Arthur Smith), to "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt), the scope of this collection is very wide.


CD 1

1. Dick Dale - Misirlou (2:16)
2. B.B. King - Three O'clock Blues (3:02)
3. Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble (2:17)
4. Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Space Guitar (2:39)
5. Lightnin' Slim - Lightnin' Blues (2:58)
6. Charlie Christian - Waiting For Benny (5:06)
7. Mickey Hawks & The Night Raiders - Cotton Pickin' (1:35)
8. Dale Hawkins - Susie Q (2:14)
9. Elmore James - Dust My Broom (2:44)
10. Jimmy Raney - On The Rocks (4:54)
11. Bill Justis - Raunchy (2:19)
12. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar (2:46)
13. Leon McAuliffe - Blue Guitar Stomp (2:59)
14. The Ramrods - Ghost Riders In The Sky (2:36)
15. Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk (2:22)
16. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Bye Bye Blues (2:03)
17. Bert Weedon - Big Beat Boogie (1:56)
18. The Ventures - Walk Don't Run (2:04)
19. Guitar Slim - The Story Of My Life (3:01)
20. Schet Atkins - Mister Sandman (2:17)
21. The Virtues - Guitar Boogie Shuffle (2:25)
22. The John Barry Seven - The James Bond Theme (1:59)
23. Eddie Burns - Treat Me Like I Treat You (2:24)
24. Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful (2:44)
25. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over (2:22)

CD 2

1. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (2:42)
2. Freddie King - Hide Away (2:37)
3. Scotty Moore Trio - Have Guitar Will Travel (2:01)
4. Wes Montgomery - West Coast Blues (7:23)
5. The Marketts - Out Of Limits (2:07)
6. Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies - Taking Off (Instrumental) (2:51)
7. Grant Green - Miss Ann's Tempo (5:40)
8. Arthur Smith - Guitar Bustin' (2:25)
9. Django Reinhardt - Nuages (3:17)
10. Bobby Gregg & His Friends - Potato Peeler (2:35)
11. Lowell Fulsom - Guitar Shuffle (2:47)
12. Herb Ellis - Ellis In Wonderland (3:51)
13. Albert Collins - Freeze (2:21)
14. The Fireballs - Foot Patter (2:06)
15. Albert King - Travellin' To California (3:02)
16. Kenny Burrell - This Time The Dream's On Me (4:58)
17. The Hunters - Teen Scene (2:04)
18. Bo Diddley - Mumblin' Guitar (2:50)
19. Roy Clark - Chicken Wire (2:15)
20. Mickey Baker - Lullaby Of The Leaves (4:13)
21. Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby (2:56)
22. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Okie Dokie Stomp (2:32)
23. Barney Kessel - Jordu (3:29)
24. Duane Eddy - Shazam! (2:01)
25. John Lee Hooker - Boggie Chillun (2:37)

CD 3

1. Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
2. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Old Joe Clark (2:21)
3. Johnny & The Hurricanes - Sand Storm (2:18)
4. Joe Maphis And Larry Collins - Flying Fingers (2:41)
5. The Oscar Moore Quartet - Blues In B Flat (2:27)
6. Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours (2:35)
7. Magic Sam - All Your Love (2:54)
8. Carl Perkins - Her Love Rubbed Off (2:53)
9. The Rockin' R's - The Beat (2:50)
10. T-Bone Walker - Strollin' With Bones (2:29)
11. Dick Hyman, Mundell Lowe & Trigger Alpert - Yes Sir, That's My Baby! (2:39)
12. Eddie Kirkland - I Need You, Baby (2:42)
13. George Barnes - Liza (And The Clouds'll Roll Away) (2:23)
14. Jimmy Reed - Jimmy's Rock (2:02)
15. George Van Eps - Have You Met Miss Jones (2:18)
16. The Shadows - Apache (2:55)
17. Johnny Otis - Boogie Guitar (2:36)
18. Buddy Guy - Skippin' (3:24)
19. Tal Farlow - Yardbirds Suite (5:16)
20. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (2:56)
21. Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark (2:28)
22. Arthur 'Big Boy' Cradup - Gonna Find My Baby (2:58)
23. Tampa Red - Sweet Little Angel (2:58)
24. Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:07)
25. Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin' (2:23)

Frank Zappa - Halloween 77- Live at the Palladium, NYC [6 CD, 2017]

 

In October of 1977, Frank Zappa played six shows across four nights at the Palladium in New York. The entire residency, which was chronicled in the concert film Baby Snakes released on Oct. 20 as Halloween 77, in a box set that includes a Frank Zappa costume. The 158 tracks, which were re-mixed last year from the original masterse housed in a USB flash drive shaped like a "Zappa's Oh Punky!" candy bar in 24-bit WAV format.

“This box set was a very special experience for me to work on,” said Ahmet Zappa in a press release. “I wanted to make sure we honored these legendary shows, so it was important to me that this box set felt of the era. It was a blast working with our partners to create the late ‘70s-inspired Frank Zappa mask and costume and the candy-shaped USB stick filled with tons of Zappa goodness. It was yet again a labor of love gathering up all the archival materials, reading notes by people who were there, and most importantly making sure the audio was up to par. All of us at Zappa Records are mighty pleased with it, and hope that fans of Frank Zappa and of Halloween will be too.”

Leonard Cohen - The Complete Studio Albums Collection [11 CD, 2007]

Leonard Cohen's all 11 albums in one box, all of which have been
remastered except for the ones that were recently remastered in 2007.

• Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
• Songs From a Room (1969)
• Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
• New Skin For The Old Ceremony (1974)
• Death of a Ladies Man (1977)
• Recent Songs (1979)
• Various Positions (1985)
• I’m Your Man (1988)
• The Future (1992)
• Ten New Songs (2001)
• Dear Heather (2004)

Bukka White - 1968 Memphis Festival & Horizons Sessions [2 CD, 2006]

 This two CD set featuring Bukka's 1968 performance at the Memphis Country Blues Festival on Disc One and his complete Blue Horizon studio sessions on Disc Two. Although Bukka's career as a blues artist began in the '30s, his huge influence on Blues was not properly acknowledged until nearly 30 years later when Bob Dylan recorded his version of Bukka's 'Fixin' to Die Blues'. Only then, did people stand up and take notice of the amazing talents of this Mississippi bluesman. These recordings show an artist still gifted with the talents that made him one of the finest around. 23 tracks in all including 'Highway '61', 'Drifting Blues', 'Old Man Tom', 'You Don't Know My Mind', 'Got Sick And Tired' and more. Blue Horizon. 2006.

Disc 1

1 Highway '61 (Live)

2 Kid Gal Blues (Live)

3 Hello Central Give Me 49 (Live)

4 Baby Please Don't Go (Live)

5 Furry's Blues (Live)

6 In Heaven Sitting Down (Live)

7 What Do You Think About Jesus (Live)

8 You Don't Know My Mind (Live)

9 Great Long Ways from Home (Live)

10 My Mother Died (Live)

Disc 2

11 Bed Spring Blues

12 Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

13 Drifting Blues

14 Brand New Decoration Blues

15 Baby Please Don't Go

16 Give Me An Old Old Lady

17 Got Sick ; Tired

18 World Boogie

19 School Learning

20 Old Man Tom

21 Gibson Town

22 Drifting Blues

23 Old Man Tom (Complete Version)