VA - Breaking Out Of New Orleans 1922-1929 [4 CD, 2004]

 

There was something special about the Crescent City, with its tropical carnival atmosphere and its bubbling mixture of cultures, that made it surely the most musical city in the New World - and its jazzmen, from the nigh-legendary Buddy Bolden to today's Wynton Marsalis, some of the most influential. The work of three of New Orleans' biggest names, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver, is already well documented in the JSP catalogue (see below). This collection concerns itself with their compatriots and contemporaries, presenting 101 historic recordings by numerous hot ensembles featuring a host of New Orleans' finest, including Oscar 'Papa' Celestin, Louis Dumaine, Lee Collins, Armand Piron, Freddie Keppard and Johnny Dodds. Customary JSP remastering and packaging with an authoritative essay by Keith Briggs.




Disc A
01. Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Original Tuxedo Rag
02. Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Careless Love
03. Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Black Rag
04. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - I'm Satisfied You Love Me
05. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - My Josephine
06. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Station Calls
07. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Station Calls
08. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Give Me Some More
09. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Dear Almanzoer
10. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Papa's Got The Jim-Jams
11. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - As You Like It
12. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Just For You Dear, I'm Crying
13. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Just For You Dear, I'm Crying
14. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - When I'm With You
15. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - It's A Jam Up
16. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - The Sweetheart Of The TKO
17. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Ta Ta Daddy
18. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - Pretty Audrey
19. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - To-Bac-A-Wa
20. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - Franklin Street Blues
21. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - Red Onion Drag
22. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Astoria Strut
23. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Duet Stomp
24. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Damp Weather
25. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Tip Easy Blues

Disc B
01. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Steppin' On The Gas
02. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Everybody's Talking About Sammy
03. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Mobile Stomp
04. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Sing On
05. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Short Dress Gal
06. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Boogalousa Strut
07. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Down By The Riverside
08. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Over In The Gloryland
09. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Bouncing Around
10. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Kiss Me Sweet
11. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - New Orleans Wiggle
12. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Mama's Gone, Goodbye
13. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Sud Bustin' Blues
14. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - West Indies Blues
15. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Do-Doodle-Oom
16. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - West Indies Blues
17. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Ghost Of The Blues
18. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Bright Star Blues
19. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Louisiana Blues
20. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Sitting On A Curbstone Blues
21. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Red Man Blues
22. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Do Just As I Say
23. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Of All The Wrongs You Done Me
24. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Terrible Blues
25. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Santa Claus Blues
26. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Cake-Walking Babies (From Home)

Disc C
01. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Krooked Blues
02. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - When You're All Alone Blues
03. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Maybe Someday
04. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - That Sweet Something Dear
05. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Ory's Creole Trombone
06. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Society Blues
07. Fate Marable's Society Syncopators - Frankie And Johnny
08. Fate Marable's Society Syncopators - Pianoflage
09. Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra - Cutie Blues
10. Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra - Chinaman Blues
11. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - Scissor Grinder Joe
12. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - Lonely Little Wallflower
13. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - So This Is Venice
14. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - Moanful Man
15. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - The Memphis Maybe Man
16. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else
17. Cookie's Gingersnaps - Messin' Around
18. Cookie's Gingersnaps - High Fever
19. Cookie's Gingersnaps - Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man
20. Cookie's Gingersnaps - Love Found You For Me
21. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man!
22. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - Brown Sugar
23. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - High Fever
24. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - Spanish Mama

Disc D
01. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals - Stock Yards Strut
02. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals - Salty Dog
03. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals - Salty Dog
04. New Orleans Wanderers - Perdido Street Blues
05. New Orleans Wanderers - Gate Mouth
06. New Orleans Wanderers - Too Tight
07. New Orleans Wanderers - Papa Dip
08. New Orleans Wanderers - Mixed Salad
09. New Orleans Bootblacks - I Can't Say
10. New Orleans Bootblacks - Flat Foot
11. New Orleans Bootblacks - Mad Dog
12. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - Come On And Stomp, Stomp, Stomp
13. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - After You've Gone
14. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - After You've Gone
15. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - Joe Turner Blues
16. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - When Erastus Plays Old Kazoo
17. The Chicago Footwarmers - Ballin' The Jack
18. The Chicago Footwarmers - Grandma's Ball
19. The Chicago Footwarmers - My Baby
20. The Chicago Footwarmers - Oriental Man
21. The Chicago Footwarmers - Get 'Em Again Blues
22. The Chicago Footwarmers - Brush Stomp
23. The Chicago Footwarmers - My Girl
24. The Chicago Footwarmers - Sweep 'Em Clean
25. The Chicago Footwarmers - Lady Love
26. The Chicago Footwarmers - Brown Bottom Bess

Steve Lukather - I Found The Sun Again [2021/FLAC]

 Over the course of five decades Steve Lukather has placed an indelible stamp on pop culture. Alongside his tenure as the only member of Toto to never take a hiatus from the band, he has performed on thousands of albums as a session musician. He continues to be Toto’s band leader, a member of Ringo’s All-Starr Band, and a solo artist performing with multiple ensembles.

VA- A Complete Introduction To Chess [4 CD,2010]

 

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer. Chances are the average listener will go through considerably more drinks than that during this mammoth 100-tracks-on-four-discs collection, especially if it's digested in a single sitting. Not because boozy liquid lubrication is required to navigate through its content, due to any quality shortcomings. Oh no. More because every disc presents several opportunities to hoist a glass to one of the most important record labels of pop's early history.

Three numbers from John Lee Hooker represent the tip of this set's blues iceberg. Also included are cuts from Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf (1956's Smokestack Lightnin' is a given), Muddy Waters (Mannish Boy and I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, check) and Lowell Fulson, whose Reconsider Baby was a number three hit in 1954. The label's soul selection is similarly well represented: Fontella Bass's sublime Rescue Me opens disc three, and Etta James makes five appearances. Among her efforts is I Just Want to Make Love to You, recorded in 1954 and a UK top five hit 42 years later when it was used in a soft drink commercial.

This belated success highlights a significant aspect of this release's appeal–although Chess ceased to operate in 1975, after 25 years of business, many of these songs have enjoyed leases of life far longer than anyone involved in their creative processes could have foreseen. Like Motown's, the Chess catalogue has been regularly raided by filmmakers–Chuck Berry's Johnny B Goode, recorded in 1958, featured in the 1985 movie Back to the Future (albeit as played by the character Marty McFly), and Mannish Boy has cropped up countless times on the silver screen. Chess itself was the subject of a pair of 2008 flicks, Who Do You Love and Cadillac Records.

And it's not only the cinema that has been graced by Chess sounds. The Ramsey Lewis Trio's version of The In Crowd was used by Radio 1 when Jimmy Savile was a station fixture, and numerous tracks here have achieved a certain ubiquity through cover versions, such as The Dells' Oh, What a Night and the Willie Dixon-penned Wang Dang Doodle. The latter is performed here by Koko Taylor, but it was also recorded by The Pointer Sisters and, rather less memorably, PJ Harvey.

So, although Chess is long retired from the music industry, the Chicago label's catalogue owned by Universal (their similarly packaged introductions to Motown and Sugar Hill are also available), these songs deserve a place in the collections of today's listeners. That so many are immediately recognisable is testament to their lasting appeal. The classics, clichéd though it is to say so, truly never go out of style.

Disc 1

1–Jackie Brenston     Rocket 88    
2 –Chuck Berry     Maybellene    
3 –Bo Diddley     Bo Diddley    
4 –Howlin' Wolf     How Many More Years    
5 –Lowell Fulson     Reconsider Baby    
6 –Little Walter     Juke    
7 –Sonny Boy Williamson (2)     Don't Start Me Talkin'    
8 –Muddy Waters     I Can't Be Satisfied    
9 –John Lee Hooker     Leave My Wife Alone    
10 –Bo Diddley     I'm A Man    
11 –Little Walter     My Babe    
12 –Elmore James     Dust My Broom    
13 –Eddie Boyd     Third Degree    
14 –Howlin' Wolf     Moanin' At Midnight    
15 –Muddy Waters     I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man    
16 –The Moonglows     Sincerely    
17 –Jimmy Witherspoon     When The Lights Go Out    
18 –John Lee Hooker     Sugar Mama    
19 –Rosco Gordon     Booted    
20 –Willie Mabon     Seventh Son    
21 –Muddy Waters     Mannish Boy    
22 –Willie Dixon     Crazy For My Baby    
23 –Sugar Boy Crawford     Jock-A-Mo    
24 –Little Walter     Last Night    
25 –Clarence "Frogman" Henry     Ain't Got No Home    
26 –Willie Dixon     Pain In My Heart    

Disc 2

1–Chuck Berry     Rock And Roll Music    
2–Bo Diddley     You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover    
3–Eddie Fontaine     Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)    
4–Jimmy McCracklin     The Walk    
5–Howlin' Wolf     Smokestack Lightnin'    
6–Muddy Waters     Forty Days And Forty Nights    
7–Etta James     Something's Got A Hold On Me    
8–Bobby Charles     See You Later Alligator    
9–Chuck Berry     Johnny B Goode    
10–Dale Hawkins     Susie Q    
11–Jimmy Rogers     Walkin' By Myself    
12–Etta James     I Just Want To Make Love To You    
13–Sonny Boy Williamson (2)     Nine Below Zero    
14–Howlin' Wolf     The Red Rooster    
15–Elmore James     I Can't Hold Out (Talk To Me Baby)    
16–The Marathons     Peanut Butter    
17–The Sensations (2)     Let Me In    
18–The Vibrations     The Watusi    
19–Clarence "Frogman" Henry     (I Don't Know Why I Love You) But I Do    
20–Etta James     At Last    
21–The Corsairs     Smoky Places    
22–Dave "Baby" Cortez     Rinky Dink    
23–Harvey And The Moonglows     Ten Commandments Of Love    
24–Andre Williams (2)     Cadillac Jack    
25–Clarence "Frogman" Henry     You Always Hurt The One You Love    
26–Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure     Don't Mess Up A Good Thing  


Disc 3

1–Fontella Bass     Rescue Me    
2–Sugar Pie DeSanto     Soulful Dress    
3–John Lee Hooker     One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer    
4–Chuck Berry     Promised Land    
5–Howlin' Wolf     300 Pounds Of Joy    
6–Little Milton     We're Gonna Make It    
7–Chuck Berry     No Particular Place To Go    
8–Tommy Tucker     Hi Heel Sneakers    
9–Ramsey Lewis     Wade In The Water    
10–Tony Clarke (2)     Landslide    
11–Terry Callier     Look At Me Now    
12–Jan Bradley     Mama Didn't Lie    
13–The Jaynetts     Sally Go Round The Roses    
14–Jackie Ross     Selfish One    
15–Billy Stewart     Summertime    
16–Tony Clarke (2)     The Entertainer    
17–Billy Stewart     Sitting In The Park    
18–The Knight Brothers     Temptation 'Bout To Get Me    
19–The Radiants     Voice Your Choice    
20–Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces     Searching For My Love    
21–Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto     In The Basement    
22–Ramsey Lewis Trio     The In Crowd    
23–Mitty Collier     I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night    
24–Billy Stewart     I Do Love You    
25–Maurice & Mac     You Left The Water Running    
26–The Dells     Oh, What A Night  

Disc 4

1–Etta James     Tell Mama    
2–Koko Taylor     Wang Dang Doodle    
3–Howlin' Wolf     Evil    
4–Rotary Connection     I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun    
5–Muddy Waters     Tom Cat    
6–Marlena Shaw     California Soul    
7–The Radiants     Hold On    
8–The Valentinos     Sweeter Than The Day Before    
9–Denise LaSalle     Love Reputation    
10–Dorothy Ashby     Afro Harping    
11–Marlena Shaw     Woman Of The Ghetto    
12–Irma Thomas     Good To Me    
13–Etta James     I'd Rather Go Blind    
14–Laura Lee     Dirty Man    
15–Terry Callier     Ordinary Joe    
16–The Soulful Strings     Burning Spear    
17–Solomon Burke     Let Me Wrap My Arms Around You    
18–Gene Chandler     To Be A Lover    
19–Pigmeat Markham     Here Comes The Judge    
20–The Dells     Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation    
21–Solomon Burke     You And Your Baby Blues    
22–Chuck Berry     My Ding-A-Ling

The Allman Brothers Band- Fillmore West '71 [4 CD, 2019]

 

Just two months before their iconic At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band were at Bill Grahams Fillmore West for an epic weekend, as the middle act between headliners Hot Tuna and the 24-piece opener Trinidad Tripoli Street band. The cover depicts a never seen photo of Duane Allman taken at these shows, from the legendary photographer, Jim Marshall. These recordings are being issued for the first time and any time theres an opportunity to hear more of Duane Allman and this edition of the ABB, its more than worth a listen.

Foghat- The Complete Bearsville Album Collection (13 CD, 2016)

Foghat, one of the busiest classic rock acts on the 1970s concert circuit, recently announced that they will be releasing a new box set this spring that includes all 13 albums that the band released on Bearsville Records.

The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection is newly remastered and housed in a clamshell box with card wallets inside that replicate the original LP covers.