Average White Band - The Complete Studio Recordings 1971-2003 (19 CD, 2014)

The Average White Band (also known as AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track "Pick Up the Pieces", and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. The band name was initially proposed by Bonnie Bramlett. They have influenced others, such as the Brand New Heavies, and been sampled by various musicians, including the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, TLC, The Beatnuts, Too Short, Ice Cube, Eric B. & Rakim, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Christina Milian, and Arrested Development, making them the 15th most sampled act in history. As of 2020, 48 years after their formation, they continue to perform.  

1973 - Show Your Hand (00:42:22)

2003 - How Sweet Can You Get? (aka 'The Clover Sessions' - 1973) (00:39:52)

1974 - AWB (00:39:58)

1975 - Put It Where You Want It (00:40:35)

1975 - Cut The Cake (00:42:38)

1976 - Soul Searching (00:46:14)

1976 - Person To Person 2CD (01:26:56)

1977 - Benny And Us / Average White Band & Ben E. King (00:41:47)

1978 - Warmer Communications (00:43:40)

1979 - Feel No Fret (00:37:38)

1980 - Shine (00:38:32)

1980 - Volume VIII (00:37:48)

1982 - Cupid's In Fashion (00:41:37)

1988 - Aftershock (00:39:51)

1996 - Soul Tattoo (00:56:35)

2003 - Living In Colour (00:50:28)

2014 - Alternate Versions, Rarities And Mixes 2CD (01:36:00)

Fleetwood Mac - Blues Jam in Chicago vol.1 & 2 [1969]

 

Blues Jam In Chicago vols 1 & 2 was the result of a recording session in early 1969, at Chess Records in Chicago (home to Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, et al) with Fleetwood Mac, a British (electric) blues band, and some of their Chicago blues mentors.

Fleetwood Mac:

• Jeremy Spencer (vocals, guitar, slide guitar);
• Danny Kirwan (vocals, guitar);
• Peter Green (vocals, guitar);
• John McVie (bass guitar);
• Mick Fleetwood (drums).

Mentors:

• Otis Spann (vocals, piano);
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards (guitar);
• Buddy Guy (guitar);
• Walter "Shakey" Horton (harmonica);
• J. T. Brown (tenor saxophone);
• Willie Dixon (acoustic bass guitar);
• S.P. Leary (drums).

John Zorn - Filmwork series 1 - 25 [1992-2013]

 

John Zorn has written music for documentaries, underground films, television advertisements and cartoons which are released in his Filmworks series on the Tzadik label. Some of these film scores are jazz-influenced, others classical, and most feature ensembles consisting of rotating combinations of downtown musicians. Zorn has often used his cinematic and television commissions to experiment with line-ups and forms that would become more established parts of his musical canon. Zorn only agrees to composing for film on the condition he retains all rights to any music produced and ensures that all musicians participating in his soundtrack work are appropriately remunerated.

    Filmworks 1986–1990 (1991)

    Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill (1995)

    Filmworks III: 1990–1995 (1995)

    Filmworks IV: S/M + More (1996)

    Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy (1996)

    Filmworks VI: 1996 (1997)

    Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour (1997, originally in 1989 as "Cynical Hysterie Tour)

    Filmworks VIII: 1997 (1998)

    Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d (2000)

    Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001)

    Filmworks XI: Secret Lives (2002)

    Filmworks XII: Three Documentaries (2002)

    Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide (2002)

    Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking (2003)

    Filmworks XV: Protocols of Zion (2005)

    Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death (2005)

    Filmworks Anthology (2005) - compilation of tracks from first 15 Filmworks albums 

    Filmworks XVII: Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls (2006)

    Filmworks XVIII: The Treatment (2006)

    Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse (2008)

    Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem (2008)

    Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum (2008)

    Filmworks XXII: The Last Supper (2008)

    Filmworks XXIII: El General (2009)

    Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner (2010)

    Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite (2013)

Tom And Jerry - Complete Recordings Vol. 1 & 2 [Simon & Garfunkel early recordings] (2 CD/FLAC)

  

Tom And Jerry. Complete Recordings Vol. 1 and 2 are compilation albums by Simon & Garfunkel. These albums contains songs in their early career, where they were known as Tom & Jerry.

Simon's first song written for himself and Garfunkel, when he was 12 or 13, was called "The Girl for Me," and according to Simon became the "neighborhood hit." His father wrote out the words and chords on paper by hand for the boys to use. That paper became the first officially copyrighted Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel song, and is now in the Library of Congress. In 1957, still in their mid-teens, they recorded the song "Hey, Schoolgirl" under the name Tom and Jerry, given to them by their label Big Records. The single reached No. 49 on the pop charts.

After graduating from high school, Simon majored in English at Queens College, while Garfunkel studied mathematics at Columbia University in Manhattan. Simon was a brother in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, earned a degree in English literature, and briefly attended Brooklyn Law School after graduation, but his real passion was rock and roll.


Between 1957 and 1964, Simon wrote, recorded, and released more than 30 songs, occasionally reuniting with Garfunkel as Tom & Jerry for some singles, including "Our Song" and "That's My Story". Most of the songs Simon recorded during that time were performed alone or with musicians other than Garfunkel. They were released on several minor record labels, such as Amy, Big, Hunt, King, Tribute, and Madison. He used several pseudonyms for these recordings, including Jerry Landis, Paul Kane and True Taylor. Simon enjoyed some moderate success in recording a few singles as part of a group called Tico and the Triumphs, including a song called "Motorcycle" which reached No. 97 on the Billboard charts in 1962. Tico and the Triumphs released four 45s. Marty Cooper, known as Tico, sang lead on several of these releases. A childhood friend, Bobby Susser, children's songwriter, record producer, and performer, co-produced the Tico 45s with Simon. That year, Simon reached No. 99 on the pop charts as Jerry Landis with the hit "The Lone Teen Ranger." Both chart singles were released on Amy Records.

 

VA — Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music (4 CD, 1998/FLAC)

 The box set Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music consists of all four volumes in the North Indian Classical Music series on Rounder (originally on Barenreiter Musicaphon), previously issued as separate discs. Included is an extensive and informative booklet of the combined original liner notes, which overviews the different instruments and performers, brief individual track descriptions, and more, resulting in a box set that is not only an interesting and varied listen, but also very educational, making it a great place to start for listeners interested in checking out North Indian classical music. Despite the daunting task of representing this musical tradition in a mere four discs, the collection does a good job with the space that it has. 

Disc one focuses on vocal music and contains sections of the Raga Ahir Bhairava, the Raga Sujani Malhar, and Raga Bhairavi, with featured singers: brothers Zahiruddin and Faiyazuddin Dagar (on two tracks), Yunus Hussain Khan, and Dipali Nag. The vocal music theme continues into the first two ragas of the second disc, with singers Lakshmi Shankar and Siddheshwari Devi, followed by two selections featuring vina (once dubbed the "stick zither") and sarangi (India's main bowed string instrument) musicians Sabri Khan and Asad Ali Khan, respectively. The string instruments are not solo, however, but accompanied by tabla and pakhavaj. There is a short pakhavaj solo piece, followed by two tabla solos that close the second volume of North Indian Classical Music. Part three focuses on string instruments and features Arvind Parikh on sitar during Raga Marva, followed by surashringar (an eight-string, picked instrument) player Sulalit Sinha and surbahar (large sitar) player Manfred Junius showcased during Raga Miyanki Malhar. The closing piece on this volume features Gopal Krishna on the vichitra vina (a fretless vina). The final disc is split between string and wind instruments, with featured musicians Ashok Roy on sarod, Om Prakash Sharma on dilruba (a more modern bowed instrument), flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia, and shahnai (Indian oboe) players Kali Charan and Hiralal.