VA - AUDIO’s Audiophile (24 CD, 1993 - 2005) Vol. 01-05 (FLAC)

 

German series with audiophile recordings (24 Karat gold).                             

Vol 1 - Voices And Instruments

Vol 2 - Bass Power

Vol 3 - Blow Up

Vol 4 - Vocal Heroes

Vol 5 - Ebony And Ivory

B.B. King - Ladies and Gentleman... Mr. B.B. King [10 CD, 2012]

 

B.B. King is one of America's few, long-standing musical treasures whose stature has grown to an unassailable, international level.  His warm, down-home vocal style, his distinctive, talking blues guitar playing, and his songs that sing of love's joys and hardships Sweet Sixteen, How Blue Can You Get?, Help The Poor, The Thrill Is Gone and countless others are all indelibly imprinted elements in the modern musical heritage. Celebrating his 50th Anniversary signing to ABC-Paramount Records in 1962 we bring you this multi-format career retrospective. Leading the way with a slick 10 CD, 194 track collection chronicling his entire career from his first recordings in 1949 through to his most recent studio album.

Luther Allison discography [1969-2009]

  

Luther Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago in 1951. He taught himself guitar and began listening to blues extensively. Three years later he began hanging outside blues nightclubs with the hopes of being invited to perform. He played with Howlin' Wolf's band and backed James Cotton.

Chicago - Chicago: VI Decades Live (This Is What We Do) [4 CD, 2018/Hi-Res FLAC]

 

Chicago has been a concert force for more than 50 years, thrilling its legion of fans with performances that never disappoint. This spring, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will celebrate their live legacy with a collection of previously unreleased concert recordings, which includes several deep cuts that have never appeared on any of the band’s live albums.

Ray Charles - Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) [7 CD, 2005/FLAC]

 

Ray Charles' seminal recordings for Atlantic have been boxed once before, as the triple-disc 1991 set The Birth of Soul. That box contained 53 tracks, the best moments of what is arguably the best period of Charles' career, but Rhino/Atlantic's 2005 seven-disc sequel, Pure Genius, doesn't bother with merely the highlights: as its subtitle makes clear, this is The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959).

 This is undeniably a major historical release, since it gathers all of the recordings Charles made at his creative peak, not just as a leader, but as a sideman for his saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman and sides he recorded with jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson. Also, it's not limited to studio recordings -- live sessions, later issued on the LPs Ray Charles in Person and Ray Charles at Newport, are here too.