Classic Jazz : Encyclopedia of Jazz [100 CD, 2008] CD 91-100

 

CD 91: Louis Armstrong And The Blues Singers (1924-25)

CD 92: Louis Armstrong And The Blues Singers (1925-26)

CD 93: Louis Armstrong And The Blues Singers (1926-27)

CD 94: Johnny Dodds (1927)

CD 95: Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman (1931-33)

CD 96: Louis Armstrong (1929)

CD 97: Louis Armstrong (1930)

CD 98: Louis Armstrong (1931)

CD 99: Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer (1928-29)

CD 100: Bix Beiderbecke (1930 Plus) 

VA - Chess Blues Guitar: Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969 (2 CD, 1998/FLAC)

 

Chess Records was the home to seemingly every hot guitar player in the Chicago area, and many of them make their appearance here. Besides the usual label guitar hotshots (Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Lowell Fulson, Earl Hooker, Otis Rush, Robert Nighthawk, Little Milton), space is given to sideman work from legends like Hubert Sumlin and Robert Jr. Lockwood and great one-offs by lesser-known artists like Jody Williams, Danny Overbea, Eddie Burns, Joe Hill Louis, Morris Pejoe, Lafayette Thomas and others. It seems as if everyone recorded for Chess at one time or another, also explaining the inclusion of tracks by John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Lonnie Brooks, Hound Dog Taylor and Elmore James. If electric blues guitar's your thing, then look no further than this fine two-disc compilation. 

VA - Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International [4 CD, 2012/FLAC]

 

Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is a charity compilation album featuring new recordings of compositions by Bob Dylan by multiple artists, released on January 24, 2012. Proceeds from the album will be donated to the human rights organization Amnesty International.

Chimes of Freedom features a stellar and diverse group of artists across the generational and musical spectrum. The performers, including many of Amnesty International's longtime supporters, range in age from Miley Cyrus, 19, to folk music legend Pete Seeger, who, at 92, records Dylan's poignant "Forever Young," with a children's chorus.

The diversity of the musicians and musical genres - from rock, rap, hip-hop to pop, folk, country, jazz and blues - attests to Amnesty's depth of support in the music community, the universal appeal of the core message of human rights, and the breadth of Dylan's impact on culture. Almost every track on the album is being released for sale for the first time - except for the title song, Dylan's original 1964 recording of "Chimes of Freedom."

Elvis Presley - The Complete U.S. EP Collection 1955-1962 (4 CD, 2019/FLAC)

 

Every track from Elvis' US EPs from 1955 to 1962, including "Baby Let's Play House" from the C & W Jukebox Promotion Kit, and the "Elvis Sails" press interviews.

Black Sabbath - Vol.4 (4 CD Super deluxe, 2021/FLAC)

 

Black Sabbath unleashed the group’s fourth album in two years in 1972 with Vol 4. Stacked with classic tracks like “Supernaut,” “Changes,” and “Snowblind,” the record harnessed the group’s surging popularity to reach the Top 10 on the Albums Chart in the U.K. and the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., on its path to being certified platinum by the RIAA.

Bolstered by a fresh remastering, Vol 4’s ambitious arrangements and complex grooves have never sounded more inspired and menacing. Originally released in September 1972, the album marked two major changes for the members of Sabbath: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward. While their previous albums – Black Sabbath, Paranoid, and Master of Reality – were produced by Rodger Bain and recorded in England, they instead chose to produce Vol 4 themselves and record it at the Record Plant in Los Angeles

Ozzy Osbourne, vocals
Tony Iommi, guitars, piano, mellotron
Geezer Butler, bass, mellotron
Bill Ward, drums, percussion